Mindful Emotion

Buy this book, read it, practise with it. It's a wonderfully welcomeaddition to the body of work around mindfulness and compassion.It's engaging; down-to-earth but uplifting; and very much to thepoint.The authors come across as kindly but never sentimental andtheir book extends the conversation around mindfulness - and itspractice - into further, and much needed, domains.I'll certainly be recommending it to all those who have attendedmy mindfulness classes.Michael Chaskalson, author of Mindfulness in Eight WeeksMindful Emotion: A Short Course in Kindness is a stimulating guideand training program that uses the analogy of cultivating a gardenthat results in the finest flowers and fruits to illustrate the processof cultivating kindness toward others. A variety of secular-basedmindfulness meditation instructions and thoughtful exercisessupport this process of creating a garden of kindness, which is whatour world so badly needs right now.Bhikshuni Thubten Chodron, author of Good Karma: How to Createthe Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of SufferingThe last 20 years has seen research showing us that what motivatesus also patterns our minds and bodies. While modern societiesencourage self-focused competitiveness, ancient wisdoms pointto the importance of caring, helping, supporting, kindness andcompassion for self and others as the true path to happiness andwell-being. This deeply informative book brings together secularscience, ancient wisdoms and psychotherapeutic insights, in a seriesof steps and practices to cultivate kindness to self and others andthereby reap its benefits. Accessible and practical, this book will beof great benefit to many.Professor Paul Gilbert, PhD, FBPsS, OBE, author of The CompassionateMindWith the problems we face in today's world, kindness is moreimportant than ever. In Mindful Emotion, the authors haveproduced a thorough and pragmatic guide to bringing mindfulnessand kindness into our lives. It is an excellent book that I will berecommending to colleagues, clients, and friends.Russell Kolts, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at Eastern WashingtonUniversity and author of CFT Made Simple: A Clinician's Guide toPracticing Compassion-Focused TherapyThe benefits of mindfulness are so much greater when they includea focus on kindness and compassion, both for ourselves and others.This book is a wonderful journey through the art and practice ofmindful kindness - or as I like to call it, Kindfulness.Dr Mark Williamson, Director of Action for HappinessThis book is all about kindness behaviour training (KBT). The authors have drawn on their clinical experience as well as Buddhism to develop a practical course in cultivating kindness, intended to complement and augment other mindfulness-based approaches. They are now presenting this training in an eight-week course book. Amid the recent explosion of secular mindfulness, their aim is to reemphasize the importance of the heart, introducing the reader to a variety of ways of approaching kindness-based meditation, as well as to how to put kindness into practice in daily life.A range of psychological theories and areas of research inform the KBT approach, primarily findings from cognitive neuroscience, as well as evolutionary and positive psychology literatures. It also uses a range of exercises found to be helpful in Eastern traditions, such as Buddhism. The KBT exercises have been isolated from their religious or spiritual origins and are used on a secular basis.The book will act as a companion, walking the reader through each week of the course offering guidance, reflections, and outlining the exercises in a concise user-friendly style. Worksheets and homework tasks to be completed into the book for each week will make the book interactive and accessible.