Mindfulness is a practice imbued with millennia of wisdom which in its radical essentiality allows us to regain a sense of freedom and control over our life. Mindfulness meditation consists of stopping and non-judgmentally observing reality as it presents itself to us here and now. It teaches us to dwell in the moment here and now and to fully savour it.  It is a process of firmly knowing ourselves which trains us to respond calmly to the many challenges of existence. Over time it leads to abandoning ways of reacting that no longer correspond to our present selves or that cause us discomfort, to the advantage of creating an authentic way of being ourselves.

After explaining what mindfulness is and why it works, this volume proposes a programme towards approaching mindfulness, accompanying the reader to become familiar with meditation in its various forms. It presents numerous awareness exercises to be performed freely throughout the day and pays particular attention to the theme of mindfulness applied to the nursing professions, as well as how it is possible to transfer the quality of presence that is experienced during the practice sessions in daily life: from daily tasks, to relationships, to professions. The volume has an informative slant, which allows for smooth reading, even for non-experts.

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The structure of the book

The book is organized in 3 parts.

• The first part defines what mindfulness is, outlines its historical development and its entry into the area of ​​healing and psychotherapy in the West, analyzes the neurophysiological reasons behind its effectiveness and illustrates how mindfulness meditation can benefit and soothe the restlessness and structural pain of our time;
• The second part is designed to introduce and guide the reader in the path of approaching mindfulness in its various formats: from sitting meditation, to walking meditation, up to informal or unstructured practice;
• The third and final part examines the stress reduction protocol in children and nursing professions, such as: doctors, nurses, teachers, ministers, social workers, psychologists and psychotherapists.

LET’S UNDERSTAND! Both the first and the second part of the volume propose a series of awareness exercises and indications for practice indicated in special boxes, designed to provide immediate feedback and based on the experience of the theoretical indications provided in the volume.

The volume closes with a review of the most relevant approaches to psychotherapy - both cognitive and psycho-corporeal - which are defined as mindfulness-based, i.e. centered on mindfulness.

Leaf through some selected pages from the book that have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHORS

Antonella Montano: Cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist, she founded and directs the A.T. Beck of Rome and Caserta, as well as the non-profit organization "Pandora's Box - Hope after trauma". She is vice president of CBT Italia (Italian Society of Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy) and a member of the Beck Institute International Advisory Committee of Philadelphia. In addition to dedicating herself to clinical and research activities, she is a teacher and supervisor of AIAMC (Italian Association of Behavior Analysis and Modification), Certified Trainer / Consultant / Speaker / Supervisor of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy (ACT) and teacher of MBSR and of Mindfulness-Based protocols.  Finally, she is a Yoga Alliance® certified Expert Yoga Trauma Teacher. Author of numerous publications, she has been dealing with LGBTQIA + issues for over 25 years.

Valentina Iadeluca: Psychologist, Certified Hakomi Therapist. She trained and worked in Italy, Spain and the United States. She is Executive Co-Director of the Hakomi Mallorca Institute, a European training center in English on Hakomi MSP, a mindfulness-based psycho-body approach. She is a lecturer at the same institute. She has been practicing yoga and meditation for more than fifteen years and teaches mindfulness at the Beck Institute in Rome. Author of several articles on the subject of music and the promotion of well-being, Meditating with life is her first book.