Discover the Benefits of Exercise as Meditation
“Let me say it simply. Someone should have written this book a long time ago.” — Shinzen Young , meditation teacher, neuroscience research consultant, founder of Unified Mindfulness, author of Meditation in the Zone and The Science of Enlightenment
Award-winning Finalist in the “Health: Diet & Exercise” category of the 2022 International Book Awards
#1 New Release in Sports Health & Safety, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Cycling, Sports Psychology, Walking, Theravada Buddhism, and Meditation
Transform movement and meditation into the powerful practice of mindful movement
Exercise can be meditation. What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?
Let’s combine the two. In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.
Inside you’ll learn to:
- Turn exercise into a meditation tool
- Make any activity a mindful practice
- Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit
If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.
Innehållsförteckning
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Bother?
Chapter 2: How to Meditate While You Move
Chapter 3: Why I Bother
Chapter 4: Splendid Body—Sense Gates
Chapter 5: Tricky Mind—Working with Thoughts
Chapter 6 Advanced Awareness Techniques
Chapter 7: Tangles of Emotion
Chapter 8: How to Grow Through Pain (and Joy)
Chapter 9: Cultivating Mind States
Chapter 10: Struggling? Check the Hindrances
Chapter 11: Variations on a Theme
Chapter 12: Whose Idea Was This?
Chapter 13: More About Forms of Movement
Chapter 14: Make It Yours
Chapter 15: Taking It on the Road
Chapter 16: Who’s Meditating?
Chapter 17: Why Therapists Have Therapists and Teachers Have Teachers
Chapter 18: You Might Already Be Doing It
Chapter 19: Find Your Fellowship
Chapter 20: Illness, Injury, and “Bad” Workouts
Chapter 21: Performance
Chapter 22: See You on the “Path”
An Invitation and a Request
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
ReferencesOm författaren
Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups “Mind, Mood, and Movement” to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice, and “The Writer’s Mind, ” to share using writing practice to produce publishable work. Nita also publishes the writing resource newsletter, “Write Now Columbus.” Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Head to her website to download your free copy of Nita’s e Book Three Ways to Heal Your Mind.
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