Daily Mindfulness

Book excerpt: A year of calming mindfulness exercises one day at a time The art of mindfulness can take a lifetime to master, but just five minutes of mindful practices a day, such as meditation, can have incredible effects. Daily Mindfulness is a 365-day guide to support you in your commitment to living a more mindful life with a routine that invites feelings of clarity, peace, and joy. With a wide range of daily practices, activities, reflections, and exercises, you'll improve your mind/body coordination and harmonize your emotions and intellect. Experience the transformational healing effects of mindfulness in your life— an increase of patience, passion, enthusiasm, creativity, and critical thinking, and a decrease of stress and anxiety. This guide to mindfulness will keep you engaged through: Reflect and transform—Discover thoughts, quotes, and affirmations to take with you throughout your day to help guide the mind into a new and inspired perspective. Optimistic outlook—Experience a variety of meditations and exercises that help focus and calm the mind and embrace all the possibilities of life. Mindfulness day by day—Reading like a calendar, the book covers every day of each month, for an entire year, so you can pick it up whenever you seek guidance and comfort. Daily Mindfulness is filled with 365 ways to deepen your daily practice and find peace.