A Year of Living Kindfully: Week-by-week activities that will enrich your life through self-care and kindness to others

by Anna Black

Overview

Experience a year of living more kindfully, with weekly activities and practices, plus workbook pages to fill in, for greater happiness and fulfillment, improved relationships, and enhanced well-being.

Mindfulness expert Anna Black believes we can create new ways of thinking and behaving to cultivate a kinder attitude to ourself and others. Her week-by-week activities help us to uncover what kindness actually means to us physically, mentally, and emotionally and show us how to practice a kinder way of being. This includes letting go of self-criticism, blame, and judgment and being warmer, more compassionate, and more generous. As we discover self-compassion and self-love and cultivate kindness, there is a wonderful ripple effect throughout our life, especially in our relationship with others and our day-to-day experiences. With each weekly activity, there are pages to reflect on what we have learnt.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782498209
Publisher:	Ryland Peters & Small
Publication date:	01/14/2020
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	291,452
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Anna Black, the bestselling author of A Year of Living Mindfully, is a highly qualified mindfulness practitioner. She has a Masters in Mindfulness-based Approaches to Health and has completed the Advanced Teacher Development Intensive run by teachers from the North Wales Centre for Mindfulness in the UK and from the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Hospital, USA. She is the author of Living in the Moment, Mindfulness @ Work, The Little Pocket Book of Mindfulness, and A Year of Living Mindfully, all published by CICO Books. Anna has an established practice—visit www.mindfulness-meditation-now.com. She is based in London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Kindness and Compassion 10

Mindfulness and Its Role 13

The Benefits of Cultivating Kindness and Compassion 15

Regulating the Emotions 18

Obstacles to Kindness and Compassion 21

How Can You Cultivate Kindfulness? 23

Supporting Your Ongoing Practice 24

How Kind Do You Think You Are? 30

Meditation Practices 34

How to Meditate 36

Mindfulness of Breathing 43

Kindness to the Body 46

Sitting with Heart: Soften, Soothe, and Allow 49

Moving Mindfully 51

What Would You Like to Hear? 56

Self-Compassion Break 61

Cultivating Kindness Meditations 63

Cultivating Kindness for Yourself and a Loved One 65

Cultivating Kindness for Someone in Difficulty 67

Weekly Activities 68

Further Reflections 182

Checklist of Activities 186

Resources 188

Index 190

Acknowledgments 192