75 Essential Mindfulness Meditations to Reduce Stress, Enhance Mental Health, and Achieve Everyday Peace

Joseph J. Truncale: For more than 7 decades I have been a voracious reader. My interests have always been wide and varied from the scientific to the esoteric, from classic literature to westerns, and everything in between. This is why when I saw this 183-page soft cover book (Practicing Mindfulness: 75 essential meditations to reduce stress, improve mental health and find peace in the everyday by Mathew Sockolov) on Amazon I decided to purchase it.

Over the years I have read numerous books on meditation, and I have taken several training courses on related topics. I think this is one of the best books I have read on the subject of meditation techniques. There are lots of reasons I like this book, one of them being the large number of different approaches to practicing meditation techniques. The second is how it explains techniques that take very little time (from 5 minutes to 20 minutes in most sessions) and are easy to practice. The third thing is how many areas you can improve yourself with these simple meditation techniques.

After a brief introduction and an explanation of Mindfulness, there are three detailed sections (Basic mindfulness exercises, everyday mindfulness and mindful...

United States on Feb 06, 2024

Jen Monkey: I love this. It's very concise and has very good mindfulness suggestions that don't take long to learn or practice.

United States on Jan 18, 2024

Olivia DeKatch: This book is so easy to read and start implementing daily meditation practices daily. I love how the steps guide me and help me with an easy-to-use format. If you want to get started on practicing mindfulness but don't know where to start, this is a great starting point!

United States on Nov 29, 2023

Ange: Simple book and nicely written. I use it in guiding my yoga students through an intention and it is always beautiful. also nice for if you'd like to destress and start a simple meditation pratice.

United Kingdom on Sep 16, 2023

Amazon Customer: The meditations each list like 5-10 steps. I think you miss out on a lot of what meditation is for when you just rigidly follow steps. Everyone's meditation journey is different. You might decide you want to meditate on the idea in step 2 for 10 minutes, then you never get to any of the other steps. 75 meditations of 5-10 steps.. just seems overwhelming and time consuming. The present moment is accessible to you now.

A book that uses a different approach for meditation ideas is Eckhart Tolle's "Stillness Speaks". That book is just filled with short phrases or paragraphs about a particular idea that you can meditate on. Also the spiritual teachings in Eckhart's book are much deeper. These kinds of books of aphorisms/sutras are a little more open ended and less restrictive, more suitable as a meditation guide I think.

I might still use this Practicing Mindfulness book if I'm looking to do something different, but I don't think that book seems to be more intended to appeal to the average person and less on spiritual awakening.

United States on Oct 14, 2021

Santiago H: Ya seas principiante o bien tengas un nivel avanzado en la práctica meditativa (mindfulness o no), este libro es una excelente inversión, pues presenta 75 técnicas para meditar con el enfoque del mindfulness de una manera muy didáctica. Además, incluye una introducción con los principios básicos que deben conocerse. Nada complicado, muy fácil de leer y entender. Lo recomiendo mucho.

Mexico on Jul 21, 2020

mohammed asif: Love this book and every person need this to know what the real life experience to live with fruitful thoughts

India on Jan 21, 2020

C. K: Easy read. Excellent suggestions and examples.

Canada on Sep 27, 2019

Elise.M: I got a refund on this book because really it's just sub-par. The content is not bad per say but would have been better suited to a blog post/ series.
The book just gives you ideas of things to meditate on. So yep not great and having page of paper with 5 sentences is a waste of a perfectly good tree

Spain on Aug 12, 2019

Busy mother of 3: I am a mother of three and am constantly on the go. I have never considered meditation because frankly the thought of trying to find a quiet spot to sit for a long period of time by myself in complete silence seemed insane I cant even go to the bathroom by myself lol. However I did want to find more peace in my life and that's when someone had mentioned mindfulness. So I started reading this book not knowing what to expect. Honestly I assumed I wouldn't understand half the stuff in it as I've never tried anything like this and thought you'd have to be like a Buddhist level to truly understand it. When I began reading I was super excited! Not only is this book extremely easy to read and comprehend it's easy to navigate. Depending on the emotion your trying to work through you can simply look up the exercise for it! Also since the exercises are short and range from 5-15 minutes they are perfect for my busy schedule. The best part of all you can do them just about anywhere. I've caught my self doing some of the exercises in this book while sitting in my car waiting for my kids to come out of karate practice!

So if your new to this and want an easy to read go to guide on how to...

United States on Sep 11, 2018