Five Good Minutes in Your Body: 100 Mindful Practices to Help You Accept Yourself and Feel at Home in Your Body (Five Good Minutes) (Paperback) - Common

Five Good Minutes

by Jeffrey Brantley

Five Good Minutes in Your Body offers simple yet effective activities to help us restore and recharge our relationships with our bodies. With these tools we can create a life that is more fulfilling-a life in which we are no longer at the mercy of the stress of our day. The practices can transform the mundane into the extraordinary, and renew our sense of vitality and passion for life. Learning to be mindful of our bodies can be hard in this fast-paced, stressful world. Some of us live from the neck up, forgetting to nourish and appreciate-or even be comfortable in-our bodies. In the western world we often live nearly entirely in the mind. Through mindful practices, this book will help bring us back into our bodies and help us reduce stress, breathe again, and actually enjoy our bodies. We're also incredibly self-critical of our bodies. Who among us hasn't wished they were just a little skinnier, more muscular, taller, had a narrower foot, darker hair, lighter eyes… the list of our inadequacies is endless. We are very self-critical of our bodies and often have distorted perceptions of ourselves. We needlessly compare ourselves to some unattainable-and airbrushed-ideal. This often leads to feeling cut off from our bodies and, ultimately, disembodied. We then end up making unhealthy choices, such as eating foods that don't make us feel good, drinking too much, or even over-exercising, all in an effort to try to feel better about ourselves.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Meditation, Health

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 2008

About the author

Jeffrey Brantley, MD, DFAPA, has practiced mindfulness meditation for over thirty years, and his work in medicine and psychiatry has emphasized mindfulness and mindfulness-based interventions to promote individual health and well-being. He is a founding faculty member of Duke Integrative Medicine, and founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke Integrative Medicine in 1998. Brantley is the author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and coauthor of the Five Good Minutes series and Daily Meditations for Calming Your Anxious Mind.

Reviews

[Fateemya · Rating 4 out of 5]

اسم الكتاب: خمس دقائق مفيدة لجسدك
تأليف: د. جيفري برانتلي + استشارية التغذية وندي ميللستاين.
دار النشر: مكتبة جرير
عدد الصفحات: 245

هذا الكتاب يحوي 100 تمرين مقسمة بالتساوي لاربعة مواضيع( اسكن جسمك - الحركة بانتباه واع - تغذية حواس جسمك - الجسم الحكيم) تساعدنا هذه التمارين على تقبل أنفسنا والشعور بالراحة داخل أجسامنا.

هي ليست مجرد تمارين وإنما جلسات تأملية نستطيع أن نؤدي كل تمرين في خمس دقائق فقط.

أعجبني في هذه التأملات:-

# أن ندع الأفكار تمر بايجابيتها وسلبيتها من دون أن نحاربها أو أن نتشبث بها.

# تأمل وحب جميع النعم التي أنعمها الله علينا.

#اظهار الشعور بالامتنان لكل ما حولنا.

وفي الختام الحمدلله على عظيم مننه وأتمنى لكم قراءة ممتعة.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful reminders that taking care of yourself includes mental, physical, social, and global health and how they are connected. Two-page chapters make it very easy to become engaged in what I'm starting to think of as reading meditations. Useful for repeat readings of favorite passages pertaining to specific situations. I would definitely read more in the series.

[Em]

I have read from these either at the beginning or end of some of the yoga classes I taught where I wasn't teaching "gym yoga." I found them to be more accessible and appropriate for a variety of settings. Brantley's Five Minutes are great for beginning meditators. Small and portable.

[Cristian Marrero · Rating 3 out of 5]

An okay book. Not as rich in detail as the In The Morning book.

[Lisette · Rating 3 out of 5]

March
A self-help book

[Kelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another little book of ideas & guided meditations focused around the body...acceptance, illness, stress, emotions are all covered. The idea of acceptance and gratitude coupled with mindful thinking...how can you not like it? That said, I liked Five Good Minutes in the Evening much more.

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just what the title says. Brief 2-4 page sections.

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cliff notes: mindfulness and kindness to yourself

[Ilona de Koning · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leuk klein boekje, jammer dat de meditaties heel specifiek zijn en je goed moet zoeken tot je iets vindt wat je op dat moment aanspreekt.

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to have prompters to be mindful...I know, lame. But, this little book is kept right by my laptop so I can grab it a few times a day and practice.

[Jenn · Rating 4 out of 5]

With all negative body image standards in our society, this book is refreshing.