Five Good Minutes with the One You Love: 100 Mindful Practices to Deepen and Renew Your Love Everyday

Five Good Minutes

by Jeffrey Brantley, Wendy Millstine

When you first fall in love, every moment you spend with that special someone feels like a lifetime. Even a glance and a smile can seem to last for hours. But as time goes by, let’s face it, relationships change. You have places to go and people to see, children to raise and careers to manage. The rest of the world can start to slip in between you and the one you love. It takes practice to remain deeply connected and truly intimate with someone—but it doesn’t need to take up all of your free time. With the simple practices in this book, you’ll be able to really connect with your special someone in just five minutes a day. Using simple techniques drawn from mindfulness practice, each of these intimate and fun activities will help you feel closer, more connected, and more deeply in love with your partner. The meditations, affirmations, and observations you’ll find here will foster gratitude, trust, empathy, and loving kindness. Use them to get closer to the one you love, and watch as the benefits of mindfulness grow to fill your relationship with renewed romance, harmony, and joy. Five Good Minutes is a trademark of New Harbinger Publications, Inc.

Genres: Marriage, Nonfiction, Self Help, Relationships

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 15, 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

[Lindsay · Rating 2 out of 5]

I have a couple of the Five Good Minutes books and think they are good, but this one was not what I expected. I thought this would provide activities that I could do with the one I love. At least that is what the title indicates, but that is not really what the book is about, rather there are several 5 min. activities I am to do myself and some have nothing to do with my spouse or loved one. Some of the activities are insightful or relaxing, so it is a useful book, but not what the title leads you to believe.

[Anne · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was hoping it would have more "activies" or ideas of things to do and/or talk about with the person you love. It was very similiar to the other five good minute books; however.

[Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the "Five Good Minutes" books, and this love-focused, relationship-centric approach is another beautiful addition to the series.

Moving from self-appreciation & care to inter-relational exercises, Brantley and Millstine cover a variety of love-focused practices designed to help the reader get back in touch with everyday comfort and pleasure. The beginning chapters on loving oneself set a beautiful foundation for being able to express love and compassion for others in later exercises. The practices move from inward to outward relationships with just five minutes a day.

These books are amazing, and each exercise gave me something new to think about on a daily basis. It's easy to get caught up in the hustle and chores of everyday life without spending much time expressing gratitude or excitement over the things we experience. Brantley and Millstone create options ranging from simple and straightforward to woo-woo and open-minded so that there's something for readers at any season and time of life to try something new to bring more love into their relationships, both with themselves and others.

The book touches on many other aspects of self-care and well-being, such as meditation and loving-kindness. I'd highly recommend this book and the series for readers dipping their toes into the self-development world to try on new practices a bit at a time.

[ناصر سليم · Rating 3 out of 5]

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