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Right Here with You: Mindfulness for Connection, Communication & Deepening Our Relationships
Leading psychologists, meditation teachers, and best-selling authors explain how mindfulness can help us to create relationships that are more healthy, vibrant, genuine, and fulfilling.
In this collection of writings, readers learn how mindfulness can be brought to bear in our relationships to increase intimacy, strengthen communication, and help us find greater fulfillment. In recent years, scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.
Topics in this collection include how to open your heart and develop loving-kindness for yourself and others, improve communication through mindful speech and deep listening, notice and counteract destructive patterns, and discover how intimate relationships can become a rich form of spiritual practice.
Chapters and contributors include the following
Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on what mindfulness is and why it lies at the heart of real love,
psychotherapist David Richo on finding a partner,
psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach on the power of forgiveness,
Rabbi Harold Kushner on striving to give love rather than receive it,
novelist Jane Hamilton on marital meltdown—and recovery,
meditation teacher Susan Piver on the value of heartbreak,
psychologist John Welwood on relationships as a path of personal and spiritual growth.
In this collection of writings, readers learn how mindfulness can be brought to bear in our relationships to increase intimacy, strengthen communication, and help us find greater fulfillment. In recent years, scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.
Topics in this collection include how to open your heart and develop loving-kindness for yourself and others, improve communication through mindful speech and deep listening, notice and counteract destructive patterns, and discover how intimate relationships can become a rich form of spiritual practice.
Chapters and contributors include the following
Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on what mindfulness is and why it lies at the heart of real love,
psychotherapist David Richo on finding a partner,
psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach on the power of forgiveness,
Rabbi Harold Kushner on striving to give love rather than receive it,
novelist Jane Hamilton on marital meltdown—and recovery,
meditation teacher Susan Piver on the value of heartbreak,
psychologist John Welwood on relationships as a path of personal and spiritual growth.
240 pages, Paperback
Published February 11, 2025
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April 17, 2025
I really like the idea of a book about mindfulness applied to relationships or, as some writers in this collection suggested, how mindfulness is about compassion, which is about relationships. I enjoyed that the essays/contributions are short, so I could read one in the morning or before bed. Reading this also got me back into some mindfulness practices, which I am grateful for.
Many of the essays are very abstract, and a sort of classic saying a lot without saying much of anything in particular. When the essays were more concrete, I liked them much more.
The essays are broken into sections, which I appreciated, and I liked that each essay got a little summary/tag line at the start. A conclusion would have been helpful, but this does just suddenly end (and, the last essay didn't clearly make sense to me as a last essay in particular?).
Passing thought: this collection was originally published in 2011, and was re-issued this year. It did feel "old." I wonder what it would have been like if it had been updated, for example to include essays more focused on social justice, changing political contexts, and/or social media/tech.
Many of the essays are very abstract, and a sort of classic saying a lot without saying much of anything in particular. When the essays were more concrete, I liked them much more.
The essays are broken into sections, which I appreciated, and I liked that each essay got a little summary/tag line at the start. A conclusion would have been helpful, but this does just suddenly end (and, the last essay didn't clearly make sense to me as a last essay in particular?).
Passing thought: this collection was originally published in 2011, and was re-issued this year. It did feel "old." I wonder what it would have been like if it had been updated, for example to include essays more focused on social justice, changing political contexts, and/or social media/tech.
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