Mindful Emotion: A Short Course In Kindness

by Paramabandhu Groves, Jed Shamel

This book is all about kindness behaviour training (KBT). The authors have drawn on their clinical experience as well as Buddhism to develop a practical course in cultivating kindness, intended to complement and augment other mindfulness-based approaches. They are now presenting this training in an eight-week course book. Amid the recent explosion of secular mindfulness, their aim is to re-emphasize the importance of the heart, introducing the reader to a variety of ways of approaching kindness-based meditation, as well as to how to put kindness into practice in daily life.

A range of psychological theories and areas of research inform the KBT approach, primarily findings from cognitive neuroscience, as well as evolutionary and positive psychology literatures. It also uses a range of exercises found to be helpful in Eastern traditions, such as Buddhism. The KBT exercises have been isolated from their religious or spiritual origins and are used on a secular basis.

Genres: Buddhism

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Sinan Sinanogullari · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a Buddhist, I struggle with the metta part and tend to turn towards mindfulness part. This book helped me a lot with inspirational varied explanations and exercises.