Synopsis
If you’ve been looking for a way to turn down the volume on all the madness, distraction, and stress, look no further than Maximizing Mindfulness and Minimizing Stress. This easy-to-read book will show you how mindfulness can boost your immune system, reduce your stress, give you more energy, improve your health, and lift your mood. This book not only teaches you how to BE more mindful, it will also show you how mindfulness is used to treat depression, addiction, and chronic pain. Filled with personal anecdotes and backed by scientific studies, this book includes a 12-month meditation schedule that shows you how to incorporate mindfulness meditation into your daily routine. Penned by stress management expert Jim Porter, Maximizing Mindfulness and Minimizing Stress walks you through how he embraced mindfulness and how you can too. Meditation changes the very structure of your brain. Areas of the brain responsible for emotional control get bigger and areas of the brain responsible for emotional outbursts get smaller. Your mind is going to wander. When it does, bring it back to whatever it is you are focusing on like your breathing. There’s no such thing as a bad meditation. As long as you keep trying to bring your mind back into the present moment, without judgment, you are going to get something out of your meditation. You DO have time to meditate. Even a minute here or two minutes there will do you some good. The more you meditate the easier it gets.
About the Author
James E. Porter is president of StressStop.com, a company that has been providing stress management and resilience training and training materials to corporations, hospitals, government agencies and military bases for over 30 years. Mr. Porter is the author and creator of many of these materials which include dozens of workbooks, training videos and CD's, hundreds of articles, and a weekly blog on stress management. His work has been reviewed and/or reported on in major news outlets including Good Morning America, Ladies Home Journal, The Associated Press, WCBS-TV News and The NY Daily News as well as in medical journals including The Journal of Family Practice, The Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, and The Journal of Biomedical Communications. He has appeared on THE CBS MORNING NEWS and his articles on stress have been republished by Forbes, Medical Daily, Apple News, and Inc. His book, STOP STRESS THIS MINUTE, published by WELCOA, has sold over 100,000 copies, including 6000 copies to the Mayo Clinic. It won the Silver Award from the National Health Information Awards. Mr. Porter’s video programs have been used in thousands of hospitals nationwide, including The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic and at the Mind/Body Clinic in Boston, Mass. His workbook, The Stress Profiler, has sold over 400,000 copies. Mr. Porter has also presented stress management seminars onsite for Time, Inc, Glaxo Smith Kline, Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Department of Homeland Security, The FBI, The CIA, The American Heart Association, Yale New Haven Hospital, and The International Stress Management Association. He has also been a keynote speaker and/or breakout presenter for WELCOA, WELLCOM, National Wellness, The NAVY, and the ARMY. He is a Fellow of The American Institute of Stress.
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