From Mindfulness to Insight: Meditations to Release Your Habitual Thinking and Activate Your Inherent Wisdom

Building on mindfulness and self-compassion practices, this step-by-step guide to secular insight meditation shows the way to freedom from deeply rooted thought patterns.

Discover joy within yourself and heartfelt connection with others by releasing the habitual thought patterns that cause suffering and alienation. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom as well as the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, this book provides you with the tools needed to recognize the habits of thinking that fuel anger, desire, jealousy, and pride. Building on mindfulness and self-compassion practice, it offers a step-by-step series of guided meditations that create the conditions for liberating insight and wisdom to naturally arise. Thousands of people in the last decade have benefited from practicing the exercises in this book, which were developed and taught as part of the curriculum at the Mindfulness Association, an organization founded to deliver training in mindfulness, compassion, and insight.

Rob Nairn is a world pioneer in presenting Buddhist philosophy and practice in a way that is accessible to the Western mind. He is the author of several books, including Diamond Mind (2001) and Living, Dreaming, Dying (2004). In 2010 he founded the Mindfulness Association to deliver training in mindfulness practice.

Choden (Sean McGovern) and Heather Regan-Addis, both practicing Buddhists, are directors and cofounders of the Mindfulness Association and coauthored the book Mindfulness Based Living Course (2018).