Posts tagged with 'self-help'
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (7th post) - fifth week's practice
26th January 2012
I wrote about chapter eight in Mark & Danny's book last week. This post is about chapter nine - the fifth week of meditation practice - "Turning towards difficulties" (pp. 159 to 182). In their week-by-week programme summary (p. 59), they write "Week five introduces a meditation - Exploring difficulty …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (6th post) - fourth week's practice
19th January 2012
Last week I wrote about chapter seven of Mark & Danny's book. This post is about chapter eight - the fourth week of actual meditation practice - entitled "Moving beyond the rumour mill" (pp. 134 to 158). In their week-by-week overall summary of the whole programme (pp. 58 to 60), …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (5th post) - third week's practice
12th January 2012
I wrote recently on "Using Williams & Penman's book ... as a self-help resource (4th post) - second week's practice". Today's post looks at the third week's practice described in chapter seven "The mouse in the maze". The authors state "Week three builds on the previous sessions with some non-strenuous …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (4th post) - second week's practice
29th December 2011
Last week I wrote about "Using Williams & Penman's book ... as a self-help resource (3rd post) - first week's practice". It's time now to move on to the second week's practice described in chapter six - "Keeping the body in mind". Read through this chapter (pp. 91 to 110). …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (3rd post) - first week's practice
22nd December 2011
Time to roll up our sleeves and start turning Williams & Penman's book's "meditation recipes" into genuinely nourishing meals. I have already written a first blog post on why we have good reason to be optimistic about the benefits we can achieve with this kind of self-help venture. The second …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (2nd post) - getting ready
15th December 2011
I wrote a week ago about using Mark Williams & Danny Penman's excellent book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. In today's post I want to look more practically at getting started with this process. Obviously you have …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (1st post) - introduction
8th December 2011
This is the first in a series of intended posts about using Mark Williams & Danny Penman's excellent recent book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. My hope is that these blog posts will provide some back-up resources …
Recent research: three studies on CBT, one on implementation intentions and two on compassion
17th March 2011
Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - three on CBT, one on implementation intentions (and CBT), and two on compassion. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. The first, by Gulliksson et al, is "Randomized Controlled Trial …
Mental contrasting: a way to boost our commitment to goals we care about
20th February 2011
This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. What is ‘mental contrasting'? Mental contrasting (MC) is a way of boosting our energy and commitment for goals that are important to us. It helps us turn our hopes and dreams into realities. Interestingly, and …
New NICE guidance on the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia)
10th February 2011
In January, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on the care and treatment of adults with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) or panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia). This guideline updates and replaces their 2004 one (which was itself amended in 2007). …