Nita Sweeney

Make Every Move a Meditation

Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight (Benefits of Exercise as Meditation)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows readers that fitness can be mindfulness. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mango Media
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 136mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9781642509892
• ISBN-10: 1642509892
• Artikelnr.: 63247631

Autorenporträt

Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A certified meditation leader, mental health advocate, ultramarathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the groups “Mind, Mood, and Movement” to support well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice, and “The Writer’s Mind,” to share using writing practice to produce publishable work. Nita also publishes the writing resource newsletter, “Write Now Columbus.” Nita lives in central Ohio with her husband, Ed, and their yellow Labrador retriever, Scarlet. Head to her website to download your free copy of Nita’s eBook Three Ways to Heal Your Mind.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Why Bother?
Chapter 2: How to Meditate While You Move
Chapter 3: Why I Bother
Chapter 4: Splendid Body—Sense Gates
Chapter 5: Tricky Mind—Working with Thoughts
Chapter 6 Advanced Awareness Techniques
Chapter 7: Tangles of Emotion
Chapter 8: How to Grow Through Pain (and Joy)
Chapter 9: Cultivating Mind States
Chapter 10: Struggling? Check the Hindrances
Chapter 11: Variations on a Theme
Chapter 12: Whose Idea Was This?
Chapter 13: More About Forms of Movement
Chapter 14: Make It Yours
Chapter 15: Taking It on the Road
Chapter 16: Who’s Meditating?
Chapter 17: Why Therapists Have Therapists and Teachers Have Teachers
Chapter 18: You Might Already Be Doing It
Chapter 19: Find Your Fellowship
Chapter 20: Illness, Injury, and “Bad” Workouts
Chapter 21: Performance
Chapter 22: See You on the “Path”
An Invitation and a Request
Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
References