The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery: The Essence of Mindfulness

Living mindfully, people in recovery can learn skills that allow them to be the people the want to be. Instead of being prisoners of harmful habits, they can consciously create healthy behaviors in support their recovery and live their lives free from active addiction. Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery—values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action—utilizing lessons, meditations, reflections, and other daily practices. "A rich and multilayered guide that offers readers accessible wisdom and practical methods to cultivate deeper satisfaction in everyday experiences. In contrast to stimulus-driven pleasure, contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values. The authoridentifies the common traps people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worries, and fears, and offers authentic mindfulness-based solutions to counteract them. The increasing popularity of secular mindfulness in the United States mainstream has unfortunately produced a variety of teachings that water down and misunderstand this important philosophy and approach to living. Mindfulness is often reduced to concentration exercises and a simplistic definition of being aware of the present moment. In nearly all secular presentations of mindfulness, it is taken out of the rich context of the Three Higher Trainings (ethics, concentration, and wisdom) of Buddhism in which it was originally taught. The unique feature of this book is that it maintains the substance of the entire teaching as a program that is accessible to people of all spiritual traditions or no spiritual tradition. John Bruna is a counselor, mindfulness and spiritual teacher, and Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in California. In 2005, he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition through the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India. In 2012, he became a Certified Cultivating Emotional Balance Mindfulness Teacher via the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Currently, John is the director of the Way of Compassion Foundation and cofounder of the Mindful Life Program"-- Provided by publisher An inclusive guidebook to help anyone enhance their recovery and cultivate more inner peace, resiliency, and well-being. Living mindfully, people in recovery can learn skills that allow them to recognize and know their own worthiness and value, empowering them to fully engage with life on life's terms in ways that are productive and meaningful to them. Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery: values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action. The Essential Guidebook to Mindfulness in Recovery is a self-paced curriculum that can be integrated into any recovery program. Whether people are new to recovery or in long-term recovery, they will be able to use the mindfulness practices in this guidebook to consciously create healthy habits that support their recovery and the lives they want to live. This workbook is designed with plenty of open space for you to record the learning skills developed through your recovery. Living mindfully, you will learn skills that allow you to be the people you want to be. Consciously creating healthy behaviors in support your recovery can lead to a life free from active addiction. Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery, while utilizing lessons, meditations, reflections, and other daily practices. -- adapted from back cover and perusal of book "Author John Bruna's essential guide presents a holistic approach to genuine happiness. In contrast to stimulus driven pleasure, contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values. It identifies the common traps that people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worries and fears, offering authentic mindfulness-based solutions to counteract them"-- Provided by publisher Former Buddhist monk John Bruna outlines the seven skills of living mindfully in recovery - values, attention, wisdom, equanimity, compassion, loving-kindness, and action - utilizing lessons, meditations, reflections, and other daily practices. "A self-paced curriculum that integrates mindfulness and its practices with twelve-step recovery."-- Publisher's website