Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies

Joelle Jane Marshall 지음

For Dummies 2015년 11월 20일 출간

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Don't panic! Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies is a practical guide to overcoming your worries and minimising anxiety using mindfulness techniques. The National Health Service and the National Institute for Care and Excellence recommend mindfulness as a legitimate treatment for anxiety, and its also been proven to alleviate stress, depression, low self-esteem, and insomnia. This book explains the benefits of mindfulness, and how it can help you face your fears and defeat persistent, irrational worries. Learn how to break the anxiety cycle with an optimistic approach, live in the present moment, and manage your thoughts using the fundamental techniques of mindfulness therapy. This friendly guide will accompany you every step of the way as you understand your anxiety, identify solutions to your problem, maintain your gains, and avoid relapse. Over three million people in the UK suffer from Generalised Anxiety Disorder, with millions more experiencing phobias, OCD, and panic disorders. Anxiety is potentially debilitating, but many people are daunted by navigating the health system and thus fail to seek treatment. This book provides a way for you to begin managing your symptoms at home, using simple techniques that can help change the way you think, feel, and act. Understand what anxiety is, and the common causes Employ mindful self-compassion to alleviate symptoms Discover mindful attitudes and practise mindful mediation Transform unhealthy habits into anxiety-busting self-care Mindfulness can help you break free of the downward spiral of negative thought and action, and make positive choices that support your wellbeing. If you're tired of being anxious and long for a brighter outlook, Managing Anxiety with Mindfulness For Dummies provides a wide range of effective techniques to help you enjoy a calmer and happier life.

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Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 4 Part I: Getting Started with Managing Anxiety 5 Chapter 1: Peering into the World of Anxiety 7 Comparing Fear, Excitement and Anxiety 7 Investigating fear 8 Clarifying the difference between anxiety and excitement 8 Discovering the Effect of Anxiety on the Mind 9 Finding out the Physical Effects of Anxiety on Bodily Functions 10 Understanding the Fight or Flight Response 11 Exploring Why Thinking Negatively Is a Natural Human Trait 12 Recognising Whether Your Anxiety Is Normal or Severe 13 Suffering from excessive anxiety 13 Accepting that mild anxiety can be helpful 14 Applying Mindfulness to Your Anxiety 15 Defining mindfulness 15 Discovering how mindfulness can help your anxiety 17 Trying out a mindful exercise 19 Chapter 2: Finding Out the Common Causes of Anxiety 21 Exploring Common Causes of Anxiety 21 Discovering your biology and your anxiety 22 Finding out the stress factor 23 Thinking causes most anxiety 23 Understanding the Influences Affecting Your Anxiety 25 Considering the effect of childhood experience 25 Exploring self-perception&'s impact on anxiety 26 Refusing to identify yourself with anxiety 27 Enjoying the benefits of socialising 28 Realising How Modern Day Living Can Affect Your Anxiety 29 Stopping negative media from affecting your anxiety 29 Reducing the adverse impact of technology on your anxiety 30 Part II: Learning More about Mindfulness for Anxiety 33 Chapter 3: Discovering Mindful Attitudes Toward Anxiety 35 Discovering Your Starting Attitude 35 Understanding the Benefits of Mindfulness 36 Let&'s get p

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저자(글) Joelle Jane Marshall

Joelle Jane Marshall is a freelance speaker and mindfulness coach who works closely with fellow Mindfulness For Dummies coauthor Shamash Alidina on workshops for 'Mindfulness and Overcoming Fear'. She trained in mindfulness with Shamash and meditates and practices yoga regularly.