New World Mindfulness: From the Founding Fathers, Emerson, and Thoreau to Your Personal Practice

Techniques to fit mindfulness into the demands and pace of real life

* Reveals the medical benefits of mindfulness for stress, anxiety, and depression as well as for coping with serious illness and major life changes

* Offers a wide range of techniques, including a "high-speed" form of contemplation, from the authors' extensive experience working with this practice as a healing modality

We are all busy--and we all long for quiet and connection. Yet despite the growing body of evidence su...