The Mindful Way through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life

I've read lots of books about mindfulness, anxiety, and how to do it/deal with it. This book is a most comprehensive combination of the two subjects, dealing with the pitfalls and varied circumstances that make mindfulness less than effective when anxiety pulls out it's full bag of tricks. The authors obviously have deep experience helping folks change their unwanted patterns. Mindfulness, I've found, can bring great calm and clarity when consistently practiced. This the authors support by thoroughly explaining the how our clever minds avoid what we fear even though it's what we really want to do. They offer many examples in each chapter and exercises to help one experience each step of practicing consistent mindfulness. I recognized many of my own anxiety avoidance strategies and am finding the exercises very helpful in using mindfulness to become aware of them and find better alternative.

I worked my way through the whole book and it was really useful to gain new perspectives and helped me not get so lost in my thoughts. I also bought The Mindful Way Through Depression by different authors and this anxiety version was so much better, clearer, and more kind-hearted. I highly recommend trying this book. I felt more peaceful and grounded after working through it, which lasted a while. I'm needing to go back through it again, to continue my progress forward and relearn some things I have forgotten. My only negative is the section on developing your valued actions. I felt it could be revised and improved in future editions by the authors. It was okay, but it was less clear than the rest of the book and felt less well developed. It seemed there was a step missing between identifying values and then getting those into actions... Anyway, I still recommend the book to anyone experiencing anxiety and wanting to work through it.

I found this so helpful and relaxing to read. It includes so many helpful actions you can take and helps you become very mindful and aware. I must read it again.

Nice survey and guide through the relationship between anxiety and and automatic vs. mindful thought patterns.....I just found it a bit watered down and lacking punch...pretty much keeps repeating the same theme over and over....I guess the answer is always practice-required, which might mean months or years, reading the book wont really produce much. Anxiety is a very "sticky" feeling and it's incredibly hard to detach from it whether or not there is any rational reason to feel it (which, given our mortality and the capitalistic social realities we all must face just to buy a decent meal). I am not yet experiencing how "leaning in deeper" to the feeling provides any relief....anyway the authors did a good job, just that I'm still not sure if "mindfulness" is a real thing or not, yet.

I recommend and gift this book to anyone who says they are struggling with anxiety, or who are even occasionally anxious. It examines the nature of anxiety, explaining how worrying is in fact impairing your ability to fully engage with the present moment. The book teaches you how to reconnect with the present moment through mindfulness practice. It also offers helpful tools for dealing with troubling emotions and helps you identify anxiety-driven assumptions that fuel negative reactions to other people, life challenges, etc. This book helped me through the stress of graduate school and some major life transitions. If you are in a mindfulness group or even practicing alone with recordings, this book goes well beyond the meditations you’ll do; it’s a wonderful complement to mindfulness meditation in my opinion. It also helps ypu learn to view your anxiety objectively, which is a critical step in reducing its power and intensity. Throughout, the authors include helpful real-life examples, as well as regular journal exercises that force you to engage with the lessons and practice new skills at managing your anxiety.

Lots of useful info. I have read it twice!

There are so many types of anxiety that it is difficult to write a book that covers them all. This book focuses on social anxiety, this is not the type that I deal with. I meet and interact with people mostly well. My issue seems to be chronic worry anxiety. This seems harder to deal with because you have to get to the root of the worry before you can address the anxiety that is associaated with it. The book is great and has many good examples but my opinion anxiety of whatever type is a journey within ones own mind.

There are many books addressing the How To and Rationale of Mindfulness. The two women, both "full professors", PhDs teaching at Boston universities,with many years, about 20, teaching and practicing mindfulness. They have written a 300 page handbook that is a user-friendly and "available" resource for those who wish to access the power of the mindful way of life. This is a book that takes you on a measured and steady path to mastery and a transformative new life that is liberating and life-enhancing. We have been given life but most of us don't really The Mindful Way through Anxiety: Break Free from Chronic Worry and Reclaim Your Life know what to do with it.

Gives a good breakdown of thought patterns to explain that you're not actually a complete basket case, just human. Shows how you can nurture yourself with compassion and see through the uncomfortable situations. I'm still working on it and it does help. If you suffer from anxiety you'll know just how terrifying it can be at times, you've got nothing to lose, I definitely recommend

Un excellent livre avec des exercices pratiques très appropriésé

Claro, conciso e útil. Explica a origem da ansiedade e como lidar com ela. Reflexões excelentes. Contém diversos exercícios q auxiliam na assimilação do conteúdo.

This is a brilliant book for anyone suffering from anxiety. I did a Mindfulness course and this is re-enforcing and expanding what I learnt there. I am reading through it and doing all the exercises. It does not replace a therapist but it can help anyone while they are waiting for an appointment,

I'm finding this book very helpful!! I would highly recommend it