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With The Mindful Way Through Depression, four leading researchers present insightful lessons drawn from both Eastern meditative traditions and cognitive therapy about how to triumph over this illness-and, more importantly, how to prevent it from striking again. Huh, guess I knew how to review this after all.If you've ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, take heart: mindfulness practice is a simple, powerful way to naturally break depression's self-perpetuating cycle. The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness / Edition 1 by Mark Williams DPhil, John Teasdale PhD, Zindel Segal PhD, Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD 4.0 (24) Paperback View All Available Formats & Editions Buy New 21.95 Buy Used 12.81 Overview If you’ve ever struggled with depression, take heart. I am going to give this book a three as it has potential and I know it helped the friend who recommended it to me. There is a time and place for almost every book and maybe now is the time. Having this (literally a year) separation of start and finishing, might have been the trick. Or maybe I will skip the introduction part and start with the practices. But maybe, when I am at the end of the middle of my journey, I will have the ability to appreciate it more. I wrote a few notes in a journal I was keeping at the time. I have highlighted a few lines that I felt were interesting, important or just clever. Breathing is meditation and becoming mindful without any of the connotations of being a “big special thing” that people assume they cannot do. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (includes Guided Meditation Practices CD) - Lowest prices on PriceRunner. But instead of saying meditation and mindful he said he practices breathing. He was promoting his new picture book which is a meditation and mindful book. Last year I had the pleasure of seeing Tomie dePaola speak. It is somewhat pretensions in my humble opinion. This seems a negative way to introduce your book. But the word chronic has a connotation linked with cancer/death (at least in my mind). Me/the reader is looking for a way to stop the depression and the unhappiness in our lives. You will be able to fly and “free” of your depression. That is most likely meant to be positive. I think my biggest issue with this book is the wording of the title. I now see why, but before I figured never read it, I would (as said) give it a try. I have mentioned this book in the comments of another reviewed book, and a reviewer said they had issues with this book as well. I figured reading the book would allow me to find my own or if needed, it was there. A friend recommended this book and I figured why not? What did I have to lose? The included CD of guided meditations did not interest me. If I had to narrow down where in my journey I was, I was at the end of the beginning moving into the middle of it. Had I started this book at the beginning of my self-discovery journey, it might have been different. As well as repetitive and even a bit condescending at times.

I could not get past the fact that the introduction section is long.

I probably should back up and start with, I have not finished this book and I am assuming I might not finish it. I am not sure how to review The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by Mark Williams along with John Teasdale, Zindel V.
