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'If you're thinking about trying mindfulness, this is the perfect introduction....I'm grateful to Andy for helping me on this journey.' BILL GATES
'It's kind of genius' EMMA WATSON
Feeling stressed about Covid/Brexit/everything? Try this...
Demystifying meditation for the modern world: an accessible and practical route to improved health, happiness and well being, in as little as 10 minutes.
Andy Puddicombe, founder of the celebrated Headspace, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the now. Here he shares his simple to learn, but highly effective techniques of meditation.
* Rest an anxious, busy mind
* Find greater ease when faced with difficult emotions, thoughts, circumstances
* Improve focus and concentration
* Sleep better
* Achieve new levels of calm and fulfillment.
The benefits of mindfulness and meditation are well documented and here Andy brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us.
First published as Get Some Headspace, this reissue shows you how just 10 minutes of mediation per day can bring about life changing results.
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The expert's expert - Britain's top meditation guru. - The Times
Learn to live in the moment with GET SOME HEADSPACE by top meditation guru Andy Puddicombe. His practical guide will help you de-stress and have a calmer, happier life. - Grazia
If you've always wanted to try meditation, then this is the perfect guide to 'mindfulness' and finding yourself ten minutes of Zen. - Scotsman Magazine
Andy bubbles over with enthusiasm and is so easy to follow that most of us leave convinced and with every intention of an attempt to sustain our relaxed/alert state. - Easy Living
A quiet mind is the key to feeling less stressed, less tired and having a new level of calm and contentment. - Woman's Way --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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"[Puddicombe] teaches techniques that can be practiced on a crowded subway or even while wolfing a sandwich during a quick lunch break at your desk.... Ed Halliwell ["The Guardian"] said Mr. Puddicombe is 'doing for meditation what someone like Jamie Oliver has done for food.' And like Mr. Oliver, he's ready to conquer the United States." - "The New York Times"
"The expert's expert." - "The Times" (UK)
"There is definitely no religion, and nothing touchy-feely about the [Headspace] workshop... By the end of the day, with the online resources for support, I feel equipped to join the ranks of those who make daily meditation part of their busy lives." - "Time Out"
"Om's the word, meet the "Sunday Times Style"'s amazing new meditation guru." - "Sunday Times Style" (UK)
"Andy bubbles over with enthusiasm and is so easy to follow that most of us leave convinced and with every intention of an attempt to sustain our relaxed/alert state." - "Easy Living Magazine"
"Mindfulness is a hot topic in neuroscience. I consider the techniques in this book essential for maintaining a healthy brain and a happy mind. Andy is living proof that the ancient practice of mindfulness benefits modern day living." - Dr. Elena Antonova, Neuroscientist, King's College London
[Puddicombe] teaches techniques that can be practiced on a crowded subway or even while wolfing a sandwich during a quick lunch break at your desk.... Ed Halliwell ["The Guardian"] said Mr. Puddicombe is 'doing for meditation what someone like Jamie Oliver has done for food.' And like Mr. Oliver, he's ready to conquer the United States. "The New York Times"
The expert's expert. "The Times (UK)"
There is definitely no religion, and nothing touchy-feely about the [Headspace] workshop By the end of the day, with the online resources for support, I feel equipped to join the ranks of those who make daily meditation part of their busy lives. "Time Out"
Om's the word, meet the "Sunday Times Style"'s amazing new meditation guru. "Sunday Times Style (UK)"
Andy bubbles over with enthusiasm and is so easy to follow that most of us leave convinced and with every intention of an attempt to sustain our relaxed/alert state. "Easy Living Magazine"
Mindfulness is a hot topic in neuroscience. I consider the techniques in this book essential for maintaining a healthy brain and a happy mind. Andy is living proof that the ancient practice of mindfulness benefits modern day living. "Dr. Elena Antonova, Neuroscientist, King's College London""
[Puddicombe] teaches techniques that can be practiced on a crowded subway or even while wolfing a sandwich during a quick lunch break at your desk.... Ed Halliwell [The Guardian] said Mr. Puddicombe is 'doing for meditation what someone like Jamie Oliver has done for food.' And like Mr. Oliver, he's ready to conquer the United States. The New York Times
The expert's expert. The Times (UK)
There is definitely no religion, and nothing touchy-feely about the [Headspace] workshop By the end of the day, with the online resources for support, I feel equipped to join the ranks of those who make daily meditation part of their busy lives. Time Out
Om's the word, meet the Sunday Times Style's amazing new meditation guru. Sunday Times Style (UK)
Andy bubbles over with enthusiasm and is so easy to follow that most of us leave convinced and with every intention of an attempt to sustain our relaxed/alert state. Easy Living Magazine
Mindfulness is a hot topic in neuroscience. I consider the techniques in this book essential for maintaining a healthy brain and a happy mind. Andy is living proof that the ancient practice of mindfulness benefits modern day living. Dr. Elena Antonova, Neuroscientist, King's College London"
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Demystifying meditation for the modern world: an accessible and practical route to improved health, happiness and well being, in as little as 10 minutes. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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"[Puddicombe] teaches techniques that can be practiced on a crowded subway or even while wolfing a sandwich during a quick lunch break at your desk.... Ed Halliwell [The Guardian] said Mr. Puddicombe is 'doing for meditation what someone like Jamie Oliver has done for food.' And like Mr. Oliver, he's ready to conquer the United States." --The New York Times
"The expert's expert." --The Times (UK)
"There is definitely no religion, and nothing touchy-feely about the [Headspace] workshop... By the end of the day, with the online resources for support, I feel equipped to join the ranks of those who make daily meditation part of their busy lives." --Time Out
"Om's the word, meet the Sunday Times Style's amazing new meditation guru." --Sunday Times Style (UK)
"Andy bubbles over with enthusiasm and is so easy to follow that most of us leave convinced and with every intention of an attempt to sustain our relaxed/alert state." --Easy Living Magazine
"Mindfulness is a hot topic in neuroscience. I consider the techniques in this book essential for maintaining a healthy brain and a happy mind. Andy is living proof that the ancient practice of mindfulness benefits modern day living." --Dr. Elena Antonova, Neuroscientist, King's College London
--This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
From the Publisher
Andy Puddicombe is a meditation and mindfulness expert. An accomplished presenter and writer, Andy is the voice of all things Headspace.
In his early twenties, midway through a university degree in Sports Science, Andy made the unexpected decision to travel to the Himalayas to study meditation instead. It was the beginning of a ten year journey which took him around the world, culminating with ordination as a Tibetan Buddhist monk in Northern India.
His transition back to lay life in 2004 was no less extraordinary. Training briefly at Moscow State Circus, he returned to London where he completed a degree in Circus Arts with the Conservatoire of Dance and Drama, whilst drawing up the early plans for what was later to become Headspace.
He has been featured widely in international press, appearing in Vogue, NYT, FT, Entrepreneur, Men's Health and Esquire, to name but a few. He also makes regular appearances on TV and online, having been featured on BBC, Dr Oz, Netflix and TED.
Andy currently lives in Venice, California, with his wife Lucinda. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
About the Author
ANDY PUDDICOMBE is currently the only Clinical Meditation Consultant in the United Kingdom with Medical Advisory Committee clearance for private practice. As a former Buddhist monk, he has trained extensively in meditation all over the world for more than 15 years. He returned to the UK in 2004 and set up the Headspace organization with one simple aim in mind: to demystify meditation and make it accessible and relevant to as many people as possible.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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ASIN : B0050C863G
Publisher : Coronet (26 May 2011)
Language : English
File size : 1653 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 225 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely readReviewed in Australia on 25 July 2022
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I loved this book. I am so grateful that Andy’s shares his knowledge in such an approachable way. I have been an on and off meditator for about 2 years and I still learnt so much reading this. It links in so well with the Headspace app too. I love having theories and stories that link to concepts so I can better understand them & that is what this book does.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great start to getting into mindfulnessReviewed in Australia on 29 March 2021
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I found this book a great support whilst getting into mindfulness. I also used the app, but the book was useful to know the 'how' and 'why' of mindfulness. Would recommend to others!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good starting pointReviewed in Australia on 1 December 2020
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A good book for beginners to meditation. Helped a lot with starting a practice and understanding how to use it in every day life/activities.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great readReviewed in Australia on 11 February 2019
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Really good book as an intro to Headspace and just some background story on Andy’s adventures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Taking10Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2015
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This book is great. Covers every hitch I came across, and prepared me for some I hadn't reached yet. Assured me I wasn't hopeless at meditating, but had to focus on the actual meditation time and being mindful instead of the end result.
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GW
5.0 out of 5 stars BrilliantReviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018
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If you want to make a start with mindfulness, I couldn't recommend this book enough.
Like a lot of people, I had the Headspace app, and sort of dabbled with it a little. This book really clarifies the foundations and process around being mindful.
It's written in a masterful way, simple language and analogies, to convey exactly what the author wants to pass on to the reader. There's none of that American style, self help book bu*****t either....it's been written mindfully!
I can honesty say that this book has had a very positive effect on me, I now understand the principles of mindfulness, and how to go-about practising it properly.
I think from what I've written above, you can guess I would recommend this to anyone that wants to start living their life in a mindful manner.
Big thanks to the author.
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I loved this book. I am so grateful that Andy’s shares his knowledge in such an approachable way. I have been an on and off meditator for about 2 years and I still learnt so much reading this. It links in so well with the Headspace app too. I love having theories and stories that link to concepts so I can better understand them & that is what this book does.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great start to getting into mindfulnessReviewed in Australia on 29 March 2021
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I found this book a great support whilst getting into mindfulness. I also used the app, but the book was useful to know the 'how' and 'why' of mindfulness. Would recommend to others!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good starting pointReviewed in Australia on 1 December 2020
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A good book for beginners to meditation. Helped a lot with starting a practice and understanding how to use it in every day life/activities.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great readReviewed in Australia on 11 February 2019
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Really good book as an intro to Headspace and just some background story on Andy’s adventures.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Taking10Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2015
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This book is great. Covers every hitch I came across, and prepared me for some I hadn't reached yet. Assured me I wasn't hopeless at meditating, but had to focus on the actual meditation time and being mindful instead of the end result.
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5.0 out of 5 stars BrilliantReviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2018
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If you want to make a start with mindfulness, I couldn't recommend this book enough.
Like a lot of people, I had the Headspace app, and sort of dabbled with it a little. This book really clarifies the foundations and process around being mindful.
It's written in a masterful way, simple language and analogies, to convey exactly what the author wants to pass on to the reader. There's none of that American style, self help book bu*****t either....it's been written mindfully!
I can honesty say that this book has had a very positive effect on me, I now understand the principles of mindfulness, and how to go-about practising it properly.
I think from what I've written above, you can guess I would recommend this to anyone that wants to start living their life in a mindful manner.
Big thanks to the author.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The most helpful book I have read, by farReviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 April 2017
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Clear, straightforward and with a suitable amount of gentle humour, this book is well written and informative. Andy is clearly a genuine person and his belief in meditation shines through. I wanted the book not to end. For more Andy, listen to his TED talk.......
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Guidebook on Meditation for the General EnthusiastReviewed in India on 6 August 2019
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Probably you know the name of the app "Headspace" if you happen to read this review (may be an user, too.) Andy Puddicombe, the creator of that app, is known as a former Tibetan Buddhist monk, a learner/student of Buddhist meditation who spent some ten years or so in a few number of monasteries around the world to study the subject. But that aside, what he has accomplished in the later part of his life is quite praiseworthy.
The app itself is so helpful for people in general and a trendsetter in its own league. Other than that his style of teaching (or assistance to practice) meditation is brilliant.
Now this book offers insights about meditation (mainly according to the Tibetan Buddhist school) and various aspects regarding that. He has tackled the subject by dividing it into three main topics:
The Approach,
The Practice,
and The Integration.
Approach is where he has discussed about why one should practice meditation, Practice is where he shows some methods and ideal required mindsets, and Integration is where he's discussed how to implement meditation and mindfulness in everyday life. He has pointed out various scientific researches to back the practicality of practicing meditation which are authentic.
The language is simple and the approach is genial. Overall, for a general reader, this is the best available guidebook to start practicing meditation and mindful living. I highly recommend this book to read even for once.
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Ilona
5.0 out of 5 stars I have the app and use it. However, the book helped me a lot,Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2016
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I have the app and use it. However, the book helped me a lot, yes it is less interactive and you dont get the exercise, etc althought there is a link and you can get it. But he explains more of the logic, etc so really helpful to put the exercise of meditation in context. Really important read, in simple terms for a lifetime journey. Andy demystifies a lot and explains Why/What/How... perfect for rationale (over) minds like me
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4.0 out of 5 stars The start of the journeyReviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2012
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I read this book about a year ago after reading another book on Mindfulness called "The Mindfulness Manifesto".
I found Get Some Headspace to be easy to read and generally entertaining, and it gave me a good introduction to Mindfulness and meditation. I have been practising meditiation since. It is a long and sometimes difficult journey, but I can honestly say that it has changed me for the better. I am a bit calmer and less of a slave to my emotions, and am also able to stop and appreciate things a bit more. There is still a long way to go, and I couldnt tell you exactly how mindfuless has made a difference, but it has. I would say that somehow it has increased my self-awareness, and therefore given me more choices about what I do and how I behave in certain situations. The start of that was reading this book and also The Mindfulness Manifesto (and I should probably give Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies a mention too, as that helped me at times).
I would therefore have to say this this book is well worth the money. I have been following the guided meditations on the Headspace website for some time now, and these are good also in my opinion. However only the first 10 are free, just to make everyone aware.
So for me, this book was the start of a difficult but rewarding journey that will probably go on for the rest of my life.
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| Audible.com.au Release Date | 28 February 2012 |
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
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This program was previously published as Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day.
Quiet the mind, feel less stressed and less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day.
Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK's foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now.
Like his readers and students, Andy began his own meditation practice as a normal, busy person with everyday concerns, and he has since designed a program of mindfulness and guided meditation that fits neatly into a jam-packed daily routine - proving that just 10 minutes a day can make a world of difference.
Accessible and portable, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness offers simple but powerful meditation techniques that positively impact every area of physical and mental health: from productivity and focus, to stress and anxiety relief, sleep, weight-loss, personal relationships...the benefits are limitless. The result? More headspace, less stress. Andy brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us.
Switch off after work
Fall asleep at night
Feel less anxious, sad, or angry
Control your cravings
Find a healthy weight
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Andy Puddicombe, born September 23, 1972, is the founder of Headspace; an award-winning[1] digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions for its users. A former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts. According to The Times, he is also considered the "international poster boy for the modern mindfulness movement".[2] As both author and public speaker,[3] Puddicombe is known for his simple, accessible and secular approach, which has led to over 1 million users of the Headspace platform. The New York Times claims "Puddicombe is doing for meditation what Jamie Oliver has done for food". (source: Wikipedia)
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I stopped listening to music and watching TV in my 20s. It sounds extreme, but I did it because I thought they would just distract me from thinking about software. That blackout period lasted only about five years, and these days I’m a huge fan of TV shows like Narcos and listen to a lot of U2, Willie Nelson, and the Beatles.
Back when I was avoiding music and TV in the hope of maintaining my focus, I knew that lots of other people were using meditation to achieve similar ends. But I wasn’t interested. I thought of meditation as a woo-woo thing tied somehow to reincarnation, and I didn’t buy into it.
Lately, though, I’ve gained a much better understanding of meditation. I’m certainly not an expert, but I now meditate two or three times a week, for about 10 minutes each time. Melinda meditates too. Sometimes we sit to meditate together. (We use comfortable chairs; there’s no way I could do the lotus position.)
I now see that meditation is simply exercise for the mind, similar to the way we exercise our muscles when we play sports. For me, it has nothing to do with faith or mysticism. It’s about taking a few minutes out of my day, learning how to pay attention to the thoughts in my head, and gaining a little bit of distance from them.
Andy Puddicombe, the 46-year-old cofounder and voice of the popular Headspace app, was the person who turned me from skeptic to believer. Prior to finding Headspace, I had read several books about meditation, all of which intimidated me. They made me think that the investment in terms of time and energy was just too high. Headspace made the barrier to entry low enough for me. It’s just 10 minutes a day of listening to Andy’s soothing British accent and trying to stay with him. Andy has taken some heat from hard-core meditators for his low-barrier approach, but he got me to take up meditation and stick with it. I’m glad he did.
If you want to try meditation for yourself, one good way to ease into it—especially if you’re as skeptical as I was—is to pick up a copy of Andy’s book, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness. Andy’s a witty storyteller and offers lots of helpful metaphors to explain potentially tricky concepts, which makes the book an easy, enjoyable read. Andy presents the evidence base behind these practices in sections called “What the research shows” so you know the benefits are legitimate. And the book also helps you see that Andy himself is legitimate. He’s an ordained Buddhist monk who trained for many years in monasteries in India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Australia, Russia, and Scotland.
The book begins with Andy describing one of them: “Locked in, day and night, surrounded by high stone walls and with no way of contacting anyone on the outside, at times it had felt more like a prison.”
At another monastery, the monks served trainees curry and rice every day, and they made the trainees eat it very slowly over the course of exactly an hour. One super hot day, the monks placed in front of each trainee a wonderful surprise: ice cream. “It was like being a child at a birthday party when the cake comes out.” Unfortunately, the trainees soon discovered they were not allowed to touch the ice cream until they had eaten their curry and rice in the painfully slow way they’d been taught. As the ice cream melted in front of him, he felt angry, then sad and guilty for feeling angry—just as the monks knew would happen.
It turns out that monastic life wasn’t right for Andy. As we learn in the book, after ten years he left and—I kid you not—became a circus clown in London. He wanted to be fully engaged in the world rather than cloistering himself away in artificially quiet retreats.
While he was a clown, he started teaching meditation to those with severe anxiety and other conditions. A few years later, he started Headspace to bring meditation to the masses. He felt that meditation was a skill everyone could learn without sitting behind high stone walls or being subjected to mind games.
Melinda and I enjoyed Andy’s work so much that we reached out to him to see whether he might be willing to spend some time teaching our family. He was glad to do it, which was a real treat for us. For a day and a half, Andy helped us and two of our kids through exercises that are similar to the ones you’ll find in the book. Andy was just as warm, humble, and real as we’d imagined from reading his book and listening to him on the app.
I’m not sure how much meditation would have helped me concentrate in my early Microsoft days, because I was monomaniacally focused without it. But now that I’m married, have three children, and have a broader set of professional and personal interests, it’s a great tool for improving my focus. It’s also helped me step back and get some ease with whatever thoughts or emotions are present. I like what I’m getting from my 10 minutes every few days. I’m grateful to Andy for helping me on this journey.
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Several years ago I suspended my cynicism, switched off my mobile phone and went on a two-day meditation course. After an awkward forty-eight hours of chanting, bell ringing and deathly silences I was sent home with a personal mantra and a recommendation to practice ‘doing it’ for thirty minutes twice a day. Guess what happened? I didn’t do it. Every time I sat down, hoping to find calm, I ended up compiling mental to-do lists. When the time was up I’d leap out of the chair feeling frantic and annoyed that I’d wasted half an hour of my life. Over the years I’ve read other books on the subject and dipped in and out. Sometimes the advice to ‘imagine my thoughts like fluffy clouds on a summer day’ has worked but, more than often, it hasn’t. I started reading Get Some Headspace after a friend’s enthusiastic recommendation. I really like Andy’s down-to-earth language and his personal stories. I can relate to his desire to manage the negative/rambling voice in his head and his initial struggles to achieve positive results from meditating. I’ve registered online, downloaded the app (which is brilliant because you can have a guided meditation anytime, anyplace), and I’m enjoying my ten minutes everyday. I think this system works because it offers accessible support and encouragement and it enables me to easily incorporate meditation into a busy day. To my amazement, I’m beginning to think ten minutes isn’t long enough!
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My exploration into meditation continues. I started on February 5th when I wrote the post Learning To Meditate. Since then, I've been practicing every day, read a few books on meditation, talked to a lot of people about it, and explored several iPhone / web apps.
The impact on me has been awesome.
After talking to Jerry Colonna for a few hours about meditation on the snowy Sunday after I started, he recommended I take a look at Headspace. I signed up that night and started doing the Take10 meditations. For the first few days, I did it once a day, but then quickly starting practicing twice a day, once in the morning and once before I went to bed. Occasionally I'd toss in another session at lunch time, although sometimes I just did a silent meditation instead for 10 to 15 minutes.
After about a week I was deeply hooked. I grabbed the iPhone GetSomeHeadspace app and untethered myself from my desk. We've got a meditation room in our new house and even though it's very sparse right now (just one sitting pillow), it's a magnificent sanctuary for my meditation.
I noticed that Andy Puddicombe, the founder of Headspace, had written a book called Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day. I downloaded it and read it last night and this morning. Since I'm deep into the Headspace program, a lot of it was familiar to me. But Andy's description of his own meditation journey is fascinating, and reinforces a lot of things he guides you through in the Headspace program.
Near the end, he has a great chapter on different forms of meditation beyond sitting. He covers walking, sleeping, eating, and running. These are forms that intrigue me, especially since I run a lot, eat too fast, and am exploring different sleep patterns.
Overall, the book is a nice addition to the Headspace program. If you are intrigued about meditation, it's a fast, easy, helpful read. But there's nothing like just practicing. For that, I recommend you hop on line and try the free Headspace Take10 program.
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It was a relaxed, slow-paced, lite book on meditation and a method of doing it.
I enjoyed the book, however, it didn't gave me a heavy insight into meditation, but it gave me fairly good understand of what involves in a good practice of meditation. And also it brought the importance of its integration into other parts of my life. I should mention that though the book explains some meditation practices, it cannot do the job of the app, and vice versa. Although I think the book was intended as an independent product with the same aim as the app.
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Often in life we get so caught up in the analysis, the dissection of every possible outcome, that we miss an opportunity altogether. Of course, some things require careful consideration, but the more we live mindfully, in the moment, the more we start to get a sense of what feels right. Whether you think of it as a gut feeling, intuition, being guided, or just knowing for yourself that it’s the right thing to do, this can be an incredibly liberating discovery.
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This book contains very basic information on mindfulness and meditation. If you are a beginner or have been having trouble following a practice, this may contain the guidance you need. I was a little upset about the blatant commercialism of this book. The use of cute copyrighted terms like "headspace©" and "Take10©" turned me off. The book also repeatedly references the author's website where very little information is available without registering. It looked and smelled like a moneymaking machine that I would prefer to avoid. I did enjoy reading about the author's experiences as a Buddhist monk, especially the "Screaming Man Story".
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Wow. I sort of cannot believe how much I liked this book. I have never been good at quieting my mind and that was BEFORE having kids. And since? It is so noisy- I want a break from my thoughts. Enter this book. I think I read somewhere that meditation is a gym membership for the mind. It's true, guys! I have downloaded the Headspace app and I LOVE it. It is perfect for a beginner like me b/c the app uses guided meditation. All it requires is ten minutes of your time a day. And after that ten minutes? So relaxed.
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[I've also written a longer review of the book in my blog. You can find it here.]
I had already used the Headspace meditation app for a year before reading the book. Still, the book was definitely worth it! For example, the Headspace book goes deeper in the theory and reasoning than the app. The clear explaining also helped me correct some misconceptions I still had about meditation.
The Headspace book does a great job of teaching mindfulness in a very easy-to-understand way. Instead of giving the reader an information overload, the book has a clear focus on the most important information. It also helps that Andy Puddicombe is a very engaging and entertaining writer.
If I'd need to recommend just one book for someone who wants to learn mindfulness and meditation, I'd hand them "The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness".
Ps. "The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness" and "Get Some Headspace" are listed as different books in Goodreads, but make no mistake: "The Headspace Guide..." is just a re-branded version of the exact same thing.
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3.5 stars.
I am quite convinced of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation, which was why I read this book. The instruction surrounding the concept of mindfulness as a form of meditation made more sense than the 'traditional' idea of meditation, i.e. a state of having no thoughts in one's mind. I had tried that kind of meditation many times with all those breathing techniques with picturing one's third eye and the flow of prana, etc etc, but it never worked. The only thing that left me feeling a bit cold is the whole idea that people who are already so reliant on their smartphones are now reaching for it to help them meditate through an app. This is truly a sign of our times.
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While this book was an entertaining, gentle, and refreshingly irreverent introduction to meditation, from my perspective it didn't live up to the glowing reviews I'd heard about it. I've read a number of books and guides to meditation over the years, from Western approaches to Eastern religious texts (Hindu and Buddhist), and it's true that many of them can make the practice of meditation seem incredibly intimidating. This book takes a much less formal approach, and guides the reader through both the why and how of basic meditation techniques with joy and humor. As others have pointed out in their reviews, the book is made stronger both by his reference to studies that have demonstrated the value of meditation, as well as the endless personal stories which bring color to the sometimes dry material. In the end, though, the book just doesn't contain that much real information about meditation, and most of what it has to teach could easily have been covered in a chapter or two. It was an enjoyable read, so this is acceptable, but intermediate or advanced meditators are not going to find much new here.
I will admit that this book, unlike the many others I've read, did get me to start a meditation practice, both at home and in some of the situational mindfulness practices he describes (walking, riding the bus). I don't follow his take-10 methodology exactly, but I did find the framework he presents helpful in coming up with a practice that works for me. Only time will tell if this will prove useful for me, but this is more committed than I've been to a practice than ever before.
A note about the audiobook - the author reads very slowly, and it was hard to handle this book at less than 2.5x. As such, I found the HeadSpace app unbearable, as you must listen to the guided meditations at 1x. The last chapter in the book does have a version of each guided meditation, but I did not find this particularly useful.
[update 12/20/18]
Though I stand by the content of my review, I've updated my rating from three stars to four. This is primarily because I've found the lessons and techniques in this book to be remarkably "sticky" - it has not only led me to consistent practices of both sitting and walking meditations, various concepts, images, and techniques from the book keep coming back to me as I shape my own practice. It's a book I'll definitely be recommending to others, and as such it deserves at least four stars.
[Update 2/5/19 - bumping up to five stars. Despite its quirks, this book was incredibly helpful to me, and it has taken a couple of months to see the full benefits. As I mentioned in my last update, the book got me to finally start a meditation practice, and now I've found several real world situations where being able to use that muscle of clearing my mind has been incredibly useful. I'm now going back through "Peace is Every Step," and even that book is proving far more meaningful now that this one got me on the path to a daily practice.
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The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
Andy Puddicombe
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This program was previously published as Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day.
Quiet the mind, feel less stressed and less tired, and achieve a new level of calm and fulfillment in just ten minutes a day.
Andy Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk, the Voice of Headspace, and the UK's foremost mindfulness expert, is on a mission: to get people to take 10 minutes out of their day to sit in the here and now.
Like his readers and students, Andy began his own meditation practice as a normal, busy person with everyday concerns, and he has since designed a program of mindfulness and guided meditation that fits neatly into a jam-packed daily routine - proving that just 10 minutes a day can make a world of difference.
Accessible and portable, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness offers simple but powerful meditation techniques that positively impact every area of physical and mental health: from productivity and focus, to stress and anxiety relief, sleep, weight-loss, personal relationships...the benefits are limitless. The result? More headspace, less stress. Andy brings this ancient practice into the modern world, tailor made for the most time starved among us.
Switch off after work
Fall asleep at night
Feel less anxious, sad, or angry
Control your cravings
Find a healthy weight
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Andy Puddicombe, born September 23, 1972, is the founder of Headspace; an award-winning[1] digital health platform that provides guided meditation sessions for its users. A former Buddhist monk with a degree in Circus Arts. According to The Times, he is also considered the "international poster boy for the modern mindfulness movement".[2] As both author and public speaker,[3] Puddicombe is known for his simple, accessible and secular approach, which has led to over 1 million users of the Headspace platform. The New York Times claims "Puddicombe is doing for meditation what Jamie Oliver has done for food". (source: Wikipedia)
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I stopped listening to music and watching TV in my 20s. It sounds extreme, but I did it because I thought they would just distract me from thinking about software. That blackout period lasted only about five years, and these days I’m a huge fan of TV shows like Narcos and listen to a lot of U2, Willie Nelson, and the Beatles.
Back when I was avoiding music and TV in the hope of maintaining my focus, I knew that lots of other people were using meditation to achieve similar ends. But I wasn’t interested. I thought of meditation as a woo-woo thing tied somehow to reincarnation, and I didn’t buy into it.
Lately, though, I’ve gained a much better understanding of meditation. I’m certainly not an expert, but I now meditate two or three times a week, for about 10 minutes each time. Melinda meditates too. Sometimes we sit to meditate together. (We use comfortable chairs; there’s no way I could do the lotus position.)
I now see that meditation is simply exercise for the mind, similar to the way we exercise our muscles when we play sports. For me, it has nothing to do with faith or mysticism. It’s about taking a few minutes out of my day, learning how to pay attention to the thoughts in my head, and gaining a little bit of distance from them.
Andy Puddicombe, the 46-year-old cofounder and voice of the popular Headspace app, was the person who turned me from skeptic to believer. Prior to finding Headspace, I had read several books about meditation, all of which intimidated me. They made me think that the investment in terms of time and energy was just too high. Headspace made the barrier to entry low enough for me. It’s just 10 minutes a day of listening to Andy’s soothing British accent and trying to stay with him. Andy has taken some heat from hard-core meditators for his low-barrier approach, but he got me to take up meditation and stick with it. I’m glad he did.
If you want to try meditation for yourself, one good way to ease into it—especially if you’re as skeptical as I was—is to pick up a copy of Andy’s book, The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness. Andy’s a witty storyteller and offers lots of helpful metaphors to explain potentially tricky concepts, which makes the book an easy, enjoyable read. Andy presents the evidence base behind these practices in sections called “What the research shows” so you know the benefits are legitimate. And the book also helps you see that Andy himself is legitimate. He’s an ordained Buddhist monk who trained for many years in monasteries in India, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Australia, Russia, and Scotland.
The book begins with Andy describing one of them: “Locked in, day and night, surrounded by high stone walls and with no way of contacting anyone on the outside, at times it had felt more like a prison.”
At another monastery, the monks served trainees curry and rice every day, and they made the trainees eat it very slowly over the course of exactly an hour. One super hot day, the monks placed in front of each trainee a wonderful surprise: ice cream. “It was like being a child at a birthday party when the cake comes out.” Unfortunately, the trainees soon discovered they were not allowed to touch the ice cream until they had eaten their curry and rice in the painfully slow way they’d been taught. As the ice cream melted in front of him, he felt angry, then sad and guilty for feeling angry—just as the monks knew would happen.
It turns out that monastic life wasn’t right for Andy. As we learn in the book, after ten years he left and—I kid you not—became a circus clown in London. He wanted to be fully engaged in the world rather than cloistering himself away in artificially quiet retreats.
While he was a clown, he started teaching meditation to those with severe anxiety and other conditions. A few years later, he started Headspace to bring meditation to the masses. He felt that meditation was a skill everyone could learn without sitting behind high stone walls or being subjected to mind games.
Melinda and I enjoyed Andy’s work so much that we reached out to him to see whether he might be willing to spend some time teaching our family. He was glad to do it, which was a real treat for us. For a day and a half, Andy helped us and two of our kids through exercises that are similar to the ones you’ll find in the book. Andy was just as warm, humble, and real as we’d imagined from reading his book and listening to him on the app.
I’m not sure how much meditation would have helped me concentrate in my early Microsoft days, because I was monomaniacally focused without it. But now that I’m married, have three children, and have a broader set of professional and personal interests, it’s a great tool for improving my focus. It’s also helped me step back and get some ease with whatever thoughts or emotions are present. I like what I’m getting from my 10 minutes every few days. I’m grateful to Andy for helping me on this journey.
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Several years ago I suspended my cynicism, switched off my mobile phone and went on a two-day meditation course. After an awkward forty-eight hours of chanting, bell ringing and deathly silences I was sent home with a personal mantra and a recommendation to practice ‘doing it’ for thirty minutes twice a day. Guess what happened? I didn’t do it. Every time I sat down, hoping to find calm, I ended up compiling mental to-do lists. When the time was up I’d leap out of the chair feeling frantic and annoyed that I’d wasted half an hour of my life. Over the years I’ve read other books on the subject and dipped in and out. Sometimes the advice to ‘imagine my thoughts like fluffy clouds on a summer day’ has worked but, more than often, it hasn’t. I started reading Get Some Headspace after a friend’s enthusiastic recommendation. I really like Andy’s down-to-earth language and his personal stories. I can relate to his desire to manage the negative/rambling voice in his head and his initial struggles to achieve positive results from meditating. I’ve registered online, downloaded the app (which is brilliant because you can have a guided meditation anytime, anyplace), and I’m enjoying my ten minutes everyday. I think this system works because it offers accessible support and encouragement and it enables me to easily incorporate meditation into a busy day. To my amazement, I’m beginning to think ten minutes isn’t long enough!
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My exploration into meditation continues. I started on February 5th when I wrote the post Learning To Meditate. Since then, I've been practicing every day, read a few books on meditation, talked to a lot of people about it, and explored several iPhone / web apps.
The impact on me has been awesome.
After talking to Jerry Colonna for a few hours about meditation on the snowy Sunday after I started, he recommended I take a look at Headspace. I signed up that night and started doing the Take10 meditations. For the first few days, I did it once a day, but then quickly starting practicing twice a day, once in the morning and once before I went to bed. Occasionally I'd toss in another session at lunch time, although sometimes I just did a silent meditation instead for 10 to 15 minutes.
After about a week I was deeply hooked. I grabbed the iPhone GetSomeHeadspace app and untethered myself from my desk. We've got a meditation room in our new house and even though it's very sparse right now (just one sitting pillow), it's a magnificent sanctuary for my meditation.
I noticed that Andy Puddicombe, the founder of Headspace, had written a book called Get Some Headspace: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day. I downloaded it and read it last night and this morning. Since I'm deep into the Headspace program, a lot of it was familiar to me. But Andy's description of his own meditation journey is fascinating, and reinforces a lot of things he guides you through in the Headspace program.
Near the end, he has a great chapter on different forms of meditation beyond sitting. He covers walking, sleeping, eating, and running. These are forms that intrigue me, especially since I run a lot, eat too fast, and am exploring different sleep patterns.
Overall, the book is a nice addition to the Headspace program. If you are intrigued about meditation, it's a fast, easy, helpful read. But there's nothing like just practicing. For that, I recommend you hop on line and try the free Headspace Take10 program.
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It was a relaxed, slow-paced, lite book on meditation and a method of doing it.
I enjoyed the book, however, it didn't gave me a heavy insight into meditation, but it gave me fairly good understand of what involves in a good practice of meditation. And also it brought the importance of its integration into other parts of my life. I should mention that though the book explains some meditation practices, it cannot do the job of the app, and vice versa. Although I think the book was intended as an independent product with the same aim as the app.
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Often in life we get so caught up in the analysis, the dissection of every possible outcome, that we miss an opportunity altogether. Of course, some things require careful consideration, but the more we live mindfully, in the moment, the more we start to get a sense of what feels right. Whether you think of it as a gut feeling, intuition, being guided, or just knowing for yourself that it’s the right thing to do, this can be an incredibly liberating discovery.
Do your thoughts define the way you feel? Or does the way you feel define your thoughts?
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Beginners Only!!
This book contains very basic information on mindfulness and meditation. If you are a beginner or have been having trouble following a practice, this may contain the guidance you need. I was a little upset about the blatant commercialism of this book. The use of cute copyrighted terms like "headspace©" and "Take10©" turned me off. The book also repeatedly references the author's website where very little information is available without registering. It looked and smelled like a moneymaking machine that I would prefer to avoid. I did enjoy reading about the author's experiences as a Buddhist monk, especially the "Screaming Man Story".
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Wow. I sort of cannot believe how much I liked this book. I have never been good at quieting my mind and that was BEFORE having kids. And since? It is so noisy- I want a break from my thoughts. Enter this book. I think I read somewhere that meditation is a gym membership for the mind. It's true, guys! I have downloaded the Headspace app and I LOVE it. It is perfect for a beginner like me b/c the app uses guided meditation. All it requires is ten minutes of your time a day. And after that ten minutes? So relaxed.
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[I've also written a longer review of the book in my blog. You can find it here.]
I had already used the Headspace meditation app for a year before reading the book. Still, the book was definitely worth it! For example, the Headspace book goes deeper in the theory and reasoning than the app. The clear explaining also helped me correct some misconceptions I still had about meditation.
The Headspace book does a great job of teaching mindfulness in a very easy-to-understand way. Instead of giving the reader an information overload, the book has a clear focus on the most important information. It also helps that Andy Puddicombe is a very engaging and entertaining writer.
If I'd need to recommend just one book for someone who wants to learn mindfulness and meditation, I'd hand them "The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness".
Ps. "The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness" and "Get Some Headspace" are listed as different books in Goodreads, but make no mistake: "The Headspace Guide..." is just a re-branded version of the exact same thing.
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3.5 stars.
I am quite convinced of the benefits of mindfulness and meditation, which was why I read this book. The instruction surrounding the concept of mindfulness as a form of meditation made more sense than the 'traditional' idea of meditation, i.e. a state of having no thoughts in one's mind. I had tried that kind of meditation many times with all those breathing techniques with picturing one's third eye and the flow of prana, etc etc, but it never worked. The only thing that left me feeling a bit cold is the whole idea that people who are already so reliant on their smartphones are now reaching for it to help them meditate through an app. This is truly a sign of our times.
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While this book was an entertaining, gentle, and refreshingly irreverent introduction to meditation, from my perspective it didn't live up to the glowing reviews I'd heard about it. I've read a number of books and guides to meditation over the years, from Western approaches to Eastern religious texts (Hindu and Buddhist), and it's true that many of them can make the practice of meditation seem incredibly intimidating. This book takes a much less formal approach, and guides the reader through both the why and how of basic meditation techniques with joy and humor. As others have pointed out in their reviews, the book is made stronger both by his reference to studies that have demonstrated the value of meditation, as well as the endless personal stories which bring color to the sometimes dry material. In the end, though, the book just doesn't contain that much real information about meditation, and most of what it has to teach could easily have been covered in a chapter or two. It was an enjoyable read, so this is acceptable, but intermediate or advanced meditators are not going to find much new here.
I will admit that this book, unlike the many others I've read, did get me to start a meditation practice, both at home and in some of the situational mindfulness practices he describes (walking, riding the bus). I don't follow his take-10 methodology exactly, but I did find the framework he presents helpful in coming up with a practice that works for me. Only time will tell if this will prove useful for me, but this is more committed than I've been to a practice than ever before.
A note about the audiobook - the author reads very slowly, and it was hard to handle this book at less than 2.5x. As such, I found the HeadSpace app unbearable, as you must listen to the guided meditations at 1x. The last chapter in the book does have a version of each guided meditation, but I did not find this particularly useful.
[update 12/20/18]
Though I stand by the content of my review, I've updated my rating from three stars to four. This is primarily because I've found the lessons and techniques in this book to be remarkably "sticky" - it has not only led me to consistent practices of both sitting and walking meditations, various concepts, images, and techniques from the book keep coming back to me as I shape my own practice. It's a book I'll definitely be recommending to others, and as such it deserves at least four stars.
[Update 2/5/19 - bumping up to five stars. Despite its quirks, this book was incredibly helpful to me, and it has taken a couple of months to see the full benefits. As I mentioned in my last update, the book got me to finally start a meditation practice, and now I've found several real world situations where being able to use that muscle of clearing my mind has been incredibly useful. I'm now going back through "Peace is Every Step," and even that book is proving far more meaningful now that this one got me on the path to a daily practice.
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