The Mindful Body: Build Emotional Strength and Manage Stress with Body Mindfulness

Description

How does your mind live in your body? How can body awareness change your life experience? Successful author and practising psychotherapist Noa Belling offers a practical, personal way to use your body as a direct path to mindfulness and mindful living. By waking up to how we hold life experiences in our bodies, we have the power and choice to improve physical, mental and emotional health, promote vitality, build emotional resilience and generally improve quality of life. The practises of this book go beyond traditional mindfulness to target specific challenges such as stress, anxiety, depression, confidence, zest for life, decision-making and more. Supported with psychological and neuroscientific studies, this book provides you with many opportunities to practice body mindfulness to experience your physical being as an empowering and intelligent resource.

Noa Belling holds a Master's degree in Somatic (or body-mind) psychology through Naropa University, which is the birthplace of the modern mindfulness movement. Her background includes over a decade of teaching applied somatic psychology skills as well as running a private psychotherapy practice. She is the best-selling author of The Yoga Handbook, Yoga: A union of mind and body (Struik); Yoga for Ideal Weight and Shape (New Holland Publishing and Juta Publishers) and The Mindful Body (Rockpool Publishing, Australia, 2018). Her books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and are translated into many languages. Noa lives in South Africa.