Mindful in Minutes: You Are Not Your Thoughts

Mindful in Minutes: You Are Not Your Thoughts helps readers heal their relationship with anxiety with an eight-week program of guided meditation and journaling that takes just 20 minutes a day.
 

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Learn to cope with anxiety and embody the belief that you are not your thoughts with this eight-week program featuring 56 distinct daily meditations and journal prompts.
 
An epidemic of anxiety is sweeping the nation, affecting over 40 million adults in the United States. Fortunately, there are solutions available for people suffering from this condition—and they don’t have to include pharmaceutical drugs. More and more evidence is emerging daily to support the premise that meditation can be a highly effective tool in managing anxiety—with some studies suggesting that just 10 minutes of meditation a day can help to reduce symptoms.  
 
In this guided meditation journal, popular meditation teacher Kelly Smith—host of the iTunes chart–topping podcast Mindful in Minutes and author of Mindful in Minutes: Meditation for the Modern Family—takes you by the hand and leads you step by step through an eight-week program of daily meditation and journaling to help you acknowledge, accept, understand, soothe, and ultimately heal from the debilitating affects of anxiety.

Each week of Mindful in Minutes: You Are Not Your Thoughts covers a different aspect of the anxiety experience, building on the previous lessons and offering different tools to help the you learn to detach yourself from your anxious thoughts and cope with the symptoms and causes of anxiety. The daily meditations and journal prompts are designed to help you go deep into your inner self and develop a close understanding of your particular experience. This journal should take no more than 20 minutes a day to complete, making it an easy habit to incorporate into your daily routine.

The practices and prompts include:
 

Breathwork
Body scans
Visualizations
Free writes
Drawing prompts
Letter-writing
List-making
And more!

 
With just 20 minutes of meditation and journaling a day for eight weeks, you can learn to detach yourself from your anxious thoughts, heal your relationship with anxiety, and start living a fuller, calmer life.