The Mindful Way through Depression - Mark Williams et al.

Mar 05

The Mindful Way through Depression - Mark Williams et al.

I usually don’t read self-help books, but I got this one after reading a blogpost from The School of Life. The sentence that caught my eye was this one: We usually view our emotions as reactions to the outside world, overlooking the fact that our internal dialogue shapes and mis-shapes the world according to how we feel about ourselves.

I’ve had an on-again-off again interest in mindfulness, probably as an offshoot of my interest in Zen. I have other books on mindfulness, but this book specifically deals with the subject of depression, which piqued my interest due to some recent events in my life. Up until reading this blogpost, I had regarded mindfulness as a means of developing intellectual stillness and not as an emotional tool. But having read the book, I now find myself applying some it its principles whenever I feel myself begin to spiral down emotionally.

Does depression in our society seem to be more prevalent to you? Maybe it’s because of the economy. Maybe, that’s why they had called it The Great Depression.

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The Mindful Way through Depression - Mark Williams et al.