The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and for All
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Bad habits can take a hefty toll on your health and happiness. In The Here-and-Now Habit, mindfulness expert Hugh Byrne provides powerful practices based in mindfulness and neuroscience to help you rewire your brain and finally break the habits that are holding you back from a meaningful life.
Have you found yourself doing something and thinking, Why do I keep doing this? We all have an unhealthy habit—or two, or three. Yours may be as simple as wasting time on the Internet, constantly checking your e-mail, or spending too much time in front of the TV. Or, it may be more serious, like habitual drinking, emotional overeating, constant self-criticism, or chronic worrying. Whatever your harmful habit is—you have the power to break it.
The Here-and-Now-Habit provides proven-effective techniques to help you stop existing on autopilot and start living in the here and now. You’ll learn how to cultivate mindfulness to calm and focus your mind, be aware of thoughts without identifying with them or believing they are true, deal with difficult emotions, and clarify your own intentions regarding unhealthy habits by asking yourself, What do I want? How important is it to me to make this change?
By learning to pay attention to your thoughts and actions in the moment, you’ll discover how to let go of old patterns and create healthier habits and ways of living that will make you feel good about yourself. And when you feel good about you, you can do just about anything.
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
Publication date : March 1, 2016
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 1626252378
ISBN-13 : 978-1626252370
Item Weight : 1.59 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
12 reviews for The Here-and-Now Habit: How Mindfulness Can Help You Break Unhealthy Habits Once and for All
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sashamiel –
I can’t recommend this book enough!
I am a clinical psychologist and I love using this book with clients (and myself!). It’s very approachable and a great mix of mindfulness/Buddhism and cognitive behavioral/dialectical behavior therapy concepts. At the same time, it’s not overly clinical. It’s a great book to come back to over time – there is always new meaning to be found. I love how he incorporates poetry in the book too. Check out his meditations on Insight Timer, they are similar and he has some poetry specific meditations.
Ola Del Mar –
Wonderful book, simple and practical advice and the reading I will keep coming back to.
I am so grateful I have read this book! If you would like to read a book that will help you put mindfulness into daily practise in your life, go ahead and read this book! It is practical, funny, inspiring and warm. I have learned a lot about myself as reading it naturally brings in reflection, helps you analyse your tendencies towards certain behaviors, not necessarily addictions, but for example things we do to distract ourselves, cravings that keep us hooked on things that are not useful or healthy. Hugh Byrne dissects the detailed aspects of habits, the way they form and how to break them. I found particularly helpful the analysis of four main kinds of habits (wanting, distraction, resistance and doing) and found myself reflected in so many!But it is not true this book is only about quitting an unhelpful or unhealthy habit. First and foremost it helps you to learn how to be kind to yourself and understand the need behind the habit. This book has been a wonderful companion in my attempts to become more disciplined with my practices, but not forgetting about being kind to myself. So yes, you can identify and put the finger on things that perhaps do not work perfectly in the way you operate, that prevents you from reaching your goals, or living up to the vision of yourself you would like to hold. But Byrne gives you the chance of gently showing the way of how to hold yourself in kindness instead of contempt and guilt, how to proceed with introducing mindfulness as the chance to take steps towards changing your actions.Finally, I am in pure awe every time I stumble upon a poem he drops in this book, they are so powerful, beautiful and thought-provoking that this alone makes me stop and pause in order to digest the words and its content.Wonderful book, simple and practical advice and the reading I will keep coming back to.
The Dude –
Good practical advice
Iâve read many books like these that teach you to be mindful and in the moment. This book ties unhealthy lifestyle choices and what can be done to fix them with mindfulness. Good book!
AZN8TV –
Want to unplug?
This is an exceptional book on mindfulness.In our ever busy world, it is getting more difficult to stay in the here-and-now. There are so many distractions! The invention of the smartphone and smart watches has changed our world in ways that our descendents will no doubt study at great length.Mindfulness is not a new concept. It’s been written about for thousands of years. To be simple about it, mindfullness is the act of being fully engaged in one’s life in the present time. What am I doing NOW?This books hits on some very pertinent points for every one. When those tapes in our heads start to play about our past, there are tools to deal with and stop those tapes.If you are new to the concept of mindfullness, this is a great resource. If you want to get better at it, this book will help. If you just want to slow the world down in order to enjoy life more, this is a great tool.This book is written in an easy to read style. Not a lot of psychobabble in it. Not too much in technical terms, either. Not many words that you will need to look up in a dictionary, or the app on your smartphone.I will be ordering more to give to friends and family.
Kay Davidson –
Hugh Byrne applies his deep knowledge of and experience with the principles and tools of mindfulness as an antidote to those som
In this book, Hugh Byrne applies his deep knowledge of and experience with the principles and tools of mindfulness as an antidote to those sometimes annoying, sometimes life-wasting behaviors known as âbad habitsâ. I donât use the adjective âdeepâ here casually; Hugh is a long-time practitioner and teacher of the very methods he prescribes. As one of his students, I can attest not only to his skill and expertise in this area but I can also say that he embodies the teachings on the attitudes of kindness, curiosity and acceptance âattitudes so important for supporting any attempts to change behavior. These qualities come through the pages of the book and help make the process of change seem less daunting. Byrne knows what he is writing about and you get the sense that you can trust his wisdom and his advice. He is also firmly grounded in the tradition that gives rise to the practices he describes. And he offers a wide variety of exercises, meditations, stories (his own and others) and practical suggestions for freeing us of âunwantedâ (much better than âbadâ) behaviors. All of this is backed up with references to the latest research findings that convincingly endorse these methods.The material and practices in the book are accessible, the writing clear and the possible benefitsââ for you to judge if there is an unwanted habit causing you difficulty.
Daniel J. Olmsted –
A clear and powerful guide to mindful change
Like many others I count myself fortunate to have found Hugh’s Sunday morning class in Washington, and so are readers who come to this wonderful book. While focusing on habit change, it is a clear and powerful guide to the mindfulness that Hugh advocates as the basis for all positive and wise action. The title reminds me of Be Here Now, and Hugh (like Ram Dass) shows that when you bring mindfulness to the habits that pull you away from the present, you end up with the one habit worth having — being here now. I can’t imagine a more helpful guide to readers at any level of interest or experience with mindfulness, within or without a Buddhist context. This will be a carry-around, open-at-random book for me. (Oh, and I didn’t think I had any habits worth addressing until I read this!)
William Goodwin –
A pretty easy to read introduction to Buddhist mindfulness
A pretty easy to read introduction to Buddhist mindfulness. I thought it failed to make much of a connection between mindfulness and meditation.
Natalie Stoeckel –
This book is practical yet insightful. It isn’t very thick, because it gets straight to the point.Other books of this nature I have ready take chapters to explain concepts condensed in here.I reccomened this.
Catherine –
I am using this book with Hugh Byrne’s course on Insight Timer and finding it really useful. There are Questions to work through that have made me think hard and helped me change unwanted habits
Amarjit S Dhaliwal –
Amarjit S Dhaliwal
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Ein tolles Buch, das die wichtigsten und besten Meditationen erklärt um glücklicher, bewusster und akzeptierender durchs Leben zu gehen. Die Audiodateien hierzu sind auch hervorragend, tolle Meditationen und Ãbungen.
RK –
very easy to read, comes from mindful philosophy