Mind & Body

£19.99

Mind & Body

Mental exercises for physical wellbeing; physical exercises for mental wellbeing

Psychology: emotions Health psychology Physiotherapy Popular philosophy Popular medicine and health Coping with / advice about anxiety and phobias Coping with / advice about depression and other mood disorders Coping with / advice about stress Exercise and workouts Popular psychology Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice Complementary therapies, healing and health

Author: Alain de Botton

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Language: English

Published by: The School of Life

Published on: 6th May 2021

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 15 Mb

ISBN: 9781912891825


Overview

A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.

The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something which needs to be explored as it is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to ignore the crucial balance between the two.

Content and Approach

This is a book filled with reflections and exercises designed to help us live more harmoniously and maturely within both mind and body. It gives guidance on how to calm our minds with bodily exercises that work on the real sources of our anxieties. It suggests how to be less rigid in, and timid about, our bodies and how to relax into them in a way we might not have done for far too long. It offers ideas on how to accept the way we look, and how to treat the body in order for it to assist the mind in yielding its very best ideas. The impacts of activities such as singing, dancing and art are explored along with the liberation of spirit that these might offer.

Intended Benefits

This is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve our relationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us a route to a life of greater self-assurance, wisdom, and freedom to be ourselves.

*Contains explicit/adult content

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