Mindfulness for Professionals | Build Focus, Calm & Clarity

The meeting ends and you realise you missed half of it, already in the next one in your head. Mindfulness is the plain skill of noticing that and coming back. This short eBook explains it and gives you a handful of ways in.

It is written as an article in twelve short numbered sections, from what mindfulness is to how to keep it going when your phone keeps pulling you away.

What's inside

• What mindfulness is: paying attention on purpose, without judgement
• Three practices to start with: mindful breathing, a body scan and mindful eating
• Bringing it into ordinary activities, such as washing up, walking or a conversation
• Using it in stressful moments, and to create space between a feeling and your reaction
• Mindful relationships, common obstacles such as restlessness, and setting boundaries with technology

The section on stressful situations is the one to keep. Pause, notice what you feel, take a few slow breaths, then decide what to say.

Two things to know. Despite the "workbook" in its web address, this is reading, not a workbook: there are no exercises to complete or guided scripts to follow, and each practice gets a paragraph. And it isn't written specifically for work settings, though everything in it applies there. If you want a structured daily practice, you will need more than this.

PDF, instant download, and yours to use as often as you like. If it doesn't help, email me within seven days and I'll refund you.