Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices

Learn how to do all the things you do in daily life with mindfulness, not just while “formally” meditating. 50 short, simple, and profound meditation practices you can do anytime to cultivate happiness, from world-renowned spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Whether you’re new to Buddhist teaching or a more experienced practitioner, this resource of Thich Nhat Hanh’s most essential teachings will show you how to walk, sit, work, eat, and even drive with full awareness. In one accessible and easy-to-use volume, you’ll find many kinds of meditations, including daily walking meditation, taking refuge, telephone meditation, eating, kitchen meditation, mindful eating, and tea meditation. It covers physical resting and stopping, deep relaxation, mindful movements, relationship and community practices like deep listening and loving speech, peace treaty, hugging meditation, extended touching the earth, lazy day, traveling and returning home. Practices also include helping children with anger, the cake in the refrigerator, pebble meditation. The only way to truly develop peace in oneself and the world is to live in the present moment. Integrating these practices into daily life will cultivate peace and joy within, leading to freedom from fear, misunderstanding, and suffering.