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Danny Penman

Finding peace in a frantic world.

Dr Danny Penman is a qualified meditation teacher and an award winning writer and journalist. He 
is co-author of the international bestseller 'Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World'. Mindfulness has so far sold over a million copies. He has received journalism awards from the RSPCA and the Humane Society of the United States. In 2014, he won the British Medical Association’s Best Book (Popular Medicine) Award for 'Mindfulness for Health: A Practical Guide to Relieving Pain, Reducing Stress and Restoring Wellbeing' (sold as 'You Are Not Your Pain' in the US). His books are now used in health care systems around the world to help people cope with anxiety, stress, depression and chronic pain. He trained to teach mindfulness with the acclaimed Breathworks.

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Mindfulness
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Mindfulness

by Mark Williams and Danny Penman

Mark Williams is one of the world's leading authorities on applying mindfulness to cognitive therapy. In this great book, he teams up with Danny Penman to help us find peace in a frantic world. In the Note, we explore the what and why and how of cultivating our mindfulness. And, bonus, we get our raisin mind rockin'!

Quotes by Danny Penman

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You come to the profound understanding that thoughts and feelings (including negative ones) are transient. They come and they go, and ultimately, you have a choice about whether to act on them or not.
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Meditation is not about accepting the unacceptable. It is about seeing the world with greater clarity so that you can take wiser and more considered action to change those things that need to be changed.
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You may be astonished by how much more happiness and joy are attainable with even tiny changes to the way you live your life.
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Mindfulness teaches us that thoughts are just thoughts; they are events in the mind.
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Mindfulness brings you back, again and again, to full conscious awareness: a place of choice and intention.
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In these times of maximum stress and confusion, we learn the most, for it is when we see the most compelling thoughts as mental events—rather than truly reflecting reality—that we glimpse the possibility of freedom most of all.
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We don’t see the world as it is but as *we* are.
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Tiny actions can fundamentally alter your relationship to the world for the better.
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