Make Every Move A Meditation (mindful Movement For Mental Health, Well-being, And Insight (benefits Of Exercise As Meditation))

“Let me say it simply. Someone should have written this book a long time ago.” —Shinzen Young, meditation teacher, neuroscience research consultant, founder of Unified Mindfulness, author of Meditation in the Zone and The Science of Enlightenment

Award-winning Finalist in the “Health: Diet & Exercise” category of the 2022 International Book Awards 
#1 New Release in Sports Health & Safety, Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts, Cycling, Sports Psychology, Walking, Theravada Buddhism, and Meditation

Transform movement and meditation into the powerful practice of mindful movement

Exercise can be meditation. What do you think of when you hear the word meditation? A quiet room filled with monks? An Instagram influencer? What about moving meditation? Yoga? Tai Chi? For too long, meditation in books has focused on specific periods of meditation, rather than mediation through fitness or daily activities. What if lifting weights, dancing with your love, or walking across a room counted? What if you could use exercise as meditation? What if you could make every move a meditation?

Let''s combine the two. In Make Every Move a Meditation, award-winning author, meditation leader, and mental health advocate Nita Sweeney shows us fitness can be mindfulness. She teaches us how to bring meditation and mindfulness into any activity by incorporating centuries-old techniques. Studies show that both exercise and meditation reduce anxiety, stabilize blood pressure, improve mood and cognition, and lead to a deeper self-relationship and wisdom. Movement is medicine, and meditation is medicine.

Inside you’ll learn to:

• Turn exercise into a meditation tool
• Make any activity a mindful practice
• Enjoy the benefits of meditation while getting fit

If you like meditation books and best sellers such as Think Like a Monk, Practicing Mindfulness, or Breath, you’ll love Make Every Move a Meditation.

Introduction

Chapter 1: Why Bother?

Chapter 2: How to Meditate While You Move

Chapter 3: Why I Bother

Chapter 4: Splendid Body—Sense Gates

Chapter 5: Tricky Mind—Working with Thoughts

Chapter 6 Advanced Awareness Techniques

Chapter 7: Tangles of Emotion

Chapter 8: How to Grow Through Pain (and Joy)

Chapter 9: Cultivating Mind States

Chapter 10: Struggling? Check the Hindrances

Chapter 11: Variations on a Theme

Chapter 12: Whose Idea Was This?

Chapter 13: More About Forms of Movement

Chapter 14: Make It Yours

Chapter 15: Taking It on the Road

Chapter 16: Who’s Meditating?

Chapter 17: Why Therapists Have Therapists and Teachers Have Teachers

Chapter 18: You Might Already Be Doing It

Chapter 19: Find Your Fellowship

Chapter 20: Illness, Injury, and “Bad” Workouts

Chapter 21: Performance

Chapter 22: See You on the “Path”

An Invitation and a Request

Resources

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

“In her new book Make Every Move a Meditation: Mindful Movement for Mental Health, Well-Being, and Insight, Nita Sweeney argues that pickleball or a Zumba class can be turned into a powerful meditative practice whose benefits spill into other areas of life. Focusing the mind on a single thought, object or sensation during exercise can help bring clarity and peace of mind, she says. '