Download or read book Haiku Mind written by Patricia Donegan and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 108 haiku poems to heighten awareness and deepen our appreciation for the ordinary in everyday life Haiku, the Japanese form of poetry written in just three lines, can be miraculous in its power to articulate the profundity of the simplest moment—and for that reason haiku can be a useful tool for bringing us to a heightened awareness of our lives. Here, the poet Patricia Donegan shares her experience of the haiku form as a way of insight that anyone can use to slow down and uncover the beauty of ordinary moments. She presents 108 haiku poems—on themes such as honesty, transience, and compassion—and offers commentary on each as an impetus to meditation and as a key to unlocking the wonder in what we find right before us.
Download or read book My Mindful A to Zen written by Krina Patel-Sage and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of poetry that gently introduces children to mindfulness concepts like Om, Yoga and Zen, as well as goals for mindful living like Gratitude and Positivity. With its delightful cast of inclusive characters, this inspirational poetry collection promotes well-being with every letter.
Download or read book My Thoughts Are Clouds written by Georgia Heard and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection that both illustrates what mindfulness is and encourages young, growing minds to be present, from poet and educator Georgia Heard, with art by Isabel Roxas. Poets have long observed the world in a mindful way. They point out beauty we might have missed, draw our attention to our inner thoughts, and call us to see our society in new ways. But as daily life become more and more chaotic, children grow distracted. According to the CDC, 9.4% of children have ADHD and 7% have anxiety/depression. And these numbers continue to climb. As treatment doctors recommend healthy eating, physical activity, plenty of sleep, and mindfulness techniques. Georgia Heard is a poet and educator—and she has long had her own meditation practice. In My Thoughts Are Clouds, she uses poetry to demonstrate what mindfulness is and gives kids—and their parents and teachers—accessible ways to learn mindfulness tools.
Download or read book Mindful Haiku written by Djemal Ua and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Djemal discovered haiku while travelling. But it was after a family tragedy that this simple and powerful prose took on new meaning. It offered him a way to put into words the contradicting emotions involved in living and dying. It was a new way to experience life, and find peace and happiness in troubling times, one haiku at a time. Haiku poetry inspires beauty, and insights in often overlooked and ignored ordinary moments. It is a simple tool to increase your awareness and compassion toward life, and help you slow down. In this collection, he presents 188 haiku poems-themes range from food and nature, to love and relationships. Some funny, others sad, but each poem, written in no more or less than 17 syllables, is a place to find peace and calm. A brief meditation in a non-stop world. Use this book to find your peace and open a door to finding the little things in life that will give you the greatest pleasure and happiness.
Download or read book A Little Book of Mindful Haiku written by Graham Martin and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breathe and Be written by Kate Coombs and published by Sounds True. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I breathe slowly in, I breathe slowly out. My breath is a river of peace. I am here in the world. Each moment I can breathe and be. Hear thunder crash, feel your toes touch sand, and watch leaves drift softly away on a quiet stream. The simple poems in Breathe and Be help children learn mindfulness as they connect to the beauty of the natural world. Mindfulness teaches us how to stay calm, soothe our emotions, and appreciate the world around us. Whether we’re watching tiny colored fish darting in the water or exploring the leaves, branches, and roots of a towering tree, the thoughtful words and the lovely art of Breathe and Be remind us how much joy we can find by simply living with awareness and inner peace. Ages 4–8
Download or read book One Minute Mindfulness written by Donald Altman and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next 60 seconds can change your life, for good or bad, and it's all about how you live them. This ground-breaking book shows how mindfulness, being present in each moment, will transform your life for the better.
Download or read book A Timbered Choir written by Wendell Berry and published by Counterpoint LLC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For more than two decades, Wendell Berry has spent his Sonday mornings in a kind of walking meditation, observing the world and writing poems."--Jacket. This volume gathers all of these poems written to date.
Download or read book Mindful As F ck written by Emily Horn and published by Adams Media. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calm the hell down, live in the now, and get mindful as f*ck with these quick and snarky ways to live in the moment. When the entire world seems on your ass about something, taking a second to chill out, collect your thoughts, and process your stress can help a lot. Mindful As F*ck shows you how to be present, centered, and positive so you can live in the now regardless of how you’re feeling. With straight-forward entries like “Slay Your Fear with Lion’s Breath,” “Set Your Intention Right Fucking Now,” and “Write a Badass Haiku,” this entertaining and effective book helps live your best life no matter what gets thrown your way.
Download or read book 329 Haiku Poems For Your Spiritual Practice written by Adrian Tanase and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 329 Haiku Poems For Your Spiritual Practice is a collection of zen haikus that are created to inspire you more in your practice, on your spiritual path. Each haiku (short 3 lines japanese zen poem) is intended to be read slowly and meditated upon. It will bring mindfulness and improve meditation to the one who practices it. The book is organized in 29 categories, all related to virtues, human traits and spiritual terms. May these poems that I wrote with much love, help you with your spiritual practice and guide your heart on the path of beauty and exquisiteness. Namaste
Download or read book The Poetry of Impermanence Mindfulness and Joy written by John Brehm and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 125 poetic companions, from Basho to Billy Collins, Saigyo to Shakespeare. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy received the Spirituality & Practice Book Award for 50 Best Spiritual Books in 2017 by Spirituality and Practice Website. The poems expertly gathered here offer all that one might hope for in spiritual companionship: wisdom, compassion, peacefulness, good humor, and the ability to both absorb and express the deepest human emotions of grief and joy. The book includes a short essay on “Mindful Reading” and a meditation on sound from editor John Brehm—helping readers approach the poems from an experiential, non-analytical perspective and enter into the mindful reading of poetry as a kind of meditation. The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy offers a wide-ranging collection of 129 ancient and modern poems unlike any other anthology on bookshelves today. It uniquely places Buddhist poets like Han Shan, Tu Fu, Saigyo, Ryokan, Basho, Issa, and others alongside modern Western poets one would not expect to find in such a collection—poets like Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Denise Levertov, Jack Gilbert, Ellen Bass, Billy Collins, and more. What these poems have in common, no matter whether they are explicitly Buddhist, is that all reflect the essential truths the Buddha articulated 2,500 years ago. The book provides an important poetic complement to the many prose books on mindfulness practice—the poems here both reflect and embody the dharma in ways that can’t be matched by other modes of writing. It’s unique features include an introduction that discusses the themes of impermanence, mindfulness, and joy and explores the relationship between them. Biographical notes place the poets in historical context and offer quotes and anecdotes to help readers learn about the poets’ lives.
Download or read book The Mindfulness Workbook written by Thomas Roberts and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness is a powerful antidote to stress, anxiety and panic, chronic pain, depression, obsessive thinking, out-of-control emotions, and many other physical and mental health conditions. This ancient Buddhist technique can help anyone who struggles with fears, worries, and distractions refocus on the present moment and live happily, here and now. The Mindfulness Workbook is a step-by-step instruction book that guides you through simple practices that enable you to experience mindfulness not as a distant experience or concept, but as an attainable state of being in the world. You will discover the effectiveness of breath work, mindful eating, and thought-watching, and begin reaping the benefits of mindfulness right away. Over time, you will begin to notice that these small changes can bring about a bigger transformation, enhancing your sense of fulfillment and calm.
Download or read book Mindfulness in the Classroom written by Thomas Armstrong and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's schools, students and teachers feel unprecedented—even alarming—levels of stress. How can we create calmer classrooms in which students concentrate better and feel more positive about themselves and others? Author Thomas Armstrong offers a compelling answer in the form of mindfulness, a secular practice he defines as the intentional focus of one's attention on the present moment in a nonjudgmental way. In Mindfulness in the Classroom, Armstrong - Explains how mindfulness affects the structure and function of the brain. - Provides an overview of mindfulness as both a personal practice and a classroom methodology that aligns with such educational models as Social and Emotional Learning (SEL), Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS), and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). - Shares and explains the extensive research that shows the positive effects of mindfulness practices in the classroom. - Describes how to adapt mindfulness for different grade levels, integrate it into regular school subjects, and implement it schoolwide. - Offers guidelines for teaching mindfulness responsibly, without religious overtones. Dozens of observations from teachers, students, researchers, and practitioners provide striking evidence of the power of mindfulness and offer hope to anyone who wants to make classrooms more productive places of learning.
Download or read book Book of Haikus written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact collection of more than 500 poems from Jack Kerouac that reveal a lesser known but important side of his literary legacy “Above all, a haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorella.”—Jack Kerouac Renowned for his groundbreaking Beat Generation novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac was also a master of the haiku, the three-line, seventeen-syllable Japanese poetic form. Following the tradition of Basho, Buson, Shiki, Issa, and other poets, Kerouac experimented with this centuries-old genre, taking it beyond strict syllable counts into what he believed was the form’s essence. He incorporated his “American” haiku in novels and in his correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In Book of Haikus, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich has supplemented a core haiku manuscript from Kerouac’s archives with a generous selection of the rest of his haiku, from both published and unpublished sources.
Download or read book Mindful Yoga Mindful Life written by Charlotte Bell and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime yoga teacher and Buddhist meditation practitioner, Charlotte Bell describes in passionate detail how she applied the eightfold path of the Yoga Sutras and the Buddha’s heed for mindfulness to her hectic Western life—with practicality and precision, grace and guts.Her insights honor these timeless teachings while staying relevant to contemporary life. She recounts personal stories that depict her commitment to practice in her own life: in relationships, music, asana, meditation, teaching, and even writing this book. And it's not all rosy. She writes about self-doubt and struggles, all while welcoming, time and again, the life she has, imperfections and all.Charlotte Bell shows by example how to be a yogi in the particularity of your own life. Her suggestions about how to bring mindfulness into asana will deepen your practice; her recommended daily practices, or Reflections, will reveal new inner landscapes. Mindful Yoga, Mindful Life is an inspiring guide for anyone seeking to live a yogic life.
Download or read book English Haiku written by Jonathan Wainwright and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry, typically written about nature. Pronounced High-Koo, it is derived from the Japanese word Hokku meaning 'Starting verse.'Traditionally, Haikus comprise 3 lines and are intended to be read in one breath. The first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line 7 syllables, hence 17 syllables in all. However, because the English concept of syllables doesn't exist the same way in the Japanese language, there are subtle differences.Because Haikus are such short poems, they are usually written about things which are recognisable to the reader and strictly speaking about nature. English Haiku can follow the traditional Japanese rules, but sometimes are less strict, particularly regarding the number of syllables and subject matter.This e-book contains over a hundred haiku I have written about modern times: from Covid 19, to the English NHS system of healthcare, to fear and hero's, to transport and rubbish
Download or read book Walk on Air written by Deirdre Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Walk on Air, Deirdre Cornell gracefully uses the haiku as a form of meditation as she ruminates on middle age, marriage, and her lifelong love-the Hudson River. Her haiku artfully echo her footsteps as they mirror the beauty of nature and sound. -Caledonia Kearns, author of A Daughter's Work is Heartless by Nature Deirdre Cornell astonishes in these haiku that reveal the beauty and paradoxes of the magnificent Hudson River Valley. She recalls the great poet Basho whose haiku for five centuries have been opening eyes and souls to the realities of peace, joy, suffering, harmony, love, and goodness that lie behind appearances. Deirdre's first book was a memoir of growing up in a town on the same river. Older now, but still seeing the world with fresh eyes, she gives us priceless views on every page. -Michael Leach, author of Soul Seeing Deirdre Cornell's small poems take us with them to a quiet attentive place where we can sense connections, marvel, and feel a sense of calm acceptance. -Hannah Mahoney, Poet The Haiku poems are evocative and uplifting. I could feel myself out on the Walkway, experiencing its ever changing beauty. -Elizabeth Waldstein, Executive Director, Walkway Over the Hudson organization "Rain + sun = rainbow" / Few words, ponder much / For few words = thank you / / Grateful for small bites / Bathe in river's light- / Walk in Deirdre's air. -Trina Paulus, author of Hope for the Flowers
