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'It's a relief to discover Rohan Gunatillake's new book on redesigning mindfulness . . . If our lives are truly to become more mindful, we'll have to start with our real, technology-entangled lives, as they are' Oliver Burkeman, Guardian
'Remarkably useful and non-dogmatic' Sharon Salzberg
Modern Mindfulness gives you the ideas, principles and techniques to bring awareness, composure and kindness to whatever you are doing. Filled with over sixty practical exercises, the author's mobile mindfulness approach gives the benefits of meditation to even the busiest of lives.
Ideas from Modern Mindfulness:
Learn mindfulness techniques throughout the day (and night)
Learn to use your phone mindfully
Find time for mindfulness in even the busiest schedule
Use technology for good instead of evil (no need to do a digital detox)
Learn to 'whack-a-thought' and stay centred
Rohan Gunatillake is the director of Mindfulness Everywhere, a trustee of the British Council and in 2012 Wired named him in their Smart List of 50 people who will change the world.
Modern Mindfulness is the paperback edition of This is Happening.
About the author
Rohan Gunatillake is the director of Mindfulness Everywhere, making remarkable products which combine meditation, technology and design. He is the creator of buddhify, the modern mindfulness app which has topped the charts in over forty countries around the world. Rohan is a trustee of the British Council and in 2012 Wired named him in their Smart List of 50 people who will change the world.
Summary
Previously published as This is Happening
Rohan Gunatillake, creator of the best-selling buddhify app, argues that to lead more mindful, calm and happy lives, switching off is the last thing we need to do. Instead he gives you the ideas, principles and techniques to bring awareness, composure and kindness to wherever you are and whatever you are doing. Filled with over sixty practical exercises which you can plug into your life straight away, the mobile mindfulness approach of Modern Mindfulness presents a way to get the benefits from meditation however busy your life is.
Foreword
Ditch the 'Digital Detox'. Rohan Gunatillake shows us how we can be mindful in our lives as they are: with our tablets in hand, on our phones and in the digital worlds we inevitably inhabit.
Additional text
It's a relief to discover Rohan Gunatillake's new book on redesigning mindfulness... If our lives are truly to become more mindful, we'll have to start with our real, technology-entangled lives, as they are - not just the tiny oases of calm we occasionally manage to cram in.
