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Anderson is emerging as one of America's top experts on gratitude and mindfulness. Here, for the first time, she merges these two spiritual practices in a simple, direct, and highly effective guide to incorporating Zen into every day for a quiet mind and happy heart.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Foreword: The Practice of Contentment
Introduction: The Buddha in You
Chapter 1: The Practice of Gratitude
Chapter 2: Mindfulness Mantras
Chapter 3: Master Mindful Gratitude, and You Will Master Your Life
Chapter 4: Gratitude for the Little Things All Around You
Chapter 5: Simple Wisdom: Practice Mindfulness with Understanding and Intentionality
Chapter 6: To Be Mindful Is to Be Objective, Non-Judgmental
Chapter 7: The Practice of Intentional Awareness
Chapter 8: Peace in Every Breath and Every Step
Chapter 9: Wherever You Go, There You Are: You Have All You Need
Chapter 10: Rituals of Gratitude
Epilogue: Be Grateful for Each Other, Be Grateful Together
About the Author
About the author
Becca Anderson is a writer, gardener and teacher living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Originally from Ohio, Becca’s background in sustainability and landscaping inspired her to become a part of the seed-saving and seed-sharing community with chapters across the US and Canada. Becca Anderson credits her first grade teacher as a great inspiration and runs several popular classes and workshops including “How to Put Your Passion on Paper.” Anderson is currently at work on a book about the healing power of gardening.
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and, above all, world peace.
Summary
Becca Anderson is emerging as one of America's top experts on gratitude and mindfulness. For the first time, she merges these two spiritual practices in a simple, direct and highly effective guide to incorporating zen into every day for a quiet mind and happy heart.
Foreword
Becca Anderson contributed to several bestselling personal growth and gratitude books including the million-selling Attitudes of Gratitude, as well as bestsellers Living Life as a Thank You and a co-author of The Gratitude Power Workbook. She is a longtime gratitude practitioner and part of a Silicon Valley gratitude circle that meets regularly at East West Bookstore in Mountain View.
In addition to her popular Blogging Your Blessings blog, Anderson runs the Every Day Thankful Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with over 10k followers and counting. She has been featured on national tv as well as Bay Area's NBC and ABC afiliates. Anderson has been featured on NPR including KQED's FORUM, KPFA, KALX and also spirituality radio such as Coast-to-Coast. Anderson will be doing events in the great SF Bay Area, Los Angeles and speaking at a Unity Churches on the West Coast on gratitude, the power of prayer and women's spirituality.
The top book publicity firm that made You Are a Badass and Crazy Sexy Cancer will be promoting Becca Anderson's Prayers For Hard Times, Every Day Thankful and The Book of Awesome Women.
