Wellness at ASU Library

Written by researchers and experienced practitioners, this book explores principles of living well. It gives examples of how this can be achieved not just in our own lives, but across communities and the planet we share. Chapters cover the stages of life, the foundations of everyday flourishing, and wellbeing in the wider world. This book addresses issues such as economics, politics, and the environment.

Empowering Mindfulness for Women is centred around a 5-day intensive mindfulness course attended by eight women from different backgrounds. The reader is invited to imagine they are actively participating in the teaching and learning moments and turning points encountered in teaching and learning mindfulness around themes such as making space for mindfulness, safeguarding mindfulness for women, engendering mindfulness, mindfulness dreaming, and a mandala of wisdoms.

Featuring real-life stories of people who have found hope and meaning in the midst of life's struggles, "Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health" is the go-to guide for teenagers who want to know about mental health, mental illness, trauma, and recovery. This book shines a light on the troubled history of thinking about and treating mental illness and tells the stories of courageous pioneers in the field of psychiatry who fought for more compassionate, respectful, and effective treatments.

Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing Enhancement (MBWE) integrates Mindfulness and Wellbeing to realize human flourishing and the attainment of happiness. This book serves as a hands-on resource for trained mindfulness teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers, practitioners, educators, coaches, and consultants. It is also suitable for anyone who is interested in the appreciation of mindfulness and human flourishing.

"Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind" offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. This book will show you how to identify and close the "apps" that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.

Blending theory, research, and practice to offer a comprehensive program for young adults to build well-being tools, each of the book's five modules includes engaging information, strategies, meditations, and activities designed to deepen understanding and application of mindfulness. It includes practical techniques to cope with emotions, work with thoughts, navigate stress, build resilience, make aligned choices, and be more present in life and relationships.

"Mindfulness Without the Bells and Beads: Unlocking Exceptional Performance, Leadership, and Wellbeing for Working Professionals" explains how you can take your performance and leadership to the next level in just eight weeks, without adopting any spiritual or new age beliefs. Perfect for corporate leaders, managers, and executives, and any working professional in a high-pressure or high-performance environment, this book also belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who works in a stressful environment and wants to achieve a higher level of success and a better quality of life.

Bestselling author Shamash Alidina shows just how simple it is to master the proven techniques of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) in this engaging guide. MBSR has enhanced the physical and emotional well-being of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Vivid stories, everyday examples, and opportunities for self-reflection make the book especially inviting.

Learn how to create new, measurable daily habits that build happiness and reduce stress. This book offers a holistic approach to improving your mental health and shows readers how to make positive lifestyle changes in areas like exercise, nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, and meditation.

Research from disciplines including neuroscience of music, music therapy, psychophysiology and epidemiology of music, community music and music education is synthesised and presented together to further our understanding of music and health in one single volume, ensuring that closely related strands of research in different disciplines are brought together into a authoritative, comprehensive and robust collection of chapters. This book is a timely and unique response to an explosion of interest in the relationship between music, health, and wellbeing and will be an invaluable resource for students, administrators, and researchers in the humanities, social, and medical sciences alike.

"A Practical Guide to Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Living with Heart" is a step-by-step guide for those who wish to deepen their mindfulness skills with compassion for a healthier, happier life and more fulfilling relationships. It offers a clear structure as well as ample freedom to adjust to individual needs, starting with learning to be kind to yourself and then expanding this to learn how to be kind to others. This guide consists of eight chapters that follow the eight sessions of the mindfulness-based compassionate living training programme.

Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. "Rest is Resistance" is a call to action, a battle cry, a field guide, and a manifesto for all of us who are sleep deprived, searching for justice, and longing to be liberated from the oppressive grip of Grind Culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing consists of five themes: physical, social and emotional, economic, cultural and spiritual, and subjective wellbeing. It fills a substantial gap in the current literature on the well-being of Indigenous people and communities around the world, sheds new understanding of Indigenous well-being and its determinants, and aids in the development and implementation of more appropriate policies, as better evidence-informed policymaking will lead to better outcomes for Indigenous populations.

This book considers the science behind stress and how it affects our minds and bodies, offering evidence-based approaches to managing stress for optimum results. Amitava Dasgupta guides readers to a greater understanding of the mechanisms at work when stress is present and provides guidance for dealing with those physical and mental responses. While grounded in the science of stress, this work also helps readers employ those strategies that will best manage stress for better overall health.

Learn how to improve and maintain your health and wellbeing with a practical and achievable self-care guide. Bestselling author Gill Hasson shows you how to develop the mindset, routines, and habits that can protect, maintain, and improve your health and wellbeing.