Mind & Body: Physical Exercises For mental wellbeing
The School of Life (Author)
Publisher: School of Life
ISBN: 9781912891467
Weight: 480.00
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 248
Page Dimensions: 136 x 204mm
Categories: Non Fiction
Sub Categories: Spirituality Philosophy Spirituality Philosophy Spirituality Philosophy Spirituality Philosophy Philosophy Spirituality
Tags: The School of Life Popular philosophy Psychology: emotions Health psychology Physiotherapy Coping with anxiety & phobias Exercise & workout books Popular psychology Assertiveness motivation & self-esteem Mind Body Spirit: thought & practice Complementary therapies healing & health
The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something which needs to be explored as it is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to to ignore the crucial balance between the two.
This is a book filled with reflections and exercises designed to help us live more harmoniously and maturely within both mind and body. It gives guidance on how to calm our minds with bodily exercises that work on the
real sources of our anxieties. It suggests how to be less rigid in, and timid about, our bodies and how to relax into them in a way we might not have done for far too long. It offers ideas on how to accept the way we look, and how to treat the body in order for it to assist the mind in yielding its very best ideas.
The impacts of activities such as singing, dancing and art are explored along with the liberation of spirit that these might offer. This is a book, both theoretical and practical, that will improve our relationship between our physical and mental selves and allow us a route to a life of greater self-assurance, wisdom and freedom to be ourselves.