C. Norman Coleman - Mindfulness for the High Performance World: A Practical, Skill-Based Approach to Developing and Sustaining Mindfulness, Equanimity and Balance

The Identity in a Changing World book series explores the many facets of adult identity in a complex, global, rapidly changing, individual and social landscape and seeks to offer guidance on surviving and thriving in these changing environments. While humanity has always faced unparalleled (for that time) changes that impact identity, never before have information and interactions come at the current pace. This may include changes and demands in the conception of self, changes and demands coming from the local, national and global environment, and changes and demands from rapidly changing ideals and values. Contributors to the series come to it from many directions of scholarship and application, in an attempt to elucidate the many ways human psychology influences, among other things, politics, economics, values, ideals, relationships, selfhood, culture, and institutions. These explorations will culminate in suggestions for ways to mitigate the individual problems and distortions coming from a culture of rapid and confusing change. This series serves a general readership and college level students, as well as readers in many fields including researchers, practitioners, psychologists, educators, sociologists, political scientists, business administrators, philosophers, international relations experts, medical practitioners, and conflict specialists.

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We wish to thank our family, colleagues, friends, and patients/clients for what they have taught us by their words, actions, deeds, and experience. We thank Roop Jyoti who demonstrated that one can change ones mindset dramatically for the better and by doing so improve life for so many others. Roops persistence encouraged us to take the course which taught us that we could become aware of aspects of our minds of which were previously not within our awareness. We thank our team of readers for their critique and feedback of the book. Special thanks go to Jackie Wehmueller an editor, consultant and friend from JHU Press, and David Kramer for his editorial assistance and advice. We especially thank our children Gabrielle and Keith and our daughter-in-law Vanessa for being wonderful people and, indeed, great role models and teachers.

The contents of this book are our personal opinions and are not related to the institutions in which we work or have worked. The approach to mindfulness is our construct to facilitate learning mindfulness as a skill using a systematic approach. There is a wide range of approaches available to learning mindfulness and meditation, usually facilitated by teachers and possibly accompanied by counselors and therapists, which should be continued as appropriate.

Erina He, graphic design expert who works for the National Institutes of Health, has, as a colleague and friend outside her NIH position, redrawn and improved the quality of the initial PowerPoint charts.