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Laurie Camerons beautiful guide offers fresh suggestions for developing a mindful way of being in the world, exploring science-established approaches and informal ways to create a meaningful life at work, at home, and in loving relationships.
D ANIEL J. S IEGEL , M.D. UCLA School of Medicine; New York Times best-selling author of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
If you want a totally realistic way to bring mindfulness alive in your daily lifeThe Mindful Day is a perfect guide. Rather than racing through to the finish line, let this wise book awaken you to the wonder and love and mystery in each passing day.
T ARA B RACH , psychologist, teacher, and author of True Refuge
A must-read book for anyone interested in beginning, deepening, or sustaining mindfulness in daily life.
R ICH F ERNANDEZ , Ph.D., CEO, Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute
A refreshing approach to applying the skills of mindfulness and compassion to live with more wonder, love, and joy. In this practical book, Laurie Cameron offers inspiring guidance, compelling science, and illuminating stories that will transform your life.
C HADE -M ENG T AN , author of Joy on Demand and Search Inside Yourself
The ability to design and implement a day focused on what is essential is the essence of a meaningful life. This book provides a delightful guide to doing just that.
G REG M C K EOWN , author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
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Names: Cameron, Laurie, author.
Title: The mindful day : practical ways to find focus, calm, and joy from morning to evening / Laurie J. Cameron.
Description: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017042264 (print) | LCCN 2017050195 (ebook) | ISBN 9781426218378 | ISBN 9781426218361 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Self-actualization (Psychology) | Stress management. | Meditation. | BISAC: SELF-HELP / Meditations. | SELF-HELP / Stress Management. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Inspiration & Personal Growth.
Classification: LCC BF637.S4 (ebook) | LCC BF637.S4 C36 2018 (print) | DDC 158.1/28dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017042264
Ebook ISBN9781426218378
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For my daughter, Ava Grace
A NOTE TO THE READER
This book is for educational purposes and is not intended as medical or other professional advice to the individual reader. You should use the information contained in this book as a supplement to the advice of a licensed health care professional rather than as a substitute for such advice. To the best of our knowledge, the information provided is accurate at the time of its publication.
The author and publisher disclaim any liability whatsoever with respect to any loss, injury, or damage arising directly or indirectly from the use of this book.
One November morning when I was 16, my father, a NASA rocket scientist, had a heart attack while I was standing next to him. Using strength infused with adrenaline, I transferred his six-foot-five-inch frame from his favorite wooden chair to the den floor and began CPR. Everything moved in slow motion while I breathed and pumped. The paramedics arrived and whisked him out of our home. He didnt survive. He was 44.
I gained a perspective that day that continues to direct my life. Learning at a young age that life can be taken away in a moment left a deep imprint; I perceived the impermanence of all things. Now the rudder that steers me has become one of seeing, connecting, savoring, and fully appreciating every experience. To put it another way, I live more mindfullyand this present, compassionate way of being has become something I practice every day.
After losing my father, I became focused, determined, and driven to live life fully. In my 20s, I became a management consultant with Accenture, and set my screen saver to a banner with the words carpe diem. I mapped and planned a purposeful course. I moved to what for me was a place of beauty and creativity: San Francisco. I embraced my career as a change management consultant, traveling globally and working to transform companies for the better. My German boyfriend became my husband. We moved to a house near Lake Tahoe, California, and got married on top of a mountain, surrounded by a circle of loved ones. Life was unfolding according to plan.
Then in 1995, my client Chau Yoder saw me as the achievement-oriented consultant in the high-pressure consulting world that I was, and introduced me to mindfulness. In a conference room during lunchtime, she taught me mindful breathingto stop, breathe, and be in the present to simply bring my busy, future-oriented mind into what was happening right here and now. Chau gave me the book Peace Is Every Step by Zen master and poet Thich Nhat Hanh, and then she held drop-in meditation sessions every Monday in that same conference room. I started learning how to be with whatever comes (a key mindfulness term), without needing to block, avoid, deny, or suppress the hard parts. It was the first time I learned how to direct my own moment-to-moment experience. But I still didnt realize how important mindfulness would turn out to be in my life.
After years of trying to start a family, I finally got pregnant in 2004. It was a time of immense happiness. I had a job I loved as an executive in leadership development, with an office overlooking the San Francisco Bay. My husband and I renovated our flat-roof glass house and took mindful birth classes in Berkeley, learning how to navigate the full experience of pregnancy and delivery with acceptance and joy, no matter what came up. Then in my ninth month of pregnancy, my brother Johnnya gentle artistdied unexpectedly, just like our father had. He had just finished his sketch for a mural in our babys nursery. Ava Grace, our only child, was born three weeks later.
Losing Johnny and receiving Ava in the space of weeks was profound. During that time, mindfulness gave me the resilience to be a container for the searing grief and the exquisite joy that I was experiencing at the same time.
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