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Mindful Living with Asperger's Syndrome

Everyday Mindfulness Practices to Help You Tune in to the Present Moment
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Based on his own life experiences, travels and meditations, Chris Mitchell reflects on how mindfulness practice can help people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) with daily challenges including negative thought patterns, emotional and sensory issues, and navigating the social world.This practical handbook provides advice and instruction on adopting a mindful way of living to help tune in to the present moment and each chapter provides step-by-step mindfulness exercises that allow individuals with AS to overcome obstacles through awareness. Included are breathing exercises, simple yoga stretches, sitting, standing and walking meditations, visualisations, and easy ways to incorporate mindfulness techniques into everyday activities such as eating, brushing your teeth or doing the dishes.By teaching how to live mindfully moment to moment, this book gives people with Asperger's Syndrome the key to relieving stress, increasing awareness, and living a healthier and happier life.
Introduction. 1. Asperger Comfort Zones. 2. Changeability of Asperger's Syndrome. 3. Asperger's Syndrome in the Present Moment. 4. Mindful Movement. 5. Recognising Body Language. 6. Getting in Touch with Emotions. 7. Managing Sensory Issues through Mindfulness. 8. Managing Obsessions, Habits and Fixations. 8. Refreshing Asperger's Syndrome. 9. Steering the Raft through the Social World. 10. Mindfulness and Quality of Life. 11. Please Don't Rush. Bibliography.
A great introduction to beginners in the practice of mindfulness. Mitchell provides step-by-step exercises directed at helping individuals with AS to increase their awareness of their own mind, body, and the world around them in a new way... it offers the personal perspective of someone with AS who has not only mastered a way of surviving, but also fully experiencing all that life has to offer. Mitchell makes the practice of mindful living come alive in his own life and offers a path that others may follow.
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