At the first sight of the word “mindfulness” in the book title, some of you might feel some apprehension. You might be thinking: “I’m not a spiritual person who needs to be seated through a meditation exercise or practice mindfulness.” Or, “I’m an atheist who believes in science. Why would I need to do such things?” In fact, Mindfulness: An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, is not written for spiritual persons only, but for each and every of us. Living within modern society, we may often have experienced certain negative emotions, such as anxiety and depression. In fact, the Gallup 2019 Global Emotions Report shows that sadness, anger, and worry were three negative emotional indicators of respondents which continued to increase over the years and hit an all-time record high in 2019. The world has become sadder, more worried, and angrier than ever before. In this regard, Mindfulness: An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Denny Penman, may offer you a new way of thinking, as well as a solution to our current emotional state. 

The book, Mindfulness: An Eight-week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World, shares an eight-week mindfulness program and offers a series of simple and practical forms of meditation exercises. It aims to help us catch and withhold our negative thought patterns. Through practicing non-judgmental observations of the present moment, we will be able to get away from our negative emotions such as anxiety, depression, and annoyance, and find our inner peace. The methods in the book are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a priority treatment solution, and have proved effective in treating both depression and psychological trauma.