Presence: How Mindfulness and Meditation Shape Your Brain, Mind, and Life

by Paul Verhaeghen

Mindfulness and one of the roads to it, meditation, have become increasingly popular as a way to promote health and well-being. Meditation can create mindfulness in daily life, which becomes an ingrained habit if applied consistently-it can boost immune function; lower levels of stress, anxiety, or depression; lift affect; regulate emotion more easily; and make you happier.

Presence reviews how meditation calms the body and what goes on inside...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199395608
• ISBN13: 9780199395606
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"