Amy Leigh Mercree

This is not your typical mindfulness book. In the first part of the book, the author throws a lot of statistics at you all purporting to prove the health benefits of being mindful. She tells us when the study took place and its results. Interesting, but not helpful. Assuming the reader gets past the recitation of why she should practice mindfulness, the author finally get to the part the reader probably picked up the book in the first place, i.e., the how of mindfulness.

There are better books if you’re just interested in learning how to be mindful. But if you’d like to see what the researchers say about the benefits of being mindful and learn how to be mindful, then this is the book for you.… (more)