Playful Mindfulness

A Joyful Journey to Everyday Confidence, Calm, and Connection

De: Ted DesMaisons

Narrado por: Ted DesMaisons

Playful Mindfulness brings together wisdom from the worlds of mindfulness (paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness) and improvisation (making life up courageously as you go along) so listeners can find greater confidence, calm, and connection.

• Do you long to express that creative project or idea but tell yourself you’re not good or clever or funny enough, so why even try?
• Do you dream of a wide-open life filled with moments of wonder, delight, and surprise but find yourself trapped in routine and smothered by stress?
• Do you yearn for deep, meaningful connection with those around you but feel yourself ever more isolated by social media and modern technology?

Hope is on the way.

In this audiobook, Ted DesMaisons takes your hand and leads you on a beautiful, surprising and unruly adventure into the lands where mindfulness and improvisation overlap. There, you’ll discover the same freedom, ease, and joy that thousands of his students at Stanford and elsewhere have found for themselves.

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Full of gems

I’m glad this book exists. I’m happy to read a book that combines the two practices that I thought could never be blend together.
My favorite future from this book is the helpful recap after every chapter. This helps so much because I can use it as a reference tool whenever I need to troubleshoot my own practice.
I fully recommend this book full of gems.

Extremely valuable tools for recovering perfectionists

As a writer and event designer, I constantly seek tools to dig up and break open the buried treasure chest of authentic, unique ideas locked away in my brain. Playful Mindfulness is exactly this kind of device. As Ted DesMaisons shares his fresh take on mindfulness, he cracks away at surface-level mindsets that hide glistening gems begging to be unearthed.

DesMaison’s book challenges the tired stories I tell myself: I’m not very funny; others will reject my ideas; I can’t possibly change course once I’ve started. In place of these trite myths, he installs hope. His words inspire me to be more open to failure, and his methods provide solutions to quicken healing when it happens.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who’s ready to show up more authentically in life and work. I would ESPECIALLY recommend it to creative professionals who struggle with perfectionism and know it’s strangling their work. Operating from a place of Playful Mindfulness is a radical game-changer that revolutionizes careers and relationships.

Really good life-changing stuff

This is a wonderful, practical, deep, book about mindfulness that you can actually use - even if (like me) you are more skeptical than New Age. And it is read extremely well.