True Belonging Overcoming Loneliness Book Review

True Belonging - Mindful Practices to Help You Overcome Loneliness, Connect With Others & Cultivate Happiness  - A Book Review by Chris Garrah   November 29, 2012

I was directed to this book because I was reading a meditation book and I did not get the concept "mindfulness".

Even after reading the book once the concepts did not settle in because I assume I was reading the book without absorbing it.   And the tone seemed different.   But upon re-reading it - browsing it again it started to make some sense.

The central idea is that troubling emotions from the past influence your present - I mean you have some bad thoughts in your head or bad concepts about yourself.   This book will hopefully help you fix yourself. (if you pick it up from time to time and try to fix yourself) .

About the Mindfulness Book

The book jacket notes that there are over thirty reflective practices improve yourself.  It says that you will build stronger relations with others.

The authors of the reflective practices 

Jeffrey Brantley MD is a consulting associate in the Duke Department of Psychiatrry.   He is also a director of a mindfulness-based stress reduction program.   The second author is Wendy Millstine who in addition to being an author is a certified holistic  nutrition consultant.  

The book itself is a small pocketbook of 158 pages so it is easy to carry around with you.   Each reflective practice is only two or three pages.   So in a matter of 10 or 15 minutes perhaps you can strive to rid yourself of negative emotions and thoughts and make deeper connections with others.

Let me know what works!