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More than ever students are reporting high levels of stress, depression and loneliness while at university - so looking after your mental wellbeing is just as important as academic preparation.
This book provides grounded guidance on how mindfulness can be used to cope with the main sources of anxiety while you are completing your studies, so you can find balance and make the most of student life. Combined with practical and recorded mindfulness exercises, learn how to master techniques and tools to reconnect with the present and yourself, and approach life at uniin a stress-free way.
Dr David Mair is a BACP Senior Accredited Psychotherapist with over twenty years experience of supporting students in university settings. He has led mindfulness groups for university staff and students, and believes - from his own experience as well as that of many others - that mindfulness offers a counter-cultural way out of suffering where awareness of self-imposed limitations, anxieties and fears has the potential to lead to greater freedom. Now semi-retired, he maintains a private therapy practice and continues to explore the impact of mindfulness on deep-seated emotions that arise from some of life's most stressful situations.
This is an invaluable resource for those working and participating in Higher Education. Its practical and straightforward approach is so helpful. Highly recommended.
This book condenses some of David Mair's considerable experience, wisdom, insight and humour gained over 20 years of student counselling within university settings, and written something all students should read. He's captured many of the day to day problems student report to our counselling services and also practicable strategies to help navigate the emotional maelstrom of university life.
Mark Fudge,Head of Counselling and Mental Health Support, Keele University,Chair BACP - University and Colleges Division
Many students find mindfulness helpful and research shows us that it can help students improve their resilience to stress. This book very usefully shows how to develop a mindfulness approach to different student specific situations such as procrastination.
Very easy to read and illustrated by useful case studies that directly relate to the student experience, readers can dip in and out of this beautifully written book and focus on the chapters that are particularly relevant to them.
I recommend this book, a great and practical addition to the Mindfulness literature.
There was a particular chapter on the guide for mindfulnessthat left me surprised and really grabbed my attention. Usually, what I've encountered is always just related to anxiety and stress so this chapter really surprised me and I found myself identifying with everything in it. I've never thought of perfectionism as affecting me so much but besides the explanations provided, it was the 'typical thoughts and beliefs' that really touched me as I have all of them. I can't say 'I'm fixed', but I feel more aware.