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Title: Beautiful Practice
Subtitle: A Whole-Life Approach to Health, Performance and the Human Predicament
Author: Frank Forencich
Narrator: Kristy Mellon, Dave Von Kleist
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-15-14
Publisher: Archangel Ink
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Self Development, Motivation & Inspiration
Publisher's Summary:
As we all know, today's world presents us with an unprecedented set of perplexing challenges: habitat destruction, lifestyle disease, crushing stress, fragmented attention, anxiety, and social conflict. Our bodies are suffering, our minds are confused, and our spirits are in turmoil. We need knowledge and understanding, but we also need experience, participation, and engagement. In other words, we need a practice.
Beautiful Practice is a multi-disciplinary guide to the art of living skillfully and mindfully in the modern world. This audiobook will lead you through a progressive series of lessons, each designed to reveal one crucial aspect of living our beautiful adventure. Use these lessons to develop a personal practice, refine an existing program, or create a new practice from scratch. This book is for trainers, coaches, classroom teachers, yoga teachers, martial artists, professionals, managers, and parents; the ideas in this book will enhance your efforts in any discipline. So please, join in. Sweep the dojo, empty your cup, bow to the mat, and let's begin.
Members Reviews:
An excellent compilation of information
Any additional comments?
What "Beautiful Practice" isn't. First off, this book does not offer any specific practice. It's not a "how to" or six-week exercise program. Instead, it is a is a report-style book that actually summarizes some of my favorite books, while adding a little something new in and of itself. Along with a great collection of good quotes, the utility of "Beautiful Practice" is one of two things. A great introduction to this material for someone completely new to this material, or as a gift to a friend or family member who might be able to read a book, but would never take the time to read the stack of books that this book covers.
The first few chapters take a functional exercise bent, along the lines of "Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization," by John J. Ratey and Richard Manning, or even "Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement," by Katy Bowman. Ratey's book, "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain," is even quoted from, so I know Frank Forencich must be familiar with "Go Wild."
Since "Beautiful Practice" does offer a holistic, Eastern view of health and well being, it does include the required meditation and mindfulness chapters. Interwoven with this however, is a lot of the core concepts of willpower and patience, as found in "The Willpower Instinct," by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. or possibly "The Power of Habit," by Charles Duhigg (Willpower Instinct being my favorite out of those two).
There is also a good deal of information on stress, with some relaxation stress-coping strategies along the lines of "The Relaxation Response," by Herbert Benson M.D, or "Relaxation Revolution," by the same author.