The Mindful Journey: A Practical Book About the Pause Between Reaction and Response

Author:   W J Riley
Publisher:   Independently Published
ISBN:  

9798241878724


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 December 2025
Format:   Paperback
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The Mindful Journey: A Practical Book About the Pause Between Reaction and Response


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Most books about mindfulness promise calm, clarity, or control. The Mindful Journey makes no such claims. Instead, it follows three ordinary lives as they learn - slowly, inconsistently, and without revelation; how to stay with experience as it actually unfolds. Not in retreats or ideal conditions, but in kitchens, workplaces, classrooms, and tired evenings where attention usually fails. Across three interconnected sections - The Mindful Garden, The Mindful Path, and The Mindful Meadow - the book traces the quiet evolution of attention through the lives of Cyrus, Miranda, and Taylor. Each begins from a different place: one grounded in sensory awareness, one caught in constant motion and choice, and one shaped by self-judgement and repair. None of them become ""better"" versions of themselves. What changes is how they return. This is not a how-to guide. There are no techniques to master, no steps to follow, and no promises of transformation. Mindfulness here is not treated as a skill to perfect, but as a human capacity that appears briefly, disappears often, and can be met again without punishment. The book is structured around ordinary moments - interruptions, slips, small repairs - where attention either hardens into control or softens into presence. Written in a restrained, literary style, The Mindful Journey blends narrative, reflection, and observation without drifting into fiction or self-help formula. The language is precise, grounded, and deliberately unspectacular. Nothing is dramatised or resolved in the traditional sense. The book instead trusts the reader to recognise their own life in the spaces between events. What emerges is a different understanding of mindfulness: not as stillness removed from life, but as attention that survives contact with it. Presence shows up after irritation, not before it. Repair matters more than success. Forgetting is not failure. Returning is the practice. This book is for readers who are tired of optimisation culture, suspicious of performative wellbeing, and wary of promises that life can be smoothed or solved. It will resonate with those who want a quieter, more honest account of attention - one that respects complexity, limitation, and the ordinary difficulty of being human. The Mindful Journey does not ask you to change your life, just to try and see yourself in the characters explored. It asks you to notice how you are already living it and what becomes possible when you stop turning away.

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Author:   W J Riley
Publisher:   Independently Published
Imprint:   Independently Published
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9798241878724


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 December 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.

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