Average, somewhat helpful One or two good points Don't waste your time Mindfulness by Ellen Langer, Perseus, 1990. This is a great book for educators, pastors, or any other leaders who strive to help people grow, learn, and improve. She emphasizes how much of life we miss through inattention and how we are negatively affected when we do not use mindful processes. Mindfulness is more than just paying attention, although that is a big part of it. Mindfulness means living life by an active strategy, where the decisions we make are founded on conscious thought and where personal improvement is a central commitment.
Mindfulness is about taking control of our thoughts, actions, and intentions.
Full of information on thinking, learning, and brain research, Mindfulness is a challenge to live a more fully developed, fully actualized life. A Christian education team would find reading Mindfulness together time well spent. Spirit Matters by Michael Lerner, Hampton Roads Publishing, 2000. The title, Spirit Matters , says it all. Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, offers this apologetic on the need to honor the spiritual side of life.