Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships

In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being. In this book, readers learn how mindfulness can be brought to bear in our relationships to increase intimacy, strengthen communication, and help us to find greater fulfilment.
Topics in this collection include how to open your heart and develop lovingkindness for yourself and others, how to improve communication through mindful speech and deep listening, noticing and counteracting destructive patterns, and discovering how intimate relationships can become a rich form of spiritual practice.
Chapters and contributors include:

Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on what mindfulness is and why it lies at the heart real love

Psychotherapist David Richo on finding a partner

Author Elizabeth Gilbert on conflict and communication

Psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach on the power of forgiveness

Rabbi Harold Kushner on striving to give love rather than get it

Novelist Jane Hamilton on a marital meltdown—and recovery

Meditation teacher Susan Piver on the value of heartbreak

Psychologist John Welwood on relationships as a path of personal and spiritual growth