Simply Mindful Reflections: 101 Daily Reflections for Joy, Hope & Healing

Essential Tools for Peace and Healing in a Chaotic World
Did you ever want to stop all the noise and chaos that bombards you each day? The 101 life-changing tools in these pages are designed to transform fear, upset and doubt into joy, love and clarity--in just a few minutes each day.

These inspiring, calming and healing reflections work because they tap into your innate human capacity for meaning, presence and wisdom. Simply Mindful Reflections helps you experience the boundless happiness and peace that exist for you--not tomorrow--but right now, in this very next moment.

The reflections in these pages are intended to inspire you to grow in new and surprising ways. That's because each reflection (and the three follow-up questions) are designed to open old, stuck mental pathways with a flash of penetrating awareness.

Why Reflection?
Author Donald Altman writes, "I wrote Simply Mindful Reflections to help anyone cope with the growing and unsettling cacophony of dissent and dis-ease in the world. This book serves as a practical, guiding compass for finding the abiding calm, clarity and wisdom that result from the practice of mindful reflection. Each reflection harnesses your uniquely human capabilities, which are immense, in order to light your own path and let you grasp the joy, simplicity, and love that are yours to enjoy now"

How to Use Simply Mindful Reflections
You can follow along with the book's roadmap, going through the sections as ordered. Or, you could choose reflections that speak to you, as well as just randomly open to any page. The eight sections in the book include:

• Simplicity & Peace--fosters slowing down, overcoming distraction, and a present-oriented approach to living.
• Nature--invites an enhanced awareness of the natural world.
• Healing & Connection--brings hope, connections, and positive mindsets into your life.
• Love--explores the life-sustaining power of love and compassion.
• Laughter--lightens up the challenges that life presents.
• Joy, Hope & Calm--shows how ordinary moments bring oneness, wholeness and joy.
• Transformation--overcomes fear and worry about change.
• Wisdom--taps the power of acceptance, gratitude and purpose,

What Others Say About Simply Mindful Reflections:
This is a book you can use everyday...to let go of what blocks the joy and satisfaction that Presence can reveal.
-Jan Chozen Bays, MD and Zen Roshi, author of Mindful Eating

Simply Mindful Reflections is a masterpiece. This is the clearest, most poetic and most practical book on mindfulness I have seen in years. A lasting gift!
-Frank Coppieters, PhD, Shaman, international meditation teacher, author of Unity in Everything That Is

A gem. Serenity is closer than you think, no further than the pages of this book. Each reflection is an open invitation to embrace life without mindless distraction.
-Randall Fitzgerald, author and former Reader's Digest Roving Editor

Donald's wonderful book Simply Mindful Reflections offers insightful and mindful "reflections" on the most important aspects of our lives.
-John B. Arden, PhD, author of Mind-Brain-Gene

Truly magical. Simply Mindful Reflections illuminates the stuck places in our psyche and brings us home to our deeper selves.
-John Nelson, author of A Guide to Energetic Healing

Donald Altman's Simply Mindful Reflections, provides insights into how you can make reflection a habit. Doing so will energize yourself as well as make you more aware of how you deliver your best to others.
-John Baldoni, author of Grace: A Leader's Guide to a Better Us