The Mindful Manifesto Quotes

“So, maybe we need to let go of solutions for a while and look instead at how we’re trying to reach them. If simply striving for a happier life were the answer, wouldn’t it have worked by now?”
― Ed Halliwell, The Mindful Manifesto: How Doing Less and Noticing More Can Treat Illness, Relieve Stress and Help Us Cope with the 21st Century

“Because we have never been taught any other way to meet our distress, we don’t realize how much our habits of avoidance or brooding are making things worse, turning momentary tiredness into exhaustion, momentary fear into chronic worry, and momentary sadness into chronic unhappiness and depression. So it isn’t our fault that we end up exhausted, anxious, or depressed. We have been given only certain tools to deal with things we don’t like: get rid of it, work harder, be better, be perfect—and if we fail to make things different, we too easily conclude that we are a failure as a person.”
― Ed Halliwell, The Mindful Manifesto: How Doing Less and Noticing More Can Treat Illness, Relieve Stress and Help Us Cope with the 21st Century

“World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2030, depression will be the planet’s biggest health problem.3”
― Ed Halliwell, The Mindful Manifesto: How Doing Less and Noticing More Can Treat Illness, Relieve Stress and Help Us Cope with the 21st Century