The Mindfulness of Wandering - E-book - ePub

The Mindfulness of Wandering by Julian Bound 21 Mindful Walks through 7 Buddhist Countries for Reducing Stress and Anxiety and Finding Peace of Mind in your Everyday Life Calm the mind and start a journey towards finding peace with twenty-one short mindful walks through the beautiful temples, gardens and shrines of Asia and South East Asia. Finding peace in today's modern world can be difficult. Although calm appears at times in our daily lives it is often fleeting, allowing elements of stress, anxiety, sadness and at times exhaustion to take dominance again.
By practicing mindfulness in our day to day activities of work or play a once elusive peace can become a constant. The Mindfulness of Wandering guides a reader towards being in the present moment through cultivating awareness to our surroundings. Each mindful walk is designed to encourage observing the world around us with curiosity and accepting things for how they really are in a non-judgmental way. From Tibet's high altitude temples to Cambodia and Thailand's golden shrines, and from Japan's bamboo forests and tranquil gardens to India's sacred Himalayan pathways, every walk takes a reader on a journey through nature and sights seen within the comfort of mindfulness' embrace. Take a journey in mindfulness today and transport yourself into peace. About The AuthorBorn in England, Julian is a documentary photographer, film maker and author.
With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India's Himalaya region. His photography work includes documenting the child soldiers of Myanmar's Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and Thailand's political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok. With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has extensively photographed the Tibetan refugees of Nepal and India.
His other projects include the road working gypsies of Rajasthan, India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the riverside squatter slums of Yogyakarta and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia. Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations and the World Wildlife Foundation. With numerous published photography books Julian is also the author of nine novels including Subway of Light, Life's Heart Eternal, The Geisha and The Monk, By Way of The Sea and All Roads.