Why Mindfulness is not Enough: Unlocking Compassion with Equanimity

29/03/2022

Barriers to Equanimity: The Discriminatory Mind

The 4 judgement domains mentioned in this video - The 'innate', 'social', 'interactive' and 'reflective' form the psychometric scale I developed for my PhD.

The research with the 'Equanimity Barriers Scale' showed that those who scored higher on this scale also scored highly with generalised anxiety and depression. Wheres those who scored lower on the scale reported better general mental wellbeing.

As far as I am aware the EBS is being translated and tested in Brazil 🇧🇷 and Turkey 🇹🇷 as we speak.

My book, which is a manual to help you cultivate equanimity [my research in simplified form] is coming out in Dutch 🇳🇱 this year.

The message is - work on your judgements and you improve your mental health capabilities.

29/03/2022

How do you see the world ?

08/10/2021

The .with.my.mind podcast 🎤 weaves together open conversations about our lives with an awareness of mental and emotional health. It covers topics around inclusion & diversity and empathy and was a perfect space to discuss my research around equanimity and mindfulness. Episode 12 of the podcast 🎧 .with.my.mind is now available on Spotify, apple podcasts etc. Follow them and check the link in their bio to listen to this episode and more.

https://linktr.ee/conv.with.my.mind

28/07/2021

It takes time and effort to post on social media or review on amazon and so I deeply appreciate this post by Tegan Reeves PhD ERYT . Feedbacks hard to come by, so when it happens, it's like a bolt of lightening to keep nudging the boulder up the mountain. So far, this books been very lucky to have passionate advocates to aid organic growth. With no marketing strategy and lazy social media consistency, I rely on the humble word of mouth! Please keep those mouths moving!

02/06/2021

Hurrah

A list of 12 new equanimity books you should read in 2021, such as Equanimity, Finding Equanimity and Learned Mindfulness.

18/05/2021

There's nothing better than the look, feel and smell of a new book.

🥞 They also taste good. I regularly tear out pages of the offprints and dip them in my coffee.

🎧 They also sound good if you use them as a fan, the waft sensation also cools you down after you've read some insight and have become temporarily discombobulated 🤯🧠

So...paperback books are an absolute feast for the senses and this little book is a banquet. There's no moment like the present (pun intended) so order today.

❌ £12.99 on amazon at the moment.

✅ I sell them on here for £11 including postage across the UK.

✅ I sign all the copies I sell. At todays stock exchange this adds 0.001p onto the value of each book.

✅ I ship to EU and the rest of the world - DM for details as this incurs extra postage.

🛒 Ordering through me is the equivalent of 'shopping local'.

🛌 They look great by a bedside as a constant reminder of how little you prioritise reading over netflix or scrolling. Or is that just me?

14/05/2021

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14/05/2021

Figure 6.3: Equanimity responds to judgements. The figure represents a person mentally protected (by the umbrella), with an open heart of compassion.

Manifesting inner equanimity is hard, as it involves being very mindful. Being mindful of thoughts and events as transient, fleeting experiences rather than as a fixed and rigid reality enables us to see the bigger picture. This enables us to lessen our identification with the thought or experience as being intrinsically good or bad and to just observe the changing nature of whatever is presenting itself. All three of those internal experiences are transitory. For example, I can see that a thought has arisen and that my mind has given it a label of good, bad or indifferent because of my unique sponge-like mind.

However, the thought is not me but a transient moment in time and not a fixed reality. Therefore, with self-compassion, I can let go of this thought without becoming over-identified with it. I am draining the thought or feeling of any potential to overly influence me. Thus, I remain in a light-hearted equanimous mood regardless of whatever thought or feeling comes next. Rather than replay the scary beach scene over and over and give it a certain power to cause me anxiety, or go overboard with the conversation I had with my friend and now think I am a perfect person, I can embrace them as subjective experiences and be kind towards myself with them. I might think to myself, ‘Poor me for experiencing the fear, but it was just a one off and I won’t worry about future times swimming,’ and ‘It’s nice to hear positive things for a change from my friends,’ for example. Then I let the thoughts go so I can remain present in the moment.

How likely are you to ‘play out’ the narrative in your head based on the projections of good/bad, right/wrong, wholesome/unwholesome? How likely does a thought or feeling lead to an emotive action or behaviour based on a strongly-held perception by your own discriminatory mind? Can you think of times in which you have reacted and then later regretted it? Instead of reacting with judgement, allow your inner equanimity to respond.

14/05/2021

Hi, My name is Joey and I am the author of the book on this page. Thank you for paying some interest. I will use this page to post interesting things about the book and related content. If you want to follow me on Instagram please follow 😊

27/04/2021

😱 The e-book is now available at only £8.49...😱

Why Mindfulness is not Enough: Unlocking Compassion with Equanimity eBook: Weber, Joey: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

27/04/2021

Absolutely thrilled to announce my audiobook is now available for sale 🔊🥳. This is the final part of the research jigsaw as it's now available on paperback 🧩 ebook 🧩 and now audiobook 🧩. Please share!

A very raw and vulnerable process begins when you put your work out there and because my actual voice is on this it feels even more so!

I hope to create a tiny ripple with my work on equanimity. Learn new ways to:

• Mentally protect yourself
• Extend the parameters of your compassion
• Improve relationships / enhance your prosocial qualities

This title includes:

• Foreword by Professor Willem Kuyken
• Model of barriers to equanimity
• A guide to the Equanimity Barriers Scale
• An illustrated 7 step equanimity method
• 4 in-depth case studies that brings equanimity to life
• Equamimty meditation transcripts

Please help the splash by considering this your next title & in the meantime check out the 5 minute free retail sample available when you click the link:

Why Mindfulness Is Not Enough: Unlocking Compassion with Equanimity