The Next Ten Minutes (Hardcover)
51 Absurdly Simple Ways to Seize the Moment

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The desire to discover meaning in our lives is a powerful motivator for many people. Some turn to psychotherapy and counseling for help, some turn to spiritual teachings, and many turn to both. The Next Ten Minutes is the guide to help us discover the seeds of transformation and meaning in even the most ordinary routines.
The Next Ten Minutes consists of a collection of exercises originally created for use in Dr. Peterson's successful counseling practice. Rather than taking readers out of the everyday, Dr. Peterson invites them to move more deeply into the familiar tasks of ordinary life, such as turning simple breathing, eating, physical love, or throwing out the trash into meditative exercises that can transform your day. Based on both Buddhist philosophy and proven psychology techniques, these succinct and accessible meditations also offer simple and effective methods for therapeutic counseling and personal growth. The power to seize the day is but a few simple steps away.
- Publication date: 10/26/2010
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 320
- Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
- ISBN: 9781582702742
- Categories: Psychology, Spiritual Lifestyles
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With all the pressures of the world on us, this book is truly a humorous escape that offers a highly valuable approach to everyday living.
—Jelina Vance, New Connexion Journal
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This book has Buddhist philosophy and proven psychology techniques. Meditations that offer simple and effective methods for therapeutic counseling and personal growth. The power to seize the day is but a few simple steps away. I would recommend this book to everyone.
—Quick Tattletails Blog
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With all the pressures of the world on us, [The Next Ten Minutes] is truly a humorous escape that offers a highly valuable approach to everyday living.
—Jelina Vance, New Connexion
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If you are a person who spends most of your time in the past or the future, The Next Ten Minutes is a guarantee to get you and your awareness in the here and now, and that's where all the power is.
—Dr. Susan Corso, Huffington Post
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The Next Ten Minutes is full of exercises [...] meant to help you "Seize the Moment," notice your day, make you aware of your every day surroundings, and maybe, just maybe, allow you to grow a little.
—A Shopper's Quest Blog
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I love The Next Ten Minutes because it offers a wide variety of techniques that help alleviate stress and make the days pass by faster and much more smoothly.
—Blissful Reviews Blog
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Andrew Peterson, a self-admittedly restless mind himself with a penchant for long runs, has just the trip itinerary: a wealth of wildly-exotic, mind-blowing, scene-changing, awareness-building, and habit-modifying 10 minute long walkabouts. Richly creative, compassionately narrated, and brilliantly processed, each unique experiential exercise is a spoke on a wheel designed to bring you back to a grounding sense of self.
—Pavel G. Somov, PhD, psychologist, author of Eating the Moment, Present Perfect, and The Lotus Effect
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Only an exceptional psychotherapist like Dr. Andrew Peterson who is grounded deeply in his personal and professional experience could guide us confidently and safely through a deceptively simple 10 minute portal into a profoundly new state of consciousness!
—Kate Cremer-Vogel MS, LCPC, coauthor of What Every Adoptive Parent Needs to Know
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The Next Ten Minutes is a substantial yet simple antidote to our usual pulsating and mind-numbing twenty-first century lives.
—John Sommers-Flanagan, author of Becoming an Ethical Helping Professional
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A spoonful of humor—and a few simple exercises—help the wisdom go down, and Andrew Peterson uses an expert hand and gentle humor to remind us that every moment offers the potential for transformation.
—Meredith Maran, author of My Lie
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Andrew Peterson, EdD
Andrew Peterson is a licensed therapist and writer with a Doctor of Education in Counseling and an MFA in Creative Writing. He maintains a counseling practice in Missoula, Montana and has taught graduate level classes in psychotherapy. He is a published author of numerous articles and reviews and has an established credibility in his field. In addition to his clinical and academic work, Dr. Peterson is a composer with several short film scores and the musical soundtrack to the Simon and Schuster audio book Her Last Death to his credit.
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