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Synopsis In Fully Present, leading mindfulness researchers and educators Dr. Sue Smalley and Diana Winston provide an all-in-one guide for anyone interested in bringing mindfulness to daily life as a means of enhancing well-being. Fully Present provides both a scientific explanation for how mindfulness positively and powerfully affects the brain and the body as well as practical guidance to develop both a practice and mindfulness in daily living, not only through meditation but also during daily experiences, such as waiting in line at the supermarket, exercising, or facing difficult news.

About the Author Diana Winston is the Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) and the co-author, with Susan Smalley PhD, of Fully Present and author of the forthcoming The Little Book of Being. She has taught mindfulness for health and well-being since 1999 in a variety of settings including healthcare, universities, businesses, non-profits, and schools in the U.S. and internationally. Her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, O Magazine, Allure, Women’s Health, and in a variety of magazines, books, and journals. Heralded by the L.A. Times as “one of the nation’s best-known teachers of mindfulness,” she is also a founding board member of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association.