Mindfulness for Emerging Adults

Finding balance, belonging, focus and meaning in the digital age \n \nYoung adulthood has always been a time of intense transition and, therefore, a time of vulnerability and opportunity. Donna Torney masterfully weaves the time-tested, robust, and evidence-based concepts of mindfulness into today’s rapidly changing, digitally-oriented world. \n \nMindfulness for Emerging Adults explores the task of becoming an adult in the twenty-first century by citing advances in neuroscience to encourage seeing mindfulness and other contemplative practices as essential life skills. These ancient and now rigorously researched practices are more important than ever in our age of accelerated change, media overload, and chronic busyness. Due to the significant interest in mindfulness by the scientific community, we now have evidence that these practices create positive change in the mind and body. By exploring and adopting mindfulness and other contemplative practices, which the author calls Center Points, emerging adults can forge a path to find authentic identity and healthy personal and community connections, creating a good life in the digital age.