Next week, I’ll be interviewing Jeff Brantley, MD, author of Calming Your Anxious Mind and the series of books on mindfulness called Five Good Minutes™.
He published the first one, Five Good Minutes™: 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm and Focused All Day Long, which offers exactly what the title says–practical advice for using a five minute period each morning to pay attention and bring that sense of awareness to whatever you’re doing during the day.
Dr. Brantley is the founder and director of The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program at Duke University’s Center for Integrative Medicine and he’s got plenty of tips to share.
In fact, he followed up his Five Good Minutes™ morning book with one to help soothe people in the evening, followed by another to help people stay calm at work, and he’s offering another one next year with tips for being present with the one you love.
On his website, www.FiveGoodMinutes.com, he offers this description of his approach:
These 100 simple practices are designed to help even the busiest person start the day right. Using just five minutes of mindfulness, relaxation, or imagery techniques during your morning routine, you can set your intention and greet the day feeling calm, centered, and energized.
What difference can five minutes make in the crazy, nonstop course of a sixteen-hour day? If you feel overwhelmed with responsibility, bored with the same tired routine, or frustrated about how to create meaning in your life, a little time well spent can lead to extraordinary changes.
The concept is powerfully simple: Take the time each morning to be fully present, set a clear intention for yourself, and really engage in any of 100 fun and easy-to-follow practices. Soon you will discover that amazing things can happen in just five minutes a day.
So, now you see why I like him. 
And I can’t wait to share more about his approach in this blog in the next few days.
I’ll be posting more about him and the Five Good Minutes™ technique and tell you how you can make this method work for YOU.
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