Mindful reading: 9 books for the holidays

With a new year just around the corner, the time is ripe for choosing resolutions, setting goals and calming the mind to begin afresh. Reading a book that can help reset your thinking patterns, or help you slow down and form better habits could be just the ticket. We’ve created a round-up of mindful-oriented tomes to help you launch into the new year feeling tip top. If a mindful read sounds like just the thing to pick up over the holidays, crack the spines on these nine books:

1. Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig
2. The Headspace Guide to Meditation and Mindfulness: How Mindfulness Can Change Your Life in Ten Minutes a Day, Andy Puddicombe
3. Small Pleasures, The School of Life
4. The Art of Mindful Baking: Returning the Heart to the Hearth, Julia Ponsonby
5. The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin
6. I Am Here Now: A creative mindfulness guide and journal, The Mindfulness Project
7. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert
8. The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-stress art therapy for busy people, Emma Farrarons
9. Mindful Eating: Stop mindless eating and learn to nourish body and soul, Rachel Bartholomew and Mandy Pearson

What books on mindfulness have you read recently? We’d love to know. Comment below to share your favourites…