Interesting

Siegel has important things to say and he's clear and thought provoking. He is very optimistic - not sure I follow that all the way - bu the book is full of humanity. The narration is very good.

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Single file in the wrong order

You can download this as two parts or one. I just wanted to alert people that, at least for me, downloading to iTunes, the single file had the two parts stuck together in the wrong order.

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Dan Siegel is a genius .. the reading here is awful

I love Dan Siegel’s work
The work in this book is phenomenal however this guys voice is so bland like a robot ... I found it utterly frustrating. Worse so perhaps because I have experienced Dan Siegel teaching this stuff himself and he is engaging and teaches beautifully
The publishers need to give their heads a shake .. because this is not the way to make Dan Siegel’s work super accessible ... and that is what’s needed ...
what is on offer here is a game changing health fostering integration practice ..
The practices are available on Mindsight Institute website read by Dr Seigel and I would direct you there and to tee paper version of this book

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inspirational and life affirming!

amazingly inspirational and heartwarming. siegal changed my life. he is such a heartfelt deeply wise and experienced therapist and practitioner . It's a must listen.

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Science based approach to meditation.

Great book full of groundbreaking ideas that will help you to find connection between science and spirituality. wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to give up any of them, if you could embrace both? Despite difficult at times language, it has a lot of easy, practical information to give it a try and it actually works quite well. very glad I came across it.

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Not very practical

This audiobook is the fullest description and explanation of Dan Siegel’s Wheel of Awareness practice. The practice itself is a very helpful approach to mindfulness meditation, incorporating both focussed and open awareness as well as lovingkindness meditation.

So I was disappointed that this audiobook is mostly concerned with drawing confusing, somewhat tenuous associations between the experience of the Wheel of Awareness practice and a whole host of mathematical principles and quantum physics theories. I’m a medical doctor and achieved the highest possible grades in mathematics and physics in my GCSE (age 16) and A Level (age 18) exams but I honestly couldn’t follow a lot of the stuff in this audiobook. It’s too abstract, and my bulls___t alarm kept being triggered because the hypothesised associations between these basic science principles and the mind/brain seem so stretched.

The content is made harder to grasp by the narration of this audiobook. I feel bad for the narrator: he’s having to read some pretty unintelligible gobbledygook, and I don’t think I could do it any better. But it’s clear that he isn’t reading the text with understanding. The stresses and pauses aren’t always in the right places.

About halfway through, I gave up on the audiobook and switched to the Kindle version. This was a little easier to understand and much less frustrating; for I could re-read sentences that didn’t make initial sense, and skim over portions of the text that contained particularly tenuous hypotheses.

If you love Dan Siegel’s work, or if you have already explored lots of other texts about meditation and how the mind works, I’d recommend reading the book. If you don’t fall into either category, give it a miss. And don’t get the audiobook, whoever you are!

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