Reactions and reviews
Time for “Doing” and “Doing Nothing” by Nancy Colasurdo
10/15/2010
Like his subtitle says, Peterson — a writer, composer and licensed therapist — puts forth 51 tangible exercises. They are grounded in research, so don’t be fooled by their simplicity. As a life coach, they strike me as somewhere between a quick fix and full-blown therapy. Want it boiled down? Peterson’s motto is “everyday mindfulness.” Oh, how I love that. Let me count the ways.
Bookwatch – January, 2011
These exercises use ordinary activities but stretch them to the ten-minute limit, blending Buddhism with fine insights.
360 degrees of mindful living by Pavel Somov
Richly creative, compassionately narrated, and brilliantly processed, each unique experiential exercise is a spoke on a wheel designed to bring you back to a grounding sense of self. Andrew Peterson takes your mind on a transformative walk. Are you coming, mind?
by Julie Clayton
If you desire to seize the moment, or experience the “power of now” as Eckhart Tolle calls it, the exercises in “The Next Ten Minutes” will undoubtedly facilitate this, and over time, your patterns of awareness will expand and transform–and you will become more lucid in the waking state.
by Jelina Vance
11/2/2010
This book is subtitled 51 Absurdly Simple Ways to Seize the Moment and it truly is just that. This wonderful purse-sized book is written with humor and wit, and is a joy to read. Peterson shows us how to take 10 minutes out of our busy schedule and learn the importance of being fully engaged and present in the moment. He brings into focus the mundane, silly and wildly crazy tasks that we often take for granted. Most people consider staring at a wall to be boring to say the least. However, after you read this book you may have a totally different view point about wall staring. With all the pressures of the world on us, this book is truly a humorous escape that offers a highly valuable approach to everyday living.
Dr. Susan Corso
10/25/2010
Dr. Peterson trafficks in human change. As a longtime therapist, he’s seen the gamut of human responses to simple and complex situations.
I thoroughly appreciated Dr. Peterson’s musical approach. As a jazz musician, he has to be able to hear and integrate contradiction, and his techniques do just that. By taking everyday activities and adding mindfulness to them, his patients wake up to what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, and how to change it if they want to.
If you are a person who spends most of your time in the past or the future, The Next Ten Minutes is a guarantee to get you and your awareness in the here and now, and that’s where all the power is.
10/23/2010
I loved this book. (…) The Next Ten Minutes is full of exercises…meant to help you “Seize the Moment,” notice your day, make you aware of your every day surroundings, and maybe, just maybe, allow you to grow a little.
10/18/2010
I love The Next Ten Minutes because it offers a wide variety of techniques that help…make the days pass by faster and much more smoothly. [...] With The Next Ten Minutes, I have been able to take a step back from those stressful situations and turn them into something more positive and manageable.
