Lisa Dale Miller

Clinician   Author   Buddhist Teacher

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Mind is like the sky

Like dark clouds, distressful thoughts and emotions obscure mind's clarity, tranquility and capacity to respond. Each time we recognize the transparent nature of thoughts and emotions, the clear sky of awareness shines through.

Awareness is key

Resting in the mind's innate luminosity actuates the liberative power of awakened presence, which reveals how all internal experience, like the clouds, come and go. Realizing there is nothing to hold on to lessens affective stickiness and mental agitation. And now mind can clearly comprehend the causes of mental and emotional suffering and open to the wisdom and openheartedness of non-suffering.

  • Genuine mental health is the ultimate prescription
  • Reclaiming clarity, equanmimity and openheartedness is the greatest gift we can offer patients
  • Any clinician can learn how to facilitate this transformation
  • This is the primary aim and result of working with the material in this book

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Reviews

Lisa Dale Miller’s book is an essential read for those seeking to separate mindfulness facts from mindless fictions and for all psychotherapists interested in using mindfulness techniques in practice... Miller’s book is a delightful, educative read that attends to often overlooked theoretical underpinnings of our work, as well as a thought-provoking reminder to ponder the essential questions that are at the philosophical core of our practices. She offers the entire field of mental health an invaluable service.

PsycCritiques

American Psychological Association

Lisa Dale Miller has offered mental-health practitioners—and all those seeking to integrate basic wellbeing and happiness with the ancient and time-tested wisdom teachings in Buddha dharma—a clear, scholarly, and thoughtful approach to understanding the important and growing connection between the two. She addresses the important questions of what genuine mental health is and what practices best support it at many levels, drawing expertly from neuroscience, clinical practice methods, Buddhist philosophy and modern psychological theory. As a clinician, researcher and long-time meditator, she has a unique perspective in the quest to connect the dots between dharma and modern psychology.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Tibetan Buddhist Dzogchen Teacher

This book is awesome. I have waited a long time for someone to articulate this at the level of resolution that you are doing referent to all the various dharma streams. Thank you for writing your groundbreaking book bringing the conversation about the classical Dharma world and its relationship to genuine mental health to this next level. I hope it is widely read and studied.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Writer and Meditation Teacher

Effortless Mindfulness is the real deal! It skillfully provides the most comprehensive and authentic approach to integrating Buddhist teachings with contemporary therapeutic principles and the most relevant psychosocial and cognitive neurobiological research. From across schools of Buddhism and secular adaptations of mindfulness, Lisa Dale Miller is able to weave together the common threads that provide relevant theory on the nature of suffering and the methods of mental training that can lead to a sustainable healthy mind in the most practical way. Clinicians, scholars, and practitioners alike will find this book to be a valuable resource for his or her own personal journey and for the field of contemplative science.

David Vago, PhD

Research Associate Professor
Vanderbilt Brain Institute

Resources

What learning resources does Lisa offer?

I am offering new learning content on the Buddhist Psychology Podcast. To learn more about my clinical work with patients visit my website.

How can I access Lisa's dharma talks?

Recordings of recent dharma talks can be heard on the Groundless Ground Podcast.The complete catalogue of old dharma talks can be accessed on my clinical website.

How can I access the book?

The book can be purchased on Amazon

Contact

Lisa Dale Miller  LMFT, LPCC, SEP

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