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A review by lisannedewolff
Calm: Calm the Mind. Change the World by Michael Acton Smith
3.0
I‘d say only pick up this book if you want to get a very base understanding of mindfulness and some tips and tricks to see if it’s your cup of tea and then go out to buy a book on the topic that’s a lot more informative and detailed.
That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy it, because I quite like having all the tips and exercises (basic as they are) bundled in one book I can easily pick up and leaf through again and again.
There’s also a number of interactive pages with your average, but enjoyable mindful activities (e.g. an adult colouring page) that I’m excited to work on.
Some of the pages are aesthetically pleasing, but others cringed me out a bit and had a very high “cheesy Tumblr quote” level that 16-year-old me would have been all over.
All in all, even though this book didn’t really give me a lot of new information on the topic of mindfulness, I do feel inspired to go out and press flowers, explore nature, improve my sleeping schedule, and in general embrace my imagination and childlike excitement even more than I do now.
That’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy it, because I quite like having all the tips and exercises (basic as they are) bundled in one book I can easily pick up and leaf through again and again.
There’s also a number of interactive pages with your average, but enjoyable mindful activities (e.g. an adult colouring page) that I’m excited to work on.
Some of the pages are aesthetically pleasing, but others cringed me out a bit and had a very high “cheesy Tumblr quote” level that 16-year-old me would have been all over.
All in all, even though this book didn’t really give me a lot of new information on the topic of mindfulness, I do feel inspired to go out and press flowers, explore nature, improve my sleeping schedule, and in general embrace my imagination and childlike excitement even more than I do now.