This perfect gift for runners delves into the positive effect of running therapy, including anxiety relief and reduced stress by focusing on the meditative nature of exercise. This running workbook allows you to practice mindfulness in your everyday routine, whether you prefer an afternoon stroll or a morning jog.  Movement is medicine. Letting your mind wander as you take a long walk, a slow jog, or a brisk run can give you a powerful, uplifting feeling. Some call it a runner’s high, others attribute it to endorphins. In this interactive workbook, psychotherapist William Pullen teaches you how to channel that exhilarating energy and use it to make positive change in your life. This radical new approach to obtaining the benefits of mindfulness originates in the body itself. Using a combination of mindfulness, focused questions, and exercise, Dynamic Running Therapy (DRT) has proven to be a simple, intuitive, effective, and therapeutic method for managing stress, trauma, anxiety, anger, depression, and other conditions. With carefully tailored thought exercises to be implemented while on a run or walk, DRT brings the mind into perfect harmony with the body through the healing experience of mindful running. William Pullen is a psychotherapist registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He practices Integrative therapy and specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, problems of self-esteem and confidence, and substance abuse. He has been featured in publications such as Vogue, The Independent, and GQ. The Journey If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path. Joseph Campbell One Step at a Time Dynamic Running Therapy is not complicated or particularly challenging-it's more about learning a couple of simple but very powerful techniques and embarking on an exploration of who you are. Like most journeys, the important thing is to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Try to practice being mindful of your journey as you continue to move forward-this means being aware of how you experience yourself as you go along. By being aware of your progression on the journey you allow yourself the opportunity to cultivate a more compassionate, gentle and accepting relationship with yourself. Remember, you are not actively changing anything-merely noticing the tone of your inner dialog and meeting whatever you find there with acceptance and patience, letting it pass on by naturally. Often in this busy, overstimulated world of ours, we treat the relationship we have with ourselves as a secondary concern, an afterthought that can be dealt with at some later date. Often we tell ourselves that we will find time to slow down tomorrow, change our diet next week, or work on our self-respect next month. As a result, our relationships suffer as we grow less connected with the world and those around us. When we become aware of who we are we can better reach out to others and enjoy the world more. It sounds simple. It is simple. But it takes a little discipline and a little commitment. In her TED talk, the author Elizabeth Gilbert says of her relationship with her creative inspiration: "I am not the pipeline, I am a mule." She is sharing an understanding that creativity comes from hard work and determination, not by simply making ourselves available. Forming a relationship with yourself is a creative act that requires playfulness, experimentation and, perhaps above all, commitment and hard work. We cannot sit back and expect the world to present itself at our door each morning carrying a divine plan for the day. To embrace life fully and achieve our goals we must take those proactive steps toward them. Sometimes our experiments will fail, but that is all part of the learning process-it is important to fail so that you know you have tried. Sometimes you will hit a dead-end, be it physically, mentally or emotionally, but that's OK; stick with the journey and you will get to where you need to go. It might not end where you thought it would, and it might take longer than you thought it would to get there, but persistence will pay off. If until now you have struggled to face your troubles and insecurities head-on, you are not alone. The very nature of life is that it is a constant stream of change, of victory and loss, of love and betrayal, of birth and death. DRT will help you to engage with and cherish your struggles and triumphs by giving you the space and time to reacquaint yourself with who you truly are. This process does not offer peace and everlasting life-it offers a way to learn to be more accepting of who you are inside and of the things that have already happened to you and will happen to you in the future. It helps you to value what is real in the here and now, not the stories that you tell yourself. It helps you to stop thinking about