Ruby Wax's sell out talk based on her new book, "A Mindfulness Guide for the FRAZZLED" was my Hay Highlight on Bank Holiday Monday. With her usual outrageous, over the top, witty style she had the audience performing mindfulness exercises one moment and roaring with laughter the next.
As well as being a comedian and TV writer, Ruby holds a Master's degree in Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University, so she really knows her stuff and this came across. I came out of the tent feeling much less frazzled than when I went in.
"500 years ago no-one died of stress: we have invented this concept and now we let it rule us. Rest has become a dirty word, and our idea of satisfaction is answering the last email. We're sleepwalking through our own lives. Ruby Wax shows us how to wake up from this stupor with a scientific solution to modern problems: mindfulness."
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