A Mindful Nation

By: Tim Ryan

Narrated by: Tim Ryan

All across America, people are feeling squeezed-running faster and faster yet falling farther behind. The economy struggles, wars rage on, and every week brings news of another environmental disaster. Everything seems broken and people feel helpless. Despite this bleak outlook, a quiet hope is emerging throughout the nation. People are beginning to face challenges in a new way-by slowing down, paying attention, and becoming aware of their inner resources. This new way, which is based on the timeless practice of mindfulness and the core American values of self-reliance, determination, and getting the job done, is affecting every sector of society.



In A Mindful Nation, Congressman Tim Ryan connects the dots between what's happening with mindfulness in the classrooms, boardrooms, research labs, and military bases across the country. He explores the scientific findings that support the beneficial effects of mindfulness and shares powerful stories from the field. Ryan also provides tips for how to incorporate mindfulness into your life today. He combines a practical approach with a hopeful vision for how mindfulness can help reinvigorate the American Dream.

Excellent book!

I work in healthcare and it is incredibly evident that people are clueless on how to help themselves with regards to leading a healthy life. Even after experiencing a medical emergency such as a stroke or a heart attack, or kidney failure from diabetes, they maintain the same unhealthy lifestyle, frequently living in a recliner and taking more and more medications that in turn, further stress their already sick bodies. I cannot begin to guess how many homes I have been in where the simple carbs (junk food) proudly displayed on the kitchen counter of a diabetic would rival the selection of a well stocked convenience store. This is what our Western medicine model promotes and supports. I have said for many years now, education must begin in schools with children. Parents are not able to teach their children concepts they themselves do not understand or were probably never exposed to. Unhealthy lifestyles and an inability to regulate emotions are very real problems in society today. It is criminal to be one of the richest countries in the world and yet we feed our young nutritionally deficient food because it is cheaper than good, fresh, nutritious, healthy foods. Shame on those in charge of making policy that supports this model and affects us all. Like Tim says, society cannot continue to support this dysfunctional medical model, the price tag is already prohibitive.

A Mindful Nation

Iwas suprised by the content of the book considering what my limited knowledge of Pau! Ryan was! I found the content and focus of book very tefreshing in this hectic world of internrt speed of and information. It eas a very helpful way to mananage the furious pace of life. in the 21sr century.

Thank you Congressman Ryan!

Tim Ryan (not Paul Ryan) has a unique approach that he brings to government. In a friendly, easy to understand way, Congressman Ryan demonstrates how mindfulness is making positive change to all aspects of our nation. He also shares how we each can incorporate mindfulness into our own lives on a daily basis and make systemic change in our families, communities, as well as the country as a whole.

Tim Ryan for President!

Phenomenal read. I didn't know this guy's name before reading this. Now I adore him.

This Book, Applied, Can Heal A Nation

Confused about what to do in today’s current national unrest? The research and simple tools outlined by Congressman Tim Ryan in this book are practical free healing for America right now! What is revealed in these pages is as ancient as the human mind. Sometimes doing the simplest thing is the hardest thing for humanities compulsion towards complexity. But what lives herein is an invitation to court the simple for the results of togetherness and well-being for all. E Pluribus Unum.

What follows are just a few quotes from this book that I found particularly inspiring and are indicative of the content as a whole:

“A mindful nation is one that reckognizes that compassion can be the foundation of re-capturing the american spirit “—Tim Ryan


“Our society suffers, i think, from an over emphasis on the intellect and an aversion to matters of the heart, as if they were somehow un-American”—Tim Ryan

Karen Armstrong, the great religious scholar, says that what unites all religious faiths is compassion.

Charles Darwin, the man often misquoted to justify the brutality of capitolism said, “Those communities which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic, that is empathetic members, would flourish.”