The Mindfulness Puzzle Book: Relaxing Puzzles to De-stress and Unwind

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This really is the best book I’ve brought for my mental health. It’s so good I brought my daughter one too. The puzzles are challenging but not to an extent where you need to stress or use to much mind power. I find this so relaxing and really keeps my brain busy if I start to feel not so good or if I’m having a bad day. I couldn’t recommend this book enough it really is fantastic!

I want to start by saying I have severe cognitive impairment due to chronic illness so I still find some of the activities quite challenging. But I thought it would be nice to be able to work my brain without being reminded of how bad my brain is. For me it is not that relaxing but it's a nice thing to keep me occupied for a short time. I like that there's such a big variety, for example word puzzles, number puzzles, mazes, colouring pages and logic puzzles. I try all of them but I don't feel bad about leaving the ones I can't do because the book isn't linear and I don't have to complete a puzzle to move onto the next. The paper is standard book paper, I've been using a pencil but a ballpoint pen would probably be okay too. I want to be able to rub out my mistakes and start over. The solutions are in the back, I'm glad these were included as it still works my brain a bit to read them and see how they got the correct answer. I find some instructions are a bit confusing and vague, but I can usually figure it out in the end. The only downside with the word puzzles in particular is that some very unusual words are used that I've never actually heard of, so I would never have been able to figure out those answers which is quite frustrating. I enjoy this book but it can be frustrating at times. I think it's hard to make a puzzle book suitable for everyone and it's clear the author put a lot of effort into making this book as good as it can be

A gift for a friend undergoing medical treatment. The puzzles are a gentle distraction and give focus and stimulation whilst awaiting a positive outcome.

This book hits the right balance between challenging and relaxing. I enjoy puzzles and find them an absorbing way to unwind. This has a great selection including mazes, spot the difference, colouring, crosswords and more. The paper is very good quality, so if colouring, the ink doesn’t leach through. Highly recommended.

Bought as a gift. Ok, although a lot of the puzzles seem very easy. Presume that if harder then may be not very relaxing! Good variety though. Not sure if the recipient will enjoy. I would probably be a bit disappointed if I had bought this for myself! That said, the quality of the actual book (cover, pages etc.) itself is excellent.

Lovely book with an array of different types of challenges. I like that they are possible to solve for the average person. Takes me for ever mind. I play music in the background found doing these lifted my mood.

I absolutely love this book! I like to do some puzzles before I sleep, it’s great to turn the phone off and unwind. There are plenty of different puzzles and they are a mixture of easy, medium and a bit harder. Brilliant! I’ve bought another for my grandad to keep his mind busy whilst he’s stuck at home.

My daughter and her friend in the boarding. lovvvvvvvvvvved it.

I just love it! help take my mind off things:)

He loves these books, keeps him entertained

This was a present and she loved it - a good array of puzzles inside.

This is great if you like mostly spacial challenges and numeric patterns. It would be good to have great vision too as the simplest connect the dots puzzles are potentially easy if you can read tiny print and have great fine motor skills . If, however, like me you more of a verbal/creative sort who likes crosswords and boggle and have limited fine motor skills or impaired vision, I’d pass. For me this took me way right out of mindfulness into intellectual and physical frustrations. I find mindfulness journals and coloring books more effective. This isn’t a complaint of praise - just practical considerations I wish I’d known prior to purchase.