Awaken your mind

Selene Calloni Williams is back in Risveglia la Tua Mente. Trasforma la sofferenza in armonia ed equilibrio (written in Italian, Awaken your mind. Transforming suffering into harmony and balance), published by Piemme and available from 16 June 2026 in the main physical and online bookstores. The volume proposes an itinerary of meditation and awareness to face the difficulties of everyday life with greater balance.

The book starts from the idea that serenity should not be sought outside, but rediscovered within oneself, beyond noise, stress and automatic reactions. 

 

With over forty years of study and practice of Buddhist meditation and her Theravada monastic experience, the author translates the teachings of the tradition into accessible exercises applicable to everyday life.

 

The path follows the Satipatthana, based on the four foundations of awareness: body, sensations, emotions and mental obstacles. 

 

The goal is not to avoid pain or repress the most difficult moods, but to learn to recognize them and go through them without letting themselves be dominated by them.

The reader is guided to observe what happens without judgment, to bring attention back to the body and to understand how pleasant or unpleasant sensations can affect behaviors and decisions. Anger, fear and sadness thus become experiences to be welcomed and transformed, while the observation of one's own mental patterns helps to identify the dynamics that fuel stress and suffering.

 

"Sammasati, right mindfulness is that ability to constantly remember the impermanent and impersonal nature of everything, which allows us to stay present in the flow of life's events, whether it's drinking a glass of water 

or falling off a cliff".

 

 

"You are not your anxiety, your distraction, your desire. You are the space that observes them. 

The mind seen becomes transparent.

Emotions, recognized, lose their poison.

Thought, observed, 

it no longer has the power of control".

 

Selene Calloni Williams,

"Awaken Your Mind"

 

The meditations are organized in weekly cycles to encourage gradual and constant practice. Mantras, guiding questions and personal stories accompany the exercises, transforming the volume into a tool to be used actively, as well as a reading dedicated to inner growth.

"Awaken Your Mind" therefore proposes a concrete spirituality, which does not require distancing oneself from one's own existence, but invites one to inhabit it with greater presence, lucidity and harmony.