Selene Calloni Williams’ new book offers a practical path inspired by the Buddhist tradition, guiding readers to transform suffering into harmony, balance and inner freedom.
Selene Calloni Williams returns with Risveglia la Tua Mente. Trasforma la sofferenza in armonia ed equilibrio — in English, Awaken Your Mind. Transforming Suffering into Harmony and Balance — published by Piemme and available from June 16, 2026, in leading bookshops and online retailers.
The book offers a path of meditation and awareness designed to help readers face the difficulties of everyday life with greater clarity, balance and presence. At its heart lies a simple yet radical insight: serenity is not something to be searched for outside ourselves. It is already present within us, often hidden beneath mental noise, stress, fear and automatic reactions.
Drawing on more than forty years of study and practice in Buddhist meditation, as well as her experience as a Theravada Buddhist nun, Selene translates ancient teachings into accessible exercises, guiding questions, mantras and practices that can be integrated into daily life.
The journey follows the Satipatthana, the way of the four foundations of mindfulness: body, sensations, emotions and mental obstacles. The aim is not to escape pain or repress difficult inner states, but to recognise them, move through them and transform them without being overwhelmed.
As the author writes:
You are not your anxiety, your distraction, your desire. You are the space that observes them.
The meditations are arranged in weekly cycles, encouraging a gradual and consistent practice. Personal stories accompany the exercises, turning the book into a living tool: not only something to read, but something to experience, inhabit and bring into the body and the breath.
Awaken Your Mind offers a grounded form of spirituality, one that does not ask us to step away from life, but to enter it with greater presence, lucidity and harmony. It is an invitation to rediscover, at the very heart of existence, a path of awareness and deep transformation.
Selene Calloni Williams is an author, documentary filmmaker and founder of Imaginal Academy, an international academy of counselling and coaching. A scholar of Buddhist meditation, esoteric yoga, shamanism and depth psychology, she has published several books with Piemme (Mondadori).
She also leads Enlightenment Journeys, immersive experiences in sacred places around the world, where nature, beauty and spirituality become part of a broader path of personal growth and inner awakening.