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Meditation
In order to be successful at meditation, each person must discover their own individual approach. These books reflect a wide variety of methods and a wide variety of spiritual traditions. Both beginning and advance practitioners will find something to benefit them. To order, just click on the highlighted book titles!
A Circle of Stones:
Journeys and Meditations for Modern Celts
by Erynn Rowan Laurie
This book walks the reader through the history, culture, and beliefs of the ancient Celts and gives instructions for creating the "na gcloch machnamh", the stones of contemplation, a sort of Celtic rosary used as a meditation aid. Daily meditations are provided (in English and Gaelic) to allow the student to connect with the various mystical elements of the Celtic world.
The Best Guide to Meditation
by Victor N. Davich
This book explains what meditation is and what it isn't; traces meditation's religious, therapeutic, and new age origins; explores meditation practices around the world; teaches novice, intermediate, and advanced techniques; and helps customize one's personal meditation program.
Goddess Meditations
by Barbara Ardinger
Bring the presence of the Goddess into your daily spiritual practice with this book which includes 73 unique guided meditations created for women and men who want to find a place of centeredness and serenity.
How to Meditate:
A Guide to Self-Discovery
by Lawrence LeShan (available in cassette also)
This easy-to-follow and realistic approach allows you to bring meditation effortlessly into your life, no matter how busy you are, or how great the demands on your time are. Specific programs and exercises provide proven, practical tools for you to begin your journey and explore the many revealing paths of meditation.
Journey of Awakening:
A Meditator's Guidebook
by Ram Dass
Ram Dass is an American psychologist and spiritual teacher who has studied and practiced meditation for many years. Here he shares his understanding and explores the many paths of meditation--from mantra, prayer, singing, visualizations, and "just sitting" to movement meditations such as tai chi--and suggests how you can find methods suitable for you.
The Long Road Turns to Joy:
A Guide to Walking Meditation
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Thich Nhat Hanh teaches his well-known method of "walking just for walking." Learn to enjoy each step, each breath, the blue sky, and the many sights and fragrances along the path. In his inspiring commentary, Thich Nhat Hanh reveals how this simple practice has helped him regain peace and serenity in difficult moments.
Meditation : A Simple Eight-Point Program
for Translating Spiritual Ideals into Daily Life
by Eknath Easwaran
Eknath Easwaran's practical Eight-Point Program offers specific, systematic tools to sharpen concentration, deal effectively with stress, release deep reserves of energy, and transform anger and other destructive emotions.
Meditation Made Easy
by Lorin Roche
This book offers simple exercises to awaken the mind to sensory experiences and to help achieve the benefits of relaxation: better mood, enhanced ability to concentrate, lower blood pressure, a sense of well-being.
Meditation Secrets for Women:
Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace
by Camille Maurine, Lorin Roche
Meditation fills a need that women crave: to carve out time for themselves "to rest, to restore, to settle in." Rather than impose rules and strict discipline, however, the authors encourage women to rejuvenate themselves, open up, and affirm their "womanness" through meditation.
The Meditative Mind:
Varieties of Meditative Experience
by Daniel P. Goleman, Ram Dass (available in cassette also)
For beginners and experienced students of meditation, this program explores the distinct levels of consciousness achieved by practicing a variety of meditative techniques adapted for modern life.
Science of Being and Art of Living:
Transcendental Meditation
by Mahesh Yogi, Maharishi Mahesh
In this landmark book, the world-renowned teacher Maharishi Mahesh Yogi unfolds his vision for bringing life to fulfillment through a simple, effortless technique that can be practiced by anyone. Transcendental Meditation is practiced by 1.5 million people in North America.
The Spirited Walker:
Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection
by Carolyn Scott Kortge
This book encourages readers to zone into the exercise through mindful walking. Like yoga, spirited walking is a form of meditation in motion, offering physical rewards as well as mental and spiritual benefits. Topics include breath work, affirmations, how to structure a meaningful walking routine, maintaining motivation, and embarking on a walking pilgrimage.
Sweat Your Prayers:
Movement As Spiritual Practice
by Gabrielle Roth
Complete with personal stories and interactive exercises, "Sweat Your Prayers" reveals an ancient and contemporary method for unleashing a natural sense of movement, resulting in both personal power and presence of the soul.
Wherever You Go There You Are:
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
To Kabat-Zinn, meditation is important because it brings about a state of "mindfulness," a condition of "being" rather than "doing" during which you pay attention to the moment. In brief, rather poetic chapters, he describes different meditative practices and what they can do for the practitioner.
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