Secrets of Meditation Revised Edition: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace and Personal Transformation

by Davidji

Overview

Updated with new resources, techniques, and research, davidji’s revised Secrets of Meditation shares the wisdom of the ages in order to help you unlock your own personal journey with meditation, powerful intentions, and practical rituals for your everyday life. Whether you are new to meditation, a crisis meditator, or someone who has been meditating for years, Secrets of Meditation will take your practice, and your life, to the next level. In this insightful guide, davidji shares his own meditative path to awakening and explores the impact meditation can have on your physical health, relationships, emotional well-being, and spiritual life. By demystifying rigid commandments and revealing the five greatest myths of meditation, davidji will have you meditating in minutes and living a happier, easier, and more fulfilling life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401953089
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	03/07/2017
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David is an internationally recognized stress-management expert, corporate trainer, meditation teacher, and author of the critically acclaimed destressifying: The Real-World Guide to Personal Empowerment, Lasting Fulfillment, and Peace of Mind. After a 20-year career in business, finance, and mergers and acquisitions, davidji began a new journey to wholeness, which he found through meditation. He apprenticed under Drs. Deepak Chopra and David Simon, serving as the Chopra Center COO, Lead Educator and then as the first Dean of Chopra Center University, training more than 200,000 people to meditate and certifying more than 1,000 meditation teachers. David is a certified Vedic Master, and every month, throughout the world, he hosts empowerment workshops, life-change immersions, exotic spiritual retreats, and teacher trainings. He is the developer of the Blue Courage Awareness Training curriculum, which empowers police throughout the U.S., and teaches them present-moment life tools in their quest for safety, nobility, resilience and guardianship. His teachings on stress release, conflict resolution, and mindfulness are now practiced in some of the largest precincts and police academies in the country. He lives in Carlsbad, CA, and you can visit him online at davidji.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword David Simon xi

Preface xiii

Part I Awakening to New Possibilities 1

Chapter 1 Searching for the Guru 5

Chapter 2 What Is Meditation, and Why Should I Care? 29

Chapter 3 The Benefits of Meditation 45

Chapter 4 Higher States of Consciousness 65

Part II Many Paths to One-Ness 75

Chapter 5 Secrets of Bodymind Meditation 79

Chapter 6 Secrets of Visual Meditation 85

Chapter 7 Secrets of Sound Meditation 95

Chapter 8 Secrets of Energy Meditation 113

Chapter 9 The Five Secrets of the SweetSpot 131

Chapter 10 Secrets of Sensory Meditation 147

Chapter 11 Secrets of Buddhist Meditation 163

Chapter 12 Secrets of Mantra Meditation 177

Chapter 13 Secrets of Chanting Meditation 203

Part III Further Along the Path 209

Chapter 14 Experiences in Meditation 211

Chapter 15 The Five Myths of Meditation 223

Chapter 16 Cultivating a Daily Meditation Practice 231

Chapter 17 Frequently Asked Questions 243

My intentions 249

My Meditation Experiences 253

Afterword 257

Reading 259

In Gratitude 261

About the Author 267

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