Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health

Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health

Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health

Real Meditation in Minutes a Day: Enhancing Your Performance, Relationships, Spirituality, and Health

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Overview

Got a few minutes? You can:
  • Reduce your stress, even when under pressure
  • Sleep better
  • Get re-energized
  • Think more clearly, and more creatively
  • Reconnect with the people who count on you
  • Learn to recognize and encourage the best in yourself

You know that meditation would probably be good for you, just like you know that you should floss your teeth. First, though, you need the motivation to make it happen. This book, with its jargon--free tone and incredibly simple exercises-little but effective things you can do in just a minute at work, in the car, wherever-will make you want to meditate. You'll realize: it's just a good thing to do. Like flossing--only for your mind.

Real Meditation in Minutes a Day is an easygoing, always-encouraging mental workout buddy, ready to teach and train you. Throughout the book, composite everypersons "Maria" and "Brian" recount their efforts, reinforcing the basics, answering FAQs, and removing common obstacles and quandaries.

With its clear language and exercises that even the busiest of us can find time for, Real Meditation in Minutes a Day can help anyone to make meditation's very real benefits part of everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780861717538
Publisher: Wisdom Publications MA
Publication date: 05/18/2012
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 768 KB

About the Author

Joseph Arpaia, MD, is a psychiatrist in private practice and the medical director of RainRock, a residential facility specializing in the treatment of eating disorders in Eugene, Oregon.

Lobssang Rapgay, PhD, is Director of UCLA's Classical Mindfulness-based Integrative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Anxiety-related Psychosomatic Disorders program.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, and a beacon of inspiration for Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. He has persistently reached out across religious and political lines and has engaged in dialogue with scientists in his mission to advance peace and understanding in the world. In doing so, he embodies his motto, “My religion is kindness.”

Table of Contents


Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth   Dalai Lama     xi
Meditation: What It Is, and How This Book Will Teach You to Do It     xiii
Four practices for developing the five mental qualities
Introduction     3
Centering: Putting Your Awareness into Focus     22
Attending: Developing Your Mind's Flexibility and Warmth     42
Concentrating: Developing Mental Clarity     68
Opening: Experiencing Spaciousness, the Key to Your Creativity     89
Recap: What You Have Learned So Far     110
Applying meditation in your daily life
Health: Strengthening Your Mind-Body-Spirit Connection     120
Performance: Enhancing Your Skills and Your Energy     152
Relationships: Resolving Conflict and Reconnecting with Your Loved Ones     174
Spirituality: Increasing the Experience of Love in Your Life     196
Overview: Bringing Basic Meditation Techniques into Your Daily Life     221
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