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

Arpaia, Joseph; Rapgay, Lobsang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 086171556X ISBN 13: 9780861715565

Publisher: Wisdom Publications, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Born in northeastern Tibet in 1935, he was as a toddler recognized as the incarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and brought to Tibet's capital, Lhasa. In 1950, Mao Zedong's Communist forces made their first incursions into eastern Tibet, shortly after which the young Dalai Lama assumed the political leadership of his country. In 1959, Chinese forces occupied the city, forcing His Holiness to escape to India. There he set up the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, working to secure the welfare of the more than 100,000 Tibetan exiles and prevent the destruction of Tibetan culture. In his capacity as a spiritual and political leader, he has traveled to more than sixty-two countries on six continents and met with presidents, popes, and leading scientists to foster dialogue and create a better world. In recognition of his tireless work for the nonviolent liberation of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. In 2012, he relinquished political authority in his exile government and turned it over to democratically elected representatives. He is the author of numerous books, including The Good Heart, The Meaning of Life, The World of Tibetan Buddhism, and The Compassionate Life.

Review:

"A readable, engaging, and practical synthesis of Tibetan and Western approaches that alleviate the harmful effects of modern stress." Author: Herbert Benson, author of The Relaxation Reponse

"This book is readable and intelligent, presenting marvelous ways to bring about peace and healing to one's life. I recommend it highly." Author: Jeanne Achterberg, author of Rituals of Healing

About this edition

• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 086171556X
• ISBN 13: 9780861715565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244