Summaries of books about Mindfulness & Meditation:
Taking the Leap
Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears
Pema Chödrön
The book provides guidance on embracing life's difficulties and breaking free from destructive patterns through mindfulness and compassion. It offers practical advice on how to cultivate bravery and kindness to transform challenges into opportunities for personal growth.
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The Cow in the Parking Lot
A Zen Approach to Overcoming Anger
Susan Edmiston|Leonard Scheff
The book offers a Zen-inspired approach to managing and understanding anger, using anecdotes, guidance, and practical exercises. It encourages readers to transform their relationship with anger by recognizing its sources and adopting mindfulness and compassion to diffuse stressful situations.
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics
A 10% Happier How-to Book
Dan Harris|Jeffrey Warren|Carlye Adler
The book offers practical advice and a relatable approach to meditation, aiming to debunk myths and overcome the common obstacles that skeptics and restless individuals face when trying to meditate. It includes a variety of meditation techniques and personal anecdotes to help readers integrate mindfulness into their daily lives for improved well-being.
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Stress Less, Accomplish More
Meditation for Extraordinary Performance
Emily Fletcher
The book introduces a meditation technique called Ziva Technique, which combines mindfulness, meditation, and manifesting to reduce stress and improve performance. It provides practical guidance and tools to help readers integrate this practice into their busy lives to enhance productivity, creativity, and overall well-being.
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Catching the Big Fish
Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition
David Lynch
The book offers insights into the author's personal experiences with Transcendental Meditation and its influence on his creative process. It blends autobiographical anecdotes with philosophical musings on the interplay between consciousness, creativity, and the pursuit of artistic fulfillment.
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How to Relax
Thich Nhat Hanh
The book provides guidance on practicing mindfulness to achieve relaxation, offering techniques and insights to help readers reduce stress and improve their overall well-being. It emphasizes the importance of being present in the moment and includes simple exercises to incorporate mindfulness into daily life.
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A Walk in the Wood
Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh
Joseph Parent
The book combines the beloved characters from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories with principles of mindfulness and meditation. It offers lessons on how to live more fully and happily by embracing the present moment, using Pooh and his friends' adventures as a guide for personal growth and inner peace.
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Soulful Simplicity
How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
Courtney Carver
The book advocates for a minimalist lifestyle, encouraging readers to declutter their lives, both physically and mentally, to focus on what's truly important. It provides practical advice on how to reduce stress, improve relationships, and find more happiness by embracing simplicity and letting go of excess.
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The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness
Michael Brown
The book guides readers through a 10-week program designed to cultivate present moment awareness by addressing unresolved emotional issues from the past. It combines meditation and breathing practices with introspective tasks to heal emotional pain and transform the reader's experience of life.
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Strength in Stillness
The Power of Transcendental Meditation
Bob Roth
The book provides an introduction to Transcendental Meditation (TM), explaining its benefits for stress reduction, clarity of mind, and improved health. It offers personal stories, scientific research, and straightforward guidance on how to integrate this form of meditation into daily life for greater calm and resilience.
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