Hurry Up and Meditate: Your Starter Kit for Inner Peace and Better Health
David Michie. Snow Lion Publications, $14.95 (179pp) ISBN 978-1-55939-306-5
Michie, David. Hurry Up and Meditate: Your Starter Kit for Inner Peace and Better Health. Snow Lion. 2008. c.126p. pap.HEALTH~A nuts-and-bolts primer recommended for collections whose clientele is seeking basic information on meditation. Background: Michie (Buddhism for Busy People) examines the psychological and physical benefits of meditation in a detailed discussion of how, when, and where to meditate; offers notes on posture and coping with distractions; and introduces techniques, including visualization, breathing variables, and object-focused and mantra meditations. The author addresses the therapeutic uses of meditation in stressful situations, its ability to promote healing during illness, and measuring progress with respect to quality (even quantity!) of life. According to Michie, meditation reveals life's true purpose: ""the self that is subject to no boundaries, that experiences the unity of all, that abides in a state of blissful transcendence.""--James Swanton, Harlem Hosp. Lib., NY.
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Reviewed on: 09/22/2008
Genre: Nonfiction
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