The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meditation (2nd Edition) |
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| Title: | The Complete Idiot's Guide to Meditation (2nd Edition) |
| Author: | Joan Budilovsky
Eve Adamson |
| Publisher: | Alpha |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 15 November, 2002 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0028644417 / 9780028644417 |
| List Price: | $18.95 |
| You Save: | $4.74 |
| Amazon Price: | $14.21 |
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Product Description
In today's hectic times, it's more important than ever to learn to slow down, relax and be calm. Whether part of religious habit or just part of a daily routine, meditation can help slow the today's frenzied pace and improve feelings of good health, peace and control. In The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Meditation, Second Edition, the authors explain how easy it is to enjoy the benefits of meditation including: simple stress-reduction techniques that make learning to meditate easier; incorporating meditation into day-to-day situations; common misconceptions about meditating; and special techniques from Zen to guided imagery to mindfulness meditation.
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Customer Reviews:
• Too Much Extraneous Clutter For This Beginner
24 May, 2004
There's something paradoxical about the idea of an "Idiot's Guide to Meditation." Describing the outward forms of meditation is easy but describing the subjective experience is harder, as is actually doing the meditating. There's real discipline involved in developing mental focus through meditation. Somehow, with all the jumping around from one topic to another in this book, that seemed to get lost in the mix.Myabe that's where my problems with this book come from. There is so much information given about so many different methods that the basics get buried. The authors throw in various traditions, terminologies, positions, theories, and a few women's magazine quizzes were thrown in, not to mention frequent "Bliss Bytes" and "From A to Om." The book seemed scattered and a little too New Agey for my tastes. Personally, I found Lawrence LeShan's classic "How to Meditate" to be better grounded, more instructive, and a more helpful guide for this idiot.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Book And Reference Guide
18 February, 2005
I checked this book out at the library and enjoyed it so much that I had to buy it for reference. It's packed with good information on all aspects of meditation, including myths, history, a wide variety of practicies and excercises for the beginner as well as the more experienced meditator. I recommend it especially for the beginner.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Information Overload
03 September, 2009
Meditation is "making it simple and clear". This book has all the information you could possibly ever need or want about meditation. Now, to make all that information... simple and clear.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Beyond Meditation
21 July, 2008
It makes me feel like we are all idiots just from reading this book. Meditation has so many benefits that it should make anyone wonder why we aren't all meditating!
Well, until I read this book the answer seemed pretty clear: no time, no patience to sit down, not exactly something pleasing to do, not a suiting lifestyle, etc... This book completely breaks those barriers - it teaches so many techniques and methods that is hard not to find one that will suit you.
It is a great introductory book but takes things much further. Joan and Eve explain things, actually explain them, instead of just saying "Do this", like so many meditation and self-help books. They do rely on some outdated scientific information and should be more cautious when talking about herbs, but that doesn't take any merit from the book (that's not what it is about!). It also has so much information that it may be a little confusing for a beginner, but if you take it slowly it is quite pleasant.
So, if you are looking for a book on meditation this is the one - it will not only teach you and motivate you to meditate, but will make meditation a way of life, putting you in tune with yourself and with the rest of mankind and even the planet (I'm not getting "new-agy" here, the book really has techniques aimed at this kind of objectives).
In one sentence, my review would be "Buy it."
- Amazon Customer Review
• Very Pleased!
20 March, 2009
Ordered this along with TCIG to Short Meditations - again, not too far in, but am very excited to get deeper into the book to learn more about meditations and how to properly use and apply them.
Get this book!!!!
- Amazon Customer Review
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