Universal Meditations: Recipes for a Peaceful Mind

by David Less, Judith M. Allen (Editor), Carol Gaskin (Editor)

Both experienced meditators and total novices can find a rich experience following the meditations in this book. It can be followed as a course or opened and enjoyed anywhere. And for busy people, the many of the meditations take only 10 minutes or less. Experienced meditators understand that even very simple practices such as these can take one very deep.
For beginners... "If you don t understand how meditation works or what it feels like, or if you think that everyone but you knows how to do it, the result is a confused state. Because meditation still seems to have the scent of mystery, or spirituality, or a foreign religion, or prayer, or even of deprivation and denial, people assume that it s not for them or that it s just too challenging to learn.
In this book, I hope to take the actual experience of meditation and bring it out of its exotic orbit into the realm of everyday life as it is lived by each of us, no matter where or how we live, no matter who we are. What I offer here is a series of meditations that anyone can do, so that you, the reader, can have the actual experience of meditation as it takes place inside your mind and inside your body. These meditations, if followed, will help you learn to meditate, and learning meditation will bring to your life something that is often missing in our technological conscious repose of the mind." (From the introduction.)

204 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2009