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

by Joseph Arpaia, Lobsang Rapgay

Got a few minutes? You

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 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.

Genres: Meditation, Buddhism

244 pages, Paperback

First published May 28, 2008

Reviews

[Tamzin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is very much nuts-and-bolts meditation, not a spiritual lesson. That could be off-putting if you are seeking spiritual guidance. However, it is a good primer for the practical, everyday use of meditation. It helped me learn to center very quickly. I read other books for the more spiritual/emotional side of Buddhism.

[Morgan (Turbo) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well I don’t think I’m going to pick up this book again. I started this in 2016!? There are some practices but it is repetitive. Maybe something to reference in the future but I would not recommend this book.

[Steve Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is in human nature that deep sense of seeking, we all have it though most will not recognize it and continue to salve the agitation with driven activity fueled by the assumptions that the answers lie elsewhere other than within. This inevitably leads to some point in most people when they realize that things are not right. That realization often comes to their attention as a particular problem or difficulty. Some end up looking to meditation for the solutions. It is the means definitely but not the end. Many who arrive at this point approach through Buddhism and some are lost because the method is wrapped in the understandings and philosophy, the way of life that forms the underpinning substance of practice. The kernel of the method is often obscured by language, cultural differences and peculiarity.

This book strips away all of that and presents the method in a clear and simple way without any of the dogma or religious attachments. It draws on the basic techniques common to any Buddhist practice and combines them with some basic understanding of cognitive psychology. It is no less potent for that. It gives an easy way in that anyone can follow in a way that seems natural. It fits the assumptions that underlie western life. Once the benefits begin to kick in any exposure to Buddhist teaching will click immediately, in that way it may provide a starting point for those whose practice unfolds in that way. It will be helpful to anyone and no further frills would be required to make it work and work well as a better and more practical way of living. A great book of benefit to anyone whether they have familiarity with meditation already or not. It would be a useful addition to any school curriculum and the toolbox of any counselor who ends uo seeing those who get to a point where the old approaches to life just aren't working any more.