The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation: Ancient Skills for Modern Minds

by Joel Levey, Michelle Levey

Joel and Michelle Levey have taught thousands of people around the globe to live in greater harmony and balance. Field-tested and refined over many years, the Leveys' unique approach to stress-mastery and personal development offers step-by-step guidance for developing personal strengths, enhancing the quality of life, and making a real contribution to the world. The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation offers a treasury of the authors' most useful teachings: Waking up throughout the day; finding one's meditation practice and sticking to it; balancing breath, brain, and mind-mastering stress and enhancing performance in every arena of one's life; creative intelligence--the dynamic synergy of active and quiet mind skills; mastery, mystery, and meditation-awakening to one's true nature; and inspired work-relaxation, concentration, and meditation on the job. A vital blend of profoundly practical skills, advice, instruction, and encouragement makes this a complete course for awakening more fully to one's highest potentials in each moment of life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality

232 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started off a little slow but as soon as I got to the meditations it became very enlightening.

[Alison · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this when I was super stressed out planning my wedding last summer. It has a lot of exercises to help calm you down and you you pick it up any time you need a quick relaxation fix. In fact, I spent part of my wedding morning with this book. I love the beginning index of ailments and woes which guides you what exercises are most helpful to relieve those problems. Clearly I still need a lot of help of the concentration part.

[Semi-Academic Eric]

I'm curious to see how this book presents these ideas and exercises in comparison with other more traditional sources of these "fine arts." The title already may provide a bridge in thinking for some. What other helpfulness might this book provide?

[JDK1962]

Abandoned this fairly early on. Chapters leading up to meditations were fairly useless, the meditations themselves are probably fine, but belong on a CD or in a set of MP3s. Maybe I'll come back to this one day, but in the meantime, I have other resources that I can use.

[Mike terry · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far, I really like this book. Lots of meditation and concentration exercises. Looking forward to more of it

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really good book. Each chapter is written by a different person from a different but related profession. They are all insightful. There is, however, one angle of 'listening