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Meditation: A Beginner's Journey
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Meditation is a proven method to reduce stress, improve sleep, lengthen attention span and lower blood pressure.
Meditation: A Beginner’s Journey outlines different meditation approaches for novices. It also explains how meditation works and why it's doable—and even necessary—for everyone.
This e-book makes full use of extensive interviews with subjects from various meditation paths, and it guides readers toward finding a style and practice that will work for them.
Topics include:
- What “meditation” really means
- Yoga and meditation
- Different meditation styles
- How to get started meditating
- Oprah’s meditation style—and whether it will work for you
- Secrets to meditation success
- Tools to help you meditate
Author
Kat Tancock
KAT TANCOCK has written on health and nutrition for publications including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Flare and Glow and has worked as an editor at major Canadian magazines including Reader's Digest, Best Health and Canadian Living. Currently a freelance writer and consultant specializing in health, fitness, food and travel, she is also new media editor at Food & Drink and a part-time yoga teacher. Follow Kat on Twitter @kattancock, on Tumblr at kattancock.tumblr.com and on Pinterest at pinterest.com/kattancock, and visit her website at kattancock.com.
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Meditation - Kat Tancock
Book Cover
MEDITATION:
A Beginner’s Journey
Kat Tancock
HarperCollins LogoCONTENTS
Introduction
What Is Meditation?
How Meditation Helps
Meditation’s Many Paths
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Yoga
Transcendental Meditation
Loving-Kindness
How to Get Started
Finding a Teacher
Taking a Class
Choosing a Style
Retreats
Finding the Time
Three Practices to Start with Now
Watch Your Breath
Everyday Mindfulness
Be Kind
Tools and Resources
Read
Download
Browse
Listen
Watch
Secrets to Success
Have a Plan
Patience and Commitment
About the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
Introduction
I’m lying in the meditation hall at Travaasa, an experiential resort near Austin, Texas, wrapped in two blankets to ward off the early-morning chill. I’m still resonating from the chant we started the session with as I listen to the voice of Jennifer, our meditation teacher, leading us through a simple exercise of scanning and relaxing the body, then focusing on our inhales and exhales. We begin with a mantra, repeating the Sanskrit syllables so and ham as the breath goes in and out, and place hands on belly and chest to ground ourselves as we breathe even deeper. And despite a tickly throat that tries hard to distract me, I feel a sense of peace radiating from my chest and through my whole body.
After slowly emerging from our meditation, we repeat three oms, stand and stretch, and I’m struck by how calm and mentally refreshed I feel—a far cry from my typical start to the day, reading email and checking Twitter before I’m even awake. And I tell myself that this feeling is worth it, that I’ll start meditating regularly when I’m home, to bring this serenity into every morning.
Almost a year later, I’m in a seated meditation at Toronto’s 889 Yoga, part of the Sunday-afternoon restorative yoga class. I had chosen this particular class to be with a friend recovering from illness, but the truth is, both of us would have picked a physically demanding vinyasa class instead, had she been up to it. And while I’m trying to focus on my breath, everything else is grabbing my attention—including guilt about this being my first meditation class since my visit to Travaasa, despite stellar intentions. And instead of setting myself up to fail once again,
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