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    Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days
    Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days
    Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days
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    Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days

    By Peter Holmquist

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    This book is especially designed for people who feel like they have NO time to learn to meditate, or who think that meditation is not for them. Yet it offers a beginner and an experienced meditator hints to make meditation part of a regular practice that can change their life.

    In 1912 a school teacher wrote a book about meditation. In 1985, I read that book and began meditating more intentionally. This book, though brief, is filled with real experience that helps to give the reader a place to put meditation in their day.

    Each of the 10 days, or "chapter," has a focus, one extended example, and hints for that focus.

    You can change your life! You can meditate. It doesn't have to be in a cave or on a mountain, but that is fine too. This book is for you if: you are too busy, you don't like the idea of meditation, your religious tradition never taught you to meditate, and/or you have tried to meditate before - and if you live in this century.

    You can, with this book, begin your lifelong exploration of meditation without breaking up with or breaking out of most of your commitments. The ones that I hope you will release are those that hurt, bind, or wound you. My intention is that even the choice to free yourself of even those hurtful stories or practices will always remain your choice. Your meditation will continue to give you space and tools to make that freedom a conscious, and hopefully, a more simple choice.

    Like the labyrinth, or spiral symbol of the divine from ancient cultures we will be circling in on the goal of meditation for the first six days. The last four days close in on the goal, by offering other ways of meditating, using your awareness of hearing and seeing and finally, breathing.

    I offer it gratis as a resource, in gratitude and love for generosity and love I am receiving and have received. Munay.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPeter Holmquist
    Release dateJun 26, 2015
    ISBN9781311655066
    Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days
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    Peter Holmquist

    Peter Holmquist has practiced meditation since before his first Karate class at age 12. With various interruptions, including two undergraduate universities (for a History BA), travel to Japan and living in England, he kept up a practice. Intermingled with spirituality and prayer, testing a vocation at a monastery, seminary, marriage, and more travel to the Middle East and Africa, his meditations continued. After ten years as a Lutheran pastor, and nearly ten as a public school teacher, meditation is finding an even larger place in his home. Still, three teenage kids, a dog, and another recent move has he and his partner, AmyJo, scheduling intentional moments of time to just sit.

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      Book preview

      Sit - Peter Holmquist

      Sit: Learn to Meditate in 10 Days

      By Peter Holmquist

      Published by Peter Holmquist

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2015 Peter Holmquist

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold,or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Day One - Sit

      Day Two – Don't Pick Up

      Day Three - Rest

      Day Four – Loud Rest

      Day Five - Intention

      Day Six - Empty

      Day Seven - Senses

      Day Eight - Sounds

      Day Nine - Sights

      Day Ten - Breath

      After Notes

      About the Author

      Connect with Peter Holmquist

      Introduction

      Relieve stress! Find happiness and peace! Change your life! All of that and more. You really can do that by learning to meditate and making meditation part of your life.

      This little book is a primer on meditation that comes from more than thirty years of practice and teaching about spirituality, prayer and meditation. But this book is really about learning how (to begin) to do meditation. It is intended only to begin that journey. But there will be some suggestions when we get to the end of 10 days, how you can continue to expand your understanding and practice of how to meditate, to actually make changes which reflect a more full, happier life for you now.

      Q: Why should you listen to me talk about this subject?

      A1: I have been working on meditation (personally and professionally) for thirty-some years.

      I hung out with a bunch of different people in high school. They were different in their religious beliefs. They were all Christian, but if you talked to any of them you would hear them soon disagree with each other. I tried to figure out what the fuss was by reading Christian scripture. I read about prayer. Then I went to a private university owned by a large protestant denomination. I visited a bunch of monasteries and tried living

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