Meditation: Coming to Know Your Mind

Meditation is a clear, how-to book on meditation, especially aimed at beginners, but also offering an encouraging voice for the long-time meditator looking for inspiration.

In this book, readers will learn:

• How to develop a consistent meditation practice at home and while traveling
• Basic instructions and techniques of meditation
• Instructions for seated (on the floor or in a chair), walking and supine meditation postures
• How to use the breath as an object of meditation
• How to deal with distraction and lethargy in meditation

This book is for those who do not know how to start a practice, or for those people who do not have access to teachers. Using traditional Eastern practices, but aimed at a Western audience, the methods in this book can be utilized on the meditation cushion as well as in daily life when stress and challenges arise.