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by Linda A. Lavid (Author)
101 Ways to Meditate: Discover Your True Self is a primer to illuminate the landscapes within and beyond. Easily explained and specific, 101 Ways to Meditate, supplies a wide selection of processing, imagery, release, and inspirational meditations to make meditative practice life-affirming, insightful and fun. A 31-day journal is also included. Whether to explore metaphysical questions, experience higher awareness, or come to terms with the mystery within, 101 Ways to Meditate serves. About the author: Award-winning author, Linda A. Lavid holds a Master's degree in Social Work and is a certified hypnotherapist with a practice in healing imagery.
Reviews:Five-Star Reviews
From Metapsychology Online Reviews...
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The little book, 101 Ways to Meditate, makes easy and accessible a simple art, which popular opinion and practitioner conceit often renders complex, esoteric, and/or "flaky"--the art of meditation. Linda Lavid offers more than a hundred approaches to a simple practice that ought to be employed universally, due to its benefits to health, intelligence, creativity, and emotional balance. Meditation is often rejected by prospective practitioners, because they become turned off by the spiritual packaging in which meditation lessons are often garbed. The practices taught in this book are attached to no spiritual tradition, and make no promises regarding ethereal results. They are simple and easy to follow. "Just do it and see what happens" is the message of the book.
In keeping with this message, Lavid offers instruction on 101 various forms of mindfulness practices. The broad variety keeps the practice fresh, where interest might otherwise wane before good habits are ingrained. Lavid also supports building a sound practice regimen by including a 31 day journal in the second half of the book.
(c) 2011 Wendy C. Hamblet From Curled Up with a Good Book
EXCERPT:
Would-be buddhas, this is the guide you've been waiting for.
Meditation is the foundation of enlightenment, but even those of us who aren't particularly interested in that can recognize and appreciate the benefits of a steady meditation practice - improved emotional and physical health, increased calm, and a keener ability to accept and deal with the little irritations we encounter every day. If only it weren't such an esoteric endeavor...
Mediation is "relaxing the body, quieting the mind, and having a focus... There is no right or wrong way to meditate."
Now that the pressure is off, we can proceed with any of the 101 techniques Lavid provides. There are processing meditations promoting our ability to receive information from the subconscious and unconscious minds; imagery meditations for two-way communication with the subconscious; release meditations for unlocking emotional issues; and inspirational meditations for connecting with our higher selves. Within each of these categories are specific methods for bringing us closer to a particular focus. A grounding exercise, for example, uses imagery to help us draw healing energy through our bodies, and a stress-reduction exercise uses the release technique to help shed stressors and build a psychic shield.
This little volume is packed with just the basics, including a 31-day journal equipped with inspirational quotes that serves as spirited and indefatigable cheerleaders. Lavid's keep it simple approach is effective and encouraging for anyone who has wondered about meditation but been put off by technical and spiritual tomes. Quick, simple and stripped of pretension, this life-enhancing practice is made easy and practical through 101 Ways to Meditate.
-Deborah Adams, Curled Up with a Good Book
Author Biography
Linda A. Lavid is a writer and painter from western New York. Her work has appeared in the following publications: The Southern Cross Review, Wilmington Blues, Plots with Guns, Unlikely Stories, Ascent Aspirations, A Cruel World, Zimmerzine, Cenotaph, Over Coffee, Tangents, and published by the Haworth Press. A short story, "The Accident", was a finalist in Otto Penzler's Great Mystery Stories of 2003. "DMV", another short story, received an award from Ascent Magazine. Her book, 101 Ways to Meditate: Discover Your True Self, was a finalist in the 2011 Global E-Book Awar
