Publisher's Synopsis
This book as a guide to "Meditation" is addressed to all those interested in such issues as self-improvement, efficiency, stress resistance, adequate understanding of the situation and the ability to assess it. This book is also intended for those who want to reveal their abilities, determine their inner potential and master certain skills in this area. Whatever your motivation, you will find that the ideas and techniques presented in selection are just such that they can really easily be incorporated into our lifestyle, while maintaining a sense of the depth and sacredness of the art of inner personal development. I invite you to look at these ideas from both the mind and the senses, test them and make sure they are practical on the test playground of everyday life, work and relationships.
If, first of all, you are interested in the technique of relaxation of the body or the ability to maintain concentration, calmness and composure of consciousness in the midst of the chaos of everyday life, then many of these techniques will be extremely useful for you. If exploring the nature and capabilities of your mind and body is important to you, here are techniques to deepen this understanding. If a qualitative change in your mental and physical activity, building healthy and harmonious relationships is important for you, on the pages of this book you can become familiar with strategies that can help you understand these areas as well. And if your approach to the practices is purely religious in nature, or you are driven by a sincere desire to deepen your spiritual understanding, or to awaken in yourself such a feeling as compassion, many of the practices proposed here will become a real engine for you that will help you transform your mind and heart to discover new dimensions of wisdom, delight, love and inner strength.
Each of the chapters in this book is a description of a different form of meditation; starts with an introductory part and contains recommendations for using the methods presented in it; Finally, a description of the practice itself is given. As you read the book, we recommend that you check off the ideas and exercises that you feel are most relevant to your interests.
When you understand what exactly you need and what you want to do, start reading the practice slowly and thoughtfully. Then, slowly, try to understand what kind of feelings and what meaning are peeking between the lines. You may find it helpful if a friend of yours reads the exercise description out loud to you. Or you yourself can record it on a voice recorder and sometimes listen to it. You can change our vocabulary and vocabulary to better suit your style. When you get to know more deeply technicians - you will learn to mentally go through the various stages of the process without oral or written cheat sheets. At first, you will mentally repeat the instructions for the exercises to yourself, but gradually the automatic skill of doing the exercise will develop as a movement from one level of awareness to another, from one image or feeling to another, and not just as a transition from one verbal instruction to another.
