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Hurry Up and Meditate: Your starter kit for inner peace and better health
David Michie
For anyone who wants to start meditating but has been struggling to get to the cushion, here are all the motivation and tools you need to achieve greater balance, better health and a more panoramic perspective of life.
Description
If meditation was available in capsule form, it would be the biggest selling drug of all time. It has been scientifically proven to deliver highly effective stress relief, boost our immune systems and dramatically slow the ageing process. It has also been shown to make us much happier and more effective thinkers. Given all the physical and psychological benefits, why aren't more of us doing it?
In this bestselling book, David Michie explains the nuts and bolts of meditation. As a busy professional, as well as long-term meditator, he also gives a first-hand account of how to integrate this transformational practice into everyday life. Combining leading edge science with timeless wisdom, Hurry Up and Meditate provides all the motivation and tools you need to achieve greater balance, better health and a more panoramic perspective of life.
'This is one of the most accessible and relevant books available on meditation. Hurry up and read it!'- Ian Gawler OAM, author of Peace of Mind and Meditation: An in-depth guide
David Michie tells us how his book on meditation is different...
'While there are plenty of instruction manuals telling you how to take your position on a meditation cushion, and suggesting what you might think about – or not think about – when you get there, where meditation books consistently fall down is in addressing the simple question known to every marketer. That question is: what’s in it for me?
'Why should I, the reader, bother with breathing techniques and abstract visualisations when I’m already trying to cram too much into my daily schedule? Show me the scientifically established benefits, physical and psychological. How exactly will meditation make me happier?
'The first few chapters of Hurry Up and Meditate tackle these questions head on. The latest scientific findings are summarised and, in short, these show that if the benefits of meditation were available in capsule form, we’d all be popping them, morning, noon and night. Only after dealing with the ‘why’s’ do we go into the ‘how’s’ of the practice. The book also takes a fairly robust line on integrating meditation into our lives as hurried people. You won’t find any misty pictures of Japanese ornamental lakes in this book; nor so much as a reference to guardian angels. But if it’s a no-nonsense, benefits-focused and practical guide to the subject you’re after, then this is the book for you.'
Buy this book online from Allen & Unwin.
| ISBN: | 9781742374062 |
| Australian Price (inc. GST) | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | 168 |
| Australian Publication | August 2010 |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
