Meditations on Everything Under the Sun: The Dance of Imagination, Intuition and Mindfulness

Teaching English last year in Japan was a fascinating, challenging and stressful experience. In packing our bags for the year in a foreign culture, I decided to include Margo Adair's book because it seemed to cover all the emotional and spiritual bases a person might need! Indeed, it became my Bible, a touchstone that I read almost everyday. It kept me grounded, resilient and joyful during some strange, alien and demanding circumstances. Margo isn't a flashy flavour-of-the-month mantra mamma - she's been inspiring and assisting people and groups for decades. This book speaks to anyone who wants to get in better touch with themselves and learn from the wisdom within us all.

I have tried different types of meditation over the years with limited success. Basically, I either get bored, tired or spaced out. That is, until I picked up a copy of "Meditations on Everything Under the Sun" and read about apllied meditation.Applied Meditation?It is a meditation based on getting what you need based on tapping your unconscious and listening to it/changing it through this kind of meditation. I found it personally transformative working on my own issues of anger and relationships and my relationships to illness. But really, whatever is bugging you, there is a meditation for you. Basically you relax and then read (aloud or to yourself) the meditation that most interests you, be it based on social justice, stress or getting unstuck. For me, it truly works, and truly shows me what I can change within myself. Another aspect of the book I truly enjoyed was the beginning discussion on consciousness and spirituality. Ms. Adair makes a good case for an interconnectedness between all people and the planet, and speaks eloquently about tapping into those connections in a beneficial way for yourself and the world. All in all, it is a great resource book and a transformative read.

Buy two copies. One to lend out and one to keep. One of the best books I've read.

This book is sooo great it should come in a small size to carry around in your pocket! It can be a reference book for a moment, a day or your life. It's enthralling, simple, straightforward and totally useful for transformation! Margo brings the power of meditation to a working high that can be applied directly to our daily walk. Read it! It can change your life!

In this volume, Margo Adair demonstrates with quiet brilliance the intelligence of intuition, imagination and emotion. Not only does she teach her readers about Active and Receptive imagination, and the observing Witness, she does so in a voice that comes from her own deep intuitive knowledge. Adair carefully draws out the links between imagination, intuition and psychic ability. She shows how to contact, learn to trust, and work with this knowledge.The heart of this book lies in the 157 meditations. Each meditation is carefully considered, and exhibits a deep respect for those who work with them. Her words are warm and comforting, even when dark or painful material is being pursued. Whether being used for yourself, with clients or with a group, the meditations provided in this invaluable volume are a terrific resource - to be used as written, or as Adair suggests, to be intuitively altered as needed.