Meditations: Creative Visualization and Meditation Exercises to Enrich Your Life

I am a holistic health counselor and I give this book to all my clients. It is easy to read and the meditations are easy to understand. This is a good book for beginners as well and people who have experience. I love this book and have been using it for years.

THIS REVIEW IS DEDICATED TO GOD,WHO IS,WAS,AND WILL BE....Nigel. I could remember as a young kid wanting to meditate and not having a clue as to what it really is. Looking at television and hearing people's opinions about meditation can be a bit misleading. Firstly,what you see on television,more often than not,is just an exaggeration and can be the use of the camera,as used in movies. Secondly,people tend to have all sorts of myths and negative views about meditation(I am talking about the word "meditation" in general).So say that it is ungodly,others say that it is just wrong,not justifying their reason for their misleading and wrongly concluded comment... I am going to put this as bluntly as I can....Meditation means deep concentration....It is not just going on a classical "lotus position" and making Mantra sounds(ohmmmmmmm)... As you would see in this book and become to understand...In everything we do,we meditate. The problem is how effective we do it. For example:you can watch a televison show and not understand the movie because(more often that not),you were not concentrating on the movie itself,but on other things,for example:what you are going to do after the movie or what is your husband doing or what is the neighbour doing...Am I right? In a busy world as ours we need to learn to give "ourselves" time and space and alot of understanding.(by "ourselves",I mean what is spiritually inside us). Because if what is inside us(spiritually)is not in "order",we can run into alot of mental,spiritual and physical problems. Stress is a big problem in our daily lives and it can be unquestionably Conquered with the simple steps written in this book. We have to also understand that undoubtedly meditation is something that happens inside ourselves and is manifested in our actions,habits,believes. There is so much to know and alot of it is hidden within our hearts and minds.We just need to learn to unlock what needs to be free.We owe ourselves at least half an hour a day to meditate.It does more than you think. It helps to boost your:Confidence Self esteem physical strenght It reduces stress significantly and heart problems. This is the first meditation book for me to get my hands on and it is short and conscise.It contains more information than you might think. And,did I mention,anyone can meditate.You don't have to be strong and healthy or weak and sick,or old or young.You just need to be your self and just let nature and your heart do the rest.. While reading this book you would(I guarantee it)discover parts of "you" that you don't think exists. There is so much I would like to say,but I guess I would just let the book do the rest. This book contains meditation and Visualization techniques. Each exercise is first introduced and discussed,then the reader is lead through the actual meditation. This book is divided into sections: 1)Creating an inner sanctuary(a peaceful,nurtu