A while back I finished a book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever you go there you are – Mindfulness Mediation in Everyday Life. I love Jon’s low key style. The book which consists of very short chapters, most of them only a few pages long, covers different aspects of mindfulness and meditation. There are also practices [...]
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Finding Your Howl
As I mention in Lightworker I woke up one morning and had two words ringing in my head. The first one, ochoa, is Basque and means wolf. That did not ring any bell back then but today it makes sense. I came across Finding Your Howl over at ChangeThis.
To find our howl we have to [...]
Mindfulness for Beginners
Mindfulness for Beginners is a set with two CD’s with Jon Kabat-Zinn, each CD lasts around 70 minutes. The first CD is an introduction to mindfulness, awareness and to MBSR, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The second CD has five guided meditations.
The first CD has sessions about:
• The only moment we have
• What is mindfulness
• Awareness, a sixth sense
• Being present [...]
Arriving at your own Door
I am reading Arriving at your own Door – 108 lessons in mindfulness by Jon Kabat-Zinn. The book consists of qoutes (verses) that are compiled from Coming to our senses: Healing ourselves and the world through mindfulness. On the back of the book it says:
A quiet trust in awareness sometimes requires inspiration and gentle reminders. [...]
A New Earth
I have not yet read the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, have browsed it but did not connect with it. Today I came across A New Earth at Oprah’s Book Club. It says:
Now you can hold A New Earth in the palm of your hand. Download webcast videos, audio files or transcripts and [...]
What is Zen?
I have read the book What is Zen? by Alan Watts. The book contains a selection of Alan’s talks and the four parts are about:
• A simple way, A difficult way
• Zen reconsidered
• Space
• Zen mind
I like the book, it is easy to read yet it makes you think and feel. My purpose with buying the book was to [...]
The Power of Your Other Hand
I am reading a book whose full title is The Power of Your Other Hand: A Course in Channeling the Inner Wisdom of the Right Brain. On the back of the book it says:
Through the exercises in this book you can discover the power that lies hidden in your other hand. The exercises will help [...]
Read one book a week
Nick Cernis has a post over at Put Things Off titled The Challenge: Read One Book a Week. I love reading but it goes up and down, I do not stick to any regular reading pace. The challenge is interesting and it can be done.
Nick gives 5 tips to become a regular reader:
1. Learn to [...]
Do Less, Achieve More
I have finished Do Less, Achieve More by Chin-Ning Chu. The subtitle is Discover the hidden power of giving in. The book is divided into three parts, each one dealing with one of the three secrets which are:
Fine-tune your actions
Put your mind at ease
Discover the divine power
Under finetuning your actions is a list of 18 [...]
The Manifestation Wheel
I have finished a really interesting book titled The Manifestation Wheel: A Practical Process for Creating Miracles written by Alan Seale.
The Manifestation Wheel is made up of eight “houses” or steps: intention, peace, energy, guidance, empowerment, action, surrender, and legacy. Through these eight houses, the Manifestation Wheel offers a process that helps readers create the [...]
