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 [...]
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 [...]
I am reading Arriving at your own Door - 108 lesson sin 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. [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have finished a book written by Eric Harrison and titled The 5-minute Meditator, I like it a lot. It is the perfect book for people who ‘have no time to meditate’. The book has about a dozen ’spot meditations’ lasting from half a minute to five minutes. Short meditations are just as effective as [...]
The Saint The Surfer And The CEO is the third book by Robin Sharma that I have read. This book is about a person’s three final questions:
Did I live wisely?
Did I love well?
Did I serve greatly?
These questions are dealt with while the book’s main character spends time with the saint, the surfer and the CEO.
In [...]
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Discover Your Destiny With The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is labeled “A potent pathway to self-awakening that will help you to live your greatest life and claim the happiness, prosperity and inner peace that you deserve”. The book is written by Robin Sharma, author of The monk who sold his Ferrari.
The Monk is back [...]
