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Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation: A 28-Day Program
Published by HighBridge Audio
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About this audiobook
Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our habits of self-judgment. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. Meditation opens the door to real and accessible happiness.
There is no better person to show a beginner how to harness the power of meditation than Sharon Salzberg, one of the world’s foremost meditation teachers and spiritual authors. Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society, author of Lovingkindness, Faith, and other books, Ms. Salzberg distills 30 years of teaching meditation into a 28-day program that will change lives. It is not about Buddhism, it’s not esoteric—it is closer to an exercise, like running or riding a bike. From the basics of posture, breathing, and the daily schedule to the finer points of calming the mind, distraction, dealing with specific problem areas (pain in the legs? falling asleep?) to the larger issues of compassion and awareness, Real Happiness is a complete guide. It explains how meditation works; why a daily meditation practice results in more resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance; and gives twelve meditation practices, including mindfulness meditation and walking meditation. An extensive selection of FAQs cover the most frequent concerns of beginners who meditate—“Is meditation selfish?” “How do I know if I’m doing it right?” “Can I use meditation to manage weight?”
Includes guided meditations.
There is no better person to show a beginner how to harness the power of meditation than Sharon Salzberg, one of the world’s foremost meditation teachers and spiritual authors. Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society, author of Lovingkindness, Faith, and other books, Ms. Salzberg distills 30 years of teaching meditation into a 28-day program that will change lives. It is not about Buddhism, it’s not esoteric—it is closer to an exercise, like running or riding a bike. From the basics of posture, breathing, and the daily schedule to the finer points of calming the mind, distraction, dealing with specific problem areas (pain in the legs? falling asleep?) to the larger issues of compassion and awareness, Real Happiness is a complete guide. It explains how meditation works; why a daily meditation practice results in more resiliency, creativity, peace, clarity, and balance; and gives twelve meditation practices, including mindfulness meditation and walking meditation. An extensive selection of FAQs cover the most frequent concerns of beginners who meditate—“Is meditation selfish?” “How do I know if I’m doing it right?” “Can I use meditation to manage weight?”
Includes guided meditations.
Editor's Note
Ease into a meditation practice…
Audiobooks are a great way to ease into a meditation practice, and for anyone who works best on a deadline this guide provides concrete benchmarks. The author packs this 28-day plan with everything the most practical participant needs to incorporate meditation into their lives.
Reviews for Real Happiness
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the best guide to meditation I have ever read, and has been of great help to me in learning to meditate. It has simple, clearcut directions on how to meditate, which is not something I have been able to find heretofore. It also has specific meditations, audio downloads, and Q/A sections that address questions about meditation, from the purely practical to the metaphysical -- like why meditate.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5DESPITE the title, it's a very useful and enlightening book. Actually, it puzzles me why authors go for such catchy titles (the same with Dan Harris's "10% Happier...", another good book), when it should have been simply "Practical Guide to Mindfulness Meditation" or even the subtitle of this book - "The Power of Meditation". Whether "real happiness" comes or not it's up to the reader and practitioner. But that's not the point. The point is that this a terrific guide to meditation. The author was mentioned in Dan Harris's book and I am glad I took notice and read it. The book comes with a CD and that was helpful too.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Coming from the heart, goes to the heart! thank you!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I struggled to rate this book, it's very repetitive many times the author uses the exact same text 3 times which began to wear on my nerves. Not the kind of thing that you want to happen when you're reading a book designed to increase your happiness, so I planned on rating this 2 stars, but the final quarter of the book on loving kindness was so good that I bumped it up to 3 stars. The audio extras also make the book deserving of a three star rating.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent book by Sharon Salzberg.Two take-home messages: - Metta (Lovingkindness) meditation is powerful - A daily practice is essential.Kindle ebook includes a link to download the MP3 files for Sharon's guided meditations which are included with the book as a CD.