Introduction -- Personal view -- How meditation affects the body -- Inner self -- Why Meditate? -- Many paths to enlightenment -- Transcendental meditation -- Starting to meditate -- Creating sacred spaces -- Getting Off The Ground -- Posture -- Alternative postures and hand positions -- Breath of life -- Active and passive meditation -- Mindfulness -- Simple meditations -- Focusing on inanimate objects -- Relaxing your body -- Warm up -- How to achieve deep relaxation -- How to centre yourself -- Meditation in motion -- Holistic Healing -- Self-healing and healing others -- Planetary healing -- Working with the chakras -- Healing light -- Four elements -- Becoming self-aware -- Celestial bodies -- Visualization -- What is visualization? -- First steps in visualization -- Heal your life -- Building the future -- Improving your self-image -- Setting yourself goals -- Seeking help -- Desert island -- Secret hopes and aspirations -- Inner sanctuary -- Path To Inner Peace -- Mantras for meditation -- Music for meditation -- Chakras and the sephiroth -- Clearing negative emotions -- Pathworking -- Celestial court -- Past life regression -- Power Of Positive Thinking -- Affirmations -- Meditations for different moods -- Colour therapy -- Relationships-cutting the ties -- Index.
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From the Publisher: Practiced throughout the world for thousands of years, meditation has become increasingly popular. Today, everyone from holistic healers and spiritual teachers to overworked mothers, stressed-out students, and caffeinated businesspeople are taking the time to engage in mindful contemplation. Harnessing the power of meditation-or mind training-offers many benefits both mental and physical. How to Meditate uses a friendly, heavily illustrated approach to make an activity that is both art and science easily comprehensible and infinitely practical. Author Paul Roland describes a full range of strategies and activities, including basic relaxation, breathing techniques, creating a personal sanctuary, visualization, activating the chakras with color, and using affirmations and mantras to help invoke the meditative state.