Meditation, says Lorin Roche, has been held captive by gurus and overly restrictive spiritual traditions for centuries. It should be one of life’s great pleasures – to be savoured like ice cream or a cold beer on a hot summer day. You don’t have to sit in an awkward position or empty your mind or relinquish desire to meditate, claims Roche. Here he offers startlingly simple techniques to wake up the senses and relax the body and mind. With this amazingly clear and reassuring guide, anyone can learn to meditate. ]]> http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780062515421/Roche,-Lorin-MEDITATION-MADE-EASY-.html Fri, 04 Jul 2008 59:07:01 GMT http://www.ebooksabouteverything.com/ebooks/item/parent-9780062515421/Roche,-Lorin-MEDITATION-MADE-EASY-.html
The author takes you, the reader, on a spiritual journey. This journey begins with his first encounter with a medium named Carl Hewitt. In this book, he chronicles how his awareness and understanding of the Gifts of Spirit have affected his life.

The Zen of Resume Writing for Formerly Incarcerated Persons provides helpful resume writing techniques, basic cover letter writing, interviewing skills, and job search tips. In addition, the resource identifies meditation techniques to help resume creators maintain a calm mind and body in preparation for resume writing.

The Zen of Resume Writing gives the reader an understanding of how the principles of Zen Buddhism can not only aid in resume writing, but help relieve suffering in daily life. The Zen of Resume Writing helps readers awaken awareness, compassion, wisdom, happiness, and enlightenment by providing peaceful meditations. The resource includes the techniques of sitting meditation, stress reduction meditation, walking meditation, and other meditations to calm and unclutter the mind, and allows the reader to practice getting in touch with the true nature of the mind.

Why use meditation? Research has shown that meditation may benefit the body by stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system. The parasympathetic nervous system controls the "rest and digest" response in the body which is a system that slows the heart and breathing rate, and causes the blood vessels to dilate thus improving blood flow.

'What are you doing?' he asked Rumi.

'You see this pouch of mine,' Rumi said. 'This pouch has magical dust powders, with these magical dust powders I am making sure no tigers attack our train.'

The Englishman look out the window at the beautiful terrain before him, but he could not see any tigers. 'but there are no tigers out here,' he said.

"It's some powerful stuff I have here," Rumi smiled.

Within these pages lie magical dust characters, in the forms of stories, personal encounters, practices and insights.

There are no tigers.

At least not in the book.

This body of poetry is the third in the series and completes the trilogy begun in book one. It is the culmination of poetic songs to the divine through love, through praise and prayers and through reflections found in chapters such as "Consciousness and Essence", "Discovery and Revelations" and "Eternals." Eternals, for which the book takes its subtitle are flights into the shifting paradigms of current time vs the timeless. The poetic expressions reveal how the eternal forever births itself as eternals. This is illustrated in the last verses of Sonnet L. "Eternals Forever Soars:"

"Eternity is reached in the embrace  not seen, Of new streams of conscious before Slips beyond eternal's arms to again face  The ever new depths of Nameless being. Eternal births eternals evermore,  As soul through eternals forever soars."

May the sunrises and sunsets, the transitions of night to day and day to night, be the doors opening to the eternal within, as expressed by these poems.

"Shamanic naturalist Ginny Anderson takes us to seven sacred sites around San Francisco Bay to gain a better understanding of their connections, and ours, in the complex web of life. This is a celebration of our glorious bioregion, and our responsibility to it-and not a moment too soon."
-M. Macha NightMare, priestess, ritualist, and author

"Anderson shows us how to find these pillars of our paradise, as we come into a deeper and more spiritual bond with Mother Earth. A numinous, sentient work, and a signpost on the path to true joy in life."
-Sandy Miranda, KPFA FM host/producer.

"In Circling San Francisco Bay, a graceful meditation on reciprocity with the natural world, Ginny Anderson shows us that we need look no farther than our own Bay Area greenbelt for the balm that soothes the nerves and feeds the soul."
-Lorraine Anderson, editor, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

"Ginny Anderson's tour of Bay Area sacred mountains elicits the fragrance of native herbs, the sparkle of crystal rock outcroppings, and the wisdom of the natives who dwelled in this land we now call home. Circling offers its readers exercises to enhance their sensory awareness of specific sites - and pathways to greater methaphorical insights. At every stop, we read the voices of other Circling participants, telling how the wide vistas and meditations on nature's patterns have opened their souls to new understanding."
-Debbie Mytels, Associate Director of Acterra: Action for a Sustainable Earth, and a participant in Circling the Bay 1991

Author Peter Cajander has the exceptional talent to capture the essence of life and convert it into wisdom that speaks the language of our hearts and souls. He points out how our own beliefs and assumptions create confusion and hardship by discussing topics such as:

• Belief systems that define who we are and how we interpret the world
• Life and death
• Meditation techniques
• Our feelings and emotions
• The subjective phenomenon of reality
• And much more

The above barrier was, however, breached with the advent of Shyama Charan Lahiri on the scene, towards the middle of the last century, in 1861 to be specific. It was Lahiri Mahasaya's large-hearted kindness and unbounded loving consideration for his fellow worldly men and women that wrought the miracle. His ardent prayers to his Guru ultimately softened the Guru and "the ice" was melted. He was allowed by his god-man Guru to initiate deserving and devotedly desiring persons, even a householder, into the secrets of Kriya. Thus it was Shyama Charan who became the fountain source of Kriya that spread gradually throughout the country and abroad. Kriya performers would always remember the ever-kind Lahiri Mahasaya for his munificence in this respect and worship his memory in their heart of hearts.