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    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.
    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.
    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.
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    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.

    By Gabriel Shaw

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    Learn to build a meditation habit

    ☆☆
    Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest.
    It's better than the best sleep you've ever had.
    It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings.
    It keeps life fresh.

    Hugh Jackman
    ☆☆

    In recent years, meditation has seen a significant rise in popularity, in part due to the number of successful people practicing regular meditation and proclaiming the immense benefits on their life and achievements.

    No matter how busy they are, they always make time for daily meditation practice.

    While people who meditate regularly claim they feel better physically and mentally, it has only been in the last few decades that science and technology can truly understand the positive benefits on the body and brain.

    There have been numerous studies and research that show the practice of both meditation and mindfulness can have positive impacts such as reducing stress, anxiety, depression along with increasing focus, creativity, happiness, health and countless other benefits.

    If there are so many positive benefits of meditation, why doesn’t everyone meditate?

    Many people still find it difficult to learn how to meditate, maintain a meditation practice or even know where to start.

    Often when starting a meditation habit, people are motivated at the start but then get caught up with life and don’t make the time to do it.

    Meditation is like going to the gym, you won’t notice results just going once, it will seem difficult, you may feel that you’re not doing it correctly and won’t see any short-term gains.

    Meditation is like exercise for the mind, it takes time to see results and requires regular consistent practice but over time you will notice the changes and enjoy the benefits.

    This book will help you build and maintain a meditation practice to enjoy the benefits of regular meditation.

    You do not need any previous experience or knowledge of meditation to benefit from this book.

    In this book you will learn:

    To build a daily meditation habit
    Calm your mind
    Increase happiness, success, health and memory
    Increase success
    Improve health and memory
    Improve concentration
    Reduce Stress

    An outline of chapters in Meditation for beginners is below:

    What is Meditation?
    History of Meditation
    Benefits of Meditation
    Different Meditation Practices
    How to Meditate
    Steps to Meditate
    Beginner Meditation Practices
    Meditation Practices for Everyday Life
    Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress and Anxiety
    Meditation and Success
    Making Meditation a Daily Habit
    Mindfulness
    Advanced Meditation Lessons
    Meditation Quotes
    Meditation Apps and Resources

    ☆☆
    One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
    Elizabeth Lesser
    ☆☆

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriel Shaw
    Release dateFeb 18, 2017
    ISBN9781370860098
    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.
    Author

    Gabriel Shaw

    “Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” ~Buddha Gabriel Shaw has lived in Asia for over 5 years, studying meditation, mindfulness and Buddhist teachings. He was working in an office job and found himself stressed, overworked and unhappy. His health deteriorated and he sustained a back injury that left him in bed for weeks, with pain shooting through his body if he moved. He was forced to leave his job and spent months recovering, it was during this time he discovered yoga, pilates, meditation and mindfulness. These practices made a huge impact in his recovery when almost everything else he tried failed. He continued these methods and found significant improvements in his health, mind and life. He then moved to Asia to study these practices in great depth and immerse himself in understanding these teaching and philosophies. He has studied under Buddhist monks in temples throughout South East Asia and brings those experiences and lessons to his teachings. Currently he lives in Thailand and practices daily meditation and mindfulness. He hopes to pass on this knowledge of mindfulness, meditation and other practical skills in an easy to understand and practical manner that you can apply in your every day life. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” ~Dalai Lama

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      This book is very well written and very informative. If you want to learn more about meditation I highly recommend this book
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      Incoherent and difficult to follow. I only made it to page 14. I recently read a book written by a self educated 14 year old redneck. That book was more coherent than this one.

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    Meditation - Gabriel Shaw

    Meditation:

    Meditation for beginners

    Learn to build a daily meditation habit,

    calm your mind,

    increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration

    and reduce stress.

    Written by Gabriel Shaw

    While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

    Meditation: Meditation for beginners: Learn to build a daily meditation habit, calm your mind, increase happiness, success, health, memory, concentration and reduce stress.

    First edition. February 19, 2017.

    Copyright © 2017 Gabriel Shaw.

    Written by Gabriel Shaw.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    What is Meditation?

    History of Meditation

    Benefits of Meditation

    Different Meditation Practices

    How to Meditate

    Steps to Meditate

    Beginner Meditation Practices

    Meditation Practices for Everyday Life

    Meditation Practices to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

    Meditation and Success

    Making Meditation a Daily Habit

    Mindfulness

    Advanced Meditation Lessons

    Meditation Quotes

    Meditation Apps and Resources

    Conclusion

    About the Author

    Introduction

    The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

    (Sogyal Rinpoche)

    In recent years, meditation has seen a significant rise in popularity, in part due to the number of successful people practicing regular meditation and proclaiming the immense benefits on their life and achievements. No matter how busy they are, they always make time for daily meditation practice, often in the morning before starting their day.

    However, despite the recent uptake and awareness of meditation, it is not a new practice but one that dates back thousands of years. While people who meditate regularly claim they feel better physically and mentally, it has only been in the last few decades however that science and technology are able to truly understand the positive benefits on the body and brain.

    Meditation has recently caught the eye of many researchers, scientists, and health experts leading to many studies finding great benefits on the mind, brain and body of regular meditation.

    There have been numerous studies and research that show the practice of both meditation and mindfulness can have positive impacts such as reducing stress, anxiety, depression along with increasing focus, creativity, happiness, health and countless other benefits.

    With regular practice, meditation has been shown to have significant positive physical changes on the brain such as increasing grey matter in the brain in areas associated with learning, memory and regulating emotions. There is also evidence that meditation helps boost the immune system and many other positive health benefits.

    If there are so many positive benefits of meditation, why doesn’t everyone meditate?

    Many people still find it difficult to learn how to meditate, maintain a meditation practice or even know where to start.

    Often when starting a meditation habit, people are motivated at the start but then get caught up with life and don’t make the time to do it.

    Meditation is like going to the gym, you won’t notice results just going once, it will seem difficult, you may feel that you’re not doing it correctly and won’t see any short-term gains. Meditation is like exercise for the mind, it takes time to see results and requires regular consistent practice but over time you will notice the changes and enjoy the benefits.

    This book will help you build and maintain a meditation practice to enjoy the benefits of regular meditation.

    At the start of this book, you will learn the history of meditation, different meditation practices, the basics of meditation and the health benefits as evidenced by research.

    In the chapters after that, you will learn practical techniques on how to meditate and build it into a daily habit.

    At the end of this book, you will find some meditation quotes to keep you inspired and motivated to practice it as well as some recommended meditation apps and websites to help you continue to nurture this habit.

    You do not need any previous experience or knowledge of meditation to benefit from this book.

    While this book is a short introduction, it contains a lot of practical exercises that you can apply to your life. You should not try to rush through this book but instead absorb and reflect on the information in the book.

    You can start to help build your meditation practice and increase your attention muscle when reading this book by not being distracted by Facebook, emails, TV, notifications, radio, conversations or browsing the internet while reading.

    The more we are distracted or multi-task during the day, the more our brain is distracted by thoughts and different stresses which makes it harder to focus and calm the mind.

    If you are on a train or feel you don’t have the time to sit and read this then you can just be mindful to not change between apps or websites while reading this book, read it in your head to yourself and try not to let your mind wander to other thoughts while reading.

    I hope you find value in reading this book and that it helps you develop a regular meditation habit and enjoy the benefits on your mind, body and life.

    Meditation Exercise: Set a time of day and commit to meditate for a few minutes.

    One of the biggest reasons that people fail to build a meditation is that they think they are too busy, they get caught up in their day to day life and don’t make the time. They are rushed in the morning and will meditate later but then they get to the end of the day and are too tired to meditate and want to sleep.

    It’s crucial that you schedule in some time to meditate, even if it’s only 10 minutes, this doesn’t have to be an exact time but it should be a regular time or event that triggers it. For example, as soon as you wake up, or after you have your morning coffee, after you eat your lunch etc.

    The time might vary but you have a trigger that prompts you to meditate on a regular basis.

    Personally, I find that meditating first thing in the morning works best for me. As soon as I wake up, I boil the kettle, make a coffee, then go to the couch and meditate. After meditation, I enjoy my morning coffee while writing and reviewing my plans and calendar for the day.

    I wake up a bit earlier, to ensure I am not rushed, I don’t check my phone or emails and it gives me calm at the start of the day.

    This works for me, but you can

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