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What Is Meditation

By Kendra Cherry — 2020

Meditation can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention. Meditation is also a consciousness-changing technique that has been shown to have a wide number of benefits on psychological well-being.

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Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

What does it mean to “meditate with the body”? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than a mental gymnastic ―something you can practice for years without fruitful results.

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Reginald Ray
2014
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Essential Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind

Based on over twenty years of research and spiritual practice, this is a groundbreaking and life-changing book. In his decades of study, Dr.

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Roger Walsh, The Dalai Lama (foreword)
2000
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Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

Just as water runs naturally downhill … just as leaves float naturally to the ground … we can all settle naturally into meditation. Not trying, just allowing—not doing, just being. The key is effortlessness.

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Dean Sluyter
2015
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Total Meditation: Practices in Living the Awakened Life

For the past thirty years, Deepak Chopra has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution in the West. Total Meditation offers a complete exploration and reinterpretation of the physical, mental, emotional, relational, and spiritual benefits that this practice can bring.

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Deepak Chopra
2020
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Shift into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness

Meditation is one of the most important things to learn in order to live a life of joy, health and love. This is a rare meditation book that offers advanced meditations made simple. Loch Kelly goes to the root of suffering by introducing us to the ultimate medicine of awake awareness.

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Loch Kelly
2015
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Meditations

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) went from his origins in a small south Indian village to become one of the great spiritual teachers of the twentieth century.

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J. Krishnamurti
2018
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The Awakening of Intelligence

This comprehensive record of Krishnamurti’s teachings is an excellent, wide-ranging introduction to the great philosopher’s thought.

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J. Krishnamurti
1987
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Meditation Is Not What You Think: Mindfulness and Why It Is So Important

Jon Kabat-Zinn is regarded as “one of the finest teachers of mindfulness you’ll ever encounter” (Jack Kornfield). He has been teaching the tangible benefits of meditation in the mainstream for decades.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn
2025
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The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

In this beautiful and lucid guide, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness—being awake and fully aware.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
1999
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