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Ready to Give Meditation a Try?

By Kimberly Goad — 2020

A beginner's guide to quieting the mind in a time of stress. Includes three guided meditations by popular mindfulness teachers to try now.

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The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life

A senior Buddhist teacher offers fundamental body-based meditation practices that prove enlightenment is as close to you as your own body.

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Reginald A. Ray
2016
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The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose

In The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, Debbie Ford delivers her most practical and prescriptive book yet —a 21–day, life-changing program for spiritual renewal, emotional transformation, and reconnection with the soul’s deepest purpose.

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Debbie Ford
2025
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Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation

This is the ultimate go-to guide for learning how to meditate.

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Lodro Rinzler
2014
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F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

In this inspiring and humorous book, John C. Parkin suggests that saying F**k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual ideas of letting go, giving up, and finding real freedom by realizing that things don’t matter so much (if at all).

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John C. Parkin
2014
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.

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Brianna Wiest
2025
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Lovingkindness with Sharon Salzberg

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Sharon Salzberg
2020
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Sarah Blondin: She Recovers in LA, Beverly Hilton, September 2018

Sarah Blondin created this beautiful meditation specifically for SHE RECOVERS and shared it with us to kick off our day on Saturday (September 15th, 2018). A beautiful, powerful heart opener.

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Sarah Blondin
2018
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Meditating with the Body: A Course in Somatic Practices to Unlock Your Journey

A montage of interviews with Meditating with the Body(R) founder, Reginald A. Ray, teachers Tami Simon and David Iozzi; and participants in a meditation retreat. Filmed during retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, where the course retreats are held.

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Reginald Ray
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2012
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How to Perform the Heart Center Meditation | Andrew Weil, M.D.

As the name suggests, Heart Center Meditation is an act of meditation with an emphasis on opening and healing the heart. This meditation brings energy into the body and directs it toward the heart which can provide long-lasting benefits. Ann Marie Chiasson, M.D.

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Andrew Weil
2013
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Balance of the Masculine & Feminine Energy Meditation | Ilona Selke

When the masculine & feminine energies within us are balanced, the Divine Union opens up the Higher Energy to flow through us and into the world. Thriive Global Ambassador Ilona Selke guides us through this Energy-balancing meditation so we can reach our full potential as we were born to be.

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2019
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