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Sensei José Shinzan Palma: How Your Practice Can Heal the World

By José Shinzan Palma — 2020

Sensei José Shinzan Palma explains how our meditation practice can help us change the world.

05:49 min

Meditation Is Ridiculously, Amazingly Simple

If you approach your practice as a path of love, the rhythms of life will teach you moment by moment how to proceed. Each little discovery about what breathing feels like will give you more access to your inner life and the secret power of recovery built into your body.

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Lorin Roche
2022
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How to Meditate When You Have No Idea Where to Start

To help you learn how to meditate and integrate it into your life, SELF asked meditation experts some of your most common meditation questions.

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Anna Borges
2020
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Which Type of Meditation Is Right for Me?

Not all meditation styles are right for everyone. These practices require different skills and mindsets. How do you know which practice is right for you?

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Holly J. Bertone
2021
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Meditation as a Tool for Survival

Meditation is very handy for adapting to challenging situations.

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Lorin Roche
2021
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Whole Body Meditations: Igniting Your Natural Instinct to Heal

Describes the use of meditation to promote self-healing of the symptoms of both physical and mental conditions.

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Lorin Roche
2025
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Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you. You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.

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Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren, Carlye Adler
2025
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10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works—A True Story

Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable.

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Dan Harris
2025
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My Great Wake-Up Call

Five years ago, my father fell into a deep bout of depression. Twelve months later his depression culminated in suicide.

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Jordan Lally
2018
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Don’t Hate, Meditate!: 5 Easy Practices to Get You Through the Hard Sh*t (and into the Good)

This modern guide to meditation from instructor Megan Monahan takes readers beyond empty Instagram truisms to the simple yet effective ways to “meditate their way through the bad shit and into the good shit.

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Megan Monahan
2025
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Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People

The record of a day of meditation instruction with spirited questions from a rationally-minded audience, MIND SCIENCE achieves what most books on meditation rarely do: It’s actually fun to read, and it imparts much useful information without religious or mystical overtones.

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Charles T. Tart
2013
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