Joel & Michelle Levey have taught thousands of people around the globe to live in greater harmony and balance. Field-tested and refined over many years, the Leveys unique approach to stress-mastery and personal development offers step-by-step guidance for developing personal strengths, enhancing the quality of life, and making a real contribution to the world.

The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation offers a treasury of their most useful teachings:

• Waking up throughout the dayfinding your meditation practice and sticking to it.
• Balancing breath, brain, and mind-mastering stressenhancing performance in every arena of your life.
• Creative intelligencethe dynamic synergy of active and quiet mind skills.
• Mastery, mystery, and meditationawakening to your true nature.
• Inspired Workrelaxation, concentration, and meditation on the job.

A vital blend of profoundly practical skills, advice, instruction, and encouragement makes Fine Arts a complete course for awakening more fully to your highest potentials in each moment of your life.

Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration and Meditation: Ancient Skills for Modern Minds , Joel and Mich'l Levey, Wisdom Publications,
228 pages, $14.95

Joel and Michelle Levey have taught thousands of people around the globe to live in greater harmony and balance. Field-tested and refined over many years, the Leveys unique approach to stress-mastery and personal development offers step-by-step guidance for developing personal strengths, enhancing the quality of life, and making a real contribution to the world.

Foreword
Awakening our full potential
How to get the most from this book

Part One: Relaxation
Dynamic relaxation
Guidelines for developing relaxation skills
1. Letting go of tension
2. Flow sequence
3. Relaxing the body
4. Body scan
5. Autogenic imagery
6. Creating an inner oasis
7. Rainbow light relaxation
8. Symptoms of relaxation

Part Two: Concentration
Focusing the mind
Guidelines for developing concentration skills
1. Self-remembering
2. An antidote to discouragement
3. Zen breathing exercise
4. Sufi breathing exercise
5. Breathing easy
6. Abdominal breathing
7. Concentration: The simple nine-part breath
8. Contemplative practice
9. Spheres of mind
10. Concentration with a natural object
11. Concentration while walking

Part Three: Meditation
What is meditation?
Varieties of meditation
Meditation traditions as liberative art forms
Meditation: The path of awakening
Guidelines for developing meditation skills
1. Doing what we love to do
2. Listening
3. Continuum
4. Investigating the mind
5. Thoughts
6. Mindfulness of stories
7. Stopping the war
8. Kitchen yogi meditation
9. Eating mindfully
10. Walking meditation
11. Sleeping meditation
12. Waking up within the dream
13. Waking up throughout the day
14. Two domains of reality
15. Buddhaverse
16. Reflective meditation
17. Standing in the possibility
18. Meditation on the five elements
19. Hollow body meditation
20. Mental massage
21. The center of your mandala
22. The drop and the ocean
23. Transforming emotions
24. Meditation on forgiveness
25. Increasing compassion
26. Loving-kindness meditation
27. Driving meditation
28. The four immeasurable attitudes
29. Breathing with all beings
30. Transforming energy
31. Meditation on the angel of universal compassion
32. Meditation on the teacher
33. Mother of compassion
34. Sphere of light
35. Meditations for dying
36. Mantra: protection for the mind
37. Meditations with a partner
38. Matrix of mind
39. Guidelines for daily practice

Part Four: Contemplative Wisdom in Daily Life
1. Deepening your meditation practice
2. Strategies for mastering stress
3. Guidelines for creative visualization
4. Transforming pain
5. Balancing breath, brain, and mind
6. Sports: A Western yoga
7. Cyberphysiology and biofeedback: Inner technologies of mindbody and spirit

Part Five: Meditation and the World of Work
1. Relaxation, concentration, and meditation at work: an inspiring example
2. Leadership and spirit at work
3. Creative intelligence: the dynamic synergy of active and quiet mind skills
4. Profoundly inspired work: Visionary research
5. Glimpsing the sacred in daily work-life
6. Data to inspire faith

Resources
Suggested further readings and resources
Acknowledgments
Authors biography