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Is your life busier than ever? Are the forces of distraction, speed, and stress getting the better of you? Youre not alone. Many of us are getting swept away with the demands of life, and losing touch. Smart phones, iPads, Facebook and Twitter are stealing our attention and bankrupting our sense of meaning and happiness. Can you feel the loss? Meditation in the iGeneration offers a solution. This remedy has been tried and tested for thousands of years. It works, and its free! The only thing you have to pay is proper attention -- which is precisely the art of meditation. Its simple, available to anyone, and easy to learn. And it can change your life. Drawing on four decades of personal experience and exhaustive research, Author Andrew Holecek joins the timeless wisdom of the East with modern knowledge of the West to provide a comprehensive yet gentle introduction to the magic of meditation. Meditation in the iGenerationoffers everything you need to know to start meditating. It tells you exactly what meditation is, dispels the myths of what it is not, and shows you how to find peace and happiness through calming your mind.
With warmth and humor, this book provides meditation instruction that anyone can do. Loaded with personal stories and backed up by scientific studies, this book offers dozens of tips, including:
- How to get started and how to keep going
- Making meditation part of your life
- Avoiding common traps and challenges
- How to teach it to your kids
Meditation is sweeping the globe and causing a sensation in the
scientific community. Thousands of studies prove its benefits. What are
those benefits, and why the explosive growth? How can meditation make
you feel better? We are in the midst of a meditation revolution. Learn
why, and how meditation can literally save your life.
Andrew Holecek is an author, spiritual teacher, and
humanitarian. As a long-time student of Buddhism, he frequently presents
this tradition from a contemporary perspective - blending the ancient
wisdom of the East with modern knowledge from the West.
Andrew
has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat,
and offers seminars internationally on meditation, dream yoga, and
death. He is the author of "Meditation in the iGeneration: How to
Meditate in a World of Speed and Stress", "The Power and the Pain:
Transforming Spiritual Hardship into Joy," "Preparing to Die: Practical
Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Perspective," and
the audio learning course, "Dream Yoga: The Tibetan Path of Awakening
Through Lucid Dreaming" (Sounds True). His work has appeared in the
Shambhala Sun, Buddhadharma, Light of Consciousness, Utne Reader, and
other periodicals.
He is also the co-founder of Global Dental
Relief, and travels each year to India and Nepal to provide free care to
impoverished children. http://globaldentalrelief.org/
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