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    Meditation for Busy People: Sixty Seconds to Serenity
    Meditation for Busy People: Sixty Seconds to Serenity
    Meditation for Busy People: Sixty Seconds to Serenity
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    Meditation for Busy People: Sixty Seconds to Serenity

    By Dawn Groves

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    ?This concise, jargon-free guide introduces a simple method for fitting meditation into a complex and overbusy lifestyle. The Meditation for Busy People (MBP) method is practical, portable, and suitable for any time frame — from seconds to hours. It’s also flexible enough to perform while sitting, standing, or walking.

    In a supportive, friendly style, the author shows us how regular or even sporadic meditation can allow us to manage life’s everyday demands with greater ease. You’ll quickly learn how to: fit meditation into your already crowded schedule, practice simple meditation techniques at work, home — anywhere, conserve and replenish your energy, and reclaim your right to enjoy life instead of endure it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew World Library
    Release dateJan 31, 2012
    ISBN9781577312550
    Meditation for Busy People: Sixty Seconds to Serenity
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    Dawn Groves

    Dawn Groves is a minister, author, and educator. She is also a keynote motivational speaker well known for her dynamic teaching style, warm presence, and accessible wisdom. As the author of Meditation for Busy People and Yoga for Busy People (over 60,000 copies sold,) Dawn clearly addresses the challenges of people who are attempting to combine professional achievement, spiritual growth, and a balanced lifestyle. She teaches workshops and classes for the government, private industry, community colleges, and spiritual centers throughout the United States and Canada. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

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      Getting Started

      THE BENEFITS of meditation are usually cloaked in glowing abstractions such as increased balance, greater understanding, and inner peace. The purpose of this book is to turn glowing abstraction into clear, specific terminology grounded in your reality – the reality of a busy, productive, sometimes harried individual.

      In these pages you’ll learn the tremendous value and handy applicability of meditation. You’ll find guidelines for meditative practice (known as sitting) that take into account busy schedules, demanding lifestyles, and the need for practical applications. You’ll learn a simple, powerful meditation method useful for any time frame (seconds to hours), and you’ll learn how to use it under stressful circumstances. You’ll also learn techniques for handling the typical, distracting problems that occur during practice time as well as how meditation affects the workplace, relationships, and leisure activities. In the back of the book you’ll find two appendices. Appendix 1 contains a list of excellent reading material for further study. Appendix 2 contains a list of commonly asked questions with associated page references.

      You’re a busy person. You probably want to begin meditating now. This chapter provides you with all the basic information you need to get started. It briefly describes the benefits of meditation and points out unique advantages you can bring to this practice. It then covers fundamentals such as how to meditate, how much time it should take, and what kind of environment is appropriate. So, go ahead – jump in!

      What’s So Great About Meditation?

      Meditation is probably one of the healthiest, safest, most timely, and most regenerative practices you can undertake. Far from being mysterious or abstract, meditation is directly applicable to the stresses and strains of everyday life. It is a completely nondenom-inational practice that has an immensely positive impact on the business of living.

      It’s Healthy

      Meditation is very healthy for your mind and your body. Physiologically, the deep relaxation that comes with practice lowers your blood pressure, eases muscle strain, and, when combined with gentle stretching, helps release tension from your body. Psychologically, meditation teaches you tolerance and compassion, and improves your general behavior by making you keenly aware of your thoughts and feelings before you act on them. It also strengthens your concentration, enabling you to focus more clearly on any activity without excessive stress.

      It’s Safe

      The kind of meditation in this book is completely safe. Meditation is not like being under a spell or even like sleeping. There’s no force involved except the force of compassionate attention. There’s no conjuring or invocation involved, no complicated rituals, nothing difficult. It’s basically about getting to know the ins and outs of your mind. If you experience physical discomfort that disturbs you, or if you get a little light-headed, you can always open your eyes, get up, and take out the garbage. There is only one person in control of the situation and that is you. No magic here. Nothing to fear. Your safety net is the ever-present capacity to simply open your eyes.

      It’s Timely

      In a world convulsing with general confusion and misunderstanding, the capacity to remain calm, compassionate, and insightful is urgently needed. Meditation can help you enhance these qualities through the art of nonjudgmental observation. You learn to identify destructive emotions, patterns of behavior, and reactions as they form. By identifying them, you can step aside without becoming trapped. And when you can step back from your own reaction and learn from it, you can step back from another’s reaction and work around it. You then become part of the solution, not part of the problem.

      It’s Regenerative

      With a busy lifestyle, you probably find physical and emotional exhaustion to be familiar companions. Copious responsibilities do have a way of dragging you down. Meditation teaches you how to conserve and regenerate your energy. Through the power of attention, observation, and relaxation, you can learn how to maneuver through your responsibilities with greater ease and efficiency.

      The Busy Person’s Advantage

      You may think that your busy lifestyle is a disadvantage when it comes to starting a practice such as meditation. You may also think that meditation is only for people who live so simply that they don’t have to deal with rush hour, kids, career development, health issues, and meeting the collective needs of family and friends. But guess what? You’re wrong.

      As a busy person, you have already developed certain qualities that will serve you well in adopting this new and beneficial practice. These qualities are curiosity, flexibility, and stamina.

      1. Curiosity

      You have a basic interest in what’s going on around you. Curiosity is a way of protecting yourself against future difficulties (asking questions about the new boss, researching fuel-efficient cars, etc.). Curiosity is never idle; it encourages you to seek better ways to live and is vital to meditation. There’s no room for complacency when you’re beginning a new practice.

      2. Flexibility

      You can and do adapt. You may think it’s impossible to change yourself or your circumstances, but that’s simply not true. This world is constantly changing, and with all your responsibilities you must continually shift gears and adapt. Flexibility means that you can adjust your schedule enough to accommodate your new practice. It also means that you’re likely to absorb and utilize the good habits that meditation engenders.

      3. Stamina

      You are resilient. Working a full-time job in addition to having hobbies, a social life, and maintaining significant relationships requires fortitude. It takes a lot of energy to keep on working when you feel fatigued, distracted, or frustrated. Stamina means that you won’t give up easily. You’ll keep practicing even through the difficult times.

      In addition to having the right qualities for beginning a meditative practice, you also generate enough activity in your life to give you reason to continue meditating. The more active your life, the more opportunity you have to observe the benefits of meditation. And when you can clearly observe the rewards operating within your life circumstances, you’re more likely to continue practicing and thus derive even more benefit. It just keeps getting better and better.

      At this point you may want to throw your hands up in exasperation, exclaiming that your life is hectic because it can’t be any other way. You have to support your family, keep up with your relationships, keep up with the house payments, and so on. If you had a choice, you’d retire and just relax. Well, that may be true, but this book isn’t about wishes and what-ifs. It’s about your world right now, just the way it currently is. And right now, you have everything it takes to start meditating successfully.

      Why Do You Need a Method?

      Whenever you learn something new, it’s always best to start with a basic method, a set of steps. Following steps gives you a structure from which you can then branch out as you like. Also, if you lack experience, it’s frequently easier to determine what doesn’t work rather than what does. From there you can carve out your personal style, subtracting what doesn’t work and adding what does.

      Before learning how to meditate, understand that there

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