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    Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day
    Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day
    Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day
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    Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day

    By Jennifer Brooks

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    Did you always want the benefits of meditation without the required 20 to 30 minutes of sitting “doing nothing?” Perhaps you would love to meditate but find it difficult to relax your body long enough? Or maybe it’s your mind that careens out of control, refusing to think of “nothing?”

    What if someone told you that you could get all the rewards of meditation – the health benefits, sharpened focus, a boost in memory – without the need to sit chanting some mantra for up to a half hour a day?

    "Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day" provides you with practical, proven, and powerful meditative remedies to your stressful lifestyle. While it shows you how to meditate in the common 20-minute sessions, it also provides you with methods to grab minutes of Zen contemplation.

    Making Zen meditation a part of your daily life is easy. This groundbreaking book shows you how to take a Zen mindfulness break you can access when you’re driving, drinking your morning coffee, even carrying out a conversation.

    Not only that, it also takes you step by step through the longer, more conventional way of meditating. You are in control of your meditative practices. You can choose to wade in slowly, tiptoeing through the shorter, productive exercises before you commit yourself to the longer sessions. You may want to start with the short sessions, sprinkling the longer ones into your life as you feel you’re ready.

    "Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day" is your complete guide to Zen meditation. Whether you have 90 seconds (the time of a red light at a busy intersection) or 20 minutes, you can find a Zen meditative practice you can use to improve your overall health and give you the ultimate feeling of peace of mind. Pick up this book today and obtain the benefits of a Zen lifestyle!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucky Leaf Media
    Release dateMar 14, 2014
    ISBN9781632300218
    Zen Meditation Magic: Secrets to Finding the Time for Peace of Mind, Every Day
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    Jennifer Brooks

    Jennifer L. Brooks has enjoyed years of studying history, especially focusing on aspects of human nature, while observing the work of God in people's lives. It is her own personal faith that motivates her writing. Jennifer has been married to her husband, Gary, for 47 years, and they have four children and six grandchildren. They live in Kirkwood, Missouri and enjoy spending their summers in northern Michigan where they both grew up.

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      Zen Meditation Magic - Jennifer Brooks

      Introduction: Welcome to the Zen Life

      According to some individuals, meditation entered the Western World through the back door. It surreptitiously permeated our culture, they say, because of the popularity of – believe it or not – a rock band.

      It wasn’t just any rock band: it was the Beatles. That’s right. Until members of this wildly successful group announced that they were studying meditation under the tutelage of an Eastern guru, meditation was largely unknown in the West. That was nearly forty years ago. Who could have predicted that in those intervening years not only would this activity become popular in mainstream culture, but that it would also receive the blessing of the conventional medical community?

      Within recent years, society’s attraction to meditation has exploded. From 1993 to 2003, there was a one-hundred percent increase in the number of people who practiced this activity. You may wonder why, until you learn one other amazing statistic: as many as eighty percent of all conventional doctors have at one time or another recommended a form of alternative therapy to their patients – this includes meditation.

      It seems, at least on the surface, that the appeal this activity holds of quieting the mind may be driven, in part, by the medical community itself. And now that the original claims of improved focus, greater concentration, and increased health have been proven (several times over), it seems meditation classes are ubiquitous.

      You can find meditation classes offered at your local YMCA, senior citizen center, schools, and even possibly at your workplace. And with good reason. What other activity – aside from physical exercise – actually delivers on so many health-affirming promises? Meditation can help you prevent, cure, or slow the progression of a host of diseases and ailments.

      You may have been interested in meditation for years, but weren’t sure what kind of commitment you needed to give for it to be effective. You may have believed – and perhaps still do – that it requires years of practice in order to obtain any type of benefits. Perhaps you’re one of the many individuals still not sure you can visualize yourself sitting cross-legged on your floor, eyes closed, audibly releasing a mantra. Perhaps you should.

      Time? Who Has Time! You Do!

      While you don’t necessarily have to sit cross-legged (although for the Zen variety it’s recommended), as little as twenty minutes of meditation a day can help improve your focus and your health. Not only that, but the act itself alters the functioning of your mind in a very short period of time.

      If the idea of sitting on the floor doesn’t appeal to you, pull up a chair. In the long run, your pose, while important, is still secondary to actually committing yourself to the activity. As you progress in your meditative journey, you’ll discover the pose that works best for you.

      But if you’re still concerned about the twenty-minute chunk of time you have to give up during the day, you’ll be happy to know that there are all sorts of Zen activities that can offer you the benefits of meditation as you conduct your usual daily tasks.

      In this book, you’ll learn a wide variety of these activities so that you can practice them at home - doing the dishes, making dinner, even drinking your morning cup of coffee. This volume also offers you several forms of relaxation exercises. Below are listed just a few of the topics covered:

      What Zen meditation is and how it differs from other forms of meditation

      How to use your breath as a meditative tool

      Breath exercises to calm your mind

      The proper sitting position for Zen meditation

      Walking meditations

      Everyday Zen activities to incorporate painlessly into your day

      The many benefits of Zen meditation

      Explore the concept and the practice of Zen meditation. Try it on for size through the many exercises provided here. From the first to the last chapter, you’ll discover something new about Zen and how to incorporate it into your life without it being an intrusive activity hanging over your head. You’ll discover that Zen meditation isn’t something you’ll dread. Instead, you’ll be eager, even grateful to start and close your day with this life-transforming activity.

      Now, before we even start with Chapter 1, here is a three-step exercise to start you out on the right meditative foot, as it were.

      A Quick Lesson on Zen Meditation

      Sit quietly.

      At this point, don’t worry about any type of pose or where your hands are placed.

      Close your eyes.

      For now, closing your eyes will help with making your first attempt at meditation more productive. Later in the book, you’ll be introduced to exercises that require you to keep your eyes open.

      Breathe in deeply, then breathe out, focusing your mind on your breath.

      Continue this for two minutes.

      That’s it. Just two minutes. Even though this may seem like a trivial pursuit, in these two minutes your body and brain are busy making necessary adjustments in your thinking and the health of your body.

      Now you’re armed with a short exercise you can fall back on as you read the rest of this book and sample the many Zen activities available to you.

      Chapter 1: Living the Zen Life

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