meditation

A guide to daily meditation, with healthy recipes and exercise routines.

Teaches what meditation is, why stress occurs, and how meditation can help reduce stress. Also examines different meditation techniques and explains how meditation differs from relaxation, concentration, and self-hypnosis.

Presents tweens and teens with a hands-on guide to mindfulness, meditation, breathing, and yoga. Includes step-by-step directions, colorful artwork, and simple exercises.

Illustrations and rhyming text tell of Bentley, a bee from a busy, crowded, and noisy hive who teaches others to meditate in order to handle stress. Includes note for parents.

Fifty-five cards with instructions for activities that are designed to help kids and teens become more mindful and less stressed.

"This guide introduces kids and preteens to mindfulness through exercises, meditations, and writing prompts"--.

"Take a deep breath. Feeling less stressed already? Bestselling author Shamash Alidina shows just how simple it is to master the proven techniques of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) in this...guide. Whatever the source of stress--work pressures, dealing with difficult people, financial strains, or family demands--mindfulness offers new tools for remaining calm in challenging situations and attaining a new level of physical and emotional well being. In as little as 10 minutes a day over 8 weeks, the reader is taken step by step through a carefully structured sequence of guided meditations and easy yoga exercises "--Provided by publisher.

Describes one hundred meditation techniques from around the world that are aimed at helping readers release stress and performance anxiety, lower their blood pressure, manage anger, and build sexual energy.

"Offers gentle anecdotes and practical exercise as a means of learning the skills of mindfulness--being awake and fully aware. From washing the dishes to answering the phone to peeling an orange, [the author] reminds us that each moment holds within it an opportunity to work toward greater self-understanding and peacefulness"--Amazon.com.