Synopses & Reviews
Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and lively vignettes,
The Meditator's Workbook will help you:
- Live more deeply and joyfully in the moment
- Uncover the true source of stress
- Resolve grief
- Explore and express forgiveness
- See through the inevitable distortions of the mind
- Recognize and actualize your goals
- Find real inner peace and a thoroughgoing well-being
Whether your goal is to reduce stress or to gain deeper insight and mastery over your inner life, this simple, straightforward guidebook is the tool to use for learning why and how to meditate. Through its unique workbook-style presentation, The Meditator's Workbook leads you to discover your own starting point, teaches you how to gain mental clarity and remove the obstacles you inevitably encounter, and helps you to identify the insights that are appropriate to each stage of your journey to spiritual and psychological maturity.
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"This is the kind of book that can change a person's life and point the way to peace and happiness."
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"A book to do rather than simply to read, to be worked with slowly but also joyfully."
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"The format makes the mediations easy to follow, simple to do, and very effective."
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"Thorough, insightful, and comprehensive."
Synopsis
Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and stories, Matthew Flickstein combines Eastern meditation techniques and Western psychotherapy in this practical workbook for realizing ones greatest potential. The Meditator's Workbook helps readers find their own starting points, teaches them how to gain mental clarity and remove the inevitable obstacles, and helps them identify the insights that are appropriate to each stage of their journey to spiritual and psychological maturity.
About the Author
Matthew Flickstein is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and the founder of The Forest Way Insight Meditation Center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In more than twenty years of leading personal development workshops, he has trained almost 15,000 people across the US, including other teachers.Bhante Gunaratana was ordained at the age of twelve as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, earned his PhD in philosophy from The American University, and has led meditation retreats, taught Buddhism, and lectured widely throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is the president of the Bhavana Society in High View, West Virginia, where he lives. He is the author of the bestselling Mindfulness in Plain English, as well as Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness, The Four Foundations of Mindfulness in Plain English, Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English, and Journey to Mindfulness.