Lunchtime Enlightenment: Modern Meditations to Free the Mind and Unleash the Spirit--At Work, at Home, at Play

by Pragito Dove

We need meditation now more than ever, according to Pragito Dove in Lunchtime Enlightenment. Dove, who has 20 years of experience in stress management and mediation counseling in the San Francisco... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670894575
• ISBN13: 9780670894574
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Viking Compass
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Warm, informative, practical

I receive numerous requests to review books and audio products in The New Leaf, and I am always grateful for the opportunity to learn something new that may also be of value to readers. Often, books languish in the "to read" stacks that decorate my office. Sometimes one calls to me.So it was with Pragito Dove's welcome book, Lunchtime Enlightenment. And once I had started the Introduction, I was hooked.In clear, conversational tones, Dove tells exactly why meditation is not only practical but possible without denaturing it or reducing it to a mechanical recipe for climbing another step on the ladder of serial self improvement. (I don't know about you, but I get tired of that damn ladder!)One caution. dove begins her introduction by describing a day in which she spends more than two hours in various meditative practices. My first reaction was, "Right. I'll be doing that in my next lifetime." Fortunately, I kept reading and learned that this was by no means the rule in her life nor was it the message in her book. Like most of us, there are many days on which she uses practices of just a few minutes duration. Her message is emphatically not that you need to give up your life in order to meditate, but rather that you can use mediation as a living resource - one that can take different forms for different functions and in different circumstances, informing your life rather than replacing it. I look forward to reading the rest of the book and learning many of the techniques in it. Congratulations, Pragito, on a job well done.

A Breath of Fresh Air

Pragito Dove's book Lunchtime Enlightenment truly is a breath of fresh air. Her meditation suggestions involve breath, the body, movement, laughter, celebration, being in touch with the moment, and being in the heart. Her suggestions are practical and down to earth, but , in my experience,they are also personally tranformative. Everything she talks about is good medicine for troubled times.I highly recommend this book.

I'm not 13, but This is where I found to write review, boo !

Lunchtime Enlightment is a terrfic source foranyone wanting to enhance their life. To create Peacewithin and transfer it to others.I have used this book for facilitating workshopswith women of domestic violence and those who work in the field.The exercises have helped me bring joy to my lifeand have been alot of fun to play with.It is very simply written, like the buddhist style.Yet very powerful exercises to train your body mind and soulfor everyday life meditations. All ages can benefit.Thankyou Pragito !!!!!!!!

WOW! SUCH FUN!

This book is easy to read and fun to experiment with. A nice mixture of personal anecdotes and meditation methods. I say let the whole world read it and be transformed! ... and not just by words, but my methods that truely do get us out of our minds and into our spirit. Especially wonderful to read about is the meditative therapy comprised of laughing, crying, and sitting (this one I also have personal experience with) and it is so simple and so profound. Much thanks to Pragito for taking the time to put all she's experienced, and experiencing, into this WONDER FULL book.

Don't pass judgement

Charming and useful. Don't think it will give you advice on how to "fit meditation in", though. If you are running yourself into the ground trying to overachieve in life, American style, it's your problem, not Pragito's. Noone is forcing you to become an over-stressed sufferer of life, it's just you. :)Pragito is an apparently very warm woman, and she's done a splendid, warm job with this book. Advice is good, and it should pull you in try, then try again. If it doesn't, simply go and return it - it's not for you.