Meditation and Reinventing Yourself

By Alex Mill

Former Zen Buddhist monk Alex Mill combines personal stories, practical wisdom, and his own full-color cartoons-created during nearly fourteen years of monastic training-to offer an engaging and refreshingly human introduction to meditation and personal transformation.

Meditation and Reinventing Yourself explores what happens when we stop trying to fix ourselves and begin learning how to relate to our experience with greater awareness, integrity, and compassion. Through a collection of essays, reflections, and illustrations, Alex shares lessons from his own journey into meditation, the challenges of building a spiritual practice, and the surprising ways mindfulness can transform everyday life.

Whether you're curious about meditation, struggling to maintain a practice, or simply looking for a different perspective on personal growth, this book offers encouragement, humor, and practical insight from someone who has walked the path himself.

Meditation is not about escaping your life.

It is about learning how to be fully present for it.

When we learn to quiet the noise, we discover that much of what we have been searching for has been here all along.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1734239115
• ISBN13: 9781734239119
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Zen Life Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 10.0"