Practical Meditation for Busy Souls

by Margo Adair and William Aal

The classic book on practical meditation, updated and revised.

Originally published in 1984, Practical Meditation for Busy Souls is one of the first books to bring pragmatic meditation techniques to westerners. Adair teaches the reader to use symbols that make meditation available to even the most restless and busy people.

Adair has updated her original work to reflect the latest thinking on meditation and its applications, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402210205
• ISBN13: 9781402210204
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Sourcebooks Mediafusion
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Incredible Book

This amazing book includes a CD with practical meditations that have really helped me through a difficult time. I have used the first meditation every day for the last week, and it has helped me let go of stress in my body and in my mind. I am not someone who meditates with ease, and the book has shown me a path to go down that enables me to access the power of meditation without having to "clear" my mind before starting. I am sure that anyone who tries this approach will experience positive change in their life.

Practical and Profound

This book takes its readers down the fascinating path of Applied Meditation. The authors describe meditative states where one can access the profound powers of the mind. There are cogent descriptions of the Inner Witness, a state similar to the mindfulness of Buddhist meditation, the Active Imagination, the seat of visualization and intention, and the Receptive Imagination, where one engages in imaginative inquiry. Interwoven with guidance on how to attain and use these meditative states are stories from the authors' own experience of them and scientific evidence that applied meditation exists and works. The CD, as well as the last few pages of each chapter contain guided mediations that help novices find their way in what may be new territory. These guided meditations shed helpful light on the concepts contained in the book. The guided meditations move the material from the abstract and theoretical, into the realm of the practical and possible. I tried several of the Applied Meditation techniques in the book. I found them effective in addressing several issues from difficult relationships to a shortage of positive energy. Our minds, energetic fields and universal consciousness are truly magical. This book can help you access the magic.