The Power of Guided Meditation
Simple Practices to Promote Wellbeing
by Jessica Crow
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Pub Date 18 May 2021 | Archive Date 18 Mar 2021
Quarto Publishing Group – Fair Winds | Fair Winds Press
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Description
The Power of Guided Meditation provides an accessible and easy entry point into starting a meditation practice, offering a range of practices and benefits so you can decide how to choose and integrate a program to suit your specific needs.
First, explore meditation from the perspective of mindfulness. Why Mindfulness? Mindfulness is the practice of bringing the attention back to the present moment. Mindfulness is not only meditation and meditation is not only mindfulness. Mindfulness in its most complete sense, is a way of living, thinking, and being that is self-aware and deliberate. Most practices as we know them in the West are rooted in mindfulness. Discover mindfulness through:
- Body
- Breath
- Thoughts
- Sounds
- Walking
- Eating
- Listening/Communication
- Compassion/Kindness
Another focus of meditation is to relieve stress. Why stress relief? Particular meditation techniques induce a calm, serene state very quickly by activating the parasympathetic nervous system. These practices have the power to lower the heart rate, reduce inflammation in the body, settle the emotions, deepen the qualities of our sleep, boost the immune system, and much more. Relieve stress with:
- Yoga nidra
- Breathing exercises—calm breathing, diaphragmatic breath, square breathing
- Progressive muscle relaxation
- Sleep
- Affirmation
Or, use visualization techniques to anchor a practice. Why Visualization? Visualization lets our mind remain somewhat active as it takes instruction to create images internally. The mind-body connection is powerful and we’re learning more about it everyday. Visualization techniques have been successfully used in the fields of medicine, sports, music, and psychology for many years. Practice visualization through:
- Haven visualization
- Oasis journey
- Wake up
- Color therapy
- Renewal
- Accessing your inner genius
There is also a useful and complete directory to reference if you have a specific issue you’d like to address or a desired meditative effect—like more energy, clarity, pain relief—that you’d like to achieve. Depending on your goal, it will direct you to a guided meditation in the book, or it will give you a new exercise for your particular focus. You can search through some common physical conditions that are often helped with meditation, or you can choose an activity from the “Quick Re-sets.”
Begin a customized meditation practice right away with this versatile beginner's guide.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781589239890 |
| PRICE | US$16.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 128 |
Featured Reviews
Eric G, Educator
I found this to be a useful and readable primer on mindful,practice. I can definitely see recommending this to folks interesting in learning about and/or deepening their practice.
Daria T, Bookseller
An excellent and informative guide to meditation, suitable for both novices and experienced practitioners. Well written, with clear instructions, it's ideal for anyone wanting to get into meditation.
Cassandra B, Reviewer
I have trouble calming my mind enough to meditate but recently I have embarked on a journey of self-discovery and improvement. This means, reconnecting with my spirituality, and that in turn means meditation.
Thank you so much for the chance to read this amazing resource! I will have to buy a physical copy. I believe this is a wonderful tool for both novices and experienced meditators. The way the book is split is very helpful and I feel helps the reader to properly digest the information.
This book really explains how our brains work and what benefits we can have by meditating. Truly an incredible book!
Jasmine L, Bookseller
The Power of Guided Meditation is one of the more helpful books I’ve run across. It has always been a struggle for me to understand proper meditation as my brain is typically anywhere but where I’d like it to be, but this book is incredibly helpful in explaining things in a way that makes perfect sense. I will 100% be utilizing this book to help in my journey of meditation, mindfulness, and other self-help type things.
Thanks so much to Jessica Crow, DK Publishing, and NetGalley for an eBook edition of this book to read and review honestly.
Christina F, Bookseller
A great, easy to understand book on meditation that can be of use to beginners and experts alike. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC.
Nicole B, Reviewer
The Power of Guided Meditation by Jessica Crow is a nonfiction guidebook on how to begin a meditation practice. Crow divides the book into three parts and provides numerous meditation practices aimed at beginners. As someone who already meditates, I found this book very informative and it gave me new meditation ideas to try out. The book is set up similar to audio guided meditation, and Crow suggests recording yourself reading the meditation “script” and listening to it during your practice. I thought this would be too distracting, and decided to try the meditations through memory of the passage. It definitely did the job, but I feel that it would be better to be guided through the process step by step rather than trying to remember each step. For this reason, I think the best experience of this book would be as an audiobook. I don’t think there is an audiobook available for this book as of yet, but whenever there is definitely check that out. If you are more of a meditation newbie, I would try out guided meditation podcasts or apps like Headspace or Calm before venturing into the examples in this book. I recommend this book for people that are interested in meditation and want a way to further their practice. Rating: ⅘
*Note: I was given this book as an e-ARC from @netgalley and @quarto.knows (Fair Winds Press)
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