Creating Calm: Meditations in Daily Life - Softcover

Farrer-Halls, Gill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764119214 ISBN 13: 9780764119217

Publisher: B E S Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

Perhaps the most reliable path to spiritual and mental calm is through meditation—a practice dating from antiquity that is basic to many religions. In Creating Calm, the author introduces readers to principles of meditation, explains mindfulness of breathing, instructs on sitting meditation, and discusses several forms of meditation, including those practiced in both Eastern and Western cultures. Most important, she shows how to incorporate mediation into daily life. Explained here are various forms of mediation, all of which have the power to induce calm. They include: Buddhist chanting, Christian chanting, Torah recitation, Transcendental meditation, Sufi dancing, Yoga, and others. Readers learn how to incorporate meditation into such daily actions as walking, eating, and doing routine chores. Devotional practices and rituals explained include Christian prayer, the Zen Buddhist tea ceremony, flower arranging, and Islamic prayer. Approximately 60 illustrations help clarify the principles and practices of meditation.

About this title

About the Author

Gill Farrer-Halls was born in Surrey, England in 1958 and is a longtime practitioner of meditation. She has worked as a video maker, writer and editor on books and videos about meditation and Buddhism for the last ten years. Her other books include Meditations and Rituals with Essential Oils, The World of the Dalai Lama and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom. She is currently working on a Buddhist daybook. She practises and teaches aromatherapy and lives in Oxford.

Edition details

• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764119214
• ISBN 13: 9780764119217
• Binding: Paperback