How to Meditate
A Guide to Self-discovery
Little, Brown and Company · Print & ebook · December 29, 2020
Lawrence LeShan's classic guide to meditation introduced mindfulness to an entire generation.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, beginner-friendly guide that treats meditation as both discipline and self-discovery.
- Genres
- Meditation, Managing Stress
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, December 29, 2020
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Lawrence LeShan's classic guide to meditation introduced mindfulness to an entire generation. Now it's available in a new paperback edition. Since its initial publication nearly 50 years ago, this simple yet powerful guide has helped more than a million readers reap the profound and limitless rewards of meditation. Now, in a special new edition, How to Meditate is back, singing the virtues of a quiet mind in the overstimulating bustle of the modern world.
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Outlining a realistic and no-nonsense approach that will enable you to bring meditation effortlessly into your life, no matter how thinly stretched you are, How to Meditate is unrivaled as a source of inspiration and practical instruction for anyone seeking inner peace, relief from stress, and increased self-knowledge.
Why It Clicks
A serious, beginner-friendly guide that treats meditation as both discipline and self-discovery.
Come here for
- Clear meditation guidance
- Contemplative, practice-first tone
Expect
- Step-by-step instruction
- A reflective, toolkit-like read
Where it sits
| Meditation | 97% |
|---|---|
| Managing Stress | 47% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Meditation
- Prayer & Healing
- Inspiration & Personal Growth
- Buddhist Practice & Ritual
- Authors
- Lawrence LeShan
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- December 29, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Meditation