Mindfulness - A Beginner's Guide to Meditation & Intentional Living

By Joe Bailey

Have you ever wanted to meditate or considered starting a meditative practice but didn't know where to begin? 

Mindfulness: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation and Intentional Living provides clear, easy to follow instructions on starting meditative practice. 

Using the meditation techniques included in this guide, you will soon discover how to use your breath, physical sensations, mental states, and even challenging feelings and emotions to foster tranquility, insight, and relaxation in your day-to-day life. 

The simple instructions in this guide will help you lay the foundations for a lifelong journey of inner discovery, appreciation and awakening. 

In this guide you will learn to...

• Cultivate awareness and purity of mind 
• Bridge the gap between meditative practice and daily life 
• Manage fears, anxieties, and worries 
• Reduce stress and unease 
• Increase personal well-being and clarity of mind 
• Deepen physical and mental relaxation 
• Alleviate tension in the body and mind 
• Increase appreciation of the moment 
• Become more present and self-aware 
• Increase productivity and reduce distraction 
• Improve quality of life 
• Develop objectivity and positive states of mind 
• Increase focus and learning effectiveness 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joe Bailey
• Release date: Feb 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780989458290

Book preview

Mindfulness

Mindfulness

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation & Intentional Living

Joe Bailey

Author’s Note:

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My appreciation for the poetic language of Eastern meditative traditions is evinced by the instructive quotes at the beginning of each chapter.

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To a life lived in a much wider world.

Look deeply, live fully, and maintain an open mind.

Contents

What’s Different About This Book?

What is Meditation?

Why Meditate?

How to Meditate

How This Works

How to Get Started

Meditative Techniques and Practices

When to Practice

Facing Fear

On Anxiety

Boredom

Natural Movement

Natural Mind

Remembering to Breathe

Cultivating Calm

Perfect Imperfection

The Antientropic Principle

Appreciation

Distractions

Changes

Who Are You?

Presence

Inspirational Quotes and Aspirational Views

Suggestions for Further Reading

Also by Joe Bailey

About the Author

My Thanks

What’s Different About This Book?

Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

― Shunryu Suzuki

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This is a book about the cultivation of consciousness.

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Many books treat meditation as something one does in seclusion, in silence, under perfect, idealized conditions, perhaps in a quiet, candlelit room or perched on a mountaintop overlooking a grand vista.

Although being in an inspiring location or having a comfortable, relaxed setting is nice and can be helpful, that is not the world we always live in.

It is, in fact, the world we try to create within ourselves.

We have the world as it is.

The practice in this book is done in the world as it is for the world you want to create.

This book seeks to bridge the gap between meditative practice and everyday life. From the perspective of the cultivation of mind, there is no separation. Neither should there be in your practice.

Don’t worry, there’s not as much pressure or challenge in that statement as you may think.

You just do your best.

When you drift, you come back.

When you