Unlearning Meditation: What to Do When the Instructions Get In the Way (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590307526)

Meditation without instructions--a path to tranquility and insight that you can discover all on your own

When we meditate, our minds often want to do something other than the meditation instructions we've been taught. When that happens repeatedly, we may feel frustrated to the point of abandoning meditation altogether.

Jason Siff invites us to approach meditation in a new way, one that honors the part of us that doesn't want to do the instructions. He teaches us how to become more tolerant of intense emotions, sleepiness, compelling thoughts, fantasies--the whole array of inner experiences that are usually considered hindrances to meditation. The meditation practice he presents in Unlearning Meditation is gentle, flexible, permissive, and honest, and it's been wonderfully effective for opening up meditation for people who thought they could never meditate, as well as for injecting a renewed energy for practice into the lives of seasoned practitioners.

Author: Jason Siff
ISBN-10: 1590307526
ISBN-13: 9781590307526
Publisher: Shambhala
Language: English
Published: 07/06/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 06/16/2010