An Introduction to Meditation

The short book for people who have tried to meditate and decided they were bad at it.

Inside: what meditation is, and the six things people get wrong about it. The three things that stop most people, with a way round each one. The questions everyone asks before they begin. Then eighteen practices, most of them done in a chair: the breath, the seven minute sit, the balanced breath for three in the morning, five ways to sit, the lotus mudra, loving kindness, five ways to move (play counts), everyday mindfulness, two small rituals to bookend the day, and a first month if you would rather be told what to do.

28 pages, PDF. Read it on your phone or print it. It is yours to keep the moment you pay.

What's inside

Getting started
1. Before we start
2. An expensive lesson
3. What meditation is
4. What it can do for you
5. Six things people get wrong
6. What stops most people
7. Questions before you begin
8. Find your style

The practices
9. Start with the breath
10. Five ways to sit
11. Hands, heart and one question
12. Five ways to move
13. Everyday mindfulness
14. Bookend the day

Keeping it going
15. Making it stick
16. Pick one and keep a record
17. Where to go from here