Meditation Illuminated
Simple Ways to Manage Your Busy Mind
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A simple meditation guide for people with busy minds.
Want to manage your busy mind? Now you can with Meditation Illuminated, a clear and engaging “how-to” book. Concise and easy to follow, this straightforward primer offers you:
- A comprehensive overview of how to meditate
- Easy and accessible techniques
- Practical ways to find time to practice
- Strategies for reducing stress and anxiety
- Step-by-step instructions for 21 guided meditations
Learn from an experienced meditation teacher.
Author Joy Rains skillfully guides you, imparting knowledge from her decades of meditation experience — plus wisdom from ancient and modern sages. She uses compelling stories and memorable examples to give you a strong foundation for your meditation practice.
Gain the confidence and know-how to meditate.
If you want to learn to meditate, listen to Meditation Illuminated. This simple and enlightening book is a handy resource to purchase for yourself or give as a gift. The first part of the audiobook is designed to give you a complete understanding of how to meditate. Then, Joy guides you through more than 20 meditations (with brief periods of silence woven through), so you can discover the styles that resonate with you. Most meditations range from six to nine minutes, an ideal length for beginners. You’ll also find a longer exercise to help you release tension and relax your body. With her soothing voice, Joy’s meditations have helped thousands of listeners worldwide find simple ways to manage their busy minds.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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"Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. For the first time in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and why I should give it a try! This book is fabulously basic yet beautifully profound. I was skeptical that I could learn something like meditation by listening to an audiobook. I thought surely I’d need a guru, a sage, to meet with me in person and show me the way. WRONG! Joy is that person, one of the most sought-after meditation coaches in the country...now available to you and me! Listen to Meditation Illuminated and let her guide you - with wisdom and humor - toward a less cluttered, chaotic mind." (Elisabeth Leamy, columnist, The Washington Post)
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- By Patrick K. Porter, Ph.D. on 03-22-13
By: Lama Surya Das
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Running with the Mind of Meditation
- Lessons for Training Body and Mind
- By: Sakyong Mipham
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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As a Tibetan lama and leader of Shambhala (an international community of 165 meditation centers), Sakyong Mipham has found physical activity to be essential for spiritual well-being. He's been trained in horsemanship and martial arts but has a special love for running. Here, he incorporates his spiritual practice with running, presenting basic meditation instruction and fundamental principles he has developed.
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Principle based but very approachable
- By Emy Moore on 09-18-16
By: Sakyong Mipham
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Start Here Now
- An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation
- By: Susan Piver
- Narrated by: Susan Piver
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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A concise, jargon-free guide to learning what Buddhist meditation is - and isn't - with advice on how to start a meditation practice. If you want to meditate but have no idea where to begin, this book by best-selling author and Buddhist teacher Susan Piver will help you: It contains everything you need to know to start a meditation practice and, even more important, to continue one.
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Amiable style
- By Lisa90019 on 08-11-21
By: Susan Piver
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Perfectly Imperfect
- By: Baron Baptiste
- Narrated by: Baron Baptiste
- Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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A little over a decade ago, Baron Baptiste published his seminal book, Journey into Power. The first of its kind, it introduced the world to Baptiste Yoga, his signature method that marries a lifetime of studying with some of the world's most renowned yoga masters with his uniquely powerful approach to inner and outer transformation. Since then, yoga has steadily moved into the mainstream in our culture, and Baron's unique contribution has played a key role.
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Easy, Quick, EFFECTIVE
- By Deebee on 03-20-17
By: Baron Baptiste
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Meditation for Beginners
- By: Jack Kornfield
- Narrated by: Jack Kornfield
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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In Meditation for Beginners, renowned teacher Jack Kornfield uses clear language and step-by-step guidance to show us how to start - and stick with - a daily meditation practice. From the basics of how to get started to dealing with distractions, this complete course introduces us to the Insight tradition of meditation that has helped practitioners throughout the ages cultivate profound inner calm and a lasting capacity for happiness.
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Basic intro for novices without any actual meditations
- By Barry McDonald on 04-12-18
By: Jack Kornfield
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Sit Like a Buddha
- A Pocket Guide to Meditation
- By: Lodro Rinzler
- Narrated by: Lodro Rinzler
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Believe what you've heard about meditation: it'll focus your mind, open your heart, and sometimes surprise you with insight. And it's not complicated to learn. In fact, everything you need to get started is contained in this audiobook. Lodro Rinzler begins by challenging you to ask yourself why you want to meditate in the first place. (Good news: there's no wrong answer!)
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Light and inspiring
- By GC Fourie on 04-22-15
By: Lodro Rinzler
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One Simple Thing
- A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
- By: Eddie Stern, Deepak Chopra - foreword
- Narrated by: Eddie Stern
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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Drawing on modern neuroscience, ancient wisdom, and decades of practice and teaching, Eddie Stern’s One Simple Thing, with a foreword from Deepak Chopra, explains how what we do affects who we become, and reveals how a steady routine of physical movements, activities, and attitudes are able to transform not just our bodies but our brain functions and emotions, and how we experience life.
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Life skills 101....Well done!
- By Carri Moser Camp on 03-08-20
By: Eddie Stern, and others
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The Energy Codes
- The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life
- By: Dr. Sue Morter DC, Jill Bolte Taylor PhD - foreword
- Narrated by: Dr. Sue Morter DC
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Transform your life with this revolutionary and accessible seven-step guide - grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics - to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing.
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Great book with detailed practices
- By Trina Kelley on 04-18-19
By: Dr. Sue Morter DC, and others
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- Panda Girl
- 05-31-21
Anyone can meditate!
This is a perfect audiobook for a person who wants to learn how to meditate.
Meditation always seemed like something that was too difficult and confusing for me. How would I be able to shut out everything and go into some alternate state? This book taught me that this is not what meditation is. Using engaging stories and simple exercises, Joy Rains guides you through the process of learning to bring your attention to your breath (as an example) to slow down your STUFF (an acronym for everything in your mind.) There are lots of types of meditation included, so you can try and find the ones that work best for you.
After listening to Meditation Illuminated, I can actually meditate!
I highly recommend Meditation Illuminated!
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- J. Rabbit
- 05-25-21
Really Was a Siple Guide for my Busy Mind
I just finished listening to Meditation Illuminated and I wanted to share what a pleasure it was.
I am not someone who has time to meditate. This book not only convinced me I should, but shared techniques for finding time when you have none. This was a great guide to meditation. Rains offers examples of different meditation styles and explains them in an easy to understand way. And the chapters are broken down in such a way that you can go to one section to hear about one small part of the bigger puzzle, or to try one meditation technique, and then can jump to a different chapter if you want to try a different approach.
A really great guide for this newbie.
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- Caroline B.
- 05-08-21
Love this audiobook
Great way to learn to meditate, with engaging stories and simple descriptions of topics I used to think were confusing before listening to this audiobook. I liked having the author guide me through the different styles of meditations — the progressive muscle relaxation meditation was my favorite!
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- Julie Giulioni
- 04-26-21
Written to be an audio-book!
I just finished Meditation Illuminated and if any book was written to be experienced through audio, it's this one! Joy Rains has done the research, knows the topic and is masterful at simplifying the process of mediation, making it accessible and memorable with acronyms (like STUFF - brilliant!) and ABCs. With more than 20 unique meditations, this book offers valuable practice opportunities that makes the concepts come to life. And to hear it all and experience the meditations in the author's own voice is a real gift. I'll return to this book frequently!
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- lroseriver
- 05-14-21
A fantastic meditation resource
I cannot recommend this book enough as a simple but effective way to add meditation into your life and daily routine. I found the myriad of guided mediations a rich resource, with enough variation to give even the most meditation-hesitant listener an opportunity to practice in a way that works for them. I listened on 1.2x speed, and found that to be just perfect for me. Very happy I found this book!
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- Janet Fouts
- 08-24-21
Making meditation approachable
So many times I hear people proclaim that meditation takes too much time, their mind is too busy, or it’s too complicated. Joy does a beautiful job of shining light on the simple elegance of meditation to sooth and enlighten us about our selves.
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- Matthew Hass
- 06-01-21
A Perfect Start!
I just loved this audio book by Joy Rains! It is such a wonderful guide for anyone interested in learning to meditate. It is saturated with content to set you off on an easy path . The book provides a clear, logical progression of information in a positive and non threatening manner. Joy reinforces the information with practical and relatable anecdotes, and real life experiences. She has an energetic and engaging voice that is positive and calming. Such a pleasure to listen to! This book will assist you in making the mind-body connection, and providing the clarity of mind, that you have been wanting to achieve!
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- Melissa G Wilson
- 08-06-21
A wonderful hand-holding experience
I've been trying to meditate for years. I think I've listened to or read more than 20 books on the subject. I just couldn't stick with any set schedule for meditation. But then Joy came along. Full disclosure, I was gifted an audible copy but I am an audible member and would have bought this book if I had not received the gift.
I appreciated the wide variety of meditations offered. It really helps when you might not enjoy the more traditional meditation process. I highly recommend this book.
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