Lyons Regional Library

From the cofounders of The Well Daily, a playfully-illustrated, informative, and easy-to-use meditation guidebook-including an eight-week plan for busy novices-that helps even the busiest would-be meditator incorporate this practice into their lifestyle and enjoy its many physical and emotional benefits. Weve all heard the reports about meditation: that it helps us relieve stress and anxiety, improve our moods, lose weight, and sleep better. We know...

An American-born Tibetan Buddhist nun offers her own unique explanation of meditation and guides readers through practicing this calming ritual.

From the publisher. Nightline anchor Dan Harris embarks on an unexpected, hilarious, and deeply skeptical odyssey through the strange worlds of spirituality and self-help, and discovers a way to get happier that is truly achievable. After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to make some changes. A lifelong nonbeliever, he found himself on a bizarre adventure, involving a disgraced pastor, a mysterious...

"All aboard for Meditation Station! It's time to learn how to manage our busy minds, difficult feelings, and frustrations by staying with our breath and in our body. Your train of thoughts might be racing, but you can manage it with some simple steps. Take a deep breath in, and then let the breath out slowly. That is how you will learn what meditation is all about. The next train is coming. Can you hear it chugging along? Stay in the meditation station--don't...

"Follow the adventures of our hero, Hug, as it navigates past The Web of Sticky Thoughts to deliver love and care to the one special heart it was made for. This story reminds us that sometimes it takes surrender for everything to get better."--Back cover.

"This timeless, rhyming story asks a simple but profound question: what makes a tree good? Children explore this concept through the many beautiful aspects of a tree's nature, and in the end, learn a lesson about their own self-worth."--Back cover. This book will help children to see and appreciate their own goodness and inner beauty. The book ends with The Goodness Stretch, a set of questions to help young listeners and readers to relax their bodies,...

""Super Mind is a wonderfully practical exploration of the benefits of Transcendental Meditation that reveals how the technique is not a belief or faith but a simple tool that, in my experience, can improve your life in ways you never thought possible." --Hugh Jackman The noted research psychiatrist and New York Times-bestselling author explores how Transcendental Meditation permanently alters your daily consciousness, resulting in greater productivity,...

"The prayer who searched for God: helping children use prayer and breath to find God within themselves. Follow the adventures of one special prayer as she travels on a single breath to the edge of the universe to find God. This story explores the personal and omnipresent nature of God in an easily accessible way."--Back cover.

Teaches how to discover and cultivate the four noble aspirations of Tibetan Buddhism--loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity--which are the greatest antidotes to fear.