Meditation Made Easy: Coming to Know Your Mind, Paperback

An introductory step-by-step guide to meditation, suitable for beginners as well as those wishing to refresh their knowledge and practice.

Meditation Made Easy is a clear, how-to book on meditation aimed at complete beginners and practicing readers looking for easy, approachable meditation techniques.

In this book, readers will learn:
How to develop a consistent meditation practice at home and while traveling
Basic instructions and techniques of meditation
Instructions for seated, walking, and supine meditation postures
How to use the breath as an object of meditation
How to deal with distraction and lethargy in meditation

This book is for readers who do not know how to start a practice, or for those people who do not have access to teachers. It is especially useful for the multitudes of yoga practitioners who want to meditate but have never received solid instruction in the yoga studio. Using traditional Eastern practices, but aimed at a Western audience, the methods in this book can be utilized on the meditation cushion as well as in daily life when stress and challenges arise.
Previously published in the Hay House Basics series.

Matteo Pistono is the author of Fearless in Tibet and In the Shadow of the Buddha. He holds an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and a Masters of Arts degree in Indian Philosophy. Pistono lived and travelled throughout the Himalayas for a decade, bringing to the West graphic accounts and photos of China's human rights abuses in Tibet. He is the founder of Nekorpa, a foundation working to protect sacred pilgrimage sites around the world.