The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration & Meditation: Ancient Skills for Modern Minds
The Levey, who teach the methods of stress management to a variety of organizations, including the U.S. Army Green Berets, offers a warm and very practical handbook for those who want to improve the health and performance, stress management and deepen their appreciation of life.
"It begins with a discussion of relaxation, the presentation of eight simple, discreet, techniques to identify and release tension in the body and mind. They then progress of the merger, with 11 different modes, including several years deep breathing, to help an abstraction of distractions, to stabilize the mind and its full attention to bear on the object of concentration.
A good relaxation and concentration are fundamental to the success of the meditation, which is here at once a path to spiritual liberation and also a real world strategy to change harmful patterns of thought and behavior.
The Levey then offers 39 methods of meditation, simply listening to his environment deliberately to imagine that his body is hollow. They complement the book with reflections on the integration of all these techniques in daily life and work.
Many of the strategies found here are clear, step by step procedures, other scripts are appropriate for recording on magnetic tape to read during a relaxation, concentration or meditation session.
Even if they advocate a particular spiritual tradition, the authors continually emphasize the depth and sacredness of these "domestic arts", where a useful guide that will appeal to a wide range of readers in search of tranquility increase and control of their lives.
