Jim Collison, Author of 'Simply How to Meditate: Meditation Made Easy for Beginners and Busy People,' Interviewed on the Frankie Boyer Radio Show:How you'll quickly, easily begin meditatingOpen Simply How to Meditate, and you'll begin meditating, right from the first two or three minutes. And with just the first three meditation examples you'll be meditating even on your most hectic days.You'll quickly move past the common roadblocks to meditation. Maybe you have hesitations about meditating? Early on, in this book, you'll be creating your own meditation moments, using your memories, your experiences, your thoughts.You'll quickly feel calm and relaxed in your meditation time.Relieve the stresses of your everyday life. You might be having a bad day at work. You might be sitting through a long wait for your doctor's appointment. You might be standing in a long checkout line in the grocery store. LivingMoments meditation practices in Simply How to Meditate are habits you'll use to short-circuit the common stresses like these in your life.Your meditating will become more satisfying. Discover the Moments-in-Time technique in chapter 5. You'll recall moments in your life when you've been especially calm, relaxed and at peace. Then you bring these into your meditation moments to strengthen and deepen your present feelings of calmness, relaxation, and peace.You experience more interesting meditation moments. You'll quickly create your own personal mantras - meditation affirmations -- that are interesting and meaningful to you. In addition, Simply How to Meditate gives you other tips to add personal interests to your meditating. So, your meditations don't become stagnant and boring.You'll add more variety to your meditations. From chapter 10 to chapter 17 you discover and practice meditations like these: The I Live meditation. The Monkey-Mind Pacifier meditation. And the Be Kind to Myself meditation.Improve your athletic and workout performance. Some of the world's most successful athletes meditate. You don't have to earn an NBA- or NFL-level salary, though, to do the same and reap the meditation benefits. In chapter 7, Simply How to Meditate gives you examples of mantras -- meditation affirmations -- for championship performance... and encourages you to create your own.Also, a new way to have "mind's eye" moments. About 3 to 5 out of 100 people lack the ability to picture images in their minds. This condition is called aphantasia. If you lack the ability to picture images in your mind, Simply How to Meditate is for you. The Afterword in the book shows you a quick, modern, 21st century way to focus your mind in meditation if you do not have the visual ability to picture images in your mind.Simply How to Meditate is a learn-by-doing-it book, written by an expert in researching, living, and writing how-to books and manuals for students, teachers, business people and their employees.Jim Collison's career as researcher, writer and editor began as sports editor of his hometown's two newspapers in Blue Earth, MN. He is a graduate of St. John's University (Collegeville, MN).Jim taught on both the high school and college levels and served as an educational consultant. He designed an educational program called ALERT (Adult Literacy and Employment Reading Training) and wrote and conducted such workshops as: Start on Success in Your Own Business, Power Over Fear, How to Take Advantage of Crisis and Change, and How to Help, Energize and Lead People.Jim is author of "Skill-Building in Advanced Reading", "Mental Power in Reading", "NO-How Coaching: Strategies for Winning in Sports and Business from the Coach Who Says 'NO'", and "Hidden Riches: How You Can Discover Hidden Wealth from Your Employees' Ideas".

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