Levey, Joel (Joel Levey)

Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness Levey, Joel (Joel Levey)

Marc Notes: This text teaches five different meditation techniques, with nearly a dozen practices in each, making it a very comprehensive, yet easy to follow, resource. The five types of meditation are: concentration meditation, mindfulness meditation, reflective meditation, creative meditation, heart-centred meditation. This is the book for the complete beginner and the long-time meditator who may be stuck or out of practice. Review Quotes: "In this beautiful book, the Leveys condense two decades of study, experience, and teaching in the art of self-mastery. They make it clear that it is not stress itself that kills us but our reaction to it, and they lead the student from simple self-regulation to the heights of self-knowledge and spiritual awareness. Hopefully everyone who reads this book will make room in their life for the practices and growth program that it illustrates." --Dr. Elmer Green, co-author of "Beyond Biofeedback," Director of the Voluntary Control Program, Menninger FoundationReview Quotes: "A skillful blend of time-proven antidotes to the stress of modern life." --Dan Goleman, Ph. D., author of "Emotional Intelligence"Review Quotes: "In this beautifully done book, the Leveys have skillfully woven together contemporary insights into the value and need for meditation practice in our lives with a large number of extremely evocative suggestions for making use of different ways to practice relaxation, concentration, and meditation. A real gem." --Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph. D., author of "Full Catastrophe Living" and "Wherever You Go, There You Are," Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (CFM) at the University of Massachusetts Medical CenterReview Quotes: "This book is an excellent primer for waking up. Practice these techniques and your life will change." --Richard Strozzi Heckler, Ph. D., author of "The Anatomy of Change" and "Being Human at Work"Review Quotes: "There is no question that relaxation and meditation are desperately needed in today's stressful society. The Leveys' book wisely emphasizes the need for relaxation and concentration exercises as skills needed to practice good meditation." --C. Norm Shealy, M. D., Ph. D., co-author of "The Creation of Health and Anatomy of the Spirit," Founder and Medical Director of Shealy Pain & Health Rehabilitation InstituteReview Quotes: "The Leveys' book is a remarkably useful and important guide in a stressful age. Joel and Michelle free meditation from commonly held misconceptions and set it soaring--fresh and joyful--into the heart and mind of the modern-day spiritual explorer. It's meditation demystified. Pure and simple." --Peg Jordon, R. N., Editor In Chief, "American Fitness Magazine"Table of Contents: "If it were the only book you had to study and work with for the rest of your life, it would be all that you need." ?Joan Borysenko, from the forewordReview Quotes: "You are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the inner sciences to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with the inner technologies of mental development and transformation." --His Holiness the Dalai LamaReview Quotes: "The methods work wonders." --Ram DassReview Quotes: "What a beautiful book! We need so much in our world to focus on how to be instead of how to do, and your book shows the way." --Larry Dossey, M. D., author of "Healing Words"Review Quotes: "Perhaps the best aspect of this book is that it actually tells you what to do and how. It also explains in no-nonsense style why a certain approach is recommended and what benefit may be expected from its practice." --Esther-Margaret Hood, "Hong Kong Post"Publisher Marketing: The Leveys introduce readers to dozens of mindfulness and meditation techniques, skillfully organized into five categories of practice, making "Mindfulness, Meditation, and Mind Fitness" a very comprehensive and easy-to-use resource for inner exploration and transformation. This book offers a treasury of practical wisdom distilled from the Leveys' intensive study with many of the world's most respected authorities of the contemplative science and wisdom traditions, and an introduction to the mind-fitness disciplines necessary for personal mastery, wisdom, creativity, compassion, and resilience in times of increasing intensity and accelerating change. Given how many people needlessly suffer from overwhelm, exhaustion, and preventable stress-related illness, the Leveys' wisdom is needed now more than ever! This book is an inspiration for complete beginners, long-time meditators, and everyone in between, who seek to deepen and expand their practice. Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey were among the very first to bring mindfulness and mind-fitness teachings to mainstream organizations beginning in the 1970s. They have taught tens of thousands of people in hundreds of leading corporations, medical centers, universities, sports, government, and military arenas - including Google, NASA, World Bank, Intel, M. I. T., Stanford, and World Business Academy. They are the founders of Wisdom at Work (http: //wisdomatwork.com). Originally published in hardcover as "Simple Meditation and Relaxation" (Conari Press, 1999) and in paperback as "Luminous Mind" (Conari Press, 2006). Contributor Bio:  Levey, Joel Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey were among the very first to bring mindfulness and mind-fitness teachings to mainstream organizations beginning in the 1970s. They have taught tens of thousands of people in hundreds of leading corporations, medical centers, universities, sports, government, and military arenas, including Google, NASA, World Bank, Intel, M. I. T., Stanford, and World Business Academy. They are the founders of Wisdom at Work ("http: //wisdomatwork.com"). Contributor Bio:  Levey, Michelle Joel Levey, Ph. D., and Michelle Levey, M. A., are fouders of InnerWork Technologies, Inc., a Seattle-based firm that specializes in developing the resilience of organizational cultures in which team spirit, community, creative intelligence, life-work balance, and inspired leadership can thrive. Their clients include NASA, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and over 200 leading organizations around the globe. The Leveys have served as faculty of Antioch and Bastyr Unviersities, and as directors of clinical stress and mind-body health programs at Group Health and Children's Hospital. Widely published and recognized as leaders in their field, the Leveys' corporate programs and popular workshops have inspired tens of thousands of people around the globe. Joel and Michelle Levey can be reached at levey@wisdomatwork.com.