Three Minutes a Day
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A Fourteen-Week Course to Learn Meditation and Transform Your Life
- Millions of people they “don’t have time” to meditate regularly
- Three Minutes a Day provides practical weekly teachings and exercises designed to build meditation into a rewarding and instinctive part of everyday life
- The author is a biophysicist and former biotech CEO who retired in 2007 to devote himself full-time to Buddhism
- A combination of contemporary scientific research and Buddhist teaching that provides precise analogies of what ishappening to the mind when we meditate
- Meditation and mindfulness are endorsed by health professionals around the world as a highly effective treatment fordepression and other common health problems old promise: just three minutes a day can unlock lifelong insight into personal experience
Three Minutes a Day makes a bold claim: in just three minutes a day, for fourteen weeks — less than five hours total — you can generate real insight into personal experience that no amount of reading or learning can replicate. Most know that meditation is a path to achieving balance and well-being in our busy lives, but it’s typically associated with long periods of sitting in a specialized setting.
In Three Minutes a Day, Dr. Richard Dixey presents a different tradition, one that encourages short exercises to stabilize mental experience. For the millions of Americans who are interested in meditation but feel they don’t have the time, this is the perfect way to learn and incorporate this valuable practice into everyday life. Calm clarity and truly transformative benefits are within reach. Dixey’s method is laid out simply and clearly and includes:
• visualizations and breathing exercises to help readers achieve shamata (calmness) and vipassana (the ability to see clearly) through settled awareness
• Q&A sections after each exercise that provide opportunities for further clarity and understanding
• summaries at the end of each short chapter covering the techniques discussed to relieve stress, tension, and anxiety
• a path to clarity of mind, sharper thinking, improved concentration, and enhanced creativity that can be followed from anywhere in just minutes a dayAn accessible and secular introduction to meditation that fuses Eastern wisdom and scientific inquiry to make a