Five Minute Meditation: Mindfulness, Stress Relief, and Focus for Absolute Beginners by Lisa Shea

Five Minute Meditation: Mindfulness, Stress Relief, and Focus for Absolute Beginners Reviews

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  Ajit Panicker

  Great quick read
  
  At times you don't understand the importance of ageless ways of improving your life. One of them is meditation. Read this easy to understand book.
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  Renée Odell

  Learning about Meditation
  
  My sister in law really wanted me to look into meditation. She loves meditating. I have never done it and don't even know how. This quick book helped me understand it and get started. Her tips do work.
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  Kaustuv Neogi

  Five Minute Meditation (5 Stars)
  
  Five Minute Meditation by Lisa Shea is a beginner's book on meditation that quickly enables a complete novice to start meditating. The book is an easy read as the author strips away the complexity of an arcane subject. The presentation is secular. The only thing required of the reader is five minutes of time to do the meditation, something which even the busiest of us should be able to do.
  
  Three positions are discussed: walking, sitting and lying down. The author stresses that one must not struggle to keep the mind free of thoughts. Rather one should observe them and let the thoughts wander away. The focus when walking is on the walking technique which the author describes as walking from heel to arch to ball of the feet. In the sitting and lying down positions, the focus is on the breathing. The author recommends breathing from the stomach as it releases calming hormones. A timer which lets you know when the 5 minutes are up is recommended.
  
  For those having trouble, the author recommends focusing on an object, music, guided meditation. The author warns the reader of potential challenges like boredom, frustration, impatience and tells the reader to remain undaunted.
  
  My favorite thing about this book is its simplicity. It requires only 5 minutes of your time when starting out. The author also doesn't make any recommendation on when to meditate. One can do it whenever one has the time. A helpful tip the author give us is to connect the meditation to an already existing activity. This way we don't need to make new time for meditation.
  
  As this book is available for free on Amazon, I highly recommend it to anyone interest in the subject.
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  Jim Brown

  IF you are NOT meditating, you owe it to yourself to read this book. I have read a great many books where the author states that meditation is extremely good for you in so many different ways, mostly to develop a calmness and a focused awareness. I understood what they said and/or wrote. The problem for me was how do you actually do it.
  
  Lisa Shea's book is very quick to read but contains a lot of great information. It is a "start", so to speak. I also started a course on Meditation I purchased from Great Courses. It is far more in depth with 36 lessons of about 30 minutes each. As I read Shea's book, I picked out a great many practices, ideas, suggestions that are also covered in the Great Course on Meditation.
  
  Way too soon to evaluate how well or how horrible I will do at meditating but if you don't start somewhere, you never will benefit for the practice. Shea's book is a great place to start.
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  Jeanette Dick

  The methods that are explained in this book are easy to follow and easy enough to remember therefore I found this book to be helpful and will be helpful in the future for me and I will be able to use the techniques that are being used in this book to better my life I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning how to meditate very good read and written in a way that anyone can learn from
  
  This book is a good read and I would recommend it to anyone that is looking to learn meditation and relaxation
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  Rayjan Koehler

  Nice Little Introduction
  
  A nice little introduction into meditation; some parts do repeat, but I personally like the flow of this e-book.
  
  This is the 25th unique book for my year challenge, and it was worth reading.
  
  It's free on Amazon, but I guess it can have charges depending on your country or other things, if there's a charge all proceeds go to a non-profit for battered woman it says so in the book.
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  Ashish Gourav

  I am no expert in meditation, or else I wouldn't have been reading the book in first place, that being said, this is a great resource in meditation. This has no fluff only the 5 minutes guideline you need to meditate
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  Bella

  Short and informative
  
  Talks on meditation for beginners. Types, tips, challenges faced by new meditators. How to Ave it. This a short clear cut book on meditation.
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  Betina Jackson

  5 minutes of relaxing
  
  I already meditate however, this is a great reminder that sometimes 5 minutes is enough. Great for beginners or those coming back to meditation
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  Frieda

  Good suggestions that I tried last night and slept like a dream.
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  Susan Andress

  NOT WHAT I EXPECTED
  
  This book was a disappointment for me. I was hoping it would contain things to do instead of talking about the methods. Total let-down.
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  Ashley

  So easy to read and actually inspired me to start mediating
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  Crystal Toller

  Meditation
  
  A great intro to 5 minute meditation. Am going to work on doing this since it's only 5 minutes. Enjoyed reading this book.
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  Donna Peake

  I need to meditate more often, this quick read will get you back into the habit of taking care of yourself.