WHY MEDITATION WORKS
A medical perspective on how meditation can relieve stresss and encourage self-healing - James Baltzell, MD
An assumption underlying the many books on meditation is that it is good for you! WHY MEDITATION WORKS, written by a general practitioner, actually explains why. It is a meditation manual and a study of the evidence that meditation relieves, enhances mental abilities, and assists the body's healing.
Chapters include:
what is meditation?
a brief historical survey of the different types of meditation
what meditation will do for you
medical evidence of the value of meditation
sample meditations to get you going
This pocket-friendly book is an introductory guide to meditation as well as one that covers its benefits from a medical perspective. A practitioner of yoga for nearly three decades, James Baltzell is particularly good at explaining the aspects of meditation that relate to body posture and breathing.
978-1-905398-08-9
New Age/Meditation
£6.99/US$11.95
Paper
Illustrated with photographs and line illustrations
64 Pages/178 x144 mm
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About the Author
James Baltzell, Assistant Professor of Radiology at the University of Minnesota, spent many years running a practice that combined alternative therapies with mainstream general practice. At this ground-breaking Healing Center he ran meditation classes for the White Eagle Lodge, a UK-based spiritual organisation renowned for the quality of its meditation teaching.