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A complete guide to creating planetary yantras to access their healing and centering benefits

• Provides easy-to-follow instructions to create the yantras

• Serves as an introduction to active meditation, which focuses the mind while the body is engaged in a meditative activity

The tantric art of drawing or painting the nine designs known as yantras is an ancient practice of active meditation that releases positive healing and centering effects. Each of the nine designs corresponds to one of the nine qualities of body and mind essential to well-being: radiance, nourishment, passion, intellect, expansion, bliss, organization, uniqueness, and spirituality. From the basic elements of the square, the circle, and the triangle, dynamic visual meditations unfold as the practitioner works clockwise from the outer elements inward toward the central point of stillness, or bindu, the source of happiness within. An accompanying mantra is recited while preparing each yantra to fully engage the senses in the meditative process.

Creating the design that “speaks” most to the practitioner enables its unique healing quality to be transmitted. For example, working on the yantra named “Radiance” cultivates optimism and the self-confidence to succeed in one’s endeavors, while “radiating,” or imparting, one’s inner light to others.

This workbook provides an important resource for active meditation, a practice revered for its effectiveness in revealing the spiritual underpinnings of everyday life. The active participation of the body in meditation while creating the nine planetary yantras raises to the level of spiritual ritual the practitioner’s intention toward wakefulness and gives access to profound states of healing integration..
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The Total Mindset will paradoxically both calm and energize your life. This signature set includes both The Practicing Mind and The Meditating Mind. In the book The Practicing Mind, Thomas M. Sterner provides new insight into how you can make being more disciplined and focused, and living in the present moment, a natural part of your daily life experience. The Meditating Mind will provide you with an overview of what meditation is and how, in a very short time, you can begin to enjoy the benefits of its presence in your daily routine. It will both teach and guide you through a meditation method that can be used by anyone to clear their mind of stress-causing chatter in as little as 10 minutes a day. The Total Mindset is available in two unique combinations: The Practicing Mind (Print Book) combined with The Meditating Mind (2-CD Set), and The Practicing Mind (Unabridged 4-CD Set Audiobook) combined with The Meditating Mind (2-CD Set), each offered at a special discounted price..
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Few Christian writers today bring scriptural truth into everyday life like Anne Graham Lotz. Now she brings some of her most thought-provoking meditations into a concise and captivating collection of daily devotions. As the latest addition to the series, which includes Max Lucado's Grace for the Moment, Chuck Swindoll's Wisdom for the Way, and Eugene H. Peterson's God's Message for Each Day, The Joy of My Heart is certain to extend the series sales beyond its current mark of 2 million copies. With its attractive four-color cover and interior, it will be a welcome addition to anyone's personal devotional time..
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In The Silent Question, Packer provides fresh insights on using the experiences of life that are raw, messy, painful, and sometimes full of laughter, to open a way to compassion. She urges us to let go of our thoughts and to sit "in the stillness of not knowing" in order to reflect upon the essential question of who we are. Packer encourages us to discover that life, energy, and insight come from the questioning, the looking, the listening..
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So often in the rush and bustle of our busyness, we miss the best of life----the sights and sounds and silences that can breathe new meaning into our experience of the world. In this collection of soul-filling meditations and stunning photographs, the Monks of New Skete once again reach out and reawaken the warmest places of our hearts, offering profound but simple lessons in the art of living well. "A quiet call stirs the depths of who we are: Rise Up! Come then and rise up---with laughter and from sorrow, with good reading and with music. From doing nothing to catching the power of a breaking wave."

Every awe-inspiring page of this book will give you fresh glimpses of the treasures of hope hidden in our daily lives. With their gentle guidance, the Monks of New Skete offer new strategies for turning sadness into meaning, loneliness into fulfillment, alienations into a renewed sense of belonging in this wondrous world..
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The answer to the beginner's need for a comprehensive introduction to meditation, THEJOYOFMEDITATINGis now available onCD. With over 100,000 copies in print, THEJOYOFMEDITATINGintroduces the fundamentals of meditative practice-breathing, relaxation and creative visualization-and takes listeners on a series of four fifteen- minute meditations. These meditations can help beginners as well as those already practicing meditation to reduce tension and anxiety, open themselves to a higher awareness and reach a deeper connection to the divine. Following the tremendous success of her original audio program THECELESTINEMEDITATIONS, Salle Merrill Redfield brings new listeners to the joys of meditation with this guide..
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A mind that is still is indeed a rarity in today's world. We are constantly multi-tasking as we are pushed harder and harder to get more done in less time. Having an agitated and over-stimulated mind, though stressful and tiring, has grown to feel normal because we have either forgotten or never learned how to experience anything else. Meditation quiets the mind. It brings stillness into a world of constant motion and noise, offering inner peace and self-awareness. It brings focus into all of your activities, yet it costs nothing more than your self-effort and a small slice of your day. Though meditation is a term most people have heard of, too few have any real understanding of what it is, what it offers, and where to start if you want to learn more about it. Mountain Sage Publishing and Thomas Sterner have created this 2-CD set for just that purpose. Here you will get an overview of what meditation is and how, in a very short time, you can begin to enjoy the benefits of its presence in your daily routine. This program is self-paced and self-timed, helping you to learn how to meditate, and more easily make meditation a part of your day. You can meditate for ten minutes, twenty minutes, or longer and know exactly how much time has passed. You will find this method both practical and easy to stay with. Join Mountain Sage Publishing and Thomas Sterner on a journey of self-discovery that will last a lifetime and beyond.

NEW! This CD set now includes a BONUS CD: Thoughts on The Practicing Mind: An Interview With Thomas M. Sterner. Explore the concepts and ideas introduced in Mr. Sterner's book, The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life. And now, the wisdom of both The Meditating Mind and The Practicing Mind are available in a brand new package: The Total Mindset..
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