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12 Science-Based Benefits of Meditation

By Matthew Thorpe, Rachel Link — 2020

Meditation is the habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. The popularity of meditation is increasing as more people discover its many health benefits.

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Sit Like a Buddha: A Pocket Guide to Meditation

This is the ultimate go-to guide for learning how to meditate.

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Lodro Rinzler
2014
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F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way

In this inspiring and humorous book, John C. Parkin suggests that saying F**k It is the perfect Western expression of the Eastern spiritual ideas of letting go, giving up, and finding real freedom by realizing that things don’t matter so much (if at all).

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John C. Parkin
2014
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.

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Mark Nepo
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What We May Be: Techniques for Psychological and Spiritual Growth Through Psychosynthesis

A popular and practical introduction to psychosynthesis—the empowering psychology of self-actualization and enhanced personal growth. This book outlines a specific programme of easy-to-perform exercises that form the basis of a total system for psychological and spiritual growth.

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Piero Ferrucci
2025
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Meditation: Intimate Experiences with the Divine through Contemplative Practices

Contemplate the intimate journey of coming home to yourself as Sister Dr. Jenna and our sacred storytellers share their true, personal stories about meditation as a gateway into the mystical.

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Sister Dr. Jenna
2022
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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Pema Chödrön
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My Story to Yours: A Guided Memoir for Writing Your Recovery Journey

Reflecting on and telling our stories is a time-honored tradition in recovery circles—whether in silent meditation, speaking out at meetings, or between sponsors and their sponsees.

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Karen Casey
2025
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Getting Unstuck: A Workbook Based on the Principles in “Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow”

A spiritual self-help guide teaching you the 12 principles that will transform your way of thinking and lead you towards living a better life.

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Karen Casey
2012
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A Woman’s Spirit: More Meditations for Women

Following in the tradition of her recovery classic, Each Day a New Beginning, author Karen Casey presents another year full of inspiring meditations that speak to the challenges faced by recovering women. All women are unique—we all face different joys and struggles.

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Karen Casey
1994
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In God’s Care: Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery

True, lasting recovery requires us to create and maintain inner peace. For many, it springs from a practice of mindfulness, for others from the rituals of religion. But not everyone finds a connection with a Higher Power in those ways.

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Karen Casey, Homer Pyle
1991
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