In his personal, realistic, and down-to-earth style, Zachary Phillips shares what it takes to survive the impact of mental illness and childhood trauma and to go from a place of barely surviving to passionately thriving. Drawing from his personal experience living with mental illness, childhood trauma, and the recovery process, Zachary Phillips provides practical advice, tips, and techniques.

Meditation has been around for centuries, especially for those in Eastern cultures. Over that last decade or so, meditation has found new popularity for people in Western cultures as a means to relax and de-stress. Even though meditation is not a new practice, it is still fairly new to those of us in the US. That’s why this book is here to teach those of us who weren’t raised in a culture that taught us about meditation and its benefits. 

Do everyday distractions affect your daily tasks? Do you find it hard to commit to new habits? Are you ready to start making different choices?The book discusses means for improving a person's willpower, mindfulness, and sticking to your plan to achieve everything you’ve always wanted. You need to learn how to avoid distractions, create specific goals, and maintain focus in order to achieve them. To fulfill your dreams, you need to be able to have self-control and willpower to stick to your daily habits. This guide is here to show you the easiest way to learn that!

The aim of meditation is to achieve peace with oneself - to be calm and at one with your mind. If we are at peace, we will shed our worries and doubts, we will liberate ourselves from discomfort and anxiety, we will experience happiness in its true sense. We can train in meditation, we can train our minds to become peaceful and reinforce these beliefs to reach true happiness. 

With this book, I don’t have the ambition to convey the entire wealth of experience I have accumulated over the years, but I would like to try to share with you the same awareness that has made it possible for me to begin a journey that has changed my life, hoping that, one day, it will also change yours for the better. Even if your life is full of commitments and setbacks and it seems impossible to avoid everyday stress, you will learn how to approach it in a more conscious way, so as to feel better and improve your health and the well-being of your body and mind.

Meditation can help you tackle your fear and replace it with happiness. In this audiobook, you’ll discover how to shed negativity with humility and consistent, loving practice. You can start feeling better - right away! 

I can tell you that meditation can mean many different hings to many different people. Perhaps an easier approach to start with is to clarify what meditation is not. It is not exclusive to one sector of society or a specific type of person or culture. Meditation is open-ended, free, available to anyone, and offers great benefits. 

How often do you take the time to share some love with yourself? How often do you tell yourself you are proud of your achievements? Most of you will answer: never. How often do you judge yourself for not being good enough? Most of you will answer: every single day. Society teaches us to beat ourselves up. We start to believe if we shame ourselves we somehow will become better. But instead the brain cells that are responsible for learning and growth shut down and we try to hide ourselves. There is an answer that doesn't require doctor-prescribed pills.

Are you tired of feeling exhausted and overwhelmed? Do you need help managing stress, anxiety, depression, or chronic pain? Do you wish you could master life’s distractions to find equilibrium within? Discover the secrets to disconnect from those burdens and discover your best self. With as little as 10 minutes per day, you can change your life and find inner happiness with Mindfulness Meditation: Begin Your Peaceful Journey to a Stress Free Body and Mind to Achieve Happiness.

If you practice meditation often, you will have less stress, anxiety, and worry. You will be more healthy, happy, successful, productive, and positive. Throughout this audiobook, you will learn how to meditate and its benefits. You will learn many other things about meditation and how you will find peace within yourself and reduce stress.

You will also find physiological information that helps you to see what's happening to the brain while you meditate. There are human psychological needs that are explained in detail, and together with all of the chapters of the audiobook, there is you – the person trying to learn mindfulness meditation. The author has not forgotten that there are pitfalls and that you are likely to make mistakes along the way. You will find ways to deal with these as you begin to take this journey, as well as learning how to use breathing exercises to help you during the course of that learning. 

The Mind Illuminated is the first how-to meditation guide from a neuroscientist who is also an acclaimed meditation master. This innovative book offers a 10-stage program that is deeply grounded in ancient spiritual teachings about mindfulness and holistic health and also draws from the latest brain science to provide a road map for anyone interested in achieving the benefits of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is considered the number-one top trait for becoming successful in almost any competitive field today. In this audiobook, Dharma Hazari, a Buddhist monk with hundreds of hours of experience teaching mindfulness, will show you the path to achieve equanimity and inner peace.  

Suggesting meditation as a remedy for anxiety and depression is on the rise. In particular, mindfulness meditation is especially popular for depression and anxiety. It can be difficult and overwhelming to figure out where to begin with meditation, which causes many people to give up before they even start! However, with Meditation for Beginners, you will know exactly where to begin and how to make the most of your meditation. Discover how you can successfully bring mindfulness into your meditation and how it can be used to improve your outlook on life overall.

Mindfulness means being aware of our thoughts and feelings in order to appreciate the moment and to respond appropriately to our surroundings. If we believe the world is gray and cruel, hopelessness will discolor our interior. But if we synchronize our thoughts and feelings, we'll see the color that resides in us. Our eyes are going to distill the light that illuminates the outside. This guide is the first step toward a better feeling and thinking.