Laughter, Tears, Silence: Expressive Meditations to Calm Your Mind and Open Your Heart

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Pulling from many traditions and offering practical applications as well as instruction and teaching tales, Pragito Dove demonstrates that meditation can start from any emotion, feeling, activity, or moment and can extend from mere seconds to hours. Each will offer benefits. Meditation can help readers clear emotional clutter, come to terms with grief, more deeply experience joy, connect more deeply to a partner, learn to let go, discover inner guidance, or simply sit and experience fully the perfect present moment. Dove's meditations are active and expressive, beginning from the premise that our bodies as well as our minds should be involved in meditating. They encompass the full range of human experience and can begin with dance, laughter, sobbing, anger, shouting, or, in the most familiar way, with silence.

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"Demystifies meditation for beginners and inspires experienced practitioners."
-- John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"Pragito skillfully proves that there is no time when meditation is not possible and enlightenment is not imminent."
-- Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Spiritual Liberation

"Provocative, engaging and, above all, very real. Full of rich lessons in the nature of living a great life."
-- T. Harv Eker, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

"In this useful and comprehensive book, Pragito Dove offers over one hundred techniques, including a series of expressive techniques to release physical, mental, and emotional stress. Once the lid is taken off the proverbial pressure cooker, we can more easily experience inner silence and stillness."
-- Deva Premal and Miten, musicians and recording artists

Author Bio

Pragito Dove is the author of Lunchtime Enlightenment and the president of Discover Meditation Training, Inc. She trained extensively as a meditation master and spiritual teacher at the Osho Multiversity in Pune, India. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.