I'm Mindful, Now What: Moving Beyond Mindfulness to Meet the Modern World

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Mindfulness is everywhere-touted as an essential part of a healthy lifestyle like exercise, diet, and good sleep. Yet many of us who practice mindfulness wonder: "Now what" For anyone who has sensed the potential for something much deeper and more profound than stress relief within the stillness of the present moment, expert teacher Andrew Holecek presents an essential guidebook on what is possible in the vast, transformative world of meditation beyond mindfulness. With I'm Mindful, Now What, Holecek reveals how the form of mindfulness many of us know is merely one thread in a much older, greater tapestry of contemplative practice. Here he presents an encompassing survey of the many dimensions of meditation-including paths for opening your heart, nurturing compassion, connecting with your body, expanding your dreaming life, and investigating the fundamental nature of reality. In accessible language, he shares insights and tools to help you develop your practice, navigate the limits and pitfalls of mindfulness, use "meditation snacks" to explore new directions, and much more. Meditation can be so much more than 20 minutes of tranquility each day. As Holecek says: "With some initial practice, you'll bring a mind that is more present, open, sensitive, kind, and aware into every facet of life. Wherever you go, your wondrous mind will go with you."

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"I'm Mindful, Now What is a tour de force of the varieties of meditative experience, both in formal sitting meditation and through meditation in action for everyday life. Based on those experiences, we are offered pathways that allow us to expand mindfulness into insight, awareness, and wisdom." --Joseph Parent, PhD, author of A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh

"A rare jewel of a book by a rare jewel of an author, scholar, practitioner, teacher, and humanitarian! Written in a clear and easy style, Andrew leads us on a tour of the wonders of the mind, which can be revealed through successive stages of meditative practice. Mindfulness, insight, metta, open awareness, reverse meditation, and the nocturnal practices are brilliantly laid out in a smooth and accessible progression. This book is perfect for people just beginning to explore their minds as well as oldsters like me, who have been stumbling in the wilderness for decades." --Adam Engle, JD, MBA, cofounder, chair, and CEO emeritus, Mind & Life Institute

"If you want to take your practice deeper and learn how to apply it to a struggling and chaotic planet, you would be hard-pressed to find a better guide than Andrew." --Dan Harris, author of 10% Happier

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Andrew Holecek is an author, speaker, and humanitarian who offers seminars internationally on spirituality, meditation, lucid dreaming, and the art of dying. He studied with the greatest living masters of dream yoga in India and Nepal and has completed the traditional three-year Buddhist meditation retreat. His books include Reverse Meditation and Dream Yoga. For more information, visit andrewholecek.com.