Meditation for Everybody

by Louis Proto

Published 28 February 1991
Aimed at readers concerned with coping with a stress, the author's emphasis is on health and well-being, rather than religion and truth-seeking. A series of different techniques are offered, together with advice on how to use them to improve physical and mental health. The author has also written "How to Beat Fatigue", "The Feeling Good Book", "Coming Alive", "The Alpha Plan", "Self Help" and "Take Charge of Your Life". He is a graduate of London University and studied psychotherapy at the Westminster Pastoral Foudation.

This is a simple and effective relaxation method geared to the needs of people who don't have the time or the inclination to practice aerobics, autogenics, yoga or meditation yet experience the need for some way of antidoting the stress, tension and fatigue that they experience every day. The heart of the book is the five-point alpha plan for total relaxation. It takes about 30 minutes to work through and, modified, can be used at any time during the course of the working day to switch off for a while,unwind and recharge batteries. The book will facilitate readers' awareness of their own special areas of stress and the ways in which they try to relax and they can pinpoint what makes for tension or relaxation. Stress throughout is on the ordinariness and familiarity to all of us of the alpha state, its benefits for health and quality of life, and how to sink into it at will.