Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace

by HarperOne

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Release Date:2001-01-23
Label:HarperOne
Pages:336
Binding:Paperback
Publication Date:2001-02-01
Published By:HarperOne
ASIN:0062516973
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Finally—an approach to meditation especially for women!

The benefits of meditations are manifold—but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women. Now, with Meditation Secrets for Women, you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune into yourself and restore inner balance. Get in touch with your body's natural rhythms. Honor your instincts, and tap into your feminine power so that you can emerge nourished, revitalized, and joyful. Meditation Secrets for Women offers all the tools and insights necessary for women to design their own custom meditation techniques, without all the restrictions of traditional practices.

Learn How To:

  • Make use of sensual, pleasurable meditation techniques
  • Gain a refreshing, rejuvenating rest that is deeper than sleep
  • Relieve stress and promote good health
  • Relax and be yourself as you reap life-affirming benefits
  • Live in harmony with your world
  • Enhance your relationships and creativity
Amazon.com Review

"The field of meditation has been not just a man's world but a monk's world," write Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche, Ph.D., who assert that the techniques that worked for "reclusive and celibate males" need updating for contemporary women. In Meditation Secrets for Women, they introduce a refreshingly modern, female-oriented approach to meditation that encourages "luxuriating in the sensory world, resting in the simplicity of your own being, enjoying yourself shamelessly."

Meditation fills a need that women crave: to carve out time for themselves "to rest, to restore, to settle in." Rather than impose rules and strict discipline, however, the authors encourage women to rejuvenate themselves, open up, and affirm their "womanness" through meditation.

Meditation Secrets for Women presents 12 "secrets" in 12 chapters. Each secret is a theme, such as "celebrate your senses," "claim your inner authority," "ride your rhythms," or "love your body." Each chapter starts with a poem and includes explorations (questions for you to ponder), skill circle (practical tips for skill building), meditations, and reflections. This is a nurturing book, filled with acceptance, warmth, and encouragement. If you've tried to meditate but found it too restrictive, dull, or difficult, this book will give you a different, distinctly womanly, approach.

The authors are a married couple who have been teaching meditation to women for 50 combined years. Maurine is also a dancer and healing practitioner. Roche is the author of Meditation Made Easy. --Joan Price

Customer Reviews

Unique book, perfect for women meditators - Reviewed on 2007-11-02
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1 customer found this review helpful.

This is the first book I read on meditation that actually helped me start to meditate. I am a beginner, and have always been frustrated by the sit-down-and-sit-cross-legged approach. Maurine says it's okay to stand up, look at water, or even walk around if that is what helps. She also says it's not necessary to try to silence your mind, and actually that can be counter-productive. This made meditation seem more accessible and feasible to me. She really caters to the issues that come up for women, including our need for self-care, to deal with stress, and to work through relationship issues. I can't recommend this book more highly.
Meditation - Reviewed on 2007-05-12
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4 customers found this review not to be helpful.
I wasn't happy with this book as it definitely relates to woman's issues.
Yes, it is helpful and can be used as a reference, but wasn't as interesting.
Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace - Reviewed on 2007-05-08
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1 customer found this review not to be helpful.
Great book. Was delivered timely.
A kinder, gentler treatise on meditation. - Reviewed on 2007-01-05
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1 customer found this review helpful, 1 did not.

Historically, meditation is of the realm of holy men, monks and Eastern religions. This book redefines meditation as effortless and enjoyable, a practice that is alive with imagery, emotion and physicality. A wonderful, practical, comprehensive book for anyone who wishes to explore, excavate and revel in her(or his) true nature.
Humans naturally seek something beyond themselves in this life... - Reviewed on 2006-11-11
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1 customer found this review helpful.

Since humans naturally seek something beyond themselves in this life, it stands to reason that those of us who are self aware continue to explore the inner world in meditation. The authors of this book bring out another important perception that there is no one way to meditate, and that women, too, have a voice in it's definition.
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