Newcomer or Seasoned Meditator? Â This book is designed for both the newcomer
 and the experienced meditator. For the beginner learning how to meditate, it is a practical guide with everything you need to know, plus it offers you a comprehensive selection of excellent techniques to choose from (along with easy, step-by-step instructions). You'll come away with techniques you love and that
 really work for you.
 For the experienced meditator - and especially for anyone who has ever had a little trouble - this book gives you powerful insights into the reasons why people become frustrated and discouraged, the obstacles to moving into deeper meditative states. You'll learn how to navigate those obstacles and how, when you do, it takes your meditation to a whole new level. Even the long-seasoned meditator will come away with new realizations that enhance your practice and take you deeper.
 The Three Essentials There are three essentials to really rich, deep, satisfying meditation, and understanding these can
 transform your meditative experience.
 Essential #1 - Understanding the Mind One of the obstacles we face in meditation is the endless stream of thoughts and words, that voice in our head that likes to talk, our tireless companion-the mind. Once you understand a few things about the mind-why it keeps switching on while you're meditating and what triggers it to go into overdrive-you're much better able to put it on standby and move into deeper states.
 Essential #2 - Understanding Emotional Upset In meditation, what's alive in you is what comes up - including any problems you're facing and your feelings about them. This book shows you how to recognize and work with charged emotion, how to bring it into the light of awareness, within the container of meditation, and be with it in such a way that it processes and releases on its own. This not only feels good - it's
 such a welcomed relief - but it leaves you serene and centered - in the perfect place for meditation.  Â
Essential #3 - The Right Technique (for You) Sometimes, if you're having problems meditating - if it feels shallow or scattery - it's not you, it's your
 technique. As a unique individual, certain meditation techniques will resonate with you - they'll
 really work - and others won't. So, it's important to identify those that do. It's also good to have more than one - it's like having more than one song on your playlist - because certain techniques work better for certain purposes.
 - Some meditation techniques are especially good for taking you deep - the still and quiet classics. Â
- Others are excellent when you're stressed or your inner energies are depleted - the cleansers and energizers - these have powerful restorative qualities, clearing your energetic system and flooding you with oxygen and chi. Â
- The moving meditations are good when you're office-bound - first aid for anyone who spends the day in a chair. Â
- Finally, there are special purpose meditations - cultivating compassion (loving kindness), opening the heart, chakra clearing, mindfulness practice, deep relaxation, a Zen meditation for working with the mind - that facilitate your well being in other ways. Â
This meditation book gives you an excellent selection in all the above categories. By the time you finish this book, you'll have a personal playlist - your customized program - of techniques you love and that
 really work for you.
 With techniques that work and the necessary insight into the mind and emotion, you have everything you need to really tap into the juice (more on that later) and enjoy truly beautiful, deep and blissful meditation.