The Three Minute Meditator: 30 Simple Ways to Unwind Your Mind While Enhancing Your Emotional Intelligence

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Summary: This is a wonderful book to start you on your way.
Review: I resisted buying this book because of its title. It smacked of the "instant enlightenment" idea so popular with the American public. Reading it changed my mind. I have read many books on meditation and what always came up was the problem of actually sitting down and putting it to use. Twenty minutes is a really long time for someone not used to meditating. This book gets you started, and what more is there to say? It takes away the intimidation and starts you on a solid path. You can do one breath, one minute, or three minutes and, eventually, go on to regular periods of meditation if you desire. I have given copies of this book to several friends and they have said the same thing. Learn the joy of meditation! This is a great start.

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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I'm amazed to converse with friends.We have "circuitry overload" in our western lifestyle.....having all types of external amenities but still "not happy". Everyone NEEDS to learn this mental exercise. Harp introduces us to meditation and it's virtues....and sort of modernizes it. He is also open enough to tell us where he falls short and how he uses it in his daily life. Bottom line; we can have "everything" but unless we process properly from an internal view...we really have minimal. Meditation is one vehicle to allow us to get rid of the "drunken monkeys" to help enjoy our everyday efforts and gains. Great for the beginner...however when I find myself getting off "meditation track"...Harp's book is the one I grab for.Good job, David!

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Summary: Good introduction to the subject
Review: This book is good for the beginner. It is written in a straight forward manner free of jargon. If you don't wish to read an entire chapter the author has written a very brief synopsis of the highlights and "must-know" facts for each section. In this way you can get right down to the nitty-gritty in a hurry and start meditating.

All that said, this topic is the subject of volumes of literature, poems, religions, etc. and to have it reduced to the super-easy,"how to achieve nirvana in three minutes day" seems like a purely western interpretation. If that's okay with you then you should check it out.