Give Me a Break! Beginning Meditation for Mindfulness, Stress Relief, and Anxiety Management

Anxiety relief, stress management, mindfulness €¦ Just 33 pages long, containing sixteen meditations you can easily learn at home

How to sit, how to let your mind rest, even what to do if you feel weird or uncomfortable during meditation.

No one makes meditation easier than the Dalai Lama!

In Whitney Stewart€s two-hour interview with the Dalai Lama, he shared the technique he recommended for teaching children to meditate. Stewart€s adaptation of this and other techniques learned from Tibetan Buddhist monks, make Give Me a Break the simplest, easiest beginning meditation guide you€ll ever see! For ages ten to adult.

€œGive Me a Break has the potential to €¦ open doors of no cost, egalitarian recovery to many €“ far and wide.€ €“ Jan Gilbert, cancer survivor, community activist, and co-founder of HOME, New Orleans

Fascinated by €œall things Tibetan€, Whitney Stewart journeyed to Dharamsala, India with nothing more than the name of a local family. She was invited to share the family€s home for several months, and was able to meet and interview the Dalai Lama. She subsequently published a children€s biography of the Dalai Lama, based on her interviews.

Stewart used meditation to remain calm during Hurricane Katrina, when she was trapped for five days at Tulane Hospital with her young son and elderly mother-in-law. They were evacuated by helicopter from the rooftop. When she returned to New Orleans five months later, Ms. Stewart volunteered as a creative writing teacher in the public schools. Noticing that her students suffered from post-Katrina stress, she began using beginning meditation techniques to teach her students to write about their lives, reduce stress, and relieve anxiety.

€œWhitney Stewart has developed a quiet and unique window into the minds of our adolescents. Her direct method of inviting them into this gentle meditative space allows them to have respite and freedom from the constant pressures that surround them.€ - Marcia G. Beard, Ph.D.,Clinical Psychologist

Excerpt:
Why Meditate?

Let€s face it. Life knocks you around. One minute you€re happy. The next you want to scream. You don€t get everything you want, and you don€t want everything you get. You need a break. Meditation could be the answer.

Meditation calms you down. It helps you find your own wisdom. It settles your nerves and fills your mind with space.

Lots of people meditate€"€"athletes, actors, dog trainers, writers, and people like you. They do it wherever they find a quiet spot€"€"in the living room, in the back yard, under a tree, in an empty classroom, in the library, in a tent, on a mountaintop. You don€t have to join a religious group to meditate. And you don€t have to change anything about yourself. Meditation is about accepting yourself with all the bumps and bruises.

The Dalai Lama says...
"Whitney Stewart's picture book on Buddhism [Becoming Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha] about the life of the Buddha is timely because even today the story of the Buddha has a lot to tell us" -Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.

More about the Author: Stewart has also published children€s biographies of Aung San Suu Kyi, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Walt Disney, and a meditation guide for children. She is a Level III Reiki Practitioner, and has trekked with Sir Edmund Hillary in Nepal.