Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular form of an ancient and powerful technique for reducing stress, elevating one's mental state, and improving the practitioner's overall quality of life. Award-winning author and mindfulness meditation teacher Joseph Emet now takes you down a step-by-step path to integrate this potent form of meditation into your daily life. Offering tips, techniques, and practices from mindfulness meditation--coupled with stories from the author's life as a teacher, Joseph Emet guides you to a life teeming with the benefits of regular meditation practice. This volume also includes original music by the author that the reader can access through the web-calming the mind and enhancing the meditation experience.
Joseph Emet is the author of "Sleep Better With Mindfulness Meditation" (Penguin), "Buddha's Book of Stress Reduction" (Penguin), and "A Basket of Plums: Songs for the Practice of Mindfulness Meditation" (Parallax Press). All three of these books have forewords by Thich Nhat Hanh. His newest book is "Buddha's Book of Meditation: Mindfulness Practices for a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness, and Healthy Living," also published by Penguin/Tarcher (March 2015). His book on sleep won an award as the best self-help book of the year in 2012 and has been translated into 9 languages. The French version is entitled "En pyjama avec Bouddha" and is published by Les ?ditions de l'Homme. Joseph started the Mindfulness Meditation Centre in 1997 because he had found the practice of mindfulness very helpful in his own life and wanted to share it with others. On January 14, 2003, he was invited by Thich Nhat Hanh to receive the Lamp Transmission as a Dharma teacher. His Dharma name is "Dwelling in Peaceful Concentration," and he has been striving to live up to that name ever since. Joseph has trained several thousand people in mindfulness practices in large and small groups, for organizations, and in private sessions. Joseph holds a Doctorate in Music from Boston University. He has been certified in Reality Therapy Counseling with Dr. William Glasser and has been a Fulbright scholar. Additionally, he has been a long-time T'ai Chi practitioner with Master Lee Shiu Pak, one of the original Yang school students.