Michael J. Cavallaro - Ten Minutes to Deep Meditation: Techniques that Reduce Stress and Relieve Anger, Anxiety & Depression

Ten Minutes to Deep Meditation

Techniques that Reduce Stress and Relieve Anger, Anxiety & Depression

Michael J. Cavallaro

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Ten Minutes to Deep Meditation: Techniques that Reduce Stress and Relieve Anger, Anxiety & Depression

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cavallaro, Michael J.

Ten minutes to deep meditation : techniques that reduce stress and relieve anger, anxiety & depression / Michael J. Cavallaro.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60138-586-4 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-60138-586-2 (alk. paper)

1. Meditation--Therapeutic use. 2. Stress management. I. Title.

RC489.M43.C38 2014

155.9042--dc23

2014018663

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to Jean Arlotta

Introduction

How do you really feel about life? Are you someone who believes you are unfortunate and that other people are to blame for your troubles? Do you have overwhelming stresses or frustrated ambitions? Is your self-image full of hidden fears and hurtful resentments? If you are reading this book, something in your life is not working and you have come to the point, probably after years of suffering, where you have had enough and finally want to do something about it by learning meditation. Meditation is the devotional exercise of training the mind to connect with the body, which creates a higher consciousness that yields some intended life benefit. In order to examine these questions further, think back to when you were a child and ask yourself if you had a mindset. A mindset is the sum total of your conscious and subconscious programming directly formed by the events of your individual lifetime. When a child enters this world, it enters with the pure loving light of creation, free of judgments and attachments. It understands nothing of the petty and serious conflicts that entangle this world. However, as the child gradually encounters the successes, failures, joys, and miseries that accompany modern life, the light of pure creation slowly dims within the child. Over time, it develops a type of mindset based on those experiences, which then determines the physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual and quality of its life. Once fully grown and subjected to the various influences that formed the mindset, the individual then wrongfully comes to associate suffering as part of some maturation process. He or she never questions whether this suffering was intended, or whether there may be something very wrong with this widely accepted belief.