Victor Davich - 8 Minute Meditation Expanded: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life.

Praise for

8 Minute Meditation

The meditation book everyone has been waiting for. This is a brilliant book that makes meditation accessible to anyone who has the slightest interest in the subject. Eight minutes a day will change your life forever.

Richard Carlson, author of Dont Sweat the Small Stuff... and Its All Small Stuff

The perfect program for busy people who want a real spiritual practice. 8 Minute Meditation introduces you to meditation quickly and with integrity. If you think meditation would be good for you but arent sure where to startbuy this book!

Susan Piver, author of The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say I Do and producer of Joyful Mind: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation

As a strong believer in the value of meditation, I welcome this new book. It should enable even the busiest of us to experience the many benefits of this ancient technique. Mr. Davich guides us with wit, sensitivity, and charm. Importantly, he is a realist, mapping the many opportunities to apply meditation during our daily lives, and expertly teaching us how.

Barrie R. Cassileth, PhD, Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

How long does it take to experience inner peace and tranquility? This clear and simple book can help you find the time to calm and clear your mind through meditation no matter how busy you may be. I heartily recommend it.

Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within

Heres a Deep Spiritual Truth about this little book: It delivers on its promise! Victor Davich distills profoundly important information about how to meditate into an extremely user-friendly package and delivers it fresh and crystal clear. Who knew eight minutes could get so real?

Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD, author of The Mind & The Brain and Dear Patrick

If you feel drawn to meditation but havent been able to start, 8 Minute Meditation opens the gate to the garden. Victor Davich invites us down the path of lovingkindness and awareness, with step-by-step guidance and good humored encouragement.

Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

An extraordinary and definitive ecumenical approach to this sacred yet often confusing discipline. 8 Minute Meditation will enhance, deepen, and enrich the spiritual practice of anyone, regardless of their faith tradition.

Reverend John Newton, The Christian Institute

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Davich, Victor N., 1952

8 minute meditation : quiet your mind, change your life / Victor Davich.

p. cm.

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1. Meditation. I. Title: Eight minute meditation. II. Title.

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Original Perigee trade paperback edition / July 2004

10th Anniversary Perigee trade paperback edition / December 2014

Neither the publisher nor the author is engaged in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas, procedures, and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician. Meditation should only be done in a safe, comfortable environment, and should not be done while operating a vehicle, device or equipment of any nature. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this book.

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To Marc Lerner, my hero

PREFACE

IF YOU ARE reading these words, theres something drawing you to meditation.

Maybe youve heard that meditation can help you become more peaceful and feel safer in a complex, uncertain, and often harsh world. Perhaps theres another reason. Maybe you dont even know why.

But you do know youd like to learn to meditate. Only problem is, meditation sounds really complicated and extremely time-consuming. If only you could find a simple way to meditate that would suit your lifestyle yet provide the benefits you long for...

Well, heres good news: Youve found it! And all it takes is 8 minutes a day.

8 Minute Meditation is the revolutionary new program that will change your life as easily as it fits into it. In just 8 minutes a daythe space between two television commercial breaksyou can build a lifetime meditation practice. Time magazine calls it the most American form of meditation yet.

BEGINNINGS

The Mindfulness Revolution Is Here

This years Super Bowl will be played in New Jersey, but it looks as if the Seattle Seahawks will have the ohm team advantage, as head coach Pete Carroll encourages all his players to meditate daily.

ABC NEWS, JANUARY 2014

YOU COULDNT HAVE CHOSEN a more exciting time to discover meditation, the path to mindfulness, and a happier life.

It seems that everyone is meditating these days, from publishing moguls like Rupert Murdoch to the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Theyre even calling it The Mindfulness Revolution.

Its now more than ten years since the original publication of 8 Minute Meditation. Meditation has come a long way from Zen monks sitting and staring at white walls in silence. The decade has been nothing short of transformational, exciting, and revolutionary for the practice of meditation to develop mindfulness.