Meditation helps us defuse stress‎,‎ experience greater tranquility‎,‎ find a sense of wholeness‎,‎ strengthen our relationships and face our fears‎.‎ Meditation helps sharpen focus‎,‎ lower blood pressure‎,‎ and reduce chronic pain‎.‎ Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things‎.‎ And it‎'‎s as easy as sitting down and taking a breath‎.‎ "The Power of Meditation" is the most effective‎,‎ approachable guide to this transformative technique‎.‎ Beginning with the simplest breathing and sitting techniques‎,‎ Sharon Salzberg‎,‎ distilling thirty years of teaching experience‎,‎ shows how to start and maintain an effective meditation practice‎.‎ With clear lessons on concentration‎,‎ mindfulness and lovingkindness laid out on the book and CD‎,‎ you‎'‎ll see that transforming your life can be achieved in twenty minutes a day‎.‎ It‎'‎s not religious‎.‎ It‎'‎s not navel‎-gazing‎.‎ Meditation will help you engage in the world and will help you find resilience‎,‎ peace‎,‎ clarity and balance‎.‎