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As rates of depression and anxiety continue to rise in the modern world, one proposed remedy garnering growing attention is meditation, and mindfulness meditation in particular. This practical and accessible guide shows you how this practice can relieve stress and anxiety, encourage deep mental and physical relaxation, enhance creativity, and release our true spiritual and emotional selves. Meditation master, the late Professor David Fontana, presents more than 20 practical meditations in the form of affirmations, exercises and visualizations, expertly leading the reader step by step to greater mental and physical well-being. Drawing upon the world’s great meditative traditions – especially Zen and Tibetan Buddhism – Fontana presents an eclectic and practical programme toward self-fulfilment. Brimming with innovative exercises and written with refreshing clarity, this simple yet concise introduction to meditation is the key to a calmer, happier, healthier you.
Presents 23 step-by-step exercises and more than 130 exquisite illustrations that make visualization and meditation wonderfully accessible. 134 color images.
Explores the culture, history, and psychology that lies behind a wide range of symbols.
At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels. At a time when religious fundamentalism is having a huge impact upon the world, this book helps us to understand how people acquire, conceptualise and practise religion at both personal and social levels. Explores religion both as a social phenomenon and as a form of inner experience. Explains why people believe what they do. Looks at the effects of religious and spiritual belief upon behaviour, and upon physical and psychological health. Outlines the various approaches to religious and spiritual experience. Surveys all relevant research.
A psychologist seeks to answer your burning questions about what happens after death, from afterlife communication and human consciousness to out-of-body and near-death experiences. Most people in the world believe in some form of life after death, but what exactly is the nature of the afterlife? David Fontana examines all the extensive evidential material that has been accumulated over time—including communication through mediums and accounts from those who had near-death and out-of-body experiences—and compares them to descriptions found in such mystical texts as The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Egyptian Book of the Dead. He explores the whole area of human consciousness and considers the question: if the body and the brain perish at death, what remains to survive? From the various ideas of paradise to the very meaning of existence, this is a journey through infinite possibilities.
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Mandalas are visually stunning, symmetrical diagrams used as a focal point in meditation. In this ground-breaking title David Fontana devises 52 beautiful mandalas for modern minds, taking you on a voyage of self-discovery, with a different theme for meditation explored each week of the year. Learn how to work with these mandalas and develop your own preferred techniques and unearth the psychological and spiritual value of meditation - how meditation can become an integral part of daily life. Each of the 52 mandalas is accompanied by a guided meditation that explores the modern and relevant symbolism of the design, making even the more elaborate patterns straightforward to use and enjoy. With its full-page designs and easy-to-use meditation exercises, Meditating with Mandalas is an inspirational and practical resource for everyone interested in growing in peace and awareness through meditation.
In Learn to Meditate Professor David Fontana shows you how to meditate, and puts his 35 years of experience into a series of exercises, visualisations and affirmations that will bring meditation into any lifestyle. Written with a refreshing clarity and simplicity this accessible guide draws upon all of world's meditation traditions to present an eclectic and thoroughly practical programme for inner peace. Fully illustrated and brimming with innovative exercises, visualisations and affirmations, this is a book that helps attune us both physically and mentally whatever our mood or need.
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The most accessible Tarot kit available, with expert guidance on techniques from psychologist David Fontana and incredibly clear and inspiring illustrations to light up your journey of self-discovery. A Tarot classic. This kit is a Tarot classic, combining inspiring, luminous illustrations that make the symbolism of the cards easy to grasp with a guidebook that clarifies the mysteries and symbolism of the Tarot and encourages users as they embark on their own journey of self-discovery with the cards. Author David Fontana's twin perspectives as Tarot expert and psychologist make this deck the most accessible and useful on the market. A highly respected psychologist with an abiding interest in...