20-Minute Retreats: Revive Your Spirit in Just Minutes a Day with Simple Self-Led Practices

20-Minute Retreats: Revive Your Spirit in Just Minutes a Day with Simple Self-Led Practices Book Description

Psychologist Harris comes to the rescue of harried readers with a unique collection of short meditation and contemplation exercises to help achieve self-renewal anywhere, anytime. With sidebars and stimulating quotes, this guide draws from a wide range of religious and mystic traditions and therapies.
This collection of step-by-step practices from ancient cultures, world religions, and psychological disciplines provides readers with the self-renewing, spiritually, uplifting rewards of retreat anytime, anywhere. We all crave periods of silence and introspection, but with lives lived at an ever-increasing pace most of us find fewer opportunities to fill that need. Now, psychologist Rachel Harris has come to the rescue with this unique collection of 20-, 5- and 1-minute mini-retreats-short periods of meditation, contemplation or self-discovery drawn from traditions and practices as varied as Buddhism, the Quaker faith, Sufism, art therapy, ritual magic, Gestalt therapy, and Jungian dream analysis. Provocative sidebars, stimulating quotes, and touching first-person stories make this book as inviting to read as it is practical to use. With these brief retreats, readers of any age or occupation will be able to catch their emotional breath regardless of what is happening in life, to pause to listen to the sounds of their souls, and to reemerge balanced and refreshed.

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