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skylarkochava's review
4.0
Not bad. It's very basic, but I think that is the goal of the book (hence the title). I like that she spends a great deal of time showing how the stereotypes of meditation are not true and how easy it is to meditate. Half the time you meditate, you don't even realize you're doing it. For instance, mindfully washing the dishes to doing a breathing exercise to calm road rage. Perhaps the best part was her listing of places and times you can fit in a few minutes of meditation, like waiting in line or doing those dishes.
I think she accomplished her purpose.
I think she accomplished her purpose.
hrusewif's review
1.0
Once again I could not get passed the first couple pages. I'm sure there is some sort of valuable information within the book, however I'm not sticking around long enough to find out just on the basis of how scientifically unsound it is while using science to validate its claims.
The only scientific studies that have created a connection between physical health and a basic (non-deep set) meditation state, very clearly, that meditation's ability to balance the mental state and relieve mental and emotional stress removes stress from the body and decreases one's chances of getting sick and may possibly increase one's longevity. There's also significant scientific data that proves meditation may also work as a pain reliever. Of course, this is already solidifying something we knew: That those who lead low-stress lives live longer and are generally in better physical and emotional health due to a lack of unneeded strain on one's body.
However, there's absolutely 0 scientific data that correlates basic (non deep-set) meditation to any sort of cure of physical diseases such as cancer, diabetes, etc, and no possibility of meditation acting as a curing treatment, but a preventative method to prevent these conditions in the first place by balancing and alleviating stress to reduce the chance of contracting conditions due to high stress levels.
Completely ignoring the scientific data that proves deep set meditation, spiritual or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to ones health and mental and emotional states unless done under the guidance of someone who knows what they're doing and should not be used in the long term, only deep set spiritual meditation has scientifically been linked to any real, significant impact on one's health.
I was done with this book the second the author started making wild claims that meditation helped to heal her cancer.
The only scientific studies that have created a connection between physical health and a basic (non-deep set) meditation state, very clearly, that meditation's ability to balance the mental state and relieve mental and emotional stress removes stress from the body and decreases one's chances of getting sick and may possibly increase one's longevity. There's also significant scientific data that proves meditation may also work as a pain reliever. Of course, this is already solidifying something we knew: That those who lead low-stress lives live longer and are generally in better physical and emotional health due to a lack of unneeded strain on one's body.
However, there's absolutely 0 scientific data that correlates basic (non deep-set) meditation to any sort of cure of physical diseases such as cancer, diabetes, etc, and no possibility of meditation acting as a curing treatment, but a preventative method to prevent these conditions in the first place by balancing and alleviating stress to reduce the chance of contracting conditions due to high stress levels.
Completely ignoring the scientific data that proves deep set meditation, spiritual or otherwise, is extremely dangerous to ones health and mental and emotional states unless done under the guidance of someone who knows what they're doing and should not be used in the long term, only deep set spiritual meditation has scientifically been linked to any real, significant impact on one's health.
I was done with this book the second the author started making wild claims that meditation helped to heal her cancer.
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