A new book on meditation by Michael A. West is now available with a series of audio meditations, recorded by author, which can be listened to here.

This book is a practical guide to help you meditate with ease, contentment, curiosity, care and openness. It offers explanations of meditation processes, providing a deeper understanding and confidence about how to practise. Accompanied by a series of guided audio meditations, it will help you navigate the challenges you encounter with meditation, and rediscover simply being.

Based on the author’s fifty years’ experiential and scientific study of meditation, he explains that the different practices of meditation are many paths to one experience: effortless presence. Drawing from both ancient wisdom and modern psychology, the book explains how meditation cultivates effortless presence or simply being and deepens our ability to observe and manage thoughts and emotions, thereby enriching the experience of self. This gives us greater authenticity and enables us to feel more connected with ourselves and more interconnected with others and the world around us.

The book takes the reader on an exploration of how meditation helps us to deepen our existential sense of presence or being, including our engagement with themes of beauty, understanding and love. Most fundamentally, it reveals how meditation is about being, knowing, connecting, and loving.

If you wish to buy the book, it is available on Amazon.

The meditations, recorded by the author, to accompany this book can be found here.

Cover photo by Goutham Krishna on Unsplash, book design by Mash Design www.mash-design.com with web design by Richard B. – huge thanks to all.