Creating Calm: A Guide to Meditation - Hardcover

This text offers an inspirational introduction to the practice of meditation, offering a guide to the ancient practice and how to enjoy its benefits. Meditation has been used for centuries to calm, heal and open the mind. In "Creating Calm", Gill Farrer-Halls introduces the reader to the principles of meditative practice, presents a step-by-step guide on how to do sitting meditation, offers commentary on forms of meditation in action such as t'ai chi, and shows how to incorporate meditation into daily life in activities such as walking, eating and conflict resolution.

Gill Farrer-Halls was born in Surrey, England in 1958 and is a longtime practitioner of meditation. She has worked as a video maker, writer and editor on books and videos about meditation and Buddhism for the last ten years. Her other books include Meditations and Rituals with Essential Oils, The World of the Dalai Lama and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom. She is currently working on a Buddhist daybook. She practises and teaches aromatherapy and lives in Oxford.