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Why Cant I Meditate?: How to Get Your Mindfulness Practice on Track Audiobook, by Nigel Wellings Play Audiobook Sample

Why Can't I Meditate?: How to Get Your Mindfulness Practice on Track Audiobook

Why Cant I Meditate?: How to Get Your Mindfulness Practice on Track Audiobook, by Nigel Wellings Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Walter Dixon Publisher: Gildan Media Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 6.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 5.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: May 2016 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781469004501

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

18

Longest Chapter Length:

68:48 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

02:43 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

34:06 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

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Publisher Description

An accessible guide from an expert on Mindfulness on how to get the most out of meditation--and make the practice a permanent part of your daily life. Meditation is supposed to be a practice that's relaxing and beneficial...so why is it so hard to commit to? While many people have taken workshops in meditation, a significant number don't maintain their practice for long after the class is finished. Mindfulness can help us relax and is great for coming to grips with thoughts that make us depressed or anxious, but it can also bring us into a more intimate relationship with ourselves--a prospect that can make some feel uncomfortable. Yes, lots of good things come out of meditation practice, but keeping it up is challenging. This is where Why Can't I Meditate? comes in. Full of practical ways to help our mindfulness practice flourish, it also features guidance from a wide spectrum of secular and Buddhist mindfulness teachers, and personal accounts by new meditators on what they find difficult and what helps them overcome those blocks. It takes what is boring, painful, or downright scary about meditating and shows how these struggles can become an invaluable part of our path. If you have been considering meditating but doubted your ability, if you are having a hard time continuing, or if you've reluctantly stopped, Why Can't I Meditate? will help you get your mindfulness practice back on track.

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“Nigel Wellings offers insightful, compassionate, and eminently practical guidance, based on his extensive personal experience as a teacher.”

— Willem Kuyken, professor of clinical psychology, University of Exeter

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  • “The first in-depth and pragmatic analysis of a key issue that bedevils many people who undertake the practice of meditation.”

    — Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism without Beliefs

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  • Overall Performance: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5 Narration Rating: 4 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 54 out of 5 Story Rating: 3 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 53 out of 5

    " I am torn in this review. I love the voice quality of the narrator, and that is part of the reason I chose this particular audio book. I also like the length (10 hours). The author has many excellent thoughts and helpful exercises. There is a great deal of repetition, which is okay, but I just cannot get past the heavy, heavy emphasis on Buddhism. As a Christian, I can listen to helpful practices for mindfulness and meditation, but I cannot recommend this book to others. There is just too much focus on Buddhism. "

    — CM, 3/10/2021

About Nigel Wellings

Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author who works within a broadly contemplative perspective. He first attempted to practice mindfulness in his late teens and has been engaged with the relationship between psychotherapy and meditation for the last forty years. He lives in Bath and is a teacher on the Bath and Bristol Mindfulness Courses.

About Walter Dixon

Walter Dixon is a broadcast media veteran of more than twenty years’ experience with a background in theater and performing arts and voice work for commercials. After a career in public radio, he is now a full-time narrator with more than fifty audiobooks recorded in genres ranging from religion and politics to children’s stories.