dto self-confidence to meditation passing through water yoga and exercises on attention. Everything brings us back to the here and now, to understand the present in the four books to read of the week.
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1/ Books to read. Focus the art of attention
Why read it
Dandapani, the author, is an engineering graduate. Then he left everything behind to become a monk under the guidance of one of the most important spiritual leader of Hinduism of our time, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami.
For ten years he lived a life of serious discipline and training in his guru’s cloistered monastery.
When her grades are up, he moved to New York where today he works as a consultant for companies such as Nike, Trivago, McKinsey and for some of the best athletes in the world.
With this book Dandapani shares the iMost valuable lessons he learned about the benefits of concentration: a practical guide to the progressive understanding and management of the mind.
L‘author teaches how to improve awareness through willpower, gradually integrating the practice of attention into daily life and thus achieving a concrete and lasting change.
By learning and practicing the art of attention, anyone can regain serenity.
The constant practice of concentration can radically improve productivity, relationships, mental health and happiness, giving us the ability to direct awareness and energy towards the achievement of our life goals.
“The ability to concentrate has opened up endless possibilities for me and given me an existence I could not have imagined.
I now attempt to share with you, through these pages, a small portion of the rewards of a life guided by attention.”
Info. Dandapani. Focus – the art of attention. Tea. 16.90 euros
2/ Books to read. Trust lessons. For changing times
Why read it
From the author of Happiness exercisesa new book that invites us to trust and offering poetic insights and yogic practices to address these volatile times.
Ten lessons, each dedicated to a quality, which arise from the lessons learned in these intense years in a house in the woods on the hills of Assisi, observing the seasons and learning to rely on nature.
The “lessons” mentioned in the title are those that life has imparted to the author, Giulia Calligaro, journalist (collaborator of iO Woman) And yoga teacher.
For Giulia they involved the transfer from Milan to a house in the woods on the hills of Assisi, the Coronavirus infection, the long convalescence and the search for a new home and new stability.
In the middle of the Umbrian forest, she entrusted herself to her path and, perhaps, after all, to her mission: she “discovered” the great lesson of nature, the entrustment of trees to the passing of the seasons and its continuous transformations.
Ten lessons for everyone
Until one day she understood: “This force that is taking care of every cell of creation is also taking care of me”, writes the author.
Therefore, in this book, he collects in 10 lessons corresponding to 10 resources or “superpowers” – from gratitude, to acceptance, to understanding, to peace and intuition… -.
It is a handbook for a new dimension of trust that shifts the perspective of life to a higher level, where everything that arrives is always perfect, as a lesson to be learned towards a different happiness, the goal of an inner growth.
Each “lesson” opens with a real and poetic “walk” in the woods, together with a photographer, Lorenzo Pesce, and a large white Maremma, Gangue.
Over the course of a year and with the transformation of the colors of nature, fragments of memories emerge which become starting points for universal reflections.
info. Giulia Shraddha Calligaro. Trust lessons for changing times. Ananda Editions. 24 euros.
3/ Books to read. Water Yoga
Why read it
Aqua Yoga is a passionate invitation to connect with nature, to embrace change and transformation, to enjoy the vital energy and adaptability that are the essence of water.
Aqua Yoga is an immersion in the primordial elements, a return to the origins.
Thanks to its concrete and at the same time symbolic value, water is an ideal environment to practice yoga and meditate, as well as to enhance psychophysical well-being.
The book invites you to experiment positions and sequences of Aqua Yoga everywhere and every day, even during a shower or drinking a glass of water.
This book is aimed at those who want to evolve in practice, including yoga teachers, but also to those who just want to find mental calm, well-being and awareness of the present moment.
Where the only goals to be achieved are mental calm, well-being and the newfound ability to appreciate, through a heightened awareness, the beauty inherent in the here and now.
Info. Linda Trotta Kaserer and Rossella Bo. Water Yoga. Red Editions. 18 euros.
4/ Books to read. The art of meditation
Why read it
We often hear about the benefits of meditation, a widespread practice now everywhere, from companies to schools, with innumerable often conflicting approaches.
But what exactly is meant by “meditation”? And what is its philosophical value?
Francesco D’Isa and Adriano Ercolani bring order to the forest of methods and techniques, retracing the meditative practices in different cultures. They offer a lay look at one of the oldest forms of spiritual research.
«This book intends to offer a key to philosophical understanding to help those approaching it for the first timeaa these themes to shed light on the jungle of schools, techniques and traditions that is associated with the concept of “meditation”» they underline.
«Our contribution serves to face an experience which, if lived with knowledge and seriousness, it obeys the imperative of Rilke’s famous verse that so struck the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk: “You have to change your life”».
Info. Francesco D’Isa and Adriano Ercolani. Introduction to meditation. Tlon. 15 euros.
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