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July 6, 2004
In recent years, mainstream Americans have begun to come around to meditation in a big way-and scientific studies are suggesting that the physical and mental benefits are solid and real. But to many, it remains something mystical and inaccessible...and spiritually-oriented tomes on the market don't do much to make it easier.

As interest in meditation continues to grow, this book offers a simple, no-nonsense program to help beginners experience reduced stress and increased focus in only eight minutes a day. Designed by meditation expert and bestselling author Victor Davich, this program teaches the basic principles of meditation while clearing up the misconceptions and myths that too often get in the way.

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...Davich's little guide to meditation is indeed humorous, wise, effective, and resolutely nonsectarian... -- Library Journal

About the Author

Victor Davich, the author of the highly acclaimed The Best Guide to Meditation, has practiced meditation for more than thirty years and studied with some of the finest teachers. He has also been an attorney, producer and marketing executive for Fortune 500 advertising agencies and major  motion picture studios.
Victor's goal in writing his four books is to make eastern tools that yield practical results accessible to the west.  To date,  his books have empowered over 100,000 people to quiet their minds--and change their lives.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Perigee Trade; 1 edition (July 6, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0399529950
  • ISBN-13: 978-0399529955
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (79 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,426 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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If there is a Guinness World Record for "Most Attorneys Taught Stress Reduction in One Room," I probably set it when I taught 400 lawyers to meditate in the Grand Ballroom of the Westin Palm Springs.

My practice of meditation began by accident and for practical, not spiritual reasons: I was a stressed-out "One-L"--a first year law student in New York looking for a medication-free way to stay calm and focus on an incredible caseload. I began to meditate and the results were amazing: My grades got better--and I got calmer. win-win all the way.

I continued to meditate throughout a highly successful--and high-pressure--career as an attorney and producer for major corporations like Young & Rubicam, Paramount Pictures and Universal-TV. But little did I realize that my business and meditation experience would result in my creating 8 Minute Meditation, the program TIME magazine calls "The most American form of meditation yet."

My goal for 8 Minute Meditation was to provide anybody with a simple program that could lower stress,increase focus--and change their lives. Now in it's 10th printing, the book is a perennial Amazon bestseller and my Guided Meditation CD (available at CDbaby.com)is also very popular. 8 Minute Meditation has helped over 100,000 people transform their lives.

In 2010, in response to many requests for an 8 Minute Meditation program that would specifically address stress, I created 8 Minute Stress Relief. It's a brand-new 8 Minute Meditation program specifically geared to empower people to reduce their stress level, on the spot, wherever they are.

To learn more about me, 8 Minute Meditation, and 8 Minute Meditation Stress Relief, visit me at www.8minutes.org.

And oh yeah, why the pic of me in the funny hat? 'Cause I love fly-fishing! The greatest meditation there is. This was me at Henry's Fork, Idaho, catching rainbow trout---and of course, releasing them :)

 

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353 of 360 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for beginners, but skip the companion CD, August 12, 2004
This review is from: 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. (Paperback)
This is an excellent book for beginners and skeptics (and I was both). It makes meditation easy. Really! It's also very well-written, reader-friendly, easy to read, and witty.

The book plugs a companion CD, available only at the author's website for $17. I bought the CD, have used it, and would like to review it here, so that those of you who buy the book can better decide whether you should spring for the CD.

The CD contains 16 tracks.

The first eight tracks are very short (e.g. 2-minutes), and summarize some of the content from the book. These short tracks are useful reminders of some of the key points in the book, but as the CD tells you, it is not intended to substitute for the book.

The rest of the CD consists of 8 "guided meditations," one for each week of the book's 8-week program. In each of these tracks, the author spends a few seconds telling you what activity you're supposed to do, then he tells you to start, then 8 minutes later a gong sounds, signaling you to stop. About every two minutes during the meditation, the author interrupts you to say things like "Has your attention drifted? That's okay, just return your focus to your breath." This type of reminder might be useful, especially at first, but after a while, I found it intrusive. Also, the sound of his voice is not especially soothing or gentle. For me, it's better to just do as the book says - use a common kitchen timer set to 8 minutes.

Aside from the occasional interruptions, there is complete silence during the 8 minute meditations. I prefer the silence to the soft new-age music or nature sounds on some other meditation CDs.

In my opinion, the CD is not a good value: the total amount of content on the CD is about 20 minutes, maybe less. This is due to the fact that the CD has a lot of silent parts during the guided meditations; this silence is appropriate, but it reduces the amount of time available for spoken content. And, more importantly, all of the spoken content on the CD--and much more--is already in the book.

On the plus side, the service was excellent - the CD arrived two days after I ordered it.

In summary, I recommend the book highly if you're a beginner. But my opinion is that you skip the CD and save your money.
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65 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Build a lasting practice., September 5, 2005
This review is from: 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. (Paperback)
This book is an 8 week program on meditation for beginners where each week the book teaches you a different meditation technique. The program has you meditate for just 8 minutes a day every, which taught me to concentrate on my meditation more while building a habit of meditating every day. Although I have tried some Zen meditation in the past, the techniques I learned in this book gave me better tools to meditate. After completing the book I have been able to keep up with my meditation practice. If you would like to build a lasting meditation practice in your life, I highly recommend it.
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104 of 110 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Now I know why Time Magazine says it's so great., April 19, 2005
This review is from: 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind. Change Your Life. (Paperback)
Time Magazine calls 8 Minute Meditation "The most American form of meditation yet"--and now I know why.
I've always wanted to meditate, but thought it too confusing and difficult. Besides, who has the time? But 8 Minute Meditation changed all that for me.
Davich has totally stripped the mumbo-jumbo and complexity out of meditation. He has chosen 8 minutes a day as the optimal time for us folks to use for meditation. Why? Because it's the time between 2 TV commercials! He says that if you can watch 8 Minutes of CSI, the Simpsons, or American Idol, you can learn to meditate--for real.
The book offers more than just a fun and informative read: It's a complete meditation program that starts you meditating as soon as you pick it up. All you have to do is meditate for 8 minutes a day! After one week, you move onto a new meditation technique. After I did this for just 8 weeks, I found myself for the first time in my life, a real mediation habit.
Part 3 of 8Minute Meditation is called The Upgrade. And in it Davich shows you how to take your 8 minute a day practice and expand and deepen it. It also shows you how to bring your meditation into yout daily life. Like the meditation technique Davich calls Just One Dish. So you can even be practicing meditation while you are doing household chores or at the supermarket. (Be careful though in your car!).
After the 2nd week, I ordered the 8 Minute Guided Meditation CD from his website 8minutes.org. I found it extremely helpful alongside what was happening in the book. All I had to do was sit down, find the meditation technique of the week, push the play button. I heard a sonorous gong, and then Davich lead me through my 8 minute meditation for the day. He doesn't talk alot, but when he says something it's perfectly timed to bring me back to the meditation. It worked so well for me. Let me actually sink into what I was doing.
Using the CD and use the book together was for me really powerful. It gave me a meditation practice. Finally. And easily.
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IN A SHORT amount of time, you're going to begin Week One of your 8 Minute Meditation program. Read the first page
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