Meditation | Consumer Product Reviews

Many beginning meditators find that using a guided script or voice prompt may accentuate and accelerate the routine of entering into an modified state of mind. The popularity of a great deal of of the standard self aid scripts for meditation has grown by leaps and bounds over the past various years, in combining with a good deal of startling acknowledgments by mainstream science in regards to the efficacy of a lot of of these programs. Let’s take a quick peek at why!

There is no question that the most frequent engineering science available for hardcore and newbie meditators similar is the binaural beat technology suite of offerings. Without going into too much technical detail, New Age Pioneer Robert Monroe begun doing exploration on binaural beats regarding 25 years ago to enlarge or increase his experimentation with his own well documented out of body experiences. Monroe was a very successful businessman and owned a big Cable Television company in Virginia and the Southern states – who expended most of the latter share of his life applying scientific study and rigor to the exploration of humane consciousness. His bequest is huge insofar as the engineering science he initiated (now called Hemi-Sync) and the financial aid he lent – has opened up an awful window of exploration for galore of us who travel down the winding, wild and wacky road of spiritual adventure!

Binaural beats may be found VERY cheaply online these days – and come in all kinds of dissimilar forms and functions, but all are designed to “sync” your brain into a state where in either deep meditation, or lucid dreaming, or plainly conscious awareness, ANYONE may experience the bliss and wonder of remarkable states of humane cognizance that either subsist within us (depending on your perspective!) or subsist “out there” in the outstanding beyond, just waiting for the next adventurer to explore!

Using these guided or intensified meditation scripts, just in regards to any individual may enter these realms and have terrifi and wild experiences of their own – and trust me, you will never be rather the same again!

Regardless of you start, plainly get started! Meditation WILL change your life for the better, but only if you begin. And there is never a better time than NOW.

The Amazing Adventures Of Dietgirl

At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she produced the hugely successful blog “The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl.” Hiding behind her Lycra-clad, roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.

Today, eight thousand miles, seven years, and 175 pounds later, the gloriously beauteous Shauna is in a literal sense half the woman she applied to be. Hysterically amusive and heart-wrenchingly honest, The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl includes travel tales from Australia to Paris to Red Square, plus romance when she meets the man of her dreams in a Scottish pub. This is the uplifting unfeigned story of a young woman who discomfited her demons and conquered her cravings to become a real-life superhero to inspire us all.

Review“Bookstores are fat with diet tales, but Reid’s stands out. She’s an entertaining, lovable and childlike writer – funny, humble, honest, wise, and best of all, compassionate.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune )

“A buoyant, funny, and immensely likable romp–for readers of all sizes.” (4 stars) (People )About the AuthorShauna Reid grew up in Australia and presently lives in Scotland. She enjoys travel, pub quizzes and observing men’s tennis. As well as her ‘Dietgirl’ blog ahe likewise writes ‘What’s New Pussycat?’, which has been featured in respective newspaper, magazine, TV and radio publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald. Shauna is thirteen stone lighter than she employed to be.

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
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By Peta Mayer
This is a read-cover-to-cover-in-one-sitting book. While it is nominally about weight-loss, it’s really a story about getting your priorities right and how to live life well. Indeed this presents as one of the keys to weight loss. It is therefore invaluable in that it implicitly exposes the futile, depressing and exploitative nature of fad diets while simultaneously showing you something far more positive. This book lingers with you long after reading, nudging you into asking yourself some powerful questions about the decisions you make everyday. The amazing thing is this is all done very subtly, and therefore generously. Unusual within weight-loss genres, Shauna is far from didactic, nor does she condescend to offer advice. In fact she is very humble, and you get the impression that she’s got a lot going on. While the narrative travels smoothly and lightly, it should not fool readers into thinking that Shauna’s journey was quick or easy. In reality readers will relate to some deep core issues about self-worth, body image, family, love, the self and other, change, self-knowledge and self-development. This is a moving story which causes you to reflect on your own values and has the potential to help you develop an enriched understanding of your place in the world. It affords a sense of clarity and determination that is addictive. Thankfully Shauna’s blog of the same name means the narrative progresses online, where you can continue to follow the story of this remarkable woman.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant book! As much about finding courage as losing weight
By Julianne M. Pohl
I started following the Dietgirl blog a few months ago, and I’ve read through a number of the archives. “Dang!” I thought to myself. “This girl is *funny*!” I preordered the US book awhile back, happily received it on New Year’s Eve, and spent the evening (and a few days after…only because of family/job demands, otherwise it would have been devoured in one sitting) reading this book. Totally missed tuning in for the 9 p.m. (PST) dropping of the ball in Times Square, which usually marks the high point of our personal festivities. (We’re such the party animals.)

This book is brilliant! (And not, I’m not just gushing about it because I was desperate for a read at all, let alone a good one.)

Remarkably insightful observations of things I loved about the book:
- Numerous laugh-out-loud funny parts
- Parts that made me feel sympathetic, that I could relate to, and that made me ponder my own quest for fitness
- It’s *true*!
- The themes: Fitness is not *only* about the scale or a pant size. Don’t wait until you’re at the “ideal” weight to do the things you really want to do. Don’t let fear stop you. It’s a message that a lot of people need to hear. (Like Oprah, for example. Girlfriend, pull your head out of Hollywood and plunk it into this book!)

The drawbacks?
- Being irritated at what or whom ever pulled me away during reading
- Potential financial ruin from buying copies for family (especially the nieces) and friends
- Having to *wait* until Shauna Reid (hope! hope! hope!) publishes another book! (Don’t wait as long as that OTHER Edinburgh author, please!)

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
The untold story is now told– and it’s HILARIOUS!
By Meg Veres
You might think that if someone wrote the truth about living through the process of weight-loss, the book would be so much of a downer that you couldn’t bear to both live that life AND read about it at the same time. Think again! Shauna Reid has been “lard-busting” for years and years with amazing success: not only has she lost half of her starting weight, but she’s kept her sanity and her raucous sense of humor throughout. It’s rare to find someone who is up-front and honest about the godawful process of weightloss AND who can still laugh about it.

This is a book that covers Shauna’s “transition years” between the day she reached her breaking point and started lard-busting in earnest, and the day that she found herself happy and comfortable in her own skin. We get to see huge life-changing events– large amounts of weight lost!moving across the world! touring Europe! re-learning romance! hashing out last-minute ways to stay in her new home!– complete with all the embarrassing details that make it both human and hilarious, as Shauna grins and shakes her head wryly at the whole ridiculous process of life.

Read it. You won’t be disappointed.

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