All About Meditation

About the Book

This book provides guidelines, strategies and writing activities to help in developing academic writing skills and confidence among academic writers and researchers in expressing themselves in their writing. It provides an overview of the knowledge, skills and good working practices needed to craft plagiarism free writings in the ‘academic style’.

 

The book is divided into chapters and tasks, which can be referred to complete the different stages of academic writing task. A unique feature of the book is that different tasks, examples and figures have been used to clear the concepts and procedures related to academic writing. The book may be found useful by the researchers and all the stakeholders in education.

About Author

Dr. Noushad Husain is Professor and Principal in Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), College of Teacher Education (CTE), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh). He also served as Dean, School of Education and Training and HoD, Department of Education and Training, MANUU, Hyderabad. He has written extensively on different areas of Higher Education and is the author/editor of numerous books and chapters therein, articles and professional papers. Prof. Noushad has presented numerous papers in several national and international seminars and conferences and many of his research papers and articles have been published in various reputed journals. He is actively engaged in research, training, consultancy, and social service programmes.

Contents

Stage One

Curious Explorer

Crossing Over Preparatory Issues

Body or Mind not being Who We Are

Advancing Indisputable Acceptance

Practising Santosha: Contentment with Gratitude

Living in the Present Moment

Cultivating Art of Detachment

Crossing over Myths Surrounding Meditation

Role of Teachers in Meditation Journey

Obstructions and Hindrances for Meditation

Stage Two

The Beginner

Uplifting Moral Standards

Developing Positivity in Attitude

Magnifying Self-Awareness

Invigorate Willpower for Self-Control

Making Efforts for Unlocking Success in Meditation

Meditation Techniques and Practices

Mindfulness Meditation as most Recommended Practice

Stage Three

The Regular Meditator

Controlling Mental Distractions

Other General Practices for Improving Meditation

Embracing Mauna, the Voice of Silence

Concentration—Disciplining the Mind for Undivided

Attention

Crossing over Materialism

Stage Four

The Skilled Meditator

Regulating/Training the Mind

Transcending the Ego Beyond all Subjectivities

Challenging Frustrations/Obstacles for Advance Meditators

Raising Self-consciousness to Cosmic Consciousness

Bibliography

Index

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