Sharon Salzberg

"Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our habits of self-judgment. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. Meditation opens the door to real and accessible happiness....

"Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings and challenges our habits of self-judgment. Meditation helps protect the brain against aging and improves our capacity for learning new things. Meditation opens the door to real and accessible happiness....

"From one of most prominent figures in the field of meditation comes a guidebook for how to use mindfulness to build our inner strength, find balance, and help create a better world In today's fractured world we're constantly flooded with breaking news that cause anger, grief, and pain. People are feeling more stressed out than ever and in the face of this fear and anxiety they can feel so burnt out and overwhelmed that they end up frozen in their...

Introduces the four types of enemies--the outer enemy, the inner enemy, the secret enemy, and the super-secret enemy--and advises how to identify each enemy, and transform one's relationship with them to break free of the damaging "us versus them" method of thinking.

Between the smartphone, the laptop, the tablet, and whatever else is demanding your attention, sometimes you just need to unplug! Room to Breathe brings you a refreshing series of beginner-friendly guided meditations and mindfulness techniques to help you regain a sense of spaciousness and ease.Presented by renowned meditation teacher and bestselling author Sharon Salzberg, these 10 core practices were created to give you the feel of a meditation...

Love Is More Than an Emotion-It's a Buildable Strength for Facing Your Greatest Challenges When we're confronted with crisis, what inner strength helps us the most? Courage? Self-control? Sheer determination? Many of us might be surprised to discover that in times of need, our most powerful ally is love. "Love, of course, is an emotion," teaches Sharon Salzberg, "but love is also an ability." Open to Life invites us to cultivate this quiet strength...

Ten million Americans will meditate today-and that number is only expected to rise. What's the best way to get started? Learn from an experienced teacher. Sharon Salzberg, known for her ability to make meditation accessible while keeping true to tradition, offers Guided Meditations for Love and Wisdom. With more than a dozen beginner-friendly meditations, this program offers a well-rounded practice that will open your heart and mind. Join this cofounder...

"Just watch the breath." It sounds so simple, but as any seasoned practitioner will tell you, "just breathing" can be surprisingly challenging. To experience the deep rewards of this practice, start off on the right foot with expert help from Insight Meditation Society instructors Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. They'll help you find the skillful balance of concentration and relaxation that results in a finely attuned state of ease that will...

Sharon Salzberg hat Tausende Menschen in ihrem persönlichen Entwicklungsprozess begleitet und weiß: Wahre Liebe zu leben ist die eigentliche Sehnsucht von uns Menschen. In diesem Hörbuch fasst sie ihre 40-jährige Erfahrung in einem Drei-Schritte-Programm zusammen. Sie verbindet buddhistische Weisheit mit der Lebenswirklichkeit der Menschen und erklärt, wie Selbstakzeptanz und Liebe im Alltag entwickelt werden können. Ihre Anleitungen und Meditationen...

In Cultivating Intuitive Faith and True Surrender, the second program in the “Cultivation” series, Ram Dass is joined by Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Rameshwar Das, Mirabai Bush, Raghu Markus, and special guest KK Sah, a close Maharaji devotee, to explore the nature of faith beyond the mind and surrender as it's known in the Bhakti tradition.