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Review of Let’s Not Call It Meditation:
by Padme Nina Livingstone
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If you have contemplated starting a “meditation” practice but didn’t know where to start, this book is for you. You need not be a practicing Buddhist or someone with years of meditation experience. In Let’s Not Call It Meditation, Padme Nina Livingstone takes the mystery and fears out of meditation and explains this higher state of awareness in terms we can all understand.
Padme begins this easy-to-read book discussing the 7 Key Elements for Growth and evoking the reader’s ability to “remember who you really long to be.” Padme creates vivid pictorials by describing a person’s whole beauty as a flower with the six petals of curiosity, humor, gratitude, compassion, 100% responsibility, and creativity. Padme helps the reader understand aspects of their life that get in the way; mistaken beliefs, fears, and the top myths of meditation. She then delves into helping you begin your own awareness journey. Using her life experiences as a catalyst, Padme weaves entertaining stories along with practical applications into a tapestry of useful information. For anyone interested in starting a meditation practice, this book is a must.
Padme teaches awareness meditation and has a private practice in spiritual guidance. In addition to Let’s Not Call it Meditation, she has published three awareness CD’s; Forgiveness Meditation, Uncovering Compassion, and Remembering Awareness.
Aimee Wood is a freelance writer for New Health Digest and Co-Leader of the Rochester chapter of Holistic Moms.
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"The subtitle of Livingstone’s work is ‘Practical Guidance for People Who Think They Can’t Sit Still and Quiet the Mind”— pretty self-explanatory! Mixing testimonials, personal accounts and practical advice, the book provides a non-threatening route into meditation. As such, it would make good introduction to the beginner, but I also found much of value here, as it is so easy to forget to go inside in the mad dash that is the modern world. I found Livingstone’s exercises easy to follow and the prose both light-hearted and friendly, making the book a relaxing read. There’s nothing ground-breaking or particularly new here, but the book is none the poorer for it, offering a distillation of the main spiritual ethos and a route to personal growth and peace. One to keep beside the bed."
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Emma Mitchell,
Paradigm Shift magazine, October 2007
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"A mark of great spiritual wisdom is simple, plain, unadorned beauty, of which this book is a superb example. Padme Nina Livingstone shows us how to penetrate beyond the fussiness of language, titles, and concepts to the core realization of what really matters. Let's Not Call It Meditation is a fine contribution, a genuinely spiritual teaching." |
Larry Dossey, MD
Author: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things
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"Let’s Not Call it Meditation makes meditation so accessible and commonsensical and enticing that you might just realize that it’s for you. What’s more, you might just realize that it is not what you think, and that it’s orientation to living is already not unfamiliar to you, perhaps just underdeveloped. Enjoy this adventure of a lifetime, so sweetly and articulately offered by the author out of her own love for life in the face of its inevitable challenges.” |
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Author: Full Catastrophe Living and Coming to Our Senses
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“…sharing her deep understanding of personal growth and meditation, Padme’s profound insight and personal stories will support any reader on their own inward journey.”
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Dr. Heather Daly, PhD., Director Center of Health and Well-Being
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“...a gift, both for the committed seeker and for the person who has some inkling that turning inward may be a way of exploring the mystery of being human, and has questions or reservations that stand in the way.”
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Dr. B. Freedberg, Clinical Psychologist
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