Reverse Meditation | Free Book
Disruptive practices to revolutionize your relationship with
meditation and fully engage with the full breadth of your
experience.
Why do we meditate? The main reason most modern people
start meditating is because it helps us feel better—reducing
anxiety, improving sleep, decluttering the mind, and so forth. “But
where does your meditation go when things go bad?” asks Andrew
Holecek. “Where is your spirituality when ‘rock meets bone,’ as they
say in Tibet—when the crap hits the fan?”
Reverse Meditation is for anyone who wants to bring the challenges of life onto the
path of awakening. When things get hard, it’s time to turn your
practice on its head—and throw out any assumption that meditation
exists to insulate you from the confusion, difficulties, and
uncertainty of life. “By putting your meditation into reverse,”
Holecek teaches, “you’ll actually find yourself going forward. Step
into your pain and you can step up your evolution.”
With
his signature blend of depth and accessibility, Holecek invites you
to explore:
• Three core forms of meditation—mindfulness,
open awareness, and the boundary-smashing reverse meditations
•
How to know when you’re ready to engage with reverse meditation
•
On-the-spot practices for snapping into a meditative mindset in
difficult situations
• Contraction and expansion—how to
dismantle habits of avoidance to become more open, resilient, and
fully alive
• How reverse meditation opens you to a direct
experience of the fundamental perfection of reality—just as it is
“These
unique meditations are designed to reverse our relationship to
unwanted experiences, which means going directly into them
instead of avoiding them,” says Andrew Holecek. “It’s not an easy
journey—yet this path leads to the discovery of unconditional
happiness, basic goodness, and true freedom in the most turbulent
situations.”
In The Press
“Andrew has done it again! First he nudged us toward lucidity in the
sleep bardo with his awesome book Dream Yoga. Then toward more
lucidity in the life bardo with the even more awesome
Dreams of Light. Now he brilliantly demonstrates how there need
be no gaps, even when we confront the untoward, when we are jarred out
of positive awareness by adversity and pain and injury, and we turn it
all into advantage in his latest great work, this wonderful
Reverse Meditation. I cannot recommend it highly enough—a great
read and immensely useful for thriving and evolving positively in this
world of obstacles.” —Robert Thurman, professor emeritus,
author of Wisdom Is Bliss and the Bantam Books translation of
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
“Reverse Meditation is
a brilliant masterpiece that illustrates that Andrew Holecek’s
extensive exploration of inner space has given him a unique
perspective of outer space. Andrew understands that each and every one
of us is in space at this very moment. Not only are we all traveling
through the Universe on this spaceship that we call Earth, but we also
generate the illusion of solid ground through our individual egos.
Andrew clearly demonstrates that many of the problems we all face can
be traced to our futile attempts to give our egos a place to stand.
Through reverse meditation, we can mold ourselves into the softest,
most open, yet strongest and most indestructible thing in the
Universe—space itself. Nothing can hurt space! A must-read for anyone
who wants to improve their life and expand their horizons.” —Ron Garan, former NASA astronaut, author of Floating in Darkness
“Meditation sometimes becomes dualistic: we learn to let
go of thoughts and feelings, to cultivate an empty mind. What do we
lose when we split ourselves like that? What might we realize if,
instead of contracting in the face of pain and other unwanted
experience, we open up to them—realize our nonduality with them?
Reverse Meditation shows us how to do that and how it can
transform our lives.” —David R. Loy, author of
Money, Sex, War, Karma
“Holecek encourages active
attention and diligence toward disarming the harsh inner critic that
can surface within; the practices and anecdotes presented in this book
will provide readers with an opportunity for doing just that. His aim
is to help release the tension that we can create through the fear of
failure, and ease into an expansive space of open, loving awareness.”
—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and
Real Life
“Cleaning the mirror of the heart, so
that our True Face can be clearly reflected—free of all distortion
that comes from, as Andrew Holecek writes, the ‘contraction’—is the
fruit of all spiritual practice. In this wonderful, wise, and
insightful book, we find a clear path… a deep intuitive explanation of
where we are, where we are going, and how to get there.” —Krishna Das, Grammy®-nominated musician
“One of the most important
books on meditation to ever be written, Reverse Meditation is a
must-read how-to manual for transforming our painful contractions into
expansive freedom. Reversing our habitual tendency to
turn away from our pain and discomfort, Andrew Holecek
masterfully adapts ancient technologies of awakening into
contemporary, accessible practices of transformation, skillfully
showing us how to turn toward our suffering in order to
experience the spacious freedom that abides at the heart of every
moment.” —Zvi Ish-Shalom, PhD, professor of world wisdom at
Naropa University and author of The Kedumah Experience and
The Path of Primordial Light
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