The Monkey Is the Messenger
Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An engaging, funny, and introductory guide for anyone whose overactive mind gets in the way of starting a regular meditation practice
“My mind is so busy, I really need to meditate.”
“My mind is so busy, there’s no way I can meditate.”
Familiar dilemma? These days just about all of us know we should be meditating, but that doesn’t make it any easier to sit down and face the repetitive thoughts careening around our brains—seemingly pointless, sometimes hurtful, nearly always hard to control. Rather than quitting meditation or trying to wall off the monkey mind, Ralph De La Rosa suggests asking yourself a question: If you were to stop demonizing your monkey mind, would it have anything to teach you? In a roundabout way, could repetitive thoughts be pointing us in the direction of personal—and even societal—transformation?
Poignant and entertaining, The Monkey Is the Messenger offers a range of evidence-based, somatic, and trauma-informed insights and practices drawn from De La Rosa’s study of neuroscience and psychology and his long practice of meditation and yoga. Here at last—a remedy for all those who want to meditate but suppose they can’t because they think too much.
Customer Reviews
Surprisingly Delightful
I’ve read over 40 books on consciousness, breathwork, meditation, and the like in the last year alone and this one is easily top if the list. Reception of literature depends on the person tho and I highly support you giving this book your reception.
Ahh those magic monkeys!
If you are searching for the magic elixir or a balm to tame your inner demons, this is the book. After 35+ years of struggling with PTSD and frequent dips into depression, this book is opening the window into realizing my full potential as a human. Understanding the nature of mind and the place mediatation fits into your life are benchmark discoveries unearthed here.
The monkeys of our mind that we so despairingly try to run from, hide from, supress & dismiss are the very monkeys that come from our deepest parts beairng messages of wholeness & connectedness. There is no complacent or easy path, but the fact that there is a path, and lightness and wonder await along it, well, that is the golden ticket.
Monkey is the messenger
Great book on mediation! Inspiring and helpful for your soul