20-Minute Retreats: Revive Your Spirit in Just Minutes a Day with Simple Self-Led Practices

This collection of step-by-step practices from ancient cultures world religions and psychological disciplines provides readers with the self-renewing spiritually uplifting rewards of retreat anytime anywhere. We all crave periods of silence and introspection but with lives lived at an ever-increasing pace most of us find fewer opportunities to fill that need. Now psychologist Rachel Harris has come to the rescue with this unique collection of 20- 5- and 1-minute mini-retreats-short periods of meditation contemplation or self-discovery drawn from traditions and practices as varied as Buddhism the Quaker faith Sufism art therapy ritual magic Gestalt therapy and Jungian dream analysis. Provocative sidebars stimulating quotes and touching first-person stories make this book as inviting to read as it is practical to use. With these brief retreats readers of any age or occupation will be able to catch their emotional breath regardless of what is happening in life to pause to listen to the sounds of their souls and to reemerge balanced and refreshed.