Enhancing Your Performance,
Relationships, Health and Spirituality
Real Meditation in Minutes a Day
By Joseph Arpaia, M.D. and Lobsang Rapgay, Ph.D.
Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Meditation is more than relaxation or mindfully “being in the now.” Meditation is a precise training program that develops specific mental qualities, enabling you to live an increasingly effective, compassionate, and meaningful life. Real Meditation in Minutes a Day is an easygoing, always-encouraging mental workout buddy, ready to teach and train you. Throughout the book, “Maria” and “Brian” recount their efforts, reinforce the basics, answer FAQs, and remove common obstacles and quandaries.
“The authors of this book, Joseph P. Arpaia and Lobsang Rapgay, have drawn on the Tibetan Buddhist traditions of meditation and on an understanding of Western cognitive psychology to present meditative practice in a way that reader will find is actually effective. I congratulate them for their efforts, and offer my prayers that readers who employ these techniques will indeed be successful in increasing a sense of peace and happiness in their own lives, thereby contributing to greater peace and happiness in the world at large.”
– His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
Got a few minutes? You can:
- Reduce your stress, even when under pressure
- Sleep better
- Get re-energized
- Think more clearly, and more creatively
- Reconnect with the people who count on you
- Learn to recognize and encourage the best in yourself
Filled with exercises that even the busiest of us can find time for—little but effective techniques you can do in just a minute at work, in the car, or wherever—Real Meditation in Minutes a Day can help anyone to make meditation’s very real benefits a part of everyday life.
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Meditation Course
Coming Soon!
In our meditation class, we will go over through the techniques in the first half of the book together. With recorded meditation classes taught by Dr. Arpaia, weekly accountability posts, and other bonus material, you will become better at living, not just at meditating, and be part of a community where we all help each other learn and grow.
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HRV Train
HRV Train is a simple heart rate variability app that can be used to further mediation practice. Connected to a heart rate monitor, the app uses heart rate variability technology to give immediate feedback on important changes in heart rate patterns. This beat-to-beat feedback allows you to quickly learn and practice the meditation techniques, while watching the effect in real time on the screen.
We are currently in the process of updating HRV Train into a true meditation app with audio tracks for breathing exercises, instructional videos and more. Sign up for our email list to stay informed!
With HRV Train you can:
- record sessions to review later
- add notes while recording or later during review
- adjust the screen to clearly view your unique heart rate trace
- add markers to timestamp important events during the recording
- export the data via email
- practice breathing techniques with the built in breathing videos
How Are We Different
HRV Train differs from most other heart rate variability apps in two important ways:
All data collected is private to the user. HRV Train does not transmit any heart rate, location or other data to any third parties. HRV Train provides feedback beat-by-beat giving the user the important feedback within a few seconds. Most HRV apps provide feedback that is a summary of the past 30 seconds or longer. Since most stress responses occur on a much shorter time scale, these other apps cannot give accurate feedback in real time.