Paramananda Knihy

We live in our bodies but pay very little attention to them. In fact, most of what we call our experience is our thoughts. The meditations and instructions in The Body get us back in touch with our physical experience. We feel the benefits in a deeper, fuller, and more satisfying experience of ourselves and of life itself. By befriending and nurturing our bodies we can bring awareness to our physical sensations and learn the language of the body. We can then access the remarkable wisdom held within our bodies and develop a more intuitive approach to life. Born John Wilson, Paramananda is a meditator with twenty-five years of experience, who has taught extensively in San Francisco and London. He is the author of the best-selling book on meditation Change Your Mind and is currently writing a PhD thesis on meditation.

This series of essays on Buddhist practice shows how simple exercises, reflections and meditations can awaken us to the magic of being fully present in each moment of our lives.

Provides traditional practices for the readers to learn how to exchange stress and anxiety for calm and clarity of mind, and transform anger and fear into kindness and self confidence. The author guides on meditation with anecdotes and tips, from his experience of teaching meditation of more than 15 years.

At the heart of Paramananda's radical vision is the art of meditation. Enlivened by his love of both the natural world and poetry, he guides us in a threefold process: grounding meditative experience in the body, turning towards experience in a kindly and intelligent way, and seeing through to another way of understanding and being in the world.