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Don't Just Sit There!: 44 Insights to Get Your Meditation Practice Off the Cushion and Into the Real World Kindle Edition

by Biet Simkin (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Discover the forty-four laws of life that are the missing link between the desire to meditate and the motivation needed to maintain a regular meditation practice, process the emotional fallout of meditative experiences, and find spiritual fulfillment.

Biet Simkin knows from personal experience that finding your way to transformation and mindfulness isn’t always easy. Drawing on hard-won wisdom from her journey through addiction, personal tragedy, and the New York rock-n-roll scene, Biet shares the guidance you’ll need to move from meltdowns to miracles.

Don’t Just Sit There! is a guidebook that will empower you to dive into meditation by helping you work through the not-so-peaceful side of achieving peace. With insights on forty-four laws of human experience, it provides week-by-week instructions to process each one. From the Law of Focus to the Law of Desire, these aspects of spiritual life can become obstacles without the tools to properly face them.

Experienced and novice meditators alike can benefit from Biet’s frank, freeing advice on how to establish a lifelong practice in an often chaotic modern world. By confronting the disruptive quality of spiritual life, you can motivate yourself to realize the meditative practice of your dreams.
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A lovely, wise, and practical guide to being here on earth.

-- "Geneen Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author"

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Biet Simkin is the founder of Center of the Cyclone, an immersive experience that weaves meditation, self-inquiry, art, music, and fashion, offering an explosive experience. Biet works to raise consciousness through teaching corporate groups, parties, speaking engagements, pop-ups in museums and art galleries, and private training sessions. She has created events with Lululemon, Soul Cycle, Vice, Sundance Film Festival, the Path, Summit Series, the Collective, Babel, Wanderlust Festival, and more. Her music album The Lunar was released in 2015 and is designed to enhance meditation.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GNRK9M6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria/Enliven Books; Reissue edition (16 April 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2681 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 241 pages
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Biet Simkin is the Founder of Center of the Cyclone, an immersive experience that weaves meditation, self inquiry, art, music and fashion, offering an explosive experience. She is inspired by the rare and almost impossible task of entering into the present moment and creates this experience globally. After 30 years of study in the field Biet’s feeling was that the world of the intellect, fashion and art needed spirituality, and the world of spirituality was often missing the mark and needed some vanity and fire. Colliding these two worlds Biet has created events with MoMA, Lululemon, SoulCycle, Summit Series, Vice, Free People, Sundance Film Festival, Bonnaroo Festival, Soho House, Mind Body Green, 1 Hotels, Neuehouse, Wanderlust Festival, Adidas, Samsung, Sony and more.

In the Spring of 2019, Biet released a book with Simon & Schuster about the laws of meditation entitled "Don't Just Sit There!" She is the resident and in-house Meditation Leader at all 1 Hotels with in-room content across all properties. Biet is also the voice of Expectful, a meditation app for pregnant expecting mothers. Meditation with Biet is different in that it is more emotional, her work takes you through the emotional, intellectual, instinctive and moving centers to get to a place of equanimity and joy. Through private one on ones, corporate groups, parties, speaking engagements and pop-ups in museums and art galleries, Biet is bringing this big work into the world and helping raise consciousness from the outside in. Her work is also unique as it is bringing the sound of her music into the meditation experiences and giving music a new venue. Her latest album ‘The Lunar’ debuted September 2015. Her work has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Vogue, The Observer, TIME Magazine, Forbes, The London Times and more!

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5.0 out of 5 stars This is a living guide, a loving guide
Reviewed in Canada on 7 December 2020
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When I first heard about the book, I thought, "Oh, I don't need this because I already know how to meditate". But this book is not just meditation, it's about living well, living fully, and living in a state of love. This book doesn't just regurgitate self-help motivational talk, it provides deep, thoughtful perspectives on how to generate peace and a state of love from within, with practical tools.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. I couldn't put it down. I enjoyed the stories of Biet, which are so raw and vulnerable, and the wisdom she shares. This is definitely a book you keep on your coffeetable, and can go back to when you need a zap of inspiration and empowerment.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I really love this (work)book!
Reviewed in Germany on 4 August 2022
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Everybody should read this book! It is such an inspiration for the everyday live. You can read it again and again and „work“ with it, to become a better version of yourself. Love. Love. Love.
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Patricia
5.0 out of 5 stars Practical meditation tools for every day messy, busy, crazy, calm and all the in between life!
Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2019
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Biet does a fantastic job here. This is a book of bite size meditation tools you can use whether you are on a meditation retreat, already in the blissful flow of life, driving in heavy L.A. traffic, up at night with a screaming newborn, or at a demanding job with challenging personalities. She crystallizes and gives name to quite a few spiritual techniques - 44 to be exact ;). I have been doing inner work for about 10 years now and I have found meditation to be an essential aspect of my life - I just can’t go without it any more. The experience of bliss she talks about has become stronger for me in the past few months and this book has the tools I was looking for to spring forward to the next stage. Many questions I’ve been asking of the universe are being answered here. I appreciate the simple language and the hint of quantum consciousness. Anwyho, for the disciplined meditation practitioner or if you’re new to meditation, this is the book for you. Practical for every day life. Namaste!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Practical meditation tools for every day messy, busy, crazy, calm and all the in between life!
Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2019
Biet does a fantastic job here. This is a book of bite size meditation tools you can use whether you are on a meditation retreat, already in the blissful flow of life, driving in heavy L.A. traffic, up at night with a screaming newborn, or at a demanding job with challenging personalities. She crystallizes and gives name to quite a few spiritual techniques - 44 to be exact ;). I have been doing inner work for about 10 years now and I have found meditation to be an essential aspect of my life - I just can’t go without it any more. The experience of bliss she talks about has become stronger for me in the past few months and this book has the tools I was looking for to spring forward to the next stage. Many questions I’ve been asking of the universe are being answered here. I appreciate the simple language and the hint of quantum consciousness. Anwyho, for the disciplined meditation practitioner or if you’re new to meditation, this is the book for you. Practical for every day life. Namaste!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Slowly changing my life !
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 October 2020
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Such a fabulous book, so easy to read and utterly translatable to life. I follow Biet on Instagram and she is full of wisdom. This book is very slowly changing my life!!
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