The present volume is a highly comprehensive assessment of the postcolonial short story since the thirty-six contributions cover most geographical areas concerned. Another important feature is that it deals not only with exclusive practitioners of the genre (Mansfield, Munro), but also with well-known novelists (Achebe, Armah, Atwood, Carey, Rushdie), so that stimulating comparisons are suggested between shorter and longer works by the same authors. In addition, the volume is of interest for the study of aspects of orality (dialect, dance rhythms, circularity and trickster figure for instance) and of the more or less conflictual relationships between the individual (character or implied author) and the community.Furthermore, the marginalized status of women emerges as another major theme, both as regards the past for white women settlers, or the present for urbanized characters, primarily in Africa and India. The reader will also have the rare pleasure of discovering Janice Kulik Keefer's "Fox," her version of what she calls in her commentary "displaced autobiography'" or "creative non-fiction." Lastly, an extensive bibliography on the postcolonial short story opens up further possibilities for research.

Meditating with colour can be a powerful way to improve health and well-being and this simple handbook provides a full spectrum of new and easy-to-use colour meditation exercises. Red can be used to improve circulation and fight infection; blue to soothe the mind and lower blood pressure. Each chapter looks at a particular colour and its associated chakra, discusses the characteristics and healing properties, and offers a series of relaxing breathing exercises and transformative visualisations for working with the colour in question. Anyone can practice these simple meditations in the home, and they are ideal for colour therapists, energy healers, yoga instructors and meditation leaders to use with clients.

The Red Book is nothing less than a spiritual fire starter -- a combustible cocktail of Hindu Tantra and Zen Buddhism, Rumi and Carl Jung, goddesses and psychics, shaken with cosmic nudges, meaningful subway rides, haircuts, relationships, sex, dreams, and intuition. Author Sera Beak's unique hybrid perspective, hilarious personal anecdotes, and invaluable exercises encourage her readers to live more consciously so they can start making clearer choices across the board, from careers to relationships, politics to pop culture and everything in between. For smart, gutsy, spiritually curious women whose colorful and complicated lives aren’t reflected in most spirituality books, The Red Book is an open invitation to find your true self and start sharing that delicious truth with the world.

In the early 400s, numerous Indian and Central Asian Buddhist “meditation masters” (chanshi) traveled to China, where they established the first enduring traditions of Buddhist meditation practice in East Asia. The forms of contemplative practice that these missionaries brought with them, and which their Chinese students further developed, remained for several centuries the basic understanding of “meditation” (chan) in China. Although modern scholars and readers have long been familiar with the approaches to meditation of the Chan (Zen) School that later became so popular throughout East Asia, these earlier and in some ways more pervasive forms of practice have long been overlooked or ignored. This volume presents a comprehensive study of the content and historical formation, as well as complete English translations, of two of the most influential manuals in which these approaches to Buddhist meditation are discussed: the Scripture on the Secret Essential Methods of Chan (Chan Essentials) and the Secret Methods for Curing Chan Sickness (Methods for Curing). Translated here into English for the first time, these documents reveal a distinctly visionary form of Buddhist meditation whose goal is the acquisition of concrete, symbolic visions attesting to the practitioner’s purity and progress toward liberation. Both texts are “apocryphal” scriptures: Taking the form of Indian Buddhist sutras translated into Chinese, they were in fact new compositions, written or at least assembled in China in the first half of the fifth century. Though written in China, their historical significance extends beyond the East Asian context as they are among the earliest written sources anywhere to record certain kinds of information about Buddhist meditation that hitherto had been the preserve of oral tradition and personal initiation. To this extent they indeed divulge, as their titles claim, the “secrets” of Buddhist meditation. Through them, we witness a culture of Buddhist meditation that has remained largely unknown but which for many centuries was widely shared across North India, Central Asia, and China.

Experience a moment of peace anywhere with this beautiful, pocket-sized book that can help calm your mind and focus your thoughts throughout your busy days. Today’s hectic world is so full of distractions that it can often be overwhelming and draining. My Pocket Meditations offers you a portable pause button to temporarily turn off the noise and focus on what you truly need in the moment. You’ll learn the basic concepts of meditation and how to meditate, including various methods of meditating and how to use objects in meditation. Then you can choose from 125 meditations on more than a dozen topics including peace, love, friendship, hope, prosperity, and willpower. These quick yet powerful exercises allow for increased mindfulness and awareness. My Pocket Meditations helps you to ignore the distractions for a few minutes and take on the day with a calm, clear mind and fresh purpose.

If you wake up happily content, with love in your heart and grateful for the life you’ve been gifted, then you’re already as rich as it gets. However, for many of us today, despite our best efforts, we yearn for an inner peace and positivity that can sometimes be elusive. But, humans are meant to dream and imagine! We’re meant to strive for a better life. And there is only one way to achieve it: take action! The Red Pill Book will guide you towards the life you are meant to have. You will learn how to harness the immense power of your subconscious mind through increasing your self-awareness, practicing self-care, meditating, and preparing a personal plan for living a life of love and gratitude. Learning to harness the law of attraction is life-changing. But empowering your mind requires dedication and practice. The effort is worth it as you experience the changes it will bring to your life, beliefs, and values. Living your best life is in your hands. With The Red Pill Book as your companion, you can free your true potential for happiness and abundance to reach whatever it is that defines your hopes, dreams, and aspirations in life.

If you are able to place yourself in one of the following situations or something similar, color meditation will benefit. “I’d rather be in a different state of mind than deal with all the stress I’m going through, so I self-medicate.” “I get panic attacks and anxiety and it becomes hard for me to breathe.” “My anger is out of control!” “It’s hard for me to concentrate.” Color meditation is a conscious activity focused on relaxing the mind and body through breathing. It clears the mind from on-going thoughts and outside distractions. Nature has provided everything we need. Most importantly is the air we breathe. Breathing in color is for the spirit, just like food is for the body. "The activities are à wonderful bonus! If you take your time and answer the questions openly and honestly you really can tap into your inner self, I know I did. Thank you." YaYa B. We are the sun, water, earth and air.