Are you stressed out, anxious, or overwhelmed? Get out of the storm swirling in your head—and into the peaceful place inside you. Eff This! Meditation will help you let that crap go…with 108 hands-on practices rooted in humor, love, straight talk, and a deep respect for the foundational teachings of Buddhism. If you’re ready to throw your hands in the air and yell “Eff This!” you are not … not alone—and this book can help.
You already know that you should meditate, and that meditation will make you happier and healthier. But you’re tired and irritated, and every time you try to meditate, your mind races and you can’t stop thinking about that jerk at work. If this describes you, then this might be just what you need. This is not a joke, this is real meditation—and really effective practices—for everyday life. This book is a reference for you to come back to again and again. Integrate these tips into your daily life, or pull it off the shelf when you need a boost.
Learn to celebrate the small victories in life with a “to done” list. Release yourself from phone addiction with a digital detox plan. Get your body out of stress mode by practicing diaphragmatic breathing. Be transported, and open your heart with a pick-me-up playlist. These are just a few of the simple, practical strategies that will help you find your center.
Eff This! Meditation is a Shamatha (mindfulness-awareness) practice rooted in radical compassion for self, and presented in 108 tips, tricks, and ideas. They are all centered on the idea that, as humans, we might not be “finished,” but we are complete. Everything you need to attain enlightenment is already contained within you, and you can use meditation—and these practices—to connect with it.
The book offers 108 exercises, organized by the amount of time you have to help you respond to your current effing context.
There are a number of ways you can dive into the book:
- Read it all the way through
- Flip through and mark what seems interesting
- Try all of the techniques, one by one
- Grab the book in a panic and thumb through until something sticks out
- Open the book to a random page and do that thing
- However the eff you want; it’s your book now
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What fabulously simple book on meditation that truly anyone can gain insight from! As a true beginner myself, Liza made incorporating meditation into anyone’s life as easy as humanly possible. Small baby steps that anyone can do, even if you only have a minute, 5 minutes or an unlimited amount of time to take for yourself, this book is all you need!
I loved that it not only shared positive, helpful meditation tips and practices, but mindful messages, and shared tips on how to use small moments in your day to help create and experience joy.. so many useful messages and in a fun, easy-to-read format.
It’s my first book on meditation and I’ve done nothing but recall easy messages and moments from it since that have already helped… Highly recommend this book for anyone looking for just a moment of peace!
I received a free copy from the publisher through Netgalley and voluntarily reviewed it.
Eff This Meditation is a book about how to take care of yourself, relax more, acceptance, meditation and mindfulness. I feel like the title is a bit misleading or doesn’t give you the full scope of the book. To me it felt like it was about so much more than meditation or maybe the author uses a different definition of the word than I do. It’s not just about sitting and focusing on your breathing or being present in the moment, it’s about that, but also much more. It’s about self care in general, relaxing and being accepting of things and not judging.
I liked the authors tone in which she wrote this book and how she makes it clear that not every tip is for you and if it doesn’t feel right you should stop with it, she even encourages this. I liked that and how it wasn’t a plan or guideline you had to follow and how you have do what feels right for you. I also think that this book is very accessible, especially for those new to meditation. The book is written in an easy to follow style, with a very accepting and encouraging tone. It isn’t too deep or complicated and the tips start with things that take as little as 1 minute of your time.
I felt at times it was almost a bit too accessible,if that makes sense? I felt a bit too easy to jump into and not deep enough at times. And on the one hand I think this is great as I think everyone can find something they can take away from this book and it’s not too daunting for those new to meditation. I think the problem is more that I expected it to be all about meditation, going more in depth and offering various techniques and picking up new techniques I didn’t know yet. It also had a bunch of ideas or concepts I was already familiar with, so I felt like I didn’t get as much of the book as some others might.
This book contains 108 tips, tricks and ideas as the title states. Basically you have usually one page per one of these things, sometimes two at max and with a little bit of explanation. For most things this worked really well, but for others I would’ve liked a bit more in depth knowledge or a variety of ways to achieve that thing. It almost seems a bit too simple this way? But that’s also what makes it so accessible. I also found myself liking the longer ideas better as they seemed more effective somehow, but I realize that’s probably my own bias too, as at the same time I can definitely see how the short ideas will still be better than nothing when you only have a bit of time.
While there are a lot of ideas, tips and tricks in this book, there definitely are a bunch of them that I felt wouldn’t work for me or didn’t make me excited to try them, add to that a bunch of ones I already was aware of or even already do and it just felt like I didn’t get as much out of this book as I would’ve liked. I think this is mainly because I already have read a bit about this topic and those who are pretty new to this won’t have the same issues.
This is one of those books that would be even better in physical format I think. It’s one of those books you can place in an easy accessible place and pick it up and pick one of the tips to try when you have a moment. Although it’s definitely great to read it from start to finish as well to get a feel for all that’s in the book. It’s also beautiful formatted, each page is pleasant to look at and is nicely decorated. The formatting really adds to the book.
To summarize: Eff This Meditation is a very accessible book for those new to mediation or who want to work more on relaxing or self care. This book uses a very broad definition of meditation or in my opinion goes a bit beyond that and covers everything from self care, acceptance and relaxing. For me I felt like it didn’t add as much new ideas as I had hoped for, I also thought the book seemed almost a bit too simple at times and I would’ve liked a bit more in depth information. I went into this book expecting something different than what I got and that made it harder for me to fully connect with this. From all the tips, tricks and ideas in this book there were a bunch I already knew, some I already incorporate in my life and some I don’t feel like are for me and I feel that there wasn’t as many new ideas left that I was excited to try. Having said that I do think it’s a good book, just not exactly the type of book I was looking for. It is a book that works even better in physical format I think and the formatting is very beautiful and adds to the relax atmosphere of the book. I liked the accepting encouraging tone of the book and how the author makes clear not every tip is for everyone and to only do what feels right. I liked the focus on acceptance and not judging yourself and others. If you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed and are new to the meditation and mindfulness it’s definitely a good book to check out. It’s very accessible and has a lot of tips.