20-Minute Retreats by Rachel Harris

20-Minute Retreats by Rachel Harris

"The perfect antidote for busyness. Thanks to Dr. Harris, time is no longer an excuse for neglecting our souls."
--Philip Goldberg, author of The Intuitive Edge

This collection of step-by-step practices from ancient cultures, world religions, and psychological disciplines provides readers with the self-renewing, spiritually, uplifting rewards of retreat anytime, anywhere. We all crave periods of silence and introspection, but with lives lived at an ever-increasing pace most of us find fewer opportunities to fill that need. Now, psychologist Rachel Harris has come to the rescue with this unique collection of 20-, 5- and 1-minute mini-retreats--short periods of meditation, contemplation or self-discovery drawn from traditions and practices as varied as Buddhism, Quakerism, Sufism, art therapy, ritual magic, Gestalt therapy, and Jungian dream analysis. Provocative sidebars, stimulating quotes, and touching first-person stories make this book as inviting to read as it is practical to use. With these brief retreats, readers of any age or occupation will be able to catch their emotional breath regardless of what is happening in life, to pause to listen to the sounds of their souls, and to reemerge balanced and refreshed.

Rachel Harris, Ph.D., is a psychologist with a private practice in Princeton, New Jersey, who has over thirty years of experience leading national and international workshops. She is the co-author of the New York Times best-selling book Children Learn What They Live.