If you have contemplated starting a “meditation” practice but didn’t know where to start, this book is for you. You need not be a practicing Buddhist or someone with years of meditation experience. In Let’s Not Call It Meditation, Padme Nina Livingstone takes the mystery and fears out of meditation and explains this higher state of awareness in terms we can all understand.

Padme begins this easy-to-read book discussing the 7 Key Elements for Growth and evoking the reader’s ability to “remember who you really long to be.” Padme creates vivid pictorials by describing a person’s whole beauty as a flower with the six petals of curiosity, humor, gratitude, compassion, 100% responsibility, and creativity. Padme helps the reader understand aspects of their life that get in the way; mistaken beliefs, fears, and the top myths of meditation. She then delves into helping you begin your own awareness journey. Using her life experiences as a catalyst, Padme weaves entertaining stories along with practical applications into a tapestry of useful information. For anyone interested in starting a meditation practice, this book is a must.

Padme teaches awareness meditation and has a private practice in spiritual guidance. In addition to Let’s Not Call it Meditation, she has published three awareness CD’s; Forgiveness Meditation, Uncovering Compassion, and Remembering Awareness.

Aimee Wood is a freelance writer for New Health Digest and Co-Leader of the Rochester chapter of Holistic Moms.

Upon reading the first paragraph of this book, I felt an istant calm and inner peace washing over me. If that isn't a sign that the author knows what she is saying, I don't know what is!