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Just Begin: A Sourcebook of Spiritual Practices
Spiritual practices for beginners and practitioners all in one volume.
Just Begin is an indispensable reference tool for the interested spiritual practitioner who wants to add new methods and exercises to their mystical “toolbox.” In simple terms, basic steps, and encouraging language, Dr. Wigner introduces readers to more than 40 different practices from Eastern and Western traditions, encompassing everything from mindfulness to music, yoga to the Lord’s Prayer. In each short description, the focus is to “just begin” to practice and experiment, grow, and develop spiritually on the way. No one can take a journey without taking the first step, and Dr. Wigner provides the first steps for multiple practices in various religious traditions.
These spiritual exercises will help spur people of faith to deeper self-awareness, holistic living, and prayer. The book’s sections are organized around types of Meditating, Listening, Being, Sensing, and Embodying, with a final Doing. Each chapter forms a short three to five page introduction to a mystical practice, consisting of segments on definition, background, how to practice, resources for further study, journal prompts and discussion questions, and common problems that sometimes “get in the way” of one’s practice.
Just Begin is an indispensable reference tool for the interested spiritual practitioner who wants to add new methods and exercises to their mystical “toolbox.” In simple terms, basic steps, and encouraging language, Dr. Wigner introduces readers to more than 40 different practices from Eastern and Western traditions, encompassing everything from mindfulness to music, yoga to the Lord’s Prayer. In each short description, the focus is to “just begin” to practice and experiment, grow, and develop spiritually on the way. No one can take a journey without taking the first step, and Dr. Wigner provides the first steps for multiple practices in various religious traditions.
These spiritual exercises will help spur people of faith to deeper self-awareness, holistic living, and prayer. The book’s sections are organized around types of Meditating, Listening, Being, Sensing, and Embodying, with a final Doing. Each chapter forms a short three to five page introduction to a mystical practice, consisting of segments on definition, background, how to practice, resources for further study, journal prompts and discussion questions, and common problems that sometimes “get in the way” of one’s practice.
256 pages, Paperback
Published October 17, 2018
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January 3, 2021
This is a good book. He clearly delineates several different spiritual practices in a clear way, adds in possible ways to vary them, and answers questions that he's been asked before about them. In a few he even gives warnings for those who probably shouldn't do a particular practice.
That said, reading too much of it at one time made me sleepy. Hence the 4 stars instead of 5.
Oh, and don't skip the intros to the different flows in the yoga section (even if you skip the descriptions of each movement). There are some good pearls in the intros.
That said, reading too much of it at one time made me sleepy. Hence the 4 stars instead of 5.
Oh, and don't skip the intros to the different flows in the yoga section (even if you skip the descriptions of each movement). There are some good pearls in the intros.
November 27, 2022
This is a good resource for Spiritual Practices. It lists some things I wasn't expecting.
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