A concise, jargon-free guide to learning what Buddhist meditation is--and isn't--with advice on how to start a meditation practice

If you want to meditate but have no idea where to begin, then best-selling author and Buddhist teacher Susan Piver is here to help. Her book Start Here Now contains everything you need to know in order to begin--and maintain--your own meditation practice. Piver covers a variety of essential topics such as:

- What meditation is (and what it is not)
- The three most common misconceptions about meditation
- How to overcome obstacles that get in the way of your practice
- The positive effects of meditation on relationships, creativity, and difficult emotions
- Frequently asked questions

Piver presents meditation as something more than the self-help technique du jour--it is a path to love, joy, and courage. This book contains two self-paced meditation programs to help you start here--now