Relaxing into Meditation draws on my experience teaching relaxation and meditation through community education. Every year a new group of people would arrive wanting to learn meditation and nearly every one of them would say that they thought meditation would help with stress. Meditation will help with stress – but not immediately and only once one has sufficient experience to bring one’s meditation practice into all areas of life. We need to relax – in the ordinary sense of the word – to deal with stress, and then engage with meditation so that its many benefits can be discovered. So this book is for those who want to start to meditate, or who have tried it and not got on very well, or who are unclear about whether they are practising correctly. It is a beginners book in one sense, but is not shallow or superficial in its approach. http://www.sellingbooks.com/ngakma-nordzin-author-interview
"[...] it's the best book on meditation I've ever read, and I've been browsing them since the mid-70's. I say this because of the distinction made between relaxation and meditation, and the explanation ...of why relaxation must happen before meditation can begin. I have never seen it spelled out so clearly before, and in such a gentle, non-didactic manner. The writing draws you in and you come to love the teacher as if you were also a member of one of her meditation groups.
Although she writes about a subject that others have been prone to mystify and deliberately, it often seems, obscure, she writes in such an accessible and approachable way that you are drawn to listen avidly to what she has to say. She is, in fact, overwhelmingly kind and gentle in her approach, so that, no matter your age or background, you are likely to be comforted and inspired by her work.