Pulling from many traditions and offering practical applications as well as instruction and teaching tales, Pragito Dove demonstrates that meditation can start from any emotion, feeling, activity, or moment and can extend from mere seconds to hours. Each will offer benefits. Meditation can help readers clear emotional clutter, come to terms with grief, more deeply experience joy, connect more deeply to a partner, learn to let go, discover inner guidance, or simply sit and experience fully the perfect present moment. Dove's meditations are active and expressive, beginning from the premise that our bodies as well as our minds should be involved in meditating. They encompass the full range of human experience and can begin with dance, laughter, sobbing, anger, shouting, or, in the most familiar way, with silence.