“The Monkey Is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind Is Trying to Tell You” by Ralph De La Rosa reframes the concept of a mind that won’t quiet down during meditation.

The author, a psychotherapist, life coach, rogue meditation teacher, storyteller, and musician whose works has been featured in CNN, SELF, GQ, Women's Health, and Elephant Journal, among others, suggests asking yourself a question: If you were to stop challenging your monkey mind, what would it teach you? Could our repeating thoughts point us in the direction of personal and even societal transformation?

Ever inspiring, “The Monkey Is the Messenger” offers evidence-based, somatic and trauma-informed insights and practices drawn from De La Rosa’s study of neuroscience and psychology and his long practice of meditation and yoga. At last, a remedy for all us who fear we can’t meditate ... because we suppose we think too much. Highly recommended!

Pub Date 13 Nov 2018

Thanks to Shambhala Publications, Inc. and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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