Meditation for Beginners
Techniques For Awareness, Mindfulness & Relaxation
Part 13 of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Some people think meditation is something that takes years to learn. The truth is, it's a very natural state of awareness that can be developed in just a few minutes each day. The benefits of meditation are infinite!
• Develop concentration
• Learn to focus your attention
• Relax your body and mind quickly and easily
• Release fears
• Increase your health and wellness
• Exchange old habits for new ones
• Identify personal goals and aspirations
• Discover which meditation method works best for you
2003 COVR Award Winner (Best Alternative Health Book)
Runes for Beginners
Simple Divination And Interpretation
Part 46 of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Unlock the Secrets of Your Past, Present, and Future
Connect with your intuition, discover more about your personality, and solve problems using the power of runes. With professional fortune-teller Alexandra Chauran as your guide, you can learn how to ask for and interpret the answers to your biggest life questions concerning love, your career, health, and many other important topics.
A solid reference for both beginners and adepts, Runes for Beginners covers everything from rune meanings and memorization techniques to making your own runes. With help from diagrams, practical exercises, and phonetic breakdowns for all the runic letters, you'll develop a path most beneficial to your goals and improve your life. You'll even uncover traits about yourself that you may have never known.
Creative Visualization for Beginners
Achieve Your Goals & Make Your Dreams Come True
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
You have the ability to visualize success and manifest each one of your hopes and dreams. A natural capacity of the human mind, creative visualization helps millions of people achieve their goals.
Creative visualization will empower you to make positive, lasting changes in your own life. Award-winning author Richard Webster presents an effective system for making your dreams come true, including methods for handling difficulties along the way. Try a variety of simple activities and easy-to-follow techniques to:
• Improve your health
• Build rewarding relationships
• Advance your career and earn more money
• Supercharge your creativity
• Nurture and restore your soul
Reiki for Beginners
Mastering Natural Healing Techniques
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Millions of people worldwide have already benefited from the healing practice of Reiki. With the help of this introductory Reiki book, you can learn the basic principles of this simple, yet profound system for healing and spiritual growth that works on an energetic level. Make the most of Reiki from a practical point of view as you explore its spiritual essence:
• Heal yourself and others physically, mentally, and emotionally
• Develop compassion and wisdom
• Heal plants and animals
• Resolve relationship issues at work or home
• Complement and strengthen other therapies
• Send healing energy to local or world situations such as war, natural disasters, crime, or poverty
• Be blessed, guided, and protected
Winner of the Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) Award for Best Alternative Health Book
Tea Leaf Reading for Beginners
Your Fortune In A Tea Cup
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
With a cup of freshly brewed tea, you can indulge in an age-old custom that brings you deep relaxation, healthful rejuvenation-and a sense of wonder as you see what the leaves reveal.
In six simple steps, you'll learn to read tea leaves like a pro. Four sample readings with photos will help you interpret tea-leaf patterns even more easily. You'll also find hundreds of symbols and their meanings, grouped by theme-from animals and sun signs to travel and trees.
• Prepare herbal infusions for better health
• Give tea-leaf readings
• Host a tea party
• Master tea-taking etiquette
• Brew the perfect pot
Tarot Reversals for Beginners
Five Approaches To Reading Upside-down Cards
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Many people don't know what to do when a card appears upside down in a tarot spread. This book helps you become more comfortable and confident when these topsy-turvy cards dance into your readings. Join author Leeza Robertson as she explores five distinct areas of energy related to reversals: blocks, protection, mirror, shadow, and retrograde. This system of reading reversals is a simple way to deepen your connection to the cards and receive the guidance they have to offer.
Crystal Ball Reading for Beginners
Easy Divination & Interpretation
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Haven't you always wanted to gaze into a crystal ball and see what the future holds? You can learn to use a crystal ball for divination, guidance, and meditation-this friendly introductory guide tells you how!
Alexandra Chauran, a second-generation fortuneteller, presents everything you need to know to begin doing crystal ball readings immediately. You'll learn what a crystal ball is, how it works, and how to choose your first one. Step-by-step instructions describe what to look for when doing a reading and how to interpret the symbols found within the crystal ball.
You can gain heightened intuitive abilities, greater self-knowledge, and a deeper understanding of the universe when you practice the ancient art of crystal ball reading.
Astrology for Beginners
Learn To Read Your Birth Chart
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Simple Astrological Guidance for Self-Development and Conscious Living
Concise and direct, this easy-to-use guide provides everything needed to uncover the secrets of your birth chart and reveal amazing insights about your true nature. You'll gain an incredibly expanded understanding of yourself-and others-with this book's extensive information and examples.
Professional astrologer David Pond introduces you to the most important topics of astrology, including the zodiac signs, planets, houses, aspects, and more. He then builds on the basics to teach you how to interpret your astrological chart and those of the people in your life. From planetary patterns and Sun signs to retrogrades and cusps, this book brings the stars down to earth so you can study astrology with ease.
Spellcasting for Beginners
A Simple Guide To Magical Practice
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Learn the Fundamental Skills of Magical Practice
Explore how to bring love, money, healing, blessings, and more into your life with over seventy simple spells and rituals. This easy-to-use, essential guide provides a comprehensive introduction to magical techniques.
Learn the basics of spellcasting: timing, correspondence, discipline, intent, projection, grounding, and more in this practical manual. From candles, crystals, and charms to witch bottles, gems, and cords, you'll study the many forms and tools of magic. You'll even attain knowledge on how to design your own spells in this accessible guide for the beginning witch.
Spellcasting for Beginners provides everything you need to know about magical practice with clear, concise instruction. Create a basic altar for solitary practice, experiment with nature-based magic, and discover the many uses of potions, recipes, and natural ingredients for your spells. Your witch's training will be an enjoyable and enlightening experience as you take part in the magical heritage of the craft.
Praise:
"Michael Furie brings fantastical stories about magic and spells back to reality with this dedicated work aimed at those embarking on the long journey into magical practice."-Raymond Buckland, author of Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft
Color Magic for Beginners
Use The Power Of Color To Attract Luck, Health & Harmony
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
From our clothes to the color of our bedroom walls, we are surrounded by colors that influence our mood, energy level, creativity, and overall well being. Richard Webster offers an astonishing number of ways to use stimulating reds, soothing blues, and every other color of the rainbow to our advantage.
Webster begins with an overall picture of each color's major aspects-its psychological influence, healing qualities, emotional impact, and magical characteristics. From there, readers learn a multitude of color-based techniques involving astrology, the aura, candle magic, chakras, color rituals, crystals and gemstones, feng shui, flower magic, mandalas, meditation, numerology, and visualization. Webster demonstrates how color can be used to attract good luck, heal illness, reduce stress, create harmony in the home, overcome depression, solve problems, and magically enhance one's life in a variety of ways.
Practical Magic for Beginners
Techniques & Rituals To Focus Magical Energy
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Anyone can practice magic to improve their everyday lives. Practical Magic for Beginners is a straightforward introduction to magical practice for Christians, Pagans, Jews, atheists, and people of all religious traditions.
This comprehensive training course presents the foundations of spellcraft and ritual magic through short, simple exercises. Readers explore their energy and senses, and then move on to developing skills in extrasensory perception, divination, and introspection. Magical timing, magical processes, ritual space and tools, journaling, and dreamwork are explained and discussed in depth. This nondenominational guidebook also includes twenty rituals related to friendship, love, prosperity, health, and other common concerns.
Tarot Court Cards for Beginners
Bring Clarity To Your Readings
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
For many tarot readers, the court cards are the most challenging cards to work with. But once you become familiar with how these enigmatic cards work, you can turn them into friends and allies that provide powerful insights and advice. Featuring stories, explanations, and simple exercises, this book explores the many facets of pages, knights, kings, and queens to enhance your journey through the tarot.
Author Leeza Robertson approaches the court cards from a variety of angles, exploring the symbols, legends, personalities, messages, and spiritual influences of each card. Providing unique tips, reading techniques, and spread ideas, this book will help you welcome the court cards into your tarot practice.
Sound Healing for Beginners
Using Vibration To Harmonize Your Health And Wellness
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Learn how to energize and enhance your well-being on every level-physical, emotional, and spiritual-through hands-on exercises and guided meditations that provide direct experience with sound. As a therapeutic and transformative branch of energy medicine, sound healing offers powerful tools to tune up your health and wellness.
Presenting a clear and solid foundation of core concepts, Sound Healing for Beginners shows how to apply innovative sound techniques to your daily life in order to balance your energy and manifest personal improvement. With chapters covering focused listening, the energetics of breathwork, activating your unique resonances and energy centers through vocal toning, using sound as a creative force for manifestation, and more, this accessible guide will help you harmonize your life with the remarkable benefits of sound healing.
Tarot for Beginners
A Practical Guide To Reading The Cards
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
This all-new edition of the popular Tarot for Beginners makes it simpler and more enjoyable than ever to learn how to read and interpret tarot cards. Award-winning tarot expert Barbara Moore clearly explains every aspect of the tarot so you can perform readings with ease and confidence.
Discover the core divinatory meanings of all seventy-eight cards, clearly broken down by Major and Minor Arcana, suit, and number. A variety of spreads and sample readings will help you develop essential skills and ultimately create your own unique style.
• Card images are from three popular tarot decks that follow the classic Rider-Waite structure
• Follow easy step-by-step instructions for giving effective readings for yourself and others
• Learn about reversals, symbols, interpretive techniques, tarot journaling, and much more
Intuition for Beginners
Easy Ways To Awaken Your Natural Abilities
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
Whether your intuition is naturally accessible or hidden, Intuition for Beginners shows how to enhance your sense of inner knowing to improve your relationships, solve problems, and make important decisions. Explore the different kinds of "sixth sense" with professional intuitive Diane Brandon as she shares how to discover your own intuition and make it stronger.
Believe it or not, nearly everyone is intuitive! You can learn to use your intuition as a tool of empowerment at home, at work, or wherever you face uncertainty or challenges. With dozens of exercises, guided meditations, and helpful dos and don'ts, Intuition for Beginners will have you listening to your inner voice in no time.
Praise:
"A stimulating step-by-step guide to the world of intuition."-Bernie Ashman, author of Signmates
Astral Travel for Beginners
Transcend Time And Space With Out-of-body Experiences
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
What you've done thousands of times in your sleep can now become a totally conscious experience with the help of this handy guidebook. You'll soon learn to leave your body and explore the astral realm with confidence and safety.
Achieving your first astral travel experience is always the most difficult-and no single method will work for everyone. That's why the techniques in this book are carefully graded to step by step through an actual out-of-body experience. And with fifteen time-tested methods to choose from you're sure to be astral traveling in no time.
Once you learn to leave your body, the freedom you'll discover will transform your life. Explore new worlds… learn to travel with a partner… go back and forth through time… even find a lover… but, most importantly, lose your fear of death as you discover that you are a spiritual being independent of your physical body.
Psychic Development for Beginners
An Easy Guide To Developing & Releasing Your Psychic Abilities
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
More Than 200,000 Sold
An incredible power awaits your command
You possess a secret power that is just waiting to be harnessed-your natural psychic sense.
This unique book on psychic development offers fast and easy techniques that can be used every day to solve problems, psychically shield yourself from harm, contact your spirit guide, attain superior listening skills, boost your reading comprehension, and even reserve that perfect parking space in advance.
Awaken and develop your innate psychic abilities, and ultimately create the kind of life you have always dreamed of. More than 44 fun and simple activities and 28 case studies in this book on psychic development illustrate the effectiveness of these methods, helping you master a variety of psychic techniques:
• Clairvoyance
• Telepathy
• Astral travel
• Psychometry
• Psychic healing
• Divination
• Communicating with animals and spiritual entities
Chakras for Beginners
A Guide To Balancing Your Chakra Energies
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
You may think that difficult situations and emotions you experience are caused by other people or random events. This book will convince you that inner imbalance is not caused by situations in the outer world-instead, your imbalances create the situations that interfere with your sense of well-being and peace.
Chakras for Beginners explains how to align your energy on many levels to achieve balance and health from the inside out. In everyday terms, you will learn the function of the seven body-spirit energy vortexes called chakras. Practical exercises, meditations, and powerful techniques for working with your energy flow will help you overcome imbalances that block your spiritual progress.
• Discover colors and crystals that activate each chakra
• Explore the balanced and unbalanced expressions of each chakra's energies: survival, sexuality, power, love, creativity, intuition, and spirituality
• Practice spiritual exercises, visualizations, and meditations that bring your energies into balance
Dowsing for Beginners
How To Find Water, Wealth & Lost Objects
Part of the Llewellyn's For Beginners series
"Extremely informative, factual, and one of the best 'how-to' books I have ever read. A must!"-Uri Geller
You can easily locate water, coins, artifacts, lost objects-even missing people-when you follow the simple instructions in this divination book.
With expert guidance from Richard Webster, discover how to improve your life in many practical ways by dowsing. Begin by learning how to use the tools of dowsing: angle rods, divining rods, pendulums, wands, and even your own hands and body. Clear, detailed instructions on map dowsing show you how to dowse for anything at all, anywhere in the world.
Using the tools and techniques presented here, you can locate valuable hidden items, identify and treat ailments for improved health, tune in to your pet's needs, develop your intuition-the applications of dowsing are nearly limitless!