Treasure Maps to Meditation: A Guide For Those Who Have Tried and Given Up
- Janet Doucette, MA LMHC
- Jun 6
- 2 min read

Linda Preston, licensed massage therapist and non-dual Kabbalistic Healer, has been in the healing arts for over 40 years, offering integrative bodywork therapies, energy work and meditation instruction. Over the years, she realized many people were on the verge of giving up while trying to learn how to meditate.
What began as a simple instructional handout, a"how-to" for people frustrated by the multitude of techniques that simply didn't work for them, became the ground work for a unique and timely training guide.
Linda's book offers the Three Pillars of Meditation, a combination of very approachable techniques. No matter one's previous challenges or experiences with the practice of meditation, there is something for everyone in this book. Her method breaks down the basics, from gently guiding practitioner how to sit and breathe, to gaining the benefits of self-awareness that lead one deeper into a natural practice. She includes access to her on-line audio meditations that accompany the teachings. This is a great option for those who learn meditation practices best, audibly.
While offering useful, easy tools for beginning meditators, Treasure Maps to Meditation opens a path to a deeper understanding of the process of meditation and how it can heal your mind and body. Readers will discover a meditation practice that is natural to them, rather than a prescribed pattern that draws one into a rigid or conforming tradition.
The practices in Pillar One include techniques for learning how to sit and use one's breath to develop a self-caring attitude. The ability to use one's one breath and body posture to foster self-reflection is only one of the treasures offered in this unique guide. The author breaks down each meditation practice into understandable components, offering an intention, elements of practice, an affirmation, and its hidden treasure or benefit.
In Pillar Two, the reader is drawn into a deeper understanding of energy awareness and its powerful impact on one's physiological terrain. Again, the practices are gaged to gently bring meditators to new levels of awareness natural to their own progression of self-discovery.
In Pillar Three, practitioners learn to connect with their spiritual side, where one can truly find the path within that leads to a bountiful treasure of inner happiness. Theses practices bring an awareness of one's spiritual essence and the embodiment of heart and soul.
This is just the right book for these uncertain times. We need useful techniques to manage the struggle of rapid change. And we need confidence we can employ them within the day to day turbulence of our lives. Linda Preston's Treasure Maps to Meditation offers timeless methods of finding inner resiliency and along with the self-assurance, that yes - you absolutely can meditate.
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