Praise: 

Accessing our imagination and intuition regularly is crucial to our health on every level, body, mind, and spirit. This book  will show you exactly how to do this with grace and joy…full of  heartfelt guidance to the magic, mystery, and wholeness inside each of us.
—Christiane Northrup M.D., author of  Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The Wisdom of Menopause

Practical Meditation for Busy Souls is an important book for our times. This exceptional resource guide demonstrates how we can harness the natural creative intuitive and healing powers within to bring wise action into the world through deep listening and practicing the perennial wisdoms.
—Angeles Arrien, PhD, author of The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life

Anyone looking to transform themselves and the world will find it of great use.
—Starhawk, Twelve Wild Swans, and The Spiral Dance

The post-9/11 world demands that each of us actively brings our deep personal power into the world. It is a time to stand up, speak out, and make our original contribution to the whole. Courage, compassion, and commitment coupled with relevant social action expressed from the spiritual depths of our being can change the world. Practical Meditation for Busy Souls provides an indispensable toolkit to catalyze this necessary and important endeavor.
—Justine and Michael Toms, cofounders of New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network and coauthors of True Work and A Time for Choices

Everywhere you turn good research affirms great benefits from a meditative practice. Practical Meditation for Busy Souls guides and empowers you to live your practice and seamlessly integrate it into your work in the world. No matter how busy, crowded or demanding your life, Margo Adair and William Aal have given you a way to source the loving wellsprings of transformation for your own deepening and renewal, for that of your intimate circle and for the transformation of the wider world. You will not only read this book, you will become, like its authors, good medicine for others when they reach out for models of wisdom and integrity.
—James O’Dea  President Institute of Noetic Sciences

A beacon of hope in trying times, Practical Meditation for Busy Souls is a trustworthy guide: it doesn’t prescribe answers so much as help us discover our own. Full of heart and insight, this marvelous book makes a strong contribution to the creation of a sustainable civilization. 
—Joanna Macy, author of Coming Back to Life

Practical Meditation for Busy Souls is a splendid accomplishment. It is in the tradition of the great wisdom seekers throughout human history, who have known that we can change our destiny by changing our mind. At a time when we seem eager to give our lives over to our genes and DNA, Aal and Adair’s message is vital.
—Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

Adair and Aal offer the most practical advice on a very fundamental necessity of life: Keeping your internal house in order. Given the stresses and fractures of our world, keeping yourself in one piece is not an incidental concern. They further offer ways to bring our hearts and minds together in deep reflection to unleash group coherence and genius—a great contribution for these times.
—Harrison Owen, author of Open Space Technology and The Power of Spirit: How Organizations Transform

In this is a vital contribution to the necessary creative interchange between the transformation of our personal lives and our struggle for a radically transformed and humanized society.
—Vincent Harding, author of There Is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America and Hope and History

Practical Meditation for Busy Souls provides unique, powerful, and imaginative ways to help change the world by combining the potency of meditation with the strength of standing up to the destructive systems now dominating our world. Mind and heart, imagination and courage—Adair and Aal teach how to bring both inner and outer dimensions to working together for healing ourselves and the earth. Wherever you are on your path, whatever challenges you are up against, this book can accelerate your journey and lighten the load.
—Vicki Robin, coauthor, Your Money or Your Life

Adair and Aal offer powerful guidance in working with direct knowing, setting clear intention and restoring balance in ourselves and our world. This book is full of ways that empower us to honor the sacred in daily life.
—Vicki Noble, healer, teacher, co-creator of Motherpeace, and author of Shakti Woman: Feeling Our Fire and Healing Our World: The New Female Shamanism

After you read this book, you’ll never feel totally helpless again! Adair and Aal remind us that there is always something we can do to activate and release our values in the world.
—Christina Baldwin, author of Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture and Seven Whispers: Listening to the Voice of Spirit

Practical Meditation for Busy Souls is not about having to go elsewhere to be “spiritual.” Instead it shows how to bring spiritual techniques and practices into daily life and into the world. This book reveals a secret our own culture rarely reveals: the spiritual, the psychological, and the political worlds are intertwined. Adair and Aal powerfully bring together all three domains, and if you use this book, you may be surprised at the changes that you can bring about—in your life and in the world.
—Margot Adler, author of Drawing Down the Moon and Heretic’s Heart

Adair and Aal show a deep appreciation for the contours of consciousness. Practical Meditation for Busy Souls offers a journey through the mysteries of mind which enables the reader to tap the great healing powers that flow through each of us. Simple yet profound, this book is a must for anyone wanting to improve their lives.
—Martin L. Rossman, MD, author of Guided Imagery for Self-Healing

This book is filled with long experience and wild ideas, it completes the task the feminist movement began some decades ago: weaving together the disparate threads of inner and outer, psychological and political, individual and collective into a vision and means for returning our wounded world to wholeness. As a psychologist, I recommend it to my colleagues—and to everyone who is passionate about healing.
—Chellis Glendinning, PhD, author of My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization and Off the Map

Adair and Aal , both  seasoned activists and brilliant thinkers,  give us a powerful, fresh framework for understanding and living the connections between personal and global change. It has never been more needed. Please, for the sake of our future, share this book with every activist you know: savor it, talk about it, be it.
—Claudia Horwitz, author of The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work, and Your World

A great resource for building relationships with mindfulness, connection, and caring at the center, I recommend it to any family, community, or organization which is dedicated to creating equitable, healthy, and loving ways of being together.
—Paul Kivel, author of Boys Will Be Men: Raising Our Sons for Courage, Caring, and Community and Uprooting Racism