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Motivational Meditation: a Bronx Buddha's Guide for Living Your Best Life

by Marvin A. Ehrlich

111 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-0190; ISBN 1-55395-827-6; US$14.99, C$22.49, EUR14.70, £10.20

Motivational Meditation: A Bronx Buddha's Guide for Living Your Best Life is an upbeat instructional guide for contouring your mind and body, allowing you to discover the person you were meant to be, create your own inner peace, and live your best life. Motivational Meditation strives to inform and teach its readers while also shedding a humorous light on the human experience.

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About the Book The times in which we live warrant a renewed search for inner peace. As always, we seek out those tools that will assist us in clearing away the emotional clutter in our lives- that which hinders us from living the best life we can live. Motivational Meditation is a method for centering your mind and body- allowing you to discover the person you were meant to be, create your own inner peace, and live your best life. Author Marvin Ehrlich (aka the Bronx Buddha) recounts how his life experiences- from his beginnings in New York City, to his career in the financial industry- led him to the practice of Motivational Meditation and describes his personal journey in search of peace. Motivational Meditation: a Bronx Buddha's Guide for Living Your Best Life is a life-affirming, upbeat look at the human condition. It strives to show the reader how "the best" is already inside of them and how they can achieve peace within their own life. When done correctly and consistently Motivational Meditation will help you affect change within yourself: filter out the noise to manage stress, find inner peace, communicate effectively- and allow you to live your best life by being the person you were meant to be. Most importantly, the goal of the book is to help you strip away the stressful, unimportant things in life leaving only the most important things: loving and being loved.

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About the Author Marvin (Chip) Ehrlich was born in the Bronx, NYC in 1948 and spent most of his early life in the city. In 1967, while stationed at the U.S. Naval Security Group in Winter Harbour, Maine, Marvin met his wife of 35 years, Laurie. Since then his family has grown to include two daughters, two sons-in-law, three granddaughters, and a female dog. Marvin began his career as an Official Court Reporter working first with the Bronx District Attorney's Office then moving into the Superior Courts for the State of Maine. In 1977, Marvin moved his family from Maine to New Jersey (the reason for which is still a matter of family dispute- fabulous job opportunity vs escaping Maine winters) After a transition into the financial industry in 1982 (an injury to his hand had abruptly ended his court reporter career), Marvin began a career as a stockbroker, working his way up to Corporate Vice President with a major brokerage firm. In addition to advising clients, Marvin is active on the speaking circut, conducting seminars on financial preparedness for both the general public and financial professionals. Since becoming certified for teaching meditation he has taught several classes and continues to counsel people in learning to live their best life. Marvin still resides in New Jersey where he enjoys sailing, golfing, and spending time with his family.

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Sample Excerpt

Introduction

As someone who has made a career in the financial industry, I have had a great deal of experience weathering the highs and lows inherent in such matters. In retrospect, it seems an interesting career path for me to have chosen. While I like to think that I would take a risk before the next person, in truth, change has often proved very difficult for me. So the fact that I would become, in essence, someone who would specialize in leading people through the ebb and flow of an ever-changing economy holds a certain amount of irony.

But the upshot of this...I am actually quite good at it. Who would have known? And so I began to apply many of the techniques I used with my clients to my own situations and my life experiences changed dramatically. Notice that I said my life experiences changed - not my life. This book will not bring you instant wealth or a thinner waistline. What it can bring you, what I wish for it to bring you, are effective tools for managing your life.

Do you know that by the time you go to bed tonight you will have been bombarded with over 1,000 messages? That's right - it has been estimated that in today's world, people receive an average of 2,000 messages per day through radio, television, print advertisements, billboards, and a range of other mediums. You add that to the litany of stresses that besiege the average person - including the ever-changing financial landscape that I help my clients deal with - and you have sensory overload on your hands. How do you handle this?
      Through Motivational Meditation.

Motivational Meditation is something I have used for years, albeit subconsciously. The philosophies inherent in Motivational Meditation are ones that I have imparted to my clients throughout the years - it just never had a name. And then, as I became aware of how successful it was and how much it helped people, my interest was piqued. That was when I began really looking at the techniques I used and applying them to my everyday life. And I gave it structure and gave it a name. Motivational Meditation.

What Do You Want Out of Life?
Who Do You Want To Be?

Motivation Meditation is simply one of many tools that can be used to help you cut through the excess and help you live your best life. I believe that to truly live the best life you can, you must decide what you really want out of this short journey and the kind of person you want to be along the way.

This is a very personal decision and one, I feel, you can best reach by exploring the lessons that life has tried to teach you. The things we experience throughout our lifetime - good and bad - are meant to teach us about ourselves. Once you really look at those lessons, you can begin to understand what life has been trying to teach you about you - who you were meant to be and the kind of life you were meant to live. I truly believe that if we don't listen to these lessons and live the life that is expected of us, rather than the one that is in our heart, inner peace will elude us.

I began by revisiting lessons that I had learned throughout my lifetime - lessons that were perhaps lost on me at the time but had, unbeknownst to me, embedded themselves in my psyche, allowing me to put them to use in my work. These are what I call my Bronx Buddha Beliefs - basic philosophies that make up the first part of Motivational Meditation. They are based on my life experiences and grounded in common sense. We have all had these moments but they are vastly forgotten in an often chaotic, overwhelming world. I use these Bronx Buddha Beliefs to remind you that it is the simplest of behaviors that can make the most difference. Changing these behaviors can change how you feel about yourself, how people feel about you and how people react to you. How people react to you changes how you feel about yourself...and so on.

The Bronx Buddha Beliefs are meant to be tools for the motivational part of this process - in which you are to decide who you want to be and what you want to achieve - the first step towards achieving effective communication and inner peace.

In my second chapter, "Every Day Is A Great Day As Long As You're Looking at the Dirt," I will explore what should be our biggest motivation of all - the certainty that our life, one day, will end. So often we are concerned with our final destination and become oblivious to the journey. It is so easy to get caught up in our day to day struggles, to feel victimized and defeated. But if you consider the alternative...well, it's all about perspective.

So now you have your motivations: this precious life you have been given - the one you want to live actively and passionately each and every day; your goals of becoming the person you want to be and achieving the things you want out of life. How do you get there? Picture it . . . Live it.

Meditation. I have studied meditation for many years and it is a tool that has been very successful for me. The ability to picture yourself achieving your goals, communicating clearly, and handling stressful situations can be a very positive self-fulfilling prophecy. It can be used in any situation at any time. It can be the most valuable skill you will ever learn.

When done correctly and consistently Motivation Meditation will help you affect change within yourself - filter out the noise to manage stress, find inner peace, communicate effectively - and allow you to live your best life by being the person you were meant to be. Most importantly, my goal is to help you strip away the stressful, yet unimportant, things in life leaving only the most important things: loving and being loved.

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