Free Your Mind Guide

Success Through Stillness
Full Catastrophe Living
Dharma, Color, and Culture
Turning the Mind into an Ally
Free Your Mind
Dreaming Me
This Precious Life
The Art of Feeling Good

Books on Meditation, Etc.

The Power of Now
Shambhala
Waking the Buddha
Finding Freedom

Consider Reading This Book

Free Your Mind: An African American Guide to Meditation and Freedom (Nautilus Book Award Winner, Indie Book Award Finalist, and NAACP Image Award Nominee in the Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional) category)
Free Your Mind introduces meditation by using stories about the heroic men and women who journeyed from slavery to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

This guidebook explains how to use meditation principles and techniques at home, either alone or with family and friends, to free your mind from thoughts that keep you shackled and bound.

As you apply the principles and practice the techniques, the stories about Underground Railroad heroes and heroines—such as Harriet Tubman—will guide you and inspire you to 

The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Joy Unspeakable
Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation
The Diversity of Centering, Prayer

Books About Meditation and History

African Zen
Sacred Woman

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Meditation: The Ancient Egyptian Path to Enlightenment
Together We Are One
Natural Wakefulness

overcome challenges you encounter while meditating, as well as the ones you encounter in everyday life.


Free Your Mind presents meditation as a path that African Americans can use to develop a mind that is free of limiting thoughts. As you journey, you will bring forth more of your “inherent goodness, genius, and potential.” Eventually, you’ll reach the “Promised Land.”

Taming the Ox
The Mindful Athlete
Acts of Faith

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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
Being Black
Yoga, Meditation and Spiritual Growth
The Beast Side
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrone

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Most of the books below are in some way related to meditation. Some provide detailed information on how to practice specific meditation techniques. Others are the biographies or the reflections of individuals who have integrated meditation into their lives. A few of them have general information about meditation or are not directly related to meditation. All of these books can inform, instruct, and inspire us as we work to uplift our minds and lives.

Meeting Faith