JUST SIT

“It's really true what they say about meditation: it will change your life. It can make you healthier, nicer, more patient, a better parent, a kinder, gentler spouse, more creative; it will lower your blood pressure and improve your sleep; it'll help you lose weight, lose wrinkles, have better sex, get through grief, deal with trauma, love more, and fight less. Meditation will make you shine.”

Then why is it so hard to get started and to stick with it? JUST SIT: A Meditation Guidebook for People Who Know They Should but Don't is designed to answer these two key questions by de-mystifying meditation and offering a practical, hands-on, do-able strategy. This is meditation minus the candles and bells, the auras and inscrutability and the belief system theories – offered by two women who could be your best friends, mainstreaming meditation, showing how it can fit into anyone's busy schedule in a very simple accessible way. There aren't rules and regulations. It doesn't take much time, you don't have to sit any special way or be in a specific, special place, it doesn't cost anything, and you don't need any equipment. You just need a viable
plan to motivate to show up and sit, to do it (not just think about it) and that is what this book is all about and what makes it different from the other meditation guides on the market.

Sukey and Elizabeth Novogratz are the perfect team to write this book and they bring a powerful platform and network for promoting their message far and wide. They are the founders of The Well Daily, a celebrated daily health and wellness newsletter that attracted over eighty thousand subscribers and interestingly, they realized that a large number of questions they were receiving (despite the multiple topics the newsletter covered) were about meditation. Together, they have travelled the world in an epic journey to study meditation in every kind of classroom, from Lakota sweat lodges to Tibet House, from ashrams to vision quests to Oneness retreats. They have learned from many renowned teachers, including Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, Ram Dass, Andy Puddicomb, Amma, Tony Robbins, and the monks at One World Academy in Chennai, India. And they have done their research on the science of meditation and the techniques of the
greatest meditation gurus.

Elizabeth and Sukey have an expansive personal network of thought leaders who have committed to support the book in social media and beyond, including:
- Mariska Hargitay, producer, director, and Emmy winning actor, star of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, with over 723,000 Twitter followers and over 400,000 Facebook friends. She is the founder of the Joyful Heart Foundation (Sukey sits on the board) - Hargitay has agreed to write the Foreword for the book.
- Friend Hugh Jackman, internationally acclaimed actor and producer, with 6.35 million
Twitter followers.

JUST SIT takes the reader through all the basics of getting started with meditation and staying with it so it becomes an indispensable part of your life. There is also an innovative 8 week plan for trying various different techniques and approaches.
JUST SIT is the pitch-perfect book for meditation now and in the years to come.

Alice Martell:
We and everyone at HarperWave are really delighted at how this project has turned out - it's a fun, easy read with hugely appealing graphics and simple to follow instructions. Even just a quick look at the manuscript will immediately make it clear how unique and innovative the book is, it's remarkably accessible and beautifully lays out how the meditation learning process is uncomplicated and enjoyable. This will be the meditation book for everyone who is intrigued with the tremendous health and well-being benefits and wants to get started. It's also a great gift book for the many who meditate and want to share the beauty of meditating with their friends and family who they know should be meditating, but aren't.