Essentials for living in a troubled world: Contemplations and meditations for survival in our testing times

In the present climate, dominated by the pandemic, but also with so many other frightening global issues around, the author has sought to provide a personal haven for those worn down by the hardships and stresses of their everyday lives against a backdrop of such global uncertainty. Simon Cole is a very long-standing and respected counsellor-therapist in the UK and France and brings his experience in the trauma field and in medical settings, as well as his practice of humanistic meditation, to assist in our survival of life's testing times.

Meditations are arranged into topics and the reader will benefit from insight into the way in which psychological pressure arises from the circumstances we are encountering. There is an opening chapter on how contemplation and meditation may be used, not for self-pity or escapism, but to understand, to explore and to inspire a more tranquil connection with the world.

Simon Cole is also the author of: "Stillness in Mind - a companion to mindfulness, meditation and living" as well as "Pathways - humanity's search for its soul" and "just BE here - the guide to musicking mindfulness".