Matthew Flickstein
Matthew Flickstein is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and the founder of The Forest Way Insight Meditation Center in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. In more than twenty years of leading personal development workshops, he has trained almost 15,000 people across the US, including other teachers.
Books, Courses & Podcasts
The Meditator’s Atlas
Meditation can seem a mystery. Where do you begin? Where will you end up? What might you find along the way?
You’ll find the answers in The Meditator’s Atlas, a comprehensive and trustworthy “roadmap of the inner world” for anyone who meditates. Respected teacher Matthew Flickstein is your friendly guide, explaining what meditation is, how to do it, and how to make the skills and benefits that it engenders your own, including:
- finding work that supports your priorities
- overcoming doubt
- cultivating helpful attitudes
- incorporating mindfulness into every aspect of your life
- and how all of this adds up to a happier life.
What makes this book unique is the way Flickstein uses two classic Buddhist texts—the Path of Purification, and the Four Foundations of Mindfulness—to help readers make clear sense out of the new, fascinating, and sometimes even frightening states that one may encounter on the long journey to enlightenment. Readers will come away from this book with their own insights clarified and with a helpful sense of what lies ahead.
The Meditator’s Workbook
Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and lively vignettes, The Meditator’s Workbook will help you:
- Live more deeply and joyfully in the moment
- Uncover the true source of stress
- Resolve grief
- Explore and express forgiveness
- See through the inevitable distortions of the mind
- Recognize and actualize your goals
- Find real inner peace and a thoroughgoing well-being
Whether your goal is to reduce stress or to gain deeper insight and mastery over your inner life, this simple, straightforward guidebook is the tool to use for learning why and how to meditate. Through its unique workbook-style presentation, The Meditator’s Workbook leads you to discover your own starting point, teaches you how to gain mental clarity and remove the obstacles you inevitably encounter, and helps you to identify the insights that are appropriate to each stage of your journey to spiritual and psychological maturity.