Using hands-on exercises, journal entries, guided meditations, and stories, Matthew Flickstein combines Eastern meditation techniques and methods of Western psychotherapy to offer this practical workbook for realizing one's greatest potential. Whether the 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, Journey to the Center leads the reader to discover a starting point, teaches how to gain mental clarity and remove the obstacles that are inevitably encountered, and helps identify the insights that are appropriate to each stage of the journey to spiritual and psychological maturity.