I’ve been studying Martial Arts for around 30 years on. I’ve gotten a couple of other books by Loren W. Christensen, mostly on training and diet. However Meditation For Warriors: Practical Mediation for Cops, Solders, and Martial  Artists is the first one that focused on the mental aspect.

This book is written as a practical guide to focus your mind, giving you a calmer demeanor, and allows you to stay cool, calm, and collected when the stuff hits the fan.

I really like that while it’s geared towards “Warriors” (Police, Soldiers, Martial Artists), it’s a really down to earth book that anyone could read and get a better understanding of meditation. Part of the goal of the book was to give non-practitioners a real world view of the importance of meditation.

I really like that while it’s geared towards “Warriors” (Police, Soldiers, Martial Artists), it’s a really down to earth book that anyone could read and get a better understanding of meditation.

The book is broken in to two sections. The first section covers the Introduction, the myths associated with meditation, the need, and “The Nuts and Bolts” of mediation. By the time the reader finishes the introduction, they have already been exposed to one type of meditation, and encouraged to use it.

The second section of the book covers different types of meditations, and different scenarios. For example Chapter 4 is about calmness, Chapter 5 is getting ready to train. Chapter 6 and 7 cover mediation before and after fighting.

The book ends with 3 1-minute meditations, for when the reader doesn’t have time to practice the longer ones in the book.

The only problems I have with the book are:

Chapter 8, which I think is the weakest chapter, deals with PTSD. I like that Mr. Christensen says he’s not an expert, and encourages people seek help, but I would have like to have seen a couple of specialized practices for people with PTSD. He reached out to soldiers, police, and martial artists for the book, having someone with PTSD talk about mediation and giving a couple of examples would have made the book stronger.

Mr. Christensen repeats himself a lot, when telling people how to start the meditation. Each one has the exact same bullet points listed multiple times. I understand that it’s for people using the book as a quick reference guide for the mediation they’re after, or for the people skipping around the book, but it made the book longer, and he could have pointed to the page in the book that has that information for the first time, for review if needed.