My Inner House (Hardback)

‘My Inner House’ is home to 62 lovely poems, written from a mindfulness perspective, many adorned with delightful full colour illustrations, and many well suited for use in meditation. 

It’s a gentle reminder to enjoy life while you have it, to savour the simple things, to become present to the beauty around you. This book will make a lovely gift to someone dear who needs a little cheering up, to someone who is struggling, to anyone who loves nature. It’s perfect for people beginning to explore mindfulness, and for experienced practitioners who might like to add some new spice into their practice. Mindfulness  teachers and circle leaders will enjoy reading some of the meditations to their group, and exploring the themes presented in the poems.

While Alicia Loreto is a qualified mindfulness teacher, this book is not a mindfulness course — rather, it will take you on a journey, touch your heart and soul, uplift and inspire you, and leave you free to interpret what mindfulness means to you. 

Readers’ Impressions:

“Alicia’s poems transported me to the inner house that is our soul.” 

“There’s a piece of Alicia in each poem, but it could also be a piece of every one of us.” 

“Alicia’s book is about mindfulness, about us, about nature, and about being. While reading her poems you pause, breathe, feel and open yourself to the experience of being alive.”

“Alicia’s deep connection to herself as well as to the whole is a delightful window she opens so honestly and gratefully, showing the wonders of mindfulness to help us in coping with the challenges of our lives.” 

“Looking through Alicia’s eyes at the world has made it more immediate, more beautiful, more worthy of appreciation.” 

“Alicia’s book is a gift and we all should say yes to her open invitation to the front door of her house, to this extraordinary and peaceful trip of witnessing our inner richness.”

Alicia says:

“The practice of meditation makes us more observant, more contemplative, more connected to our inner self, as well as to the whole. Therefore, more connected to Nature and more appreciative of its beauty. As John Ruskin so rightly said: “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty, if only we have the eyes to see them.” Besides being the greatest of artists, as Ruskin recognises, Nature is, to me, the teacher par excellence; whenever I pay attention, I find that Nature has a message in the form of a lesson that teaches me something about life or about myself. Trees and birds have taught me a great deal; especially blackbirds with which I have developed a special connection and which are a recurrent subject of inspiration to me. I particularly find the song of the blackbird blissfully calming to the point of being like a meditation. 

“It is my intention that these poems will help or remind you to have a deeper connection with both your inner self and Nature as well as inspiring you to appreciate, more fully, the gift of the present moment. 

“The book starts with ‘Finding Peace in My Inner House’, which, although expressed in the first person, is universal to us all. I invite you to become aware of your own inner house, to honour it, inhabit it and make friends with it.

“You can read this book in many different ways: For example, you can open it randomly, or look at the index and see which poem title resonates with you at a particular moment or you can read it sequentially, following the structure. Whichever way is perfect.”

Publisher - BookVAULT Publishing

Language - English

Case Bound - PPC

Contributors

By author

Alicia Loreto

Alicia Loreto

Published Date - 2025-03-31

ISBN - 9781836907626

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Page Count - 159