Meditation for Beginners - the CD.  Stuck in traffic, your train into the city delayed (for the 20th time this month); feel yourself going into hyper-stress, rage, I-want-to-kill-someone-anyone mode? Relax, and check out this CD by Jack Kornfield. Kornfield is the real deal.

He knows what it's like to live a busy life and still want (need) to find some peace and calm amidst it. He'll have you breathing deeply, centering yourself and reducing your rage before the next red light.

We at Burbia live by it, when we can and aren't too busy honking our horn or screaming at the train station loudspeaker announcing another 30 minute delay. Seriously, we highly recommend this disc as a great intro to the non-hokey, westernized, very do-able -- suburban -- world of meditation.