Contemplation: Expand Time, Transform Your Emotions and Unleash Your Natural Brilliance by Richard Rudd

Richard Rudd describes contemplation as a practice that engages thought, feeling and bodily experience. His three-part approach, Pause, Pivot and Merge, offers a way to interrupt automatic reactions and spend time with a question or emotion.

The book distinguishes this reflective process from both mindfulness and formal meditation while inviting it into ordinary decisions and relationships. It presents Rudd's spiritual teaching in accessible terms, not a guaranteed method for controlling events or eliminating difficult feelings.