A year to live

In 'A Year to Live,' Stephen Levine presents a year-long program to help readers live each moment, hour, and day mindfully, as if it were their last.

The book is based on Levine's own experiment of living for a year as if it were his final year, inspired by the Dalai Lama's approach to preparing for death.

Levine provides intensely practical strategies and powerful guided meditations to help readers deal with unfinished business, cultivate qualities such as mindfulness, detachment, gratitude, forgiveness, and compassion, and enter into a new and vibrant relationship with life.

The book emphasizes the importance of preparing for death as a way to live more fully and meaningfully, and includes practices like life reviews, meditating on fear, and imagining one's own death to foster a deeper appreciation for life.