About the Authors -- A Self-Help Guide to Meditation, For Beginners -- The One-Minute Meditator

David A. Nichol, M.D., a 1990 graduate of the University of Colorado Medical School and a 1994 graduate of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry, practiced psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, from 1994 to 1997, and completed his psychoanalytic training at the Topeka and Houston Psychoanalytic Institutes.

In 1998 he relocated to Marin County, California, where he had a private practice in psychiatry. In 2007, Dr. Nichol moved back to Denver, Colorado, where he is now in private practice and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr. Nichol has taught meditation for 30 years to lay people and professionals, and regularly teaches the practice to his patients and to community members to alleviate stress and more severe disorders such as depression.

He brings an unusually broad experience with mind/body medicine to his medical practice. He bought and ran a natural food store for five years, worked as a massage therapist for one year, is a certified yoga instructor, and over two decades has himself spent a cumulative two years in intensive meditation.

In the last 15 years, he has organized three acclaimed conferences on transpersonal psychology, and appeared on radio and television programs around the country to teach meditation.

Bill Birchard is a veteran journalist specializing in business, management, the environment, and health care. He has been writing books and articles for 25 years. In 1988, he was named editor of Enterprise, a magazine for executives published by Digital Equipment Corp. Birchard remained editor for nearly six years.

During the past dozen years, Birchard has written for Fast Company, Tomorrow, CFO, Chief Executive, Strategy + Business, and Harvard Management Update. In 1999, he wrote the award-winning Counting What Counts (Perseus Books, 307 pages) about the crisis in corporate accountability, published with co-author and former Harvard Business School professor Marc J. Epstein. In 2005, he wrote Nature's Keepers (Jossey-Bass, 252 pages) about the making of The Nature Conservancy, the largest environmental group in the world.

Birchard has also worked for more than ten years as a writing consultant and ghost writer for a variety of authors. He has written for others about ethics, health care reform, corporate strategy, retail competition, and creativity. One of his books became a New York Times bestseller.

Birchard has appeared on a radio shows nationally, and on Boston's WCVB-TV's Chronicle and New York's WNBC-TV's Weekend Today. A meditator for 30 years, he lives in Amherst, New Hampshire.

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