CONTEMPLATION

Expand Time, Transform Your Emotions and Unleash Your Natural Brilliance

The Art of Contemplation is evolving!

This powerful book by Richard Rudd will be re-released under a new title – Contemplation: Expand Time, Transform Your Emotions and Unleash Your Natural Brilliance. Originally self published by Richard in 2018, the new edition will be published by Hay House and released on June 9th, 2026.

In a world overloaded with information and urgency, Contemplation offers something rare yet essential: a simple path back to yourself.

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PERSONAL REFLECTIONS FROM RICHARD

Richard's dream is to see Contemplation reach every corner of our global community. It is an art that the world needs now more than ever. We invite you to support this vision by pre-ordering the book in your preferred format.

PRE-ORDER GIFTS

As a gift for your pre-order Richard will be hosting a series of three live events to explore the themes of Contemplation.

  • How contemplation softens urgency
  • Listening beyond the clock
  • Reclaiming spaciousness in daily life
  • Meeting emotional patterns without fixing
  • Letting feeling become intelligence
  • Contemplation as emotional alchemy
  • Allowing insight to emerge naturally
  • Creativity, clarity, and inner guidance
  • Living contemplation beyond the book

If you cannot join us live, there will be replays!

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! Anyone who pre-orders the book will get access to join Richard for a live, three-part series where he’ll guide us through a living experience of contemplation — a deep life practice that restores presence, emotional balance, and creative clarity in a distracted world.

The series will focus on three core themes of Contemplation:

Expand TimeSoftening urgency

Transform Your EmotionsMeeting Feelings Without Fixing Them

Unleash Your Natural BrillianceSetting the Stage for Epiphanies

Once you’ve pre-ordered you can redeem access to these events by clicking the Redeem Your Pre-Order Gift button on this page and entering your pre-order info. Check your email for more details. 

The beloved text of this book remains largely unchanged but does have a new preface and section on longevity.

In order to maximise its reach and discoverability we officially changed the book title from The Art of Contemplation to Contemplation.

This is a pivot to help the book find its furthest possible reach. While the “wrapping” is different, the core message and content remain almost identical – apart from a new preface, new section on longevity and testimonials.

Yes, Richard has recorded an audiobook of Contemplation. You can pre order on Amazon here and other all retailers where pre-orders are available.

Yes, at some point in the future Contemplation will be available in paperback. We do not yet know when this will be.

Yes, you can still purchase copies of The Art of Contemplation through Amazon and other retailers whilst stocks last. As of March 6th, Richard will no longer be self-publishing copies of The Art of Contemplation.

Yes!

Audiobook & Course: If you have already purchased the online course, you will continue to enjoy lifetime access to the original course materials, including the audiobook and step-by-step resources on the genekeys.com account that it was purchased under. 

E-Book: If you have already purchased the eBook of The Art of Contemplation on Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books or B&N, it will remain in your account library of that platform.

Removed from Shop: The Art of Contemplation online course will no longer be available for purchase on the Gene Keys website as of March 6th, 2026. 

The original Art of Contemplation book has been translated into many languages that can be found on our website here: https://genekeys.com/language-resources/.

Right now we are focused on the English language version of Contemplation for this release with Hay House. No decisions have been made around translating Contemplation into different languages at this time. We will keep everyone updated around translating Contemplation into other languages, if and when that occurs.

If your question is still not answered, feel free to write to our Support Team here.