Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion-9 Practices for Opening the Heart
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (923 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611804817 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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The wealth of ideas and practices presented in this illuminating work will be of benefit and will help transform our individual and collective lives.” —Shauna Shapiro, PhD, professor at Santa Clara University and author of The Art and Science of Mindfulness and Mindful Discipline “In its clear, inviting, and practical way, this book can change your life. Drawing on her years of combining mindfulness with the expansive power of compassion, Radhule Weininger brings us practices that serve to free us from fear, despair, self-hate, and other oppressive mind-states. Shining through every chapter is the author’s desire to help reduce the suffering that is the common thread connecting humanity.” —Victor Chan, coauthor of Wisdom of
Connie L Glazer said This very engaging book teaches us how to use specific. This very engaging book teaches us how to use specific meditation practices to open our hearts and ease our specific types of suffering. Meditations including basic mindfulness practice, self-compassion, compassion for others, and forgiveness are all addressed in a step-by-step instruction on creating your own meditations with intention. She teaches us how to "write" our own practical meditations with compassion for our own personal trauma and experiences. The practices create a healing of the heart that has changed my perspective on myself, the people in m. Callie Bowdish said A wonderful distillation of Radhule's Heart Work. Radhule Weiniger’s book titled Heart Work: The Path of Self-Compassion is a distillation of her work as a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, retreat and workshop leader. Much of her offerings in her community have a Buddhist leaning and a therapeutic component informed by Western psychology and years of meditation and mindfulness training. Compassion and meditation is open to everyone, no matter what their spiritual leanings. Radhule’s main offering is to encourage people to engage in the path of self-compassion. In this book, much like her wo. "A book with a heart" according to Philip Black. Radhule has taken the compassion and care she has shown to thousands that have attended her many meditation sessions and retreats and presented her thoughts in an easy to read yet compelling book. Following in the path of her own mentors such as Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, Radhule brings a focus on the heart and self-compassion to mindfullness practice. She provides the reader with simple tools to deal with many of the various different difficulties we may all face in our lives, providing some peace and respite in the midst of suffering and chaos that we
She encountered Buddhism in Sri Lanka as a young medical student. RADHULE WEININGER, MD, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who first trained as a medical doctor in Germany before migrating to the US more than thirty years ago. Jack Kornfield and Allan Wallace are her mentors. . She has a clinical practice in Santa Barbara and runs a yearly program at the La Casa de Marie Retreat Centre. She teaches meditation retreats both in the US and internationally
Nine simple mindfulness practices anyone can use to generate compassion--toward oneself, others, and the world--and to live from that place of intelligent kindness in the face of life's difficulties.Compassion is the urge to understand and alleviate the suffering of another being. And if that being happens to be you, then the technique called self-compassion can be the greatest of blessings—for the compassion you learn to apply to yourself naturally extends to all the other people in your life. With the nine simple mindfulness practices she presents here, Radhule Weininger provides a step-by-step course in self-compassion. Using stories drawn from her own life and those of others she shows that, with the right intention and practice, we can all deepen our capacity to respond skillfully to our own suffering and thus to that of others and our world.