Radical Acceptance
Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
'An invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion' Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings of self-doubt and insecurity are what hold us back in life and cause true suffering. In her landmark book Radical Acceptance, renowned meditation and mindfulness teacher Tara Brach offers us all a path to freedom.
Drawing on personal stories, Buddhist teachings and guided meditations Tara leads us to trust our innate goodness. She reveals how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion, heal fear and shame and build loving, authentic relationships.
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A psychotherapist and Buddhist meditation teacher in the tradition of Jack Kornfield (who contributes a foreword), first-time author Brach offers readers a rich compendium of stories and techniques designed to help people awaken from what she calls "the trance of unworthiness." The sense of self-hatred and fearful isolation that afflicts so many people in the West can be transformed with the steady application of a loving attention infused with the insights of the Buddhist tradition, according to Brach. Interweaving stories from her own life as a hardworking single mother with many wonderful anecdotes culled from her therapy practice and her work as a leader of meditation retreats, Brach offers myriad examples of how our pain can become a doorway to love and liberation. An older Catholic woman in one of Brach's weekend workshops, for example, recounts how she learned to ask God to help hold her pain. Like her colleagues Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others in the Vipassana or Insight meditation tradition, Brach is open-minded about where she gathers inspiration. Garnishing her gentle advice and guided meditation with beautiful bits of poetry and well-loved if familiar dharma stories, Brach describes what it can mean to open to the reality of other people, to live in love, to belong to the world. Obviously the fruit of the author's own long and honest search, this is a consoling and practical guide that can help people find a light within themselves.
Customer Reviews
Extremely inspiring and opened my eyes
I have begun reading lots of spiritual books this year and this one is BY FAR my favourite. It opened my eyes and encouraged me to view my thoughts and the world in a different way. Some of the stories told in this book made me emotional because I personally felt like I could relate to some of these stories and it’s gave me a totally new perspective on how to deal with situations that will happen again in life. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is starting or already on their spiritual path as it is truly amazing and there is so many great life lessons learnt, also not to mention the meditation practises are also so helpful too! I absolutely admire this writer now and I will be having a look at some of her other books!
Your Life Guidebook
Read this fully once, highlight passages that resonate with you along the way.
Then read it again but pause upon each highlighted section you created the first time around.
Take as much time as you need at each one. Meditate on them, breathe with those enlightening words in your head.
In the pockets of your day, take the time to come back again and again.
Then you will have the soothing, loving guidebook you need to engage with life itself and your miracle of a journey within it.
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The book that set me free from my fears and my depression
I think my title speaks for itself... Thank you Tara for touching my life in such a profound way