Are you working with anxiety or difficult emotions, or simply hoping to get out of a rut? Wisdom for Well-Being presents an abundance of helpful Buddhist teachings, meditation instructions, and expert advice to help foster confidence, connection, and freedom from habitual patterns that get you stuck.
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Wisdom for Well-Being
THE HEALING JOURNEY: ROSALIE’S STORY • For many of us, healing from trauma is the most important journey we can take in life. Psychologist and Buddhist teacher TARA BRACH tells the inspiring story of her client Rosalie, and how she started to heal the wounds in her mind, body, and heart.
4 WAYS TO HEAL YOURSELF WITH LOVE • Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, equanimity—these four loving qualities, says PAWAN BAREJA, are powerful ways to heal our trauma.
THE TRAUMA OF AN AMERICAN UNTOUCHABLE • A Black Woman’s Reflections on Trauma, Oppression, and Healing.
FINDING A BETTER BALANCE • Equanimity protects us from emotional overreaction and allows us to rest in a bigger perspective. CHRISTIANE WOLF on how to cultivate it.
RAIN Meditation • Beyond the clouds of our temporary experiences, there’s a spacious, clear sky of awareness. EMILY HORN shares a four-step practice to calm our emotional storms.
I VOW NOT TO BURN OUT • MUSHIM PATRICIA IKEDA says it’s not enough to help others. You have to take care of yourself too.
Get Free from Your Mental Patterns • We all have things we’d like to let go of, but don’t know how: fears, traumas, negative thoughts, painful emotions. Freeing ourselves from our painful habitual patterns is the heart of Buddhist meditation. Here, 5 leading teachers share their secrets to getting unstuck and becoming free.
MEET BAD HABITS WITH LOVING-KINDNESS • SYLVIA BOORSTEIN unpacks the foundational Buddhist teaching “Recognize unwholesome states in the mind and replace them with wholesome states.”
GET TO THE ROOT OF YOUR PATTERNS • Our basic problem, says TRUDY GOODMAN, is ignoring the reality of impermanence. Being mindful in the moment, appreciating this flowing, interconnected life, we miraculously free ourselves from habitual patterns.
HOW TO FREE YOURSELF FROM THE “7 OBSESSIONS” • We suffer, the Buddha said, from seven deep-rooted habitual patterns. To free ourselves from them, says VALERIE (VIMALASARA) MASON-JOHN, we need to see how they have become part of our identity.
FREE YOURSELF FROM CRAVING AND AVERSION • To give yourself a fighting chance against negative patterns, says JOSH KORDA, you’ve got to get at the driving forces behind them.
BEFRIEND YOUR FEELINGS • How you relate to your feelings, says WILLA BLYTHE BAKER, may be the most important habit of all. When you meet your feelings with grace and mindfulness, you find they’re your best friends on the spiritual path.
Feeding Your Demons • LAMA TSULTRIM ALLIONE teaches you an innovative technique to turn your inner demons into friends.
Enlightened Just As You Are • 4 simple meditations to help you stop struggling and relax into your true nature. Because the great secret to enlightenment is doing absolutely nothing.
YOU ARE THE GREAT PERFECTION • Rest in your true nature without effort or distraction—MINGYUR RINPOCHE teaches the renowned practice of Dzogchen.
NOTHING TO FIX, NOWHERE TO GO • What reveals itself when you do nothing at all? VANESSA ZUISEI GODDARD on the practice of “just sitting.”
BREAK THE CHAINS OF THOUGHT • When you study your thought process, says DZOGCHEN PONLOP RINPOCHE, you not only see how it rules your life. In the breaks and gaps between thoughts, you can experience awakened mind on the spot.
The Joy of Self-Caring • We’ve been sold on the idea that self-care means chocolates and bubble baths...
