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Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists About Suffering
Blessed Relief What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists About Suffering
Author: Gordon Peerman
This book takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring "blessed relief" to a wide range of human suffering--and teaches you the skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others: The practices include:
  • Three-Minute Breathing Space-a breathing practic...  more »
  • The Work--a way to engage and question limiting views, thoughts, and opinions
  • The Practice of Inquiry--a practice to deconstruct ten common assumptions
  • The Sacred Breath--a way to be present in each moment
  • Working with RAIN--an acronym that can help you come through emotional storms
  • Nonviolent Communication (NVC)--four steps to more peaceful communication
  • The Practice of Beginning Anew--a ritual to deepen communication with your partner
  • The Five Remembrances--a meditation on mortality and the preciousness of life
  • Compassion Practice--a guided meditation to cultivate compassion
As you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering--stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded, or vulnerable--and you will learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.
ISBN-13: 9781594732522
ISBN-10: 1594732523
Publication Date: 8/30/2008
Pages: 181
Edition: Quality Pbk. Ed
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Publisher: Skylight Paths Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
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