Living with your heart wide open : how mindfulness & compassion can free you from unworthiness, inadequacy & shame

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Title:

Living with your heart wide open : how mindfulness & compassion can free you from unworthiness, inadequacy & shame

Author:

Flowers, Steve.

ISBN:

9781572249356

9781572249363

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Physical Description:

x, 178 pages ; 23 cm

Contents:

The fiction of me -- Choosing how you look at things -- Creating a mindfulness practice -- Looking behind the curtain of self -- Opening to self-compassion -- Opening to loving-kindness -- Becoming real -- Awakening to wisdom and compassion -- Resources.

Summary:

"Based in Western psychotherapy and Buddhist psychological principles, this book guides you past painful and self-limiting beliefs about yourself and toward a new perspective of nonjudgmental awareness and acceptance of who you are"--Publisher description.

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Attitude (Psychology)

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The way we talk to ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments. These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us feel unworthy and incomplete. What if what you really need is not higher standards for yourself, but greater self-compassion? In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, you'll discover how mindfulness and self-compassion can free you from the thoughts and beliefs that create feelings of inadequacy and learn to open your heart to the loving-kindness within you and in the world around you. Based in Western psychotherapy and Buddhist psychological principles, this book guides you past painful and self-limiting beliefs about yourself and toward a new perspective of nonjudgmental awareness and acceptance of who you are, just as you are. You'll receive gentle guidance in mindfulness and compassion practices that will lead you away from unproductive, self-critical thoughts and help you live more freely and fearlessly, with your heart wide open.

Author Notes

Steve Flowers, MFT, is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in private practice and director of the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program at Enloe Medical Center in Chico, CA. He is author of The Mindful Path Through Shyness.
Bob Stahl, PhD, founded and directs mindfulness-based stress reduction programs in three medical centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is coauthor of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook.

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The practice of mindfulness is also helpful in ridding oneself of feelings of inadequacy, self-loathing, and a constant sense of isolation according to the authors, both of whom have founded and directed mindfulness-based stress-reduction programs across the country. Pulling from Western psychology and Buddhist thought, Flowers and Stahl explore the concept of self-authorship and help readers, through mindfulness practices, to break free of defeating stories and experience insight and self-compassion. Topics of interest include why pleasing others doesn't work in the long run and how self-improvement efforts can be a trap. Clear and comprehensive, this book is a valuable addition to mindfulness literature. (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
1 The Fiction of Me	p. 7
2 Choosing How You Look at Things	p. 27
3 Creating a Mindfulness Practice	p. 51
4 Looking Behind the Curtain of Self	p. 69
5 Opening to Self-Compassion	p. 89
6 Opening to Loving-Kindness	p. 107
7 Becoming Real	p. 129
8 Awakening to Wisdom and Compassion	p. 151
Resources	p. 169
References	p. 175

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