The Great Heart Way
How To Heal Your Life and Find Self-Fulfillment
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Self-compassion. Positive social relations. An enduring sense of freedom and peace.
They're essential parts of our everyday lives, or should be. But each of us struggles with difficult emotions and mental blockages: we might lash out when we should know better, or regress in negatively familiar situations, or struggle with our confidence. These types of problematic reactions occur--and recur--when we're unkind to and negligent of our inner selves.
The Great Heart Way offers us all a way to heal inner wounds and transform our difficult emotions. Anyone can try it, and everyone should.
Using clear language and personal anecdotes, The Great Heart Way shows how to follow the Great Heart Method, an efficacious program for healing and self-fulfillment. The Method is easily incorporated into busy schedules (it can take less than 30 minutes per day), and is accessible to all, regardless of spiritual background.
The Great Heart Way gives readers the tools to safely work through uncovered emotional pain and establish a healthier, happier and well-balanced way of thinking.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Zen meets self-help: the two authors, both Zen Buddhist teachers, present an adjunct technique to meditation that offers therapeutic benefits. Their "Great Heart Way" combines meditation, introspection and journaling to uncover hidden roots of psychological problems and resolve the issues. The book is structured to be helpful, with how-to appendixes. The result is uneven, telegraphed perhaps by the misleading subtitle that doesn't sound much like Buddhism, although Buddhism is the book's strength. The heart-mind connection the book champions is solid Buddhist teaching, and the meditation approach is convincing because it is rooted in a deep base of Eastern wisdom. The authors offer a fresh and creative application of Zen that can benefit people who are psychologically stuck. The psychology framework they depend on is less persuasive, drawn from a particular school of understanding the mind bioenergetics and concomitant therapy. A little more science would have tested the authors' observations and strengthened the final text. Still, the personal stories sprinkled throughout offer some empirical testimony for the method, and any self-help system that cultivates personal discipline and compassion for others is always worth considering.
