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Meditative Self-Care -- The Book
We suffer from who we think we are, and we are always thinking we are somebody or other.
We constantly experience ever-changing situations, and our feeling states change accordingly from moment to moment.
This book clarifies what is at stake here and offers practical suggestions for how to handle it. We can thereby learn to loosen the grip of familiar and recurring patterns of personal unhappiness, no matter what our history and current circumstances may be.
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Meditative self-care dissolves heavy-heartedness and replaces it with more lightheartedness and profound contentment.
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Excerpts from Meditative Self-Care
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Meditative self-care teaches a series of practices anyone can learn and apply in their life. It is independent of our circumstances and our beliefs or cultural orientation. It is a technology of mind, a practical self-care psychology for everyday living.
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The book is a working tool, a manual for living, not an academic dissertation. If there is nothing new in it--and there is not--that is a good thing, not a shortcoming, because it is concerned with universal and time-tested wisdom. Great traditions must be taught repeatedly and in new ways.That is how they stay alive and useful. Meditative Self-Care teaches old things in new ways.
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Personal opinions, ideas, and beliefs we cling to in order to feed and support our self-image work like monkey traps. These consist of a coconut with a small whole in it and some food placed inside. The monkey reaches in and closes his fist around the food. This makes his fist too big to pull it out.
It does not occur to the monkey to let go of the food. Instead, he clings to it. He is now stuck. He has become a prisoner and, at the same time, his own prison guard. He does not realize that he has become his own worst enemy. Personal opinions, ideas, and beliefs we cling to in order to feed and support our self-image work in the same way.
We alone have the power to break the spell of opinions, ideas, and beliefs we cling to like a monkey clinging to the food in its trap.
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Modern psychotherapy says: "Don't believe everything you think." Meditative self-care goes a giant leap further and says: "Don't believe anything you think." It is a method to unravel and dissolve all our fixed beliefs about ourselves, which are the source of all our dissatisfaction.