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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
July 1st 2005
by New Harbinger Publications
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Comforting text with the Buddhist perspective on suffering.
Grieving mindfully can be understood as being consciously aware of the intense pain of love after loss. Awareness is allowing yourself to accept the pain of grief, not running away from your loss. Using your emotional vulnerability to toward your growth as a human being. Come in full contact with yourself and learn to ride the waves of grief. Your thoughts, feelings, identity after loss all become vehicles for your own evolution.
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Grieving mindfully can be understood as being consciously aware of the intense pain of love after loss. Awareness is allowing yourself to accept the pain of grief, not running away from your loss. Using your emotional vulnerability to toward your growth as a human being. Come in full contact with yourself and learn to ride the waves of grief. Your thoughts, feelings, identity after loss all become vehicles for your own evolution.
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Dec 01, 2008
Wendy
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Recommends it for:
Anyone who is experiencing a great loss.
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Found it at Border's.
I bought this book 3 days after my mom died and it took me more than a month to get through it. It was hard for me to read about what I was going through while I was experiencing it, but I'm glad I did.
Although this book comes from a Buddhist perspective, it presents a way of looking at loss and grief that can be helpful for anyone.
A few things that really stood out for me:
1. The amount a person is able to feel grief is the same extent a person is able to feel love. We grieve because we have lov...more
Although this book comes from a Buddhist perspective, it presents a way of looking at loss and grief that can be helpful for anyone.
A few things that really stood out for me:
1. The amount a person is able to feel grief is the same extent a person is able to feel love. We grieve because we have lov...more
The first grief book I've encountered that paints grief as something that possesses transformative power rather than a bevy of horrifying feelings to be gotten over as quickly as possible (which God knows is also an accurate description). I don't know why such a simple concept hadn't occurred to me before I read this, but it eluded me completely. Not much in the way of specific prescriptive advice - i.e., what to expect in the first month, the first six months, etc - but advice on how to integra...more
I read this over the course of a year after my brother died unexpectedly. Good insights, not heavy-handed, and helped me to understand some of the changes I was going through.
From "Grieving Mindfully"
We grieve whenever an anchor in our understanding of our identity is lost. Picture your identity as a necklace of precious stones that comes undone and needs to be restrung. If some stones are lost, new ones must be added to replace the old ones. Grief can be understood as the process of picking up...more
From "Grieving Mindfully"
We grieve whenever an anchor in our understanding of our identity is lost. Picture your identity as a necklace of precious stones that comes undone and needs to be restrung. If some stones are lost, new ones must be added to replace the old ones. Grief can be understood as the process of picking up...more
I've picked up this book a couple of times when I needed it in recent years, yet I still haven’t finished it. Maybe there’s a secret in its final pages, and I’ll never know.
I found so much insight into my life and the grief process. I highly recommend this book!
Highly recommend for dealing with any type of loss.
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