In this journey of samsaric life, which is full of dissatisfaction, sufferings, and uncertainties, let’s make these wisdom messages of the Buddha our beacon of hope and light. While Khenpo Rinpoche writes these lines, we are living in an unusual era of a global pandemic, the COVID-19. So through this book, Rinpoche wishes to send us a message of hope and healings. In our struggles in battling this deadly pandemic, he sincerely hope and pray that we could mask-up ourselves with the practice of mindfulness, to purify (“sanitize”) our mind-streams with the medicine of Dharma and also to “distant” ourselves from anything or anyone that is unwholesome or non-virtuous. By doing these spiritual practices, added with following the medical advices given by the health experts, the author truly believe that we could definitely win against all illnesses and dis-eases of all kinds, be it physical or mental, worldly or spiritual. Khenpo Rinpoche dedicates all merits to all patients, front-liners, doctors, healers and all sentient beings, may this pandemic quickly vanish and may we all live a normal, healthy and productive life – in its own perfect timing, for the highest good of all!

Everything is so opposite. I was just seeing how different the inner world is from the outer world. In the inner worldif you see any angeryou just show your love. If you see any kind of poweryou become powerless. You see any bignessyou become small. If you see any thiefyou give your keys. If there is something closed inside of youyou just stand there as it is. Everything is so opposite. You see something speedy insideyou just be in the restfulness. You do not need any kind of tool to live this handless way. If any part is fightingyou completely lay your head down. Then the treasure is there, but you do not need to look after it. Th en the power is there, but you do not need it. The knowledge is there, but you are not thirsty anymore. The source is there, but you do not want that ending. And this is where you just wonder, is it beginning or ending? Is it living or dying? Is it everything or nothing? You just wonder, is there more to give or to receive? Gurpreet In Heartful Permission, Gurpreet off ers a collection of her open talks from 2014, which are transcribed in book format by volunteers. She reminds us of the path of awakening and the significance of having an incarnate teacher.

Embark on a journey through life’s challenges with the illuminating wisdom of Buddha, offering solace in the face of dissatisfaction, suffering, and uncertainty. Khenpo Rinpoche imparts these timeless teachings amid the global pandemic of COVID-19, aiming to instill hope and healing. Confronting the pandemic, Rinpoche encourages us to embrace mindfulness, purify our minds with Dharma, and distance ourselves from negativity. By melding spiritual practices with expert medical advice, he believes we can triumph over physical and mental illnesses. Rinpoche dedicates all merits to all patients, frontline workers, healers, and all beings, hoping for a swift end to the pandemic and a return to normal, healthy lives.

In this groundbreaking book, the authors of the perennial bestseller Who Dies? demonstrate how to use a relationship as a means for profound inner growth and healing. "Stephen and Ondrea's work is among the deepest, most healing and heartfelt contributions to modern spiritual life in America." —Jack Kornfield, bestselling author of a Path with Heart Stephen and Ondrea Levine devoted more than eighteen years to investigating the mind/body relationship, particularly as it relates to the states healing, dying, and grieving. Their work has affected healing and medical practices worldwide. In Embracing the Beloved, the Levines turn their attention to what has been "our most significant spiritual commitment—our own relationship." Their insights and anecdotes will benefit all who are drawn to looking inward, and all who seek a relationship as a path for spiritual renewal and merciful awareness of life.

Heartfelt, practical, accessible, spirited. Come alive to your Body Being the multi-faceted container that takes us everywhere we want to go and helps process everything that happens to us. Whether you wish to explore spiritual development, practice your own presence in the world, or simply live more richly, Awakening Body Consciousness was written for you. It links the teachings of scientist and sage, of Knowledge and Being, providing practical advice and exercises to help you cultivate a new level of body awareness. This seven-step path to vibrant physical, mental, and spiritual health unites body consciousness with the hearts own sense of truth and the minds best attention. Why seek spirit through the body? Because it is the nexus where soul and spirit connect with the ever-thrumming energy of life within us. Our DNA, our psyche, the hands that create and the minds that invent all are aspects of the living body and are dependent upon it. Awakening Body Consciousness combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science to reveal how our bodily presence, our sense of everyday presentness, can serve as a bridge toward the I-consciousness within us. Are we thinking animals? Are we minds dragging a body along behind us? What is mindfulness full of? Rooted in the authors decades of bodywork and studies of world religions and ritual practices, psychology and neuroscience, Awakening Body Consciousness forges a new path to developing conscious awareness. Through the practice of attention to our own presence-in-the-world, we are able to open ourselves to the experience of unity in body, mind and heart.

Winner of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) Arthur Shapiro Award for Best Book on Hypnosis, this book explores how mindfulness and hypnosis in a clinical context work to help foster change. In recent years mindfulness has become integrated into many clinicians' private practices, and become a staple of hospital and university based treatment programs for stress reduction, pain, anxiety management, and a host of other difficulties. Clinicians are now routinely encouraging their clients to focus, be aware, open, and accepting, and thereby derive benefit from the mindfulness experience. How has mindfulness, a treatment tool that might easily have been dismissed as esoteric only a few short years ago, become so widely accepted and applied? One obvious answer: Because it works. The empirical foundation documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness is already substantial and is still growing. This is not a book about documenting the therapeutic merits of mindfulness, however. Rather, this book is the first of its kind to address how and most importantly why guided mindfulness meditations can enhance treatment. The focus in this book is on the structure of guided mindfulness meditations and, especially, the role of suggestion in these processes. Specifically, one of the primary questions addressed in this book is this: When a psychotherapist conducts guided mindfulness meditations (GMMs) for some clinical purpose, how does mindfulness work? In posing this question other questions arise that are every bit as compelling: Do GMMs contain structural elements that can be identified and amplified and thereby employed more efficiently? How do we determine who is most likely to benefit from such methods? Can GMMs be improved by adapting them to the needs of specific individuals rather than employing scripted "one size fits all" approaches? Discussing the role of suggestion in experience and offering the author's concrete suggestions for integrating this work into psychotherapy, this book is a practical guide to hypnosis, focusing, and mindfulness for the clinician.

• Shows how sound, even humming, can change the body’s tissues, rearrange posture, and release long-held emotional trauma and stress • Explains how to listen deeply to the body and discover the rhythms of the areas to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing • Offers practices to help you immediately release tension and explains how to use your voice to release emotional conflicts so your body can naturally heal You are made of sound. By listening deeply, you can hear the rhythms and stories of the audible body. With the power of the voice, you can heal the body layer by layer, awakening your cells while releasing long-held tensions, stress, and emotional trauma. In this guide to sound as bodywork, sound healer Vickie Dodd shares her system for addressing trauma locked in the physical body with the healing power of sound. Touching on the function of the nervous system and the parasympathetic breath, she reveals how sound travels the inner pathways of the body, eliciting responses from the body memory of tissues and muscles while bypassing the mind. Sharing examples from sessions with her clients across five decades, she explains how sound can change the body’s tissues, rearrange posture, and release undigested emotional experiences. She teaches how to prepare the body for the work of sounding and releasing and explains the vocabulary of healing sounds, in particular the power of vowels to start the healing process. Presenting experiential exercises, the author explores how to listen deeply and precisely to the body’s stories and discover the rhythms of the areas to be treated as well as how to intuit the sounds required for healing—your unique soundprint. She offers practices to help you immediately experience a release of tension and stress and explains how to use your voice to release emotional conflicts so your body can naturally heal. She explores how to sing love songs to your shadow, transform negative patterns into harmonious ones, and discover the grace and peace that arise as your body’s stories and tissues come to rest. Revealing the vast potential of sound to heal and transform, Vickie Dodd shows how each of us can dialogue with our own body for release, restoration, and vitality.

Authors show that teaching of art stimulates social changes among the participants of the communities in the Far East and Africa, schools and community arts organizations. Attention is also given to how art can support the skills, confidence, and empowerment of the participants.