Book cover for Guided Meditations for Self-Healing: Essential Practices to Relieve Physical and Emotional Suffering and Enhance Recovery by Jack Kornfield, PhD

Guided Meditations for Self-Healing

Essential Practices to Relieve Physical and Emotional Suffering and Enhance Recovery

2011 Released
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Macmillan AudioISBN 9781604073287

Meditations to Activate Your Capacity for Healing

Meditation brings you into a deep communion with your own body and heart, but what happens when you are sick or in pain? With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering, and activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness.

Join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for three essential practices that tap the healing power of attention:

Healing Presence—how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration
• The Healing Temple—guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary gifts for true recovery and blessing
• The Healing Power of Love—directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need
We are conditioned to approach healing as an act of control, in which we judge what is wrong with us and impose a change. The way of awareness teaches us how to turn toward that which is injured in us with a caring and fearless attention, so we may open the door to true healing at every level of our being.

With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield brings you three potent practices to bring compassionate energy where it is needed in your body, psyche, and spirit, and to awaken the "master healer" within you.

Course objectives:

Utilize meditation to activate your capacity for healing.
• Demonstrate "Healing Presence"—how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration.
• Practice "The Healing Temple"—guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary symbols and messages for healing
• Discuss "The Healing Power of Love"—directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need.

Jack Kornfield, PhD

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India, and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack cofounded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and is a husband, grandfather, and activist. His 17 books have sold 2 million copies, translated into 22 languages. They include The Wise Heart; A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace; and No Time Like the Present. For more, visit jackkornfield.com.

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