The monkey is the messenger meditation and what your busy mind is trying to tell you
"Offers a range of evidence-based, somatic, and trauma-informed insights and practices drawn from De La Rosa's study of neuroscience and psychology and his long practice of meditation and yoga, and a remedy for all those who want to meditate but suppose they can't because they think t...
| Main Author: | De la Rosa, Ralph (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder :
Shambhala,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Body: the monkey is a meditator
- Taking responsibility for your own happiness
- The magnificent mismatch
- Befriending the body in meditation
- Evolving the monkey's motivations
- Mind: a monkey molded by model scenes
- The body of breath
- Our monkeys, ourselves
- How you breathe is how you feel
- The stories we tell ourselves
- How we get stuck : trauma and the unconscious mind
- What we lose when we lose empathy
- Heart: the monkey's ultimate message
- The challenge of self-love
- The monkey is a mensch
- Love : level 10
- The gifts of difficulty
- The family within
- Working with the inner critic and other harsh inner voices
- Putting it all together : integrating Buddhist meditation with parts work.