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Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship Paperback – November 12, 1983
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Jacob Needleman, Erich Fromm, Robin Skynner, Ram Dass, Karl Sperber, Roger Walsh, Chögyam Trungpa, and Thomas Hora are among the contributors.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherShambhala
- Publication dateNovember 12, 1983
- Dimensions5.53 x 0.52 x 8.49 inches
- ISBN-100394721829
- ISBN-13978-0394721828
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A valuable collection of essays about the practical role tht meditation can play in psychotherapy. Each of the essays is rich and illuminting. -- New Age Journal, August, 1984
This book is the best of its type-- seminal, provocative, and empowering. -- Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, December, 1983
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The growing attraction of the Eastern teachings grows out of a widespread perception that Western psychology and medicine are incomplete both in their understanding of human nature and in their ability to promote health and well-being. What Western psychology has done well is to describe and analyze neurotic behavior-- primarily in terms of childhood conditioning and family dynamics-- and to develop therapeutic methods to help free people from bondage to their past. What Western therapists know much less about, however, is how the mind actually works, and how people can either perpetuate or heal their neuroses from within. Our general ignorance about the source of health inside us has contributed to the crisis of modern health care (so that hospitals are usually too sterile to provide a truly healing environment, the major form of therpy for psychiatric patients is drug maintenance, many health providers suffer from burnout, and the suicide rate among psychiatrists is notoriously one of the highest of all professions).
This book presents new perspectives on health nd the healing relationship growing out of the cross-fertilization between Eastern meditative disciplines and Western psychological practice. The chapters are primarily practical and personal, rather than theoretical or technical. And this is as it should be. For the major orientation of the book is to explore the healing relationship as an intimate encounter that can awaken the heart-- of both therapist and client.
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- Publisher : Shambhala; First Edition (November 12, 1983)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0394721829
- ISBN-13 : 978-0394721828
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.53 x 0.52 x 8.49 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,199,888 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As a psychotherapist, teacher, and author, John Welwood has been a pioneer in integrating psychological and spiritual work. Welwood has published several books, including the best-selling Journey of the Heart (HarperCollins, 1990), as well as Challenge of the Heart (Shambhala, 1985), and Love and Awakening (HarperCollins, 1996). He is an associate editor of the Journal for Transpersonal Psychology. He leads workshops and trainings in psychospiritual work and conscious relationship throughout the world.
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Roshi in "Where is the Self?" discusses the need to know how you are put together and what puts you together, essentially "know thyself" (Welwood, 1983). This allows one to become aware of a "unifying integrating function of the center of gravity." This produces respect for oneself and for others as well, He talks about true love as the "realization of the asbolute center of gravity," a two-phased process (I am paraphrasing on what Satori is) when one is able to 1) to realize absolute Self (there is no self "I am" consciousness left to experience), and when this unification breaks up and 2) to realize the individual self which objectifies the absolute (external projection of oneness, unity consciousness)
Satori means, "there is only one center of gravity in the universe, and you are sitting in the center of gravity," basically what one sees as the ultimate reality must become one's own experience. Once you have this experience within yourself, then "there is no need to go on seeking things outside yourself."
His basic thesis is that our culture cannot succeed and sustain itself as long as it is based on a partial definition of the Self. Those in Las Vegas in a perpetual search of meaning are stuck on Satori, incomplete on the first step without awareness of the second. He goes on to talk about the "essential tragedy of modern education," that we are taught only to affirm this one aspect. With a one-sided perspective one is "forever seeking that which appears only as an object to yourself...... You are enslaved by it, and you can never experience life in its true joy." Since you only "experience the world as external to you and you are never unified with it, then you are forever seeking the world." In fact, this is pervasive in modern civilization and the culture we know.