Angel of Fear is a timely corrective to the shallow "cures" for stress and anxiety that permeate our culture. It is a challenge to a greater view, and a practical guide to calm the mind and heal the nervous system with methods that have proven effective for hundreds of workshop participants. With his unique integral approach, Albert Buhr presents insightful solutions to the crisis of fear that psychiatry has failed to quell with its quick-fix suppression of symptoms. He exhorts us not to become fearless, but to face and befriend fear, and in so doing, embrace life. Fear, as it turns out, is the fuel for transformation.

Angel of Fear: A Guide to End Stress & Anxiety

Self-Help

Nairn, Rob

Buhr, Albert

Anxieties & Phobias

Metta Press

The author takes us on a journey into our own minds. With clarity and humour he guides us to understand how we ourselves generate the clouds of anxiety, desire and anger that obscure our happiness. We learn to recognise these obscurations, how they came about and how to release and dissolve them. The innate wisdom and brilliance of the mind then naturally manifest. The title contains guidelines and practices for meditators.

Diamond Mind: Psychology of Meditation

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Kairon

Living Dreaming Dying: Wisdom of Tibetan Psychology

Kairon Press

If meditation were easier, Rob Nairn writes, more people would hang in there and become enlightened. Fortunately, Rob's training in both Buddhism and psychology make him especially well qualified to help us do just that. With clarity and humor, he helps us understand how we generate the clouds of anxiety, desire, and anger that obscure our inherent happiness. Eight specific practices and five question-and-answer sessions illuminate the psychology of meditation—how our minds work when we meditate, and how we might release and dissolve the conditioning and unresolved issues that get in our way. This book is suitable as a course of study by individuals or groups, and includes a special appendix for group facilitators.

Diamond Mind

Shambhala

Buddhism teaches that the mind is the source of 100 percent of all unhappiness: anxiety, agitation, desire, anger, grief. Through understanding how our mind works, it is possible to tame it—and to discover that happiness, wisdom, compassion, and clarity are actually inherent qualities in all of us. Much has been written of this subject, but Rob Nairn's book is the first to express the principles of Buddhist psychology in a way that is so easy to understand and enjoyable to read—while remaining remarkably accurate and complete. Each chapter includes exercises that bring the truth of the teaching home.

Diamond Mind: A Psychology of Meditation

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the best-known Tibetan Buddhist texts. It is also one of the most difficult texts for Westerners to understand. In Living, Dreaming, Dying, Rob Nairn presents the first interpretation of this classic text using a modern Western perspective, avoiding arcane religious terminology, keeping his explanations grounded in everyday language. Nairn explores the concepts used in this highly revered work and brings out their meaning and significance for our daily life. He shows readers how the Tibetan Book of the Dead canhelp us understand life and self as well as the dying process. Living, Dreaming, Dying helps readers to "live deliberately"—and confront death deliberately. One thing that prevents us from doing that, according to Nairn, is our tendency to react fearfully whenever change occurs. But if we confront our fear of change and the unknown, we can learn to flow gracefully with the unfolding circumstances of life rather than be at their mercy. Of course, change occurs throughout our life, but a period of transition also occurs as we pass from the waking state into sleep, and likewise as we pass into death. Therefore the author's teachings apply equally to living as well as to dreaming and dying. Through meditation instructions and practical exercises, the author explains how to: • Explore the mind through the cultivation of deep meditation states and expanded consciousness • Develop awareness of negative tendencies • Use deep sleep states and lucid dreaming to increase self-understanding as well as to "train" oneself in how to die so that one is prepared for when the time comes • Confront and liberate oneself from fear of death and the unknown

Living, Dreaming, Dying: Wisdom for Everyday Life from the Tibetan Book of the Dead

Religion & Spirituality

Buddhism

Building on mindfulness and self-compassion practices, this step-by-step guide to secular insight meditation shows the way to freedom from deeply rooted thought patterns. Discover joy within yourself and heartfelt connection with others by releasing the habitual thought patterns that cause suffering and alienation. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom as well as the latest research in psychology and neuroscience, this book provides you with the tools needed to recognize the habits of thinking that fuel anger, desire, jealousy, and pride. Building on mindfulness and self-compassion practice, it offers a step-by-step series of guided meditations that create the conditions for liberating insight and wisdom to naturally arise. Thousands of people in the last decade have benefited from practicing the exercises in this book, which were developed and taught as part of the curriculum at the Mindfulness Association, an organization founded to deliver training in mindfulness, compassion, and insight.

From Mindfulness to Insight: Meditations to Release Your Habitual Thinking and Activate Your Inherent Wisdom

Choden

Regan-Addis, Heather

Alternative Medicine

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