Eight Step Recovery - Using the Buddha's Teachings to Overcome Addiction (Mason-John Valerie)(Paperback) - diskuze

This new, expanded edition includes a Foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn, a guide to running an Eight Step Recovery meeting, and how to teach a Mindfulness Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) programme, including teacher''s notes and handouts."These teachings and the container of the MBAR program are offered as both a refuge and a practical curriculum for this hardest of all journeys back to the well-being that is our birthright as human beings. The basic message from the authors is that reclaiming your life and what is deepest and best in yourself is not only possible but actually workable if you are willing to engage in a certain kind of interior work on yourself, and to give yourself over to this intrinsically kind and trustworthy invitation to heal your own life and heart and relationships." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, from the Foreword"This wonderful book shows how we are all addicted to aspects of life and can all benefit from training our minds and hearts to be free of the tyranny of compulsion. The Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) programme draws on a wide range of the Buddha''s practical, yet deeply profound, teachings. Over the eight steps you are given a priceless gift - the possibility to gain mastery over your mind and heart and find freedom." - Vidyamala Burch (OBE), founder and co-director of Breathworks, author of Mindfulness for Health"Through Buddhist teachings, personal experiences, and case examples, this book provides a wise illustration of the fundamental process
více informací