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    The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
    The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
    The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions

    Written by Christopher K. Germer, PhD

    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne

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    About this audiobook

    "Buck up." "Stop feeling sorry for yourself." "Don't ruin everything." When you are anxious, sad, angry, or lonely, do you hear this self-critical voice? What would happen if, instead of fighting difficult emotions, we accepted them? Over his decades of experience as a therapist and mindfulness meditation practitioner, Dr. Christopher Germer has learned a paradoxical lesson: We all want to avoid pain, but letting it in and responding compassionately to our own imperfections are essential steps on the path to healing. This wise and eloquent book illuminates the power of self-compassion and offers creative, scientifically grounded strategies for putting it into action. You'll master practical techniques for living more fully in the present moment-especially when hard-to-bear emotions arise-and for being kind to yourself when you need it the most.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 31, 2016
    ISBN9781515972174
    The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions

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    • 5/5
      Very accessible and a good starting point for people who are worried they cannot be happy or safe. I listened to this after The Body Keeps The Score but you could easily listen to them the other way round.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book on the practice of Self-Compassion but also useful for mindfulness meditation practitioners in general. Fills in the gaping whole that practicing strictly insight meditation can create when too much emphasis is placed on "liberation" only and not on developing a kind, affectionate awareness simultaneously.

      Lots of useful exercises and advice on creating your own customized practice.
    • 4/5
      I liked the emphasis on loving kindness meditation and how to implement it into daily life.
    • 5/5
      Such a good book. Simple and understandable. I will read again to make sure I have absorbed everything
    • 5/5
      For years people have been telling me that I should meditate. and for years that meant nothing to me - in that I couldn't even picture what that would be/mean (even having grown up around Buddhists). In a moment of need, I started googling books on mindfulness and guess what was at the top of these lists? This book which someone had already given me.
      I dug it out of my book shelves and jumped in. It was the first time that I felt like I had practical instructions and explanations for what mindfulness and mediation WAS and HOW to just start doing it. While I still struggle with anxiety, this book has shown me the safe place that is within my own mind and helped me find the edge between how I FEEL vs my actual self. Just a little bit of space from my emotions.
    • 4/5
      This is a book that I tend to carry with me and read whenever I get the chance. I enjoy it but have yet to finish it...
    • 4/5
      Germer does a nice job of tying a lot of things together: mindfulness (single and open-focus), loving-kindness (metta), compassion (which differs because one has to experience a pain to be compassionate), and he cites - with brief synopses - the present neuroscientific research and studies that suggest why these practices benefit one's health.Though other books go into more depth about each of these topics, this book is great because of this synthesis of a number of topics, but with focus mostly on *how-to*.Germer is a clinical psychologist, and he provides anecdotes as to how mindfulness and metta helped and helps his patients and even himself. Germer has traveled to India and practices meditation and metta himself.That Daniel J. Siegel, MD, (one of my favorite authors) has endorsed this book boosts its credibility.I think this book is particularly useful for those who would like to quickly learn for the first time about mindfulness and loving-kindness (metta), how to practice it, and briefly why science believes it works.