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Real love : the art of mindful connection / Sharon Salzberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Flatiron Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: x, 305 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1250076501
  • 9781250076502
Subject(s):
Contents:
Looking for love -- Beyond the cliché -- The stories we tell ourselves -- The stories others tell about us -- Welcoming our emotions -- Meeting the inner critic -- Letting go of perfection -- Becoming embodied -- Moving beyond shame -- Taking a stand on happiness -- Following your ethical compass -- Love as a verb -- Barriers to finding real love -- Cultivate curiosity and awe -- Authentic communication -- Playing fair: a win-win proposition -- Navigate the space between -- Letting go -- Healing, not victory -- The heart is a generous muscle -- Forgiveness and redemption -- The wide lens of compassion -- Priming the pump -- Challenging our assumptions -- Love everybody -- Creating community -- From anger to love -- Say yes to life.
List(s) this item appears in: Self-Care September 2023
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 152.41 S186 Available 33111008793289
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The New York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way.

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world.

Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself.

Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved.

With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-305).

Looking for love -- Beyond the cliché -- The stories we tell ourselves -- The stories others tell about us -- Welcoming our emotions -- Meeting the inner critic -- Letting go of perfection -- Becoming embodied -- Moving beyond shame -- Taking a stand on happiness -- Following your ethical compass -- Love as a verb -- Barriers to finding real love -- Cultivate curiosity and awe -- Authentic communication -- Playing fair: a win-win proposition -- Navigate the space between -- Letting go -- Healing, not victory -- The heart is a generous muscle -- Forgiveness and redemption -- The wide lens of compassion -- Priming the pump -- Challenging our assumptions -- Love everybody -- Creating community -- From anger to love -- Say yes to life.

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