Paperback 211 Pages - Publisher New Harbinger Publications - Published Sept 2009
£11.99 GBP
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ISBN-10: 157224643X
ISBN-13: 9781572246430
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Though it’s nearly impossible to imagine, times of personal crisis and upheaval are opportunities for self-reinvention and heightened artistic expression. Whether you are healing from a severed relationship, experiencing a job loss, or coping with another traumatic life transition, you can renew your strength and find new passion and purpose after things fall apart.
Wise Mind, Open Mind offers a powerful three-step mindfulness approach to help you navigate times of unwanted change, rediscover your inner well of creativity, and move forward with passion and purpose. This book combines techniques drawn from contemporary mind-body approaches, Buddhist psychology, mindfulness, creative thinking, and positive psychology to show you how to tap into your gifts and create a practical plan for personal transformation that will help you move through the challenges you face.
You’ll learn to overcome the five common hindrances that may be keeping you from true fulfillment and happiness. Finally, you’ll be able to embrace your circumstances, utilizing them to create a renewed personal vision and welcome new possibilities and greater creativity into your life.
Customer Reviews
Great Step by Step Manual by Henry Coffey (Tennessee)
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I just finished reading Ron’s book Wise Mind Open Mind. Great step by step manual on how to integrate mindfullness, meditation, and some of the insights of Buddhism into our daily lives. I found that this booked offered a useful path to practice ways to strengthen one’s life while opening to others and the world about.
I think everyone will have a favorite section. Mine was chapter’s 5, which talked about how to use the Buddhist teaching on the 5 hinderances and chapter 7, which discussed ways to the same thing as it applies to the four nobel truths. That was just me…I think everyone who reads this book will find their own favorite recipes.
WISE MIND/ OPEN MIND by David Seltzer
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I was lucky enough to have Ron Alexander as my personal therapist when I suffered a devastating loss, and I don’t know how I would have found my way to clarity and peace, and acceptance, without him. Its all here, in WISE MIND/ OPEN MIND, a gentle step-by-step walk along the path of recovery, holding his very wise hand. I’d recommend it to anyone who has gone through troubled times, or is presently, or ever will. Which is all of us. Thanks, Ron, for his wonderful book.
An Important Book for Everyday Life! by Book Lover
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The book is very readable which is important. Its theme of bringing mindfulness to everyday life and the advantages of doing so are clear. I also particularly liked the various descriptions of the mind and its ability to take you certain unwholesome places unless you step back, observe and rein it in. I think that the concept that the mind can be trained will be a new and important concept for many people.
While I recognize that the practices and approaches described in the book are very useful in a time of crisis, I see them as very important in everyday life and have a renewed commitment to meditate.
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