Let go: a Buddhist guide to breaking free of habits
Short Title:
Let go
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
Nov 30, 2006
Publisher:
Wisdom Publications
Place of Publication:
Boston
Pages:
190
Sources ID:
110846
Notes:
cited 17 timesPatterns -- Meditation -- Grasping -- Mental habits -- Lost in emotion -- Signals of the body -- Recovering from addiction -- Love -- Compassion -- Ethics -- A creative path
Collection:
Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Depression
Visibility:
Public (group default)
Abstract:
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When we break free from the habits that limit us, a new world of possibilities opens up. In Let Go, Martine Batchelor leads the way there.Negative patterns of mind may manifest as fear, avoidance, depression, addiction, judgment of self or other, and any of a host of other physical, mental, or psychological forms. Let Go aims at understanding what really lies at the root of these behaviors so we can reclaim control. Each chapter concludes with an exercise or guided meditation as a tool for the reader to work with negative habits in new and creative ways. You don't have to be a Buddhist for them to work. You just need to want to move on.
Helpful exercises and guided meditations—designed to build understanding of our negative habits, as well as the confidence and skill needed to instead embrace our greatest qualities—appear throughout the book.
Batchelor also looks at Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz's use of meditation to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), successful combinations of meditation and Twelve-Step programs, and offers her own innovations.