Break Through Difficult Emotions: How to Transform Painful Feelings With Mindfulness Meditation

by Shinzen Young

When mindfulness meditation was introduced as an aid for patients suffering from chronic pain, physicians were skeptical. Today, after countless successful trials and clinical studies demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation, this gentle and potent practice is used in hundreds of hospitals and clinics across the country. On Break Through Difficult Emotions, meditation mentor Shinzen Young adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to the treatment of emotional suffering. You will learn powerful meditations for overcoming anger, grief, anxiety, shame, and the many other painful emotions we all experience. Four step-by-step exercises cover how Deconstruct any emotion into its harmless components Identify the location, shape, and flow of your emotions Melt frozen emotions into their natural, fluid state Untangle emotional confusion by watching your thoughts Transform negative emotions into positive ones, and more.

Genres: Meditation, Spirituality, Psychology, Self Help, Nonfiction

Audio CD

First published July 28, 1997

Reviews

[know1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't let the cheesy title repulse you from this fine CD. It's concise, well-reasoned and deep. If you want to get a taste of the author's style, there are plenty free first-class articles and videos available on the web.

[Audas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super helpful!

[Justine Oh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I believed it will be a great book if I had not read similar books before this. It sounds more like a repeat to me.

[Kate LeBlanc · Rating 5 out of 5]

The audio guided meditations are peace-inducing in times of stress or distress.