Guided Meditations for Self-Healing: Essential Practices to Relieve Physical and Emotional Suffering and Enhance Recovery

by Jack Kornfield

Meditations to Activate Your Capacity for Healing

Meditation brings you into a deep communion with your own body and heart, but what happens when you are sick or in pain? With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing , Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering, and activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness.

Join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for three essential practices that tap the healing power of

Healing Presence―how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration
• The Healing Temple―guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary gifts for true recovery and blessing
• The Healing Power of Love―directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need
We are conditioned to approach healing as an act of control, in which we judge what is wrong with us and impose a change. The way of awareness teaches us how to turn toward that which is injured in us with a caring and fearless attention, so we may open the door to true healing at every level of our being.

With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing , Jack Kornfield brings you three potent practices to bring compassionate energy where it is needed in your body, psyche, and spirit, and to awaken the "master healer" within you.

Course

Utilize meditation to activate your capacity for healing.
• Demonstrate "Healing Presence"―how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration.
• Practice "The Healing Temple"―guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary symbols and messages for healing
• Discuss "The Healing Power of Love"―directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need.

Genres: Audiobook, Nonfiction, Buddhism, Spirituality, Health, Meditation, Self Help

2 pages, Audio CD

First published December 28, 2010

About the author

Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. He began his training after graduating from Dartmouth College in Asian Studies in 1967. Then he joined the Peace Corps and was assigned to the Public Health Service in northeast Thailand, which is home to several of the world’s oldest Buddhist forest monasteries. He met and studied under the Buddhist master Ven. Ajahn Chah, as well as the Ven. Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. After returning to the United States, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, with fellow meditation teachers Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein. He is also a founding teacher of the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California, where he currently lives and teaches. Over the years, Jack has taught in centers and universities worldwide, led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama and worked with many of the great teachers of our time. He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is a husband, father and an activist.

His books have been translated into 20 languages and sold more than a million copies. They include, A Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology, A Path with Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; Teachings of the Buddha; Seeking the Heart of Wisdom; Living Dharma; A Still Forest Pool; Stories of the Spirit, Stories of the Heart; Buddha’s Little Instruction Book; The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace, Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are, and his most recent book, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are.

Reviews

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am always enriched when I read anything by Jack Kornfield. I was introduced to his work by Joe Frank on KCRW in the 90's. In between bizarre stories would come Kornfield's soothing voice and completely change the tone. This cd is a great gift for those faced a prolonged illness or for those who are heartsick. I tend to listen to it when I am facing some (real or percieved) crisis and I am brought back into the present.

[Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

The narration is unsettling at first... the guy seems too nice in a borderline creepy way. It's just a personal feeling of course. The meditations themselves were good though and it is a relaxing, inspiring book to help you rid yourself of past pain and clear out negative energy.

[Vegapunk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful audiobook which helped me to develop a more caring and loving attitude towards my body, mind and soul.

[Jenny Webb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Effective audiobook with guided meditations in the second half. The second meditation, which built out a visualization of a healing space, was tricky for me, and I ended up doing it twice, but I liked the approach. I’m going to practice it. It reminded me of the memory palace technique. I’m always curious about the ways our minds construct interior visual spaces in order to organize and store real-world data / data access—there’s something about fantasy and physical space and embodied effects that I’d like to understand better.

[The Book Girl · Rating 5 out of 5]

review to come.

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

I want to like this book, but something about the author's tone and choice of words grated on my nerves. It's not a bad book necessarily, but I couldn't finish it. I may try again later.

[Shandril · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some nice, easy-to-get-into meditations and things to think about when we are faced with self-healing the mind, body, or spirit.

[Farhana Faruq · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very short audio book, 2 hours long. The first half hour is an introduction, then it has three mediation sessions: the first to be more mindful, the second about your body and how it's the healing temple, and the last is about love and kindness. Kornfield walks you through the meditations, I liked the first two, not the last one. Will probably continue with the first one only as I don't really buy into some of the ideas presented.

[Jreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened to it as an audio book. Had some clients I thought it would help. The concept of recognizing suffering is crucial and more helpful than labeling someone as a diagnosis. We have to have empathy and compassion to help others and ourselves.

[Davina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Audiobook read by the author. Good and simple set of meditations. Well worth the effort.