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Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times: Powerful Tools to Cultivate Calm, Clarity, and Courage
A practical guide to surviving and thriving in a world gone mad
Do you ever feel torn between finding refuge and staying informed and engaged? Have you ever felt too stressed out to meditate? Too anxious to roll out your yoga mat or pray?
The truth is, when the world gets chaotic and confounding, we need spiritual practice more than ever. That's when our souls need sustenance. That's when we need to recharge and ground ourselves to take on the challenge.
This concise, compassionate guide is filled with tools and techniques for accessing the sanctuary within you. They'll give you spiritual support at a moment's notice, in whatever time you have, with whatever attention you can spare.
Expert teacher Philip Goldberg draws on authoritative texts and teachers from every spiritual path, especially the empirical methods of the Yoga tradition-as well as contemporary psychology and scientific research. The result is a wide range of techniques to relieve the mind and body, refresh the spirit, and gird us for constructive action. You'll get insightful instruction in practices ranging from deep meditation to cognitive reframing to "spiritual space management," from silently communing with nature to actively engaging with others. And you'll find detailed guidelines for creating a spiritual routine-along with an inventory of supplementary practices-that suits your needs and lifestyle.
This breezy, thorough, pragmatic book will help you find refuge and healing from the crazy times we're living in-and it will prepare you for taking robust steps to help restore sanity in the world around you.
Do you ever feel torn between finding refuge and staying informed and engaged? Have you ever felt too stressed out to meditate? Too anxious to roll out your yoga mat or pray?
The truth is, when the world gets chaotic and confounding, we need spiritual practice more than ever. That's when our souls need sustenance. That's when we need to recharge and ground ourselves to take on the challenge.
This concise, compassionate guide is filled with tools and techniques for accessing the sanctuary within you. They'll give you spiritual support at a moment's notice, in whatever time you have, with whatever attention you can spare.
Expert teacher Philip Goldberg draws on authoritative texts and teachers from every spiritual path, especially the empirical methods of the Yoga tradition-as well as contemporary psychology and scientific research. The result is a wide range of techniques to relieve the mind and body, refresh the spirit, and gird us for constructive action. You'll get insightful instruction in practices ranging from deep meditation to cognitive reframing to "spiritual space management," from silently communing with nature to actively engaging with others. And you'll find detailed guidelines for creating a spiritual routine-along with an inventory of supplementary practices-that suits your needs and lifestyle.
This breezy, thorough, pragmatic book will help you find refuge and healing from the crazy times we're living in-and it will prepare you for taking robust steps to help restore sanity in the world around you.
232 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2020
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February 22, 2024
3.5 stars.
It is difficult to judge the advice before trying it out, but it is written clearly, effectively and simply. I enjoyed the approach to spirituality presented here.
A special credit to how disinterested the author was in making this advice seem 'business-like'. I believe the topics of self-betterment and spirituality have seen more than its fair share of hacks and quacks, and Goldberg seems genuinely very far from that world. I implicitly trust the advice given here to be shared in good faith.
What I struggled with (just a little) (as an atheist) was the reliance of religion and religious thinking. Goldberg makes a sincere and excellent effort to make most of this book secular, and while he largely succeed, there is something about spirituality that still requires working with the Divine or its Substitutes (tm). I continue to be on the lookout for a robust alternative.
It is difficult to judge the advice before trying it out, but it is written clearly, effectively and simply. I enjoyed the approach to spirituality presented here.
A special credit to how disinterested the author was in making this advice seem 'business-like'. I believe the topics of self-betterment and spirituality have seen more than its fair share of hacks and quacks, and Goldberg seems genuinely very far from that world. I implicitly trust the advice given here to be shared in good faith.
What I struggled with (just a little) (as an atheist) was the reliance of religion and religious thinking. Goldberg makes a sincere and excellent effort to make most of this book secular, and while he largely succeed, there is something about spirituality that still requires working with the Divine or its Substitutes (tm). I continue to be on the lookout for a robust alternative.
January 22, 2021
I’ve been skimming it, but there are some very insightful passages among the fluff.
February 4, 2021
This insightful book came to me at a perfect moment. I had many questions about meditation practices and found most of the answers in this tiny book.
Everybody can learn to meditate. And every learning experience is progressing better with a useful guide. This book is an excellent guidance on how to meditate and stay calm and peaceful during uncertain times.
Everybody can learn to meditate. And every learning experience is progressing better with a useful guide. This book is an excellent guidance on how to meditate and stay calm and peaceful during uncertain times.
July 19, 2021
Wonderfully thought provoking!
I felt as though a dear friend was speaking with me, not to me, about ideas and feelings I wanted to explore. I am more hopeful about surviving these crazy times.
I felt as though a dear friend was speaking with me, not to me, about ideas and feelings I wanted to explore. I am more hopeful about surviving these crazy times.
March 28, 2023
This book is outstanding. I used it as one of my Lenten readings and it lifted me up every time I read it. I will keep it to read again next Lenten season. I especially liked it for the practical techniques to calm oneself and the focus on meditation.
Highly recommended
Highly recommended
April 20, 2022
If you're someone who is already on spiritual journey, there's not much this book can give you. But I think there are a few things to learn and practice about spirituality for absolute beginners.
May 22, 2022
This was exactly what I needed
December 26, 2025
Really helpful, loved it.
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