Break Through Difficult Emotions [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Shinzen Young (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2006

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 to: 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.

Editorial Reviews

Book Description

Meditation expert Shinzen Young adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to the treatment of emotional suffering--in a complete step-by-step program with home listeners in mind. This audiobook offers four powerful meditations for overcoming anger, grief, anxiety, resentment, and many other painful emotions people experience. Listeners learn how to deconstruct a painful emotion into harmless components. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Shinzen Young is an American-born meditation teacher and professor who specializes in the theory and scientific study of meditative states. After completing formal Buddhist training in various Asian monasteries, he established many meditation programs in North America. Shinzen Young taught philosophy at Chapman College and was a professor at Ernest Holmes College, where he taught comparative religion, physics, and mathematics. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Unabridged edition (July 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591794870
• ISBN-13: 978-1591794875
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #704,149 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flow with life, April 24, 2002

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david dewulf (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Break Through Difficult Emotions (Audio Cassette)

Excellent.If you can reach the heart of this practice ( and this happens very quickly if you ve experience wih meditation ) you can transform negative emotions in seconds,on the spot.You keep the energy of the emotion,but you discard the negative charge.The energy allows you to flow with the circumstances and to act with respect towards others.The only secret is: doing it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars powerful emotional/spiritual insight, February 13, 2000

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"womlliv" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Break Through Difficult Emotions (Audio Cassette)

The introduction tape is so insightful i have listened to it over and over again. The meditations have pauses that are too long for me, though. Listening to the introduction instantly brings sense of calm and enlightenment as Mr. Young dissects the emotional process by which humans become overwhelmed, and he offers steps to avoid that. I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or anger.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He translates the difficult into the miraculous, March 7, 1999

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[e-mail] (Bellingham, Wa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Break Through Difficult Emotions (Audio Cassette)

I love this guy. He is able to move a person into the present and let the flow of awareness happen. Dr. Young's way of meditating on the experiences can change "so called" negative emotions into an awareness of the world dancing by. My only restriction was my own inablilty to trust the moment.