Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All [Paperback]

Gerald G. Jampolsky (Author), Neale Donald Walsch (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 1999

This is a small book with a big message: if we are to heal ourselves and learn to live with each other in love and harmony, forgiveness must become as important and regular as breathing. The first chapter offers a number of powerful stories chosen to open the reader's heart to forgiveness. Subsequent chapters explain why so many of us find it so difficult to forgive, and why holding onto grievances is really a decision to suffer. He describes the causes of being unforgiving, how the mind works in this process, and the ultimate negative effects this attitude can exert on our bodies and our lives in general.

Written in direct, accessible language, the book approaches its subject from a practical standpoint rather than a deep psychological or religious perspective.

Editorial Reviews

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"What I've noticed in my life is that is has been easier to talk about forgiveness than to practice it. That's why Jerry's book is so important to me. I am glad to learn more about this miracle tool and the miracles it can produce. I am so happy to learn how to use it, not just talk about it. . . . This book is Jerry's truth, but it is God's message. . . . So be very clear that, as you read this book, you are having a conversation with God. And be very sure that you are not having it by accident." -- from the foreword by Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God

About the Author

Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. is a graduate of Stanford Medical School and a former faculty member of the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco, where he has held fellowships in child psychiatry aat Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. In 1975 he and some friends established the original Center for Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California, where children and adults with life threatening illnesses can find peace of mind that is transforming for them and their families. He founded the project, "Children as Teachers of Peace" in 1982, which has now been expanded by others internationally. In 1987 he and his wife Diane Cirinciono, helped co-found the AIDS Hotline for Kids in Tiburon. There are now over 130 independent Centers for Attitudinal Healing in 24 countries serving their communities. Dr. Jampolsky has published extensively. Dr. Jampolsky is married to psychotherapist and author Diane Cirincione, and together they have lectured and consulted in the United States and abroad on psychology, psychiatry, mental and physical health, the power of our attitudes, life transitions, interpersonal relationships, health, education, and business as they affect both our personal and professional lives. They continue to work cross-culturally and globally with a local focus on what they call "Practical Spirituality."

Neale Donald Walsch devotes his

time to sharing the messages of his books through writing, lecturing, and facilitating spiritual renewal retreats. The creator of the School of the New Spirituality and founder of The Group of 1000, a nonprofit organization supporting global spiritual awakening, he lives in Ashland, Oregon, and may be contacted through www.nealedonaldwalsch.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words; Original edition (September 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582700206
• ISBN-13: 978-1582700205
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., a child and adult psychiatrist, is a graduate of Stanford Medical School. In 1975, he founded the first Center for Attitudinal Healing, now a worldwide network with independent centers in over thirty countries. He is an internationally recognized authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Dr. Jampolsky has published extensively, including his best-selling Love Is Letting Go of Fear. He and his wife, psychotherapist and author Diane Cirincione, Ph.D., have worked in forty-nine countries and currently reside in both northern California and Hawaii.

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79 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved the book, October 9, 2000

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"simondav14" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All (Paperback)

I agree with everything these authors say. However, I did not always think this way.

A few years ago I purchase a copy of the book An Encounter With A Prophet. The author advanced similar ideas about forgiveness. I was impressed with some of the concepts but failed to use the techniques suggested regarding resentments.

Then one night walking home from work, I was attacked by a mugger. Coming up from behind me, out of the shadows, the mugger managed to hid me twice the back of the head before I knew what was happening. Due to space limitations I will skip the details of what followed suffice it to say when the ambulance picked me up off the street , I was drenched in my own blood.

On the way to the hospital my mind started to race. Having grown up as a fighter, I vowed to find this man and evoke some Charles Bronson style justice. As I engaged in this type of thinking, in my mind's eye I could feel and see the mugger sneaking up behind me getting ready to hit me - something they call a flashback a frightening experience to say the least.

As this flash back phenomena continued, it occurred to me to pray the unique prayer suggested in this book. I started saying the suggested prayer repeatedly. The flashback dissolved. However, every time I stopped praying, my mind immediately started planning more Bronson style justice and the flashback phenomena would returned. This phenomena gave me the continued motivation to pray for the S O B all that night and for the next few days. (This strange prayer let's you call the person an S O B while you are praying)

When I returned to work I was surprised that I could, against all advise to the contrary, walk home down the very same street at night without experiencing any fear whatsoever. The only feeling I had for the mugger was compassion and all fear was gone.

You can debate the concepts advanced by Lewis Walsch and Jampolsky or you can use them. If you use them there will be no more room for debate. Buy these books and a few copies for your family and friends.

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dr. Jampolsky's book is both enlightening and encouraging, October 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All (Paperback)

This new book by Gerald G.Jampolsky is an intelligent, insightful, and compassionate guide concerning the role that the process of forgiveness plays in individual lives. Remaining true to his professional "calling" as a well-known psychiatrist and personal beliefs in attitudinal healing(i.e. replacing the negative, destructive emotion of fear with the powerful,transforming, liberating force of love), Dr. Jampolsky provides the reader with a practical "forgiveness guide" enabling the reader to heal troublesome relationships.In a warmly conversational tone, he presents numerous 'stepping stones' to assist people in acheiving peace and love in all their relationships. This mind-set transformation leads to the common goal of forgiveness. Once again, Dr. Jampolsky has written a thoroughly enjoyable and easy-to-read book ! Get Thee to your local bookstore and buy it !!!

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book gave me a new important idea., January 30, 2003

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Yumiko Tanaka (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All (Paperback)

This book says that any thoughts come from one of two emotions: love or fear. If you choose love, you don't experience fear. If you choose fear, you don't experience love.This is very simple, but if you understand it truly, you can change your life.

When you are suffering from something, you can ask to yourself "Will you choose love or fear?". When you can't say "Yes, I choose love", what should you do? This book shows: Use magic. That's forgiveness. This magic is only for you, and only you can use this.