The Grief Process [Audio Cassette]

Stephen Levine (Author), Ondrea Levine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2000

From his early influential and moving book, Who Dies?, to his most recent bestseller, A Year to Live, Stephen Levine has quietly transformed the way we live and die in America. Over the past 20 years he has created a series of masterpieces and guidebooks for conscious living, including the modern classics Grist for the Mill (with Ram Dass), A Gradual Awakening, and Healing into Life and Death. On The Grief Process, Stephen Levine turns his attention to the resolution of unresolved grief the injury of our age which leaves no scars. Through a series of deeply-felt guided exercises that he has shared and refined with meditation groups, hospice residents, and others caught in the wake of physical and emotional grief Stephen Levine demonstrates awareness techniques available to everyone seeking true healing. Culminating in an intensive guided meditation, The Grief Process is a milestone in Stephen Levines long career as a meditation teacher, caregiver, and healer.

Stephen Levine
... is a meditation teacher and the author of many well-loved books, including the perennial bestseller Who Dies? (over 300,000 copies in print), A Gradual Awakening; Healing into Life and Death; and A Year to Live. He is also the coauthor, with his wife, Ondrea, of Embracing the Beloved.

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Book Description

The author of guidebooks for conscious living turns his attention to the resolution of unresolved grief, offering guided exercises that improve awareness techniques, ending with an intensive guided meditation.

About the Author

Writer Stephen Levine was born July 17, 1937, in Albany, New York, the child of chemist father Clarence and mother Ruth Levine. In the mid-to-late 1950s Levine attended the University of Miami; shortly thereafter he published his first work, A Resonance of Hope (1959). He then entered the field of journalism, returning to New York City to do editorial work for the Frederick Fell Publishing Company and later contributing to the Rikers Island (N.Y) Review. In 1965, Levine founded the San Francisco Oracle and continued his career in publishing. Stephen Levine has a variety of interests, including poetry reading and wildlife protection. His writing career also focuses on psychology and spirituality. He spent time helping the sick and dying, using meditation as a method of treatment; a program he shared with psychologist Richard Alpert and psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Levines's wish to help the suffering is perhaps most apparent in his 1990 book, Healers on Healing. Levine and his wife Ondrea created their book, Embracing the Beloved: Relationships as a Path of Awakening in 1994 in an attempt to help the ailing by employing poetry and meditation within families. This work was a culmination of 17 years of work with the dying. Beginning New Year's Eve, 1994, Stephen and Ondrea Levine decided to pretend that each new year was their last. It was their hope that this would help them understand and cherish the beauty of life.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (February 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564557146
• ISBN-13: 978-1564557148
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,806,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blessed are those who listen and absorb this cassette, August 20, 2000

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"wisottml" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Grief Process (Audio Cassette)

I have listened to sevearal of Stephen and Ondrea Levine's tapes and read several of their books, in large part to get in touch with the grief related to the loss of my mother this last March. Without question the Levines have made this deep, dark path called grief much more understandable for me. In fact, I feel as if I have been given a gift in learning about life by working thorugh this grief. That is, by learning from the Levines I have grown emensly as a human being. This is a gift, I might add, that I would gladly return in an instant to get my mother back.

That said, this cassetee is a wonderful crystalization of grief related work that I have read/heard by the Levines. The tools are largely the same, (e.g., soft belly and forgiveness to let go of the armoring around the heart), but the approach is refreshingly new. For those who are grieving this is a safe place to enter into the darkness of fear and guilt and depression, and to let go of holding on. There is an especially powerful meditation on letting go of the armoring around the heart that can and should be practiced again and again. For grief work is deep, enriching internal work that, that requires focussed attention, which this mediation and the overall tape provide.

For those seeking to go into the darkness, looking for a way to braille through life's darkest turns, this cassette will prove an invaluable compasion - well worth its price.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A useful invitation to opening to your grief...., March 13, 2007

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Patrick D. Goonan "see profile for URL" (Livermore, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grief Process: Meditations for Healing (Audio CD)

Stephen Levine is well acquainted with working with grieving people through meditation and mindfulness practice. He has years of experience in this field and he approaches it very sensitively. These meditations make a nice accompaniment to his book Unattended Sorrow, but do not replace the book.

In essence, this CD is built upon mindfulness principles and three or four simple, but useful concepts. The underlying premise of the awareness practice is letting go of the armoring around the heart, softening the belly and creating a safe space for letting your grief rise.

It is said, you can heal, what you can feel. I'm sure Stephen Levine would agree with this and that is exactly what these exercises are designed to help you do. Although the material is repititious, it is still useful and it is the type of content that is good to repeat because we get so many culture messages that grief is bad and should be swept under the rug.

I recommend this CD for its heart-centered and somatic approach to letting down your guard and opening to your pain. I believe grief is an invitation to the level of soul and the spirit of this CD and also the book Unattended Sorrow seems to honor this principle in a very profound way.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grief, Anger, and Forgiveness, December 28, 2009

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John Kelly "Serentiy Jack" (Boca Raton, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Grief Process: Meditations for Healing (Audio CD)

I work as an addiction counselor. I use this CD with all my clients. I believe a better title would be, TRANSFORMING GRIEF, ANGER, AND FORGIVENESS because that's what it's about. Stephen states, "If you are angry, you are grieving." "If you are resentful, you are grieving." The wisdom presented here applies to - all of us; not just a person who has lost a loved one - which is why I originally purchased it.