Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss [Paperback]

Sameet Kumar PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference.

By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable of transforming and healing the grief you carry and finding the spiritual and emotional resilience you need to move through this challenging time. These mindfulness practices, explained here in simple and practical language, will help you bear your time of grief. But they will do more than that, too. They will guide you to a life more fully lived, with more meaning. These simple practices will help you experience what richness comes from asking deeper questions about loss and about life.

Editorial Reviews

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“Grief and loss are dreaded experiences that many wish to either avoid or to rapidly solve. In Grieving Mindfully, Kumar offers the alternative of welcoming the experience as an opportunity to develop our humanity. This book offers a path to healthy grieving for people encountering losses of many kinds.”
—Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

From the Publisher

A powerful and effective combination of mindfulness meditation techniques and moment-to-moment awareness, along with proven psychological strategies, helps readers cope with, understand, and transform their grief.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572244011
• ISBN-13: 978-1572244016
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sameet Kumar, Ph.D., is the clinical psychologist for the Memorial Cancer Institute in Broward County, Florida. He specializes in working with cancer patients and their caregivers. In addition to his training as a psychologist using mindfulness-based therapies, he has also studied with many leading Buddhist and Hindu teachers. He is the author of Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, and The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination: Letting Go of Anxious and Depressive Thoughts.

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has something for everyone, September 22, 2005

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Laurie Pfeiffer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss (Paperback)

Dr. Kumar has presented the reader with tools, lessons, and goals for coping with grief that are not only compassionate and fulfilling, but also practical and realistic. His guidance can be applied to almost every aspect of life and its stressful times, not only the loss of a friend or family member. The book encourages ones ability to embrace change as an inevitable part of life, whatever the circumstances. I have already employed several of his mindfulness exercises and have found the results emotionally rewarding. This book has something to contribute to everyone's understanding of life and death. I have already recommended this book to many people I know.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, July 11, 2005

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Amy Schaffer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss (Paperback)

My rabbi often talks about the goal of judaism as sanctifying aspects of our life. Dr. Kumar has done just that with his book. In fact, he has applied the principle to perhaps the most challenging of circumstances, dealing with the death of someone we love. This book helps us to cope with grace and compassion. Dr. Kumar's words capture the very essence of his message. I highly recommend this book!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A way through., August 19, 2006

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Joseph D. Weinman Mcelwee (Miami Beach, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss (Paperback)

Dr Kumar has taken his years of practice in grief counseling, his Bhuddist belief in the importance of consciously living in the present, and the knowlege he as absorbed from other experts to beautifully write a gentle guide for those of us who are dealing with the loss of someone or something basic to our lives.

There is not an unecessary word in this book perhaps because of the evident respect and compassion with which Kumar seems to have for his grieving readers and his desire to show them how to make their present lives manageable and even enjoyable.

This book should be read by every person who had suffered an invaluable loss. I hope it is.