Heartwork is a synthesis of western psychological processes and eastern meditative techniques developed by psychotherapist and teacher Dale Goldstein from over 37 years of personal and professional work. In Heartwork: How to Get What You Really, REALLY Want, Goldstein brings Heartwork to life through compelling, illuminating teachings and personal stories. His tools for mindfully inquiring into what blocks us from having what we really want in life are ideal for those who find the standard psychological approach to personal growth too limited. Through Heartwork, readers learn to see their blocks as doorways to the spiritual, and the result is nothing short of complete personal transformation. Beautifully illustrated by award-winning graphic designer Richard Wehrman, the book is filled with inspiring poetry and quotations, as well as testimonials from those who have used Heartwork to profoundly change their lives. The hardcover is $39.95, and includes a CD with music and guided meditations.
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"There are in this world illnesses that seek healings in just the same way as aspirants seek liberation - the right catalyst is crucial. Dale Goldstein is just such a catalyst for healing." --Stephen Levine, author of A Gradual Awakening, Meetings at the Edge, and Healing Into Life and Death
"Heartwork gave me chills when I first picked up the manuscript. This wonderful book is simply the truth about what it takes to heal and become vibrantly healthy." --Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"With Heartwork, Dale Goldstein has created an important addition to the growing body of work integrating modern therapeutic approaches with awareness practices from spiritual traditions. But this book - in which Goldstein's compassion, experience and wisdom come shining through - is also visually striking and aesthetically rich. It shimmers with beauty and a sense of grace transmitted. The practices Heartwork offers are simple and powerful, and anyone willing to take this journey is sure to have some direct tastes of what all hearts truly seek." --Russ Hudson, author with Don Riso of The Wisdom of the Enneagram
"Heartwork gave me chills when I first picked up the manuscript. This wonderful book is simply the truth about what it takes to heal and become vibrantly healthy." --Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
"With Heartwork, Dale Goldstein has created an important addition to the growing body of work integrating modern therapeutic approaches with awareness practices from spiritual traditions. But this book - in which Goldstein's compassion, experience and wisdom come shining through - is also visually striking and aesthetically rich. It shimmers with beauty and a sense of grace transmitted. The practices Heartwork offers are simple and powerful, and anyone willing to take this journey is sure to have some direct tastes of what all hearts truly seek." --Russ Hudson, author with Don Riso of The Wisdom of the Enneagram
About the Author
Heartwork's founder, Dale Goldstein, feels that his real life began on his 24th birthday when he realized that, up until that moment, he had been afraid to live. On that day Dale had what Abraham Maslow (the father of Humanistic Psychology) called a "peak experience." For the first time since childhood, Dale felt fully alive. He remembers, For a few days I was ecstatic. Feeling fully alive, I realized, was what I had been searching for, even though I hadn't known before that I was searching for this experience. With this realization Dale knew that he wanted to live his life wholly and passionately alive. Thus began his search for a way to recapture and hold onto that experience. To distill truly powerful healing modalities, Dale has spent decades synthesizing eastern meditation techniques with psychological tools. Having experienced the full depth of his feelings, Dale is comfortable allowing people to go wherever they need to go emotionally. I am not afraid of others deep feelings...often therapists and teachers distract a client or student from fully moving through a deep feeling because it is too uncomfortable for the therapist or teacher. This is a huge disservice to those they are trying to help because it deprives them of becoming whole in the place where they have split from themselves and experiencing their inherent freedom. In 1981, Dale coalesced his years of study, work, and personal practice into Heartwork, a gentle, deeply penetrating process that supports in individuals and organizations the growth and healing of the body/mind/spirit. Currently Dale Goldstein is a Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Psychotherapist. He is the co-founder and director of the Heartwork Institute, Inc. in Rochester, New York. In addition to having a full-time psychotherapy practice and facilitating workshops internationally, Dale consults with corporate business and not-for-profit organizations. Dale has been blessed with two deeply intimate relationshi
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Heartwork is the Real Deal,
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This review is from: Heartwork: How To Get What You Really, REALLY Want (Hardcover)
I've read this book several times now and I am really impressed by it. It doesn't present a "game plan" for "dealing" with your problems like a lot of Self-Help books, well-meaning as they are. It's not about strategy at all, which for me is this mirage of working out all your problems in your head. I've tried that for years! Aha, an epiphany! The answer to my hangups! The book really shows you how living free of sufferings, small and large, requires an incremental body awareness. As Eva Pierrakos puts it: "Through the gateway of feeling your weakness/Lies your strength." Dale Goldstein is a superb guide for feeling your weakness...for finding it! That's difficult in itself, we've erected so many barriers and false fronts and rationalizations. Where in our bodies are we holding those dark feelings we dont want to feel? Those thinking and feeling patterns that keep us sluggish, gaurded, doing "ok"---but not living. HEARTWORKS, more than any other method, has helped me experience my worst feelings (anxiety, shame, loss) in a way that I can emerge on the other side.--Chidsey Dickson
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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the starting line for inner growth,
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This review is from: Heartwork: How To Get What You Really, REALLY Want (Hardcover)
It isn't too often that one reads a book, gets to the end and feels they are ready for a new beginning, but with Dale L. Goldstein's, "Heartwork" I would say not feeling this way is impossible. If it even takes that long. As a reviewer it is my duty to complete a book before forming my opinion of it, even though with this one I felt a new beginning for myself early on.
"Heartwork: How to Get What You Really, Really Want" is a tool for growth. Where "east meets west" by combining eastern meditative processes and western psychotherapeutic practices, Goldstein offers a guide to examining ourselves in a way that we can do this on our own. Letting go of the tension is the first step. With the aid of a wonderful accompanying CD, this becomes a very simply process. Identifying our "problems", those things we shy away from or fight head to head, comes next. Going into that pain, examining it fully and understanding it, is where the healing begins. Our inner conflicts cause our beings to split, creates a separation from wholeness. Fully understanding our conflicts allows us to become whole once again. Goldstein will help readers to get to that point of understanding. In the section of the book titled Heartwork, readers will be inspired to discover what it is that they really, really want. Thus begins the journey through which readers will follow the tools for inner work in the book and on the accompanying CD. Here, a Soft Body Meditation is experienced, then an exercise called Just Listening. Guided Heartwork comes next and is reportedly much like the process that one can undergo at the Heartwork Institute in Rochester, NY, founded by Goldstein. The work continues with an Awareness Meditation, an Inquiry (an open ended exploration of our experience and who we are), and a Freeze Frame exercise which enables you to examine where you've allowed some dis-ease into your life. The book also shares case files where clients have shared their stories of success using the techniques. This is followed by the story of Goldstein himself, and how he got to where he is now. The book is absolutely a gorgeous encounter. You will be tempted to flip ahead and fall into artist Richard Wehrman's work, but Goldstein encourages readers to follow the course and not read ahead. He also encourages readers to try to experience the entire book in one weekend, focusing your being on this guidance and fully encountering the results. Now that I am through, I intend to begin again. It is a book to be fully focused on and the starting line for inner growth.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Heartwork does a body, mind and soul good,
By Love to learn "Lisa" (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heartwork: How To Get What You Really, REALLY Want (Hardcover)
I followed the instructions and did not skip ahead, which was definitely the smart thing to do. I set aside an entire afternoon to read Heartworks and do the exercises. I had a profound experience, I was able to unblock and clear out an old problem that had been festering inside me for 25 years. I feel like a new person. I highly recommend this book along with the cd. $40.00 is nothing compared to a $100.00 an hour therapist. I will continue to use Heartworks to work on myself. Thank you!
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