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Mindful Loving: 10 Practices for Creating Deeper Connections

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Finally a book about how to be love rather than how to get love! Oh the difference. Instead of looking to significant others to make us feel complete, whole, and happy, we learn how to do this by ourselves for ourselves. 10 powerful ideas for becoming a more loving being are offered. Even more importantly, Mindful Loving teaches how to respond to life's challenges by thinking in a different way. This sounds like a small shift, but it's a major change in life perception.

Because spirituality and psychotherapy are perfectly blended, Mindful Loving should be required reading for every psychotherapist, every psychologist, every minister, or for anyone involved in talk therapy of any kind. Other books tend to use spirituality to support psychology, where spiritual principles are adapted, modified, or eliminated to make the point. This book is the other way around where psychology supports spirituality. The uncompromising nature of Mindful Loving makes it refreshing to read.

The only caution is that this is a very intellectual and heavy book which may not appeal to all. Also, Grayson could not resist including the predictable list of how love "should be." All in all, however, Mindful Loving is an excellent explanation of love with something of use for everyone. This book is rated 8 on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high) by the spiritual reviewer. This unusually high rating designates Mindful Loving as "a classic."

I am a divorcee who is presently working on a new relationship. I recently picked up this book and finally began understanding why I had such difficulties in my former marriage and how I can change myself to develop a deeper meaningful relationship with my partner. Until reading this book, I only saw what was on the surface and was blind to all of the hidden feelings, insecurities and intentions that we both had. After reading this book as well as another really fantastic book called "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato, I finally am beginning to see these things. They are both terrific books! I am extremely thankful to these authors who have helped me see myself and the world so much clearer than before. I will try to use this new knowledge to grow together with my new partner in a positive way. Thank you!

This is an incredible book. I would recommend it to anyone, and have bought it many times for friends. it is one of the most helpful books ive ever read, andthe book gives solid, techniques to aid in healing, such as EMDR. I also recommend his audio with Sounds True.
I also got it very quickly. My only complaint is, as far as I know they didnt say that someone underlined many portions of the book. That could be my fault, I didnt look closely, so that being said - I would not have bought it if I knew that, as I have a problem with it as I find someone elses notes and underlines distracting. I also wanted to give it as a gift, and now I cant. I did not see this mentioned. I cant afford to give "new" books as gifts, which is why i buy the used ones. so that part was very dissapointing. other than that -- quick service, great book, excellent price.

Don't let this book fool you ... it's not just for romantic couples but everyone in a relationship to their family, friends, and colleagues. Grayson has lots of action-oriented excercises to help readers get the personal experience of the techniques he advocates. Spiritually-based psychotherapy with some practical examples. Mindful Loving is for those who believe that love must come from within before it can be extended without.

- the excercises included at the end of each chaper are not included in the kindle edition :(

The meditation exercises and clearly thought out processes for dividing false love and empowering love are priceless - get this book.

This is the best book I've come by to integrate mindfulness, personal responsibility and internal perspective. It gives clear explanations and tools to implement necessary shifts in thought processes. I've read numerous relationship books and spirituality books, and have found this book to amazingly bring it all together. It's a must read!

Excellent book, with excellent practical strategies that have impact. A tremendous gift to those seeking true, spiritual and meaningful connections with those they love. Will be a resource for a long time to seekers and professionals in the field.

Purchased this book a few months ago, but when I first read it, it changed my live. Every now and then I sit down with the book and read certain paragraph and the content does not disappoint.
The meditation exercises are simple, but give them a trial. They will leave you feeling refreshed and alert.
If you're feeling lost, restless or are on a spiritual path or have a need to understand how you can have BETTER relationships in your life - whether FAMILY, FRIENDLY or LOVE relationships (even how you relate to YOURSELF) READ THIS BOOK!!!!
I HIGHLY recommend it.

Love

Learning to speak loves language.

I love when book help us look at ourselves and the way we love.

Thank you for that.

Rev. Allen

I want to personally thank the author for writing this book. It discusses a spiritual path that is the most rewarding but difficult and wrought with perils: having conscious human relationships. This book shows the best examples of how our relationships are mirrors of our own processes that I have read.