The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery for Addicts, Codependents and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families [Paperback]

Patrick Gresham Williams (Author)

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Impressive and "reader friendly"...a solid, practical, user-oriented guide to achieving enlightenment and rebuilding a great personal life. -- Midwest Book Review, January, 2003

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Incandescent Pr (December 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970907818
• ISBN-13: 978-0970907813
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,623,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An important new way of thinking about recovery, January 28, 2003

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Douglas Gorney "Voracious Reader" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery for Addicts, Codependents and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Paperback)

The yogic techniques Williams describes in "The Spiritual Recovery Manual" are practical and surprisingly down-to-earth, presented in a way that tends to resonate with everyday experience. These subtle mental and physiological roots of recovery provide valuable models for recovery not available in traditional, "Western" addiction/dependency literature.

I admit that when I picked up the book, I thought it might be something lightweight and fluffy, filled with affirmations and good moods but little substance. But it's packed (and I use the word advisedly) with practical techniques (some of which I have since tried and found quite effective) from meditation to preventative Ayurvedic medicine to balanced, balancing diet tips, to architecture (of all things). Williams throws in a surprising amount of solid research on the recovery techniques, which a lot of people will find reassuring. I was particularly interested in his societal framework for addiction ("Healing Society"), in which he ties individual addiction to addictive socities (like America's), and offers solutions to create balance and recovery at that level, as well.

I found this toolset to be of real use in issues around being an adult child of an alcoholic parent, not only in the strict definition of recovery as it's traditionally understood, but -- and this is the great gift of the book -- in taking my recovery to a broader, and more profound level, towards spiritual enlightenment: the "Total Recovery" with which the book culminates.

I hope this book gets into the hands of people in recovery, and particularly that it's read by recovery professionals: I think "The Spiritual Recovery Manual" represents -- yes, I have to say it -- a paradigm shift in thinking about recovery.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bring the Light of knowledge..., February 8, 2003

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Christine Hyejeong Paek (Boone, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery for Addicts, Codependents and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Paperback)

We often forget how much we all are attached to our own behavioral and psychological habits. But more often we find that it is very challenging to face our own vices of ignorance which continuously divide ourselves from the most natural state of mind, Bliss. This book truly invites the readers to the most profound Vedic guiding light which can uplift anyone's precious life with its most NATURAL, easy and comfortable techniques. I was very pleased with the simplicity of the author's approach to the physiological mind-body coordination and his "manual" to re-program one's own consciousness.

If you are looking for an EASY and NATURAL way to re-program your-old-self and ready to make a positive change to your old habits, this book would be your must-to-have to start with! "Bring the Light of knowledge and the darkness of oneself and one's surroundings will go away." -Maharishi Mehesh Yogi.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I just want to get to "normal"..., February 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery for Addicts, Codependents and Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families (Paperback)

Spiritual Recovery Manual

We all want to get beyond "one day at a time" and put addiction behind us. This book can take you beyond recovery to wholeness.

A good book for those in recovery and his or her loved ones. Very methodically describes the stages of spiritual recovery, and the tools available to help you.

If you're going to do the work of recovering, you might as well have the best advice you can get to help you on your way. In my experience, this is it.