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Break Through Difficult Emotions Audio CD – Audiobook, Unabridged

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When mindfulness meditation was introduced as an aid for patients suffering from chronic pain, physicians were skeptical. Today, after countless successful trials and clinical studies demonstrating the effectiveness of mindfulness meditation, this gentle and potent practice is used in hundreds of hospitals and clinics across the country. On Break Through Difficult Emotions, meditation mentor Shinzen Young adapts the core principles of mindfulness training to the treatment of emotional suffering. You will learn powerful meditations for overcoming anger, grief, anxiety, shame, and the many other painful emotions we all experience. Four step-by-step exercises cover how to: Deconstruct any emotion into its harmless components Identify the location, shape, and flow of your emotions Melt frozen emotions into their natural, fluid state Untangle emotional confusion by watching your thoughts Transform negative emotions into positive ones, and more.

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Shinzen Young is a highly respected meditation teacher who founded the Vipassana Support Institute as well as several North American retreat centers. He is a pioneer in the scientific research on meditative states and holds meditation retreats nationwide. For his work, Young will be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, California this fall.

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Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (July 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1591794870
ISBN-13: 978-1591794875
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 5.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 7 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,967,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4037 in Emotional Mental Health
- #11707 in Meditation (Books)
- #25289 in Books on CD

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Daruma

Clear and profound

March 6, 2011

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Shinzen's work puts a scientific description on emotions that makes them easier to work with. The meditations break down what we call emotions into sensations and thoughts, and as such, they can be held with mindfulness. It is never easy to work with difficult emotions, but this work of Shinzen Young makes it possible to go very deep by identifying the sensations in the body and the thoughts about them. Then maybe, both can be understood and transformed into positive feelings. I listen to it every day.

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hobby fan

Not especially helpful.

March 10, 2015

Format: Audio CDVerified Purchase

Can't say that I found this particularly helpful.

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Patrick D. Goonan

This is a good start, but only scratches the surface....

December 14, 2006

Format: Audio CD

I think this CD is useful for the average person, but I didn't like it as much as Shinzen Young's Five Basic Meditations CD. While I think there are a lot of valuable ideas and beginning practices here, I felt he could have done a better job of getting deeper.

The concepts behind this method for working with emotion are simple and Mr. Young probably could have introduced more material and spent less time reinforcing basic concepts. However, I still think this is a valueable introduction and I recommend it for people who want to experiment in this area.

If you want to take this type of work much deeper, I would suggest purchasing Tara Bennett-Goleman's "Emotional Alchemy" along with it. This book goes in much greater depth than this CD and its poetic/metaphorical approach brings the concepts behind the methods vividly to life.

In short, this is a good starting point for someone who hasn't done much of this type of work. However, I think it could have been better and doesn't go quite far enough.

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david dewulf

Flow with life

April 24, 2002

Format: Audio Cassette

Excellent.If you can reach the heart of this practice ( and this happens very quickly if you ve experience wih meditation ) you can transform negative emotions in seconds,on the spot.You keep the energy of the emotion,but you discard the negative charge.The energy allows you to flow with the circumstances and to act with respect towards others.The only secret is: doing it.

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Amazon Customer

powerful emotional/spiritual insight

February 13, 2000

Format: Audio Cassette

The introduction tape is so insightful i have listened to it over and over again. The meditations have pauses that are too long for me, though. Listening to the introduction instantly brings sense of calm and enlightenment as Mr. Young dissects the emotional process by which humans become overwhelmed, and he offers steps to avoid that. I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or anger.

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Henry

A compelling title but the tapes did not live up to it

August 9, 2000

Format: Audio Cassette

Break Through Difficult Emotions and Transforming Painful Feelings is a very lofty and compelling title and goal which was not at all fulfilled by the tapes. If there was more substance to these lectures on tape, then they certainly should have been transcribed as a book, but there was no need to in this case. Emotional Clearing by John Rushkan, or just about any other book that captures your interest should have more value than this disappointing work.

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moontan365@aol.com

He translates the difficult into the miraculous

March 7, 1999

Format: Audio Cassette

I love this guy. He is able to move a person into the present and let the flow of awareness happen. Dr. Young's way of meditating on the experiences can change "so called" negative emotions into an awareness of the world dancing by. My only restriction was my own inablilty to trust the moment.

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