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The Majesty of Your Loving; A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's Paperback – January 8, 2008
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- Print length314 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGreen Mountain Book
- Publication dateJanuary 8, 2008
- Dimensions6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100979321808
- ISBN-13978-0979321801
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- Publisher : Green Mountain Book; 1st edition (January 8, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 314 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0979321808
- ISBN-13 : 978-0979321801
- Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,273,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,054 in Dementia
- #4,961 in Other Eastern Religions & Sacred Texts (Books)
- #215,251 in Self-Help (Books)
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Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, a writer and teacher, was formerly the Associate Director of the Mind/Body Clinic and a Teaching Fellow of the Mind/Body Medical Institute, where she pioneered how to bring meditation, yoga, and cognitive behavioral therapy into the medical domain to treat stress-related and chronic illness.
Olivia's teaching and writing are inspired by over forty years of practice in psychology, Buddhist meditation, and other wisdom traditions. She has practiced primarily Vipassana (Insight Meditation) and Tibetan Buddhism, as well as in a devotional tradition from India.
Having taught contemplative practices in a wide variety of settings such as government agencies, hospitals, churches, businesses, school systems, and meditation centers, she is currently focusing on conscious aging, elder issues, and living the contemplative life.
An elder with two grown children and four grandsons, she lives in Massachusetts and loves to spend time in Vermont where she grows vegetables, welcomes family and friends and steeps herself in the glories of nature.
Learn more at www.oliviahoblitzelle.com
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I am profoundly grateful to Olivia H.--not to speak of her late husband Hob--for this beautiful and inspiring book.
Noelle Oxenhandler
Olivia's thoughtful reflections gives us access to her journey. I knew her willingness to be so real allowed me to open my heart to my own difficulties. I figured the same would be true for my clients. It has been.
Most remarkable of all, the one thing that makes Buddhist Psychology Buddhist Psychology, and the one teaching of Buddhism which could help Alzheimer's patients so much - the key concept of anatta (no-self) - is never invoked and evidently never accepted. Olivia has a strong belief in the soul which she repeatedly invokes. But you can't be a Buddhist and still believe you have a soul or a self, not recognise it as a fiction kept alive only by memory. It is precisely the fading away of this false sense of soul or self which is so characteristic of Alzheimer's - scary but such a liberation that it's not surprising that true Buddhists can treat the disease as a gateway to enlightenment. Lose your memory and you lose the very medium which feeds your sense of a false self - the base of all suffering... Buddhism in this book has no such dimension, merely a feelgood aesthetic picked up in the Sixties, along with a whole lot of other fads and fancies. That, however, doesn't stop Olivia Hoblitzelle having the hutzpah and hubris to go out and teach Buddhism, long before she has even begun to understand it. It makes one wonder if the most wicked servants of Mara are such half-educated Westerners rushing out to spread a word they know so little about or the Vietnamese and Tibetan monks and Indian gurus who sell them ordination in the first place.
Hob himself was ordained and went out and taught too. But he hung on tenaciously to his self to the very end, reverting to his early Quakerism, dreaming not of enlightenment but of heaven.
None of this is to deny Olivia's compassion, her love, even her insight into one, relatively simple form of Buddhist meditation, but the real message Buddhist Psychology can have for Alzheimer's sufferers - freedom from the burden of the false self - escapes her and evidently prevented her husband finding wisdom in the end.

