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Different Paths, Different Strengths
Freedom from unnecessary suffering is the goal of both Buddhism and modern psychotherapy, yet each approaches this intention from a very different perspective. "Buddhist practice helps us awaken to a well-being that is independent of our circumstances," explains Bruce Tift, "while Western psychotherapy helps us bring our disowned experience into awareness in order to live in a more skillful and satisfying way."
On Already Free, this therapist and Buddhist practitioner opens a fresh dialogue between these two perspectives, and explores how each provides us with essential keys to experiencing full presence and aliveness.
Practical Tools and Wisdom from the Eastern and Western Traditions
Buddhism gives us powerful tools for breaking free of our own identity drama and our fascination with day-to-day problems, yet it does not address how early childhood experience shapes our adult lives. Western psychotherapy provides a wide range of proven techniques for understanding and untangling the development of our neurotic patterns, but it is only beginning to recognize the powerful impact of exploring awareness itself.
"These two approaches sometimes contradict and sometimes support each other," Tift explains. "When used together, they can help us open to all of life in all its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness."
With a keen understanding of the wisdom of East and West, and a special focus on working with intimate relationships as a pathway to spiritual awakening, Bruce Tift presents seven immersive sessions of insights, wisdom, and practical instruction for realizing the fundamental freedom that is your birthright.
Highlights
The Developmental Approach—why we still use our childhood survival skills after we outgrow themThe Fruitional Approach—Buddhist wisdom on finding liberation without resolving our historic issuesRelationships and Awakening—practices for couples to develop "healthy intimacy" and welcome connection and separatenessWhy we use "neurotic organization" to limit our life experience, and how to challenge this self-perpetuating process


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Publisher: Sounds True Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9781604077186
  • File size: 209842 KB
  • Release date: August 1, 2011
  • Duration: 07:17:10

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  • ISBN: 9781604077186
  • File size: 209871 KB
  • Release date: August 1, 2011
  • Duration: 07:17:07
  • Number of parts: 7

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English

Different Paths, Different Strengths
Freedom from unnecessary suffering is the goal of both Buddhism and modern psychotherapy, yet each approaches this intention from a very different perspective. "Buddhist practice helps us awaken to a well-being that is independent of our circumstances," explains Bruce Tift, "while Western psychotherapy helps us bring our disowned experience into awareness in order to live in a more skillful and satisfying way."
On Already Free, this therapist and Buddhist practitioner opens a fresh dialogue between these two perspectives, and explores how each provides us with essential keys to experiencing full presence and aliveness.
Practical Tools and Wisdom from the Eastern and Western Traditions
Buddhism gives us powerful tools for breaking free of our own identity drama and our fascination with day-to-day problems, yet it does not address how early childhood experience shapes our adult lives. Western psychotherapy provides a wide range of proven techniques for understanding and untangling the development of our neurotic patterns, but it is only beginning to recognize the powerful impact of exploring awareness itself.
"These two approaches sometimes contradict and sometimes support each other," Tift explains. "When used together, they can help us open to all of life in all its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness."
With a keen understanding of the wisdom of East and West, and a special focus on working with intimate relationships as a pathway to spiritual awakening, Bruce Tift presents seven immersive sessions of insights, wisdom, and practical instruction for realizing the fundamental freedom that is your birthright.
Highlights
The Developmental Approach—why we still use our childhood survival skills after we outgrow themThe Fruitional Approach—Buddhist wisdom on finding liberation without resolving our historic issuesRelationships and Awakening—practices for couples to develop "healthy intimacy" and welcome connection and separatenessWhy we use "neurotic organization" to limit our life experience, and how to challenge this self-perpetuating process


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Sounds True
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781604077186
    File size: 209842 KB
    Release date: August 1, 2011
    Duration: 07:17:10

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781604077186
    File size: 209871 KB
    Release date: August 1, 2011
    Duration: 07:17:07
    Number of parts: 7

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English