Description
Employing the tenets of Zen Buddhist awareness practice, the book provides numerous exercises and self-help tools for working through problems with resistance, revealing how resistance operates in everyday life and guiding readers to consider how they can be free of it. The teachings in this book show how to recognize resistance in its many forms, not take it personally, and be free of its control. The platform is that the voice of resistance-thoughts such as I'll do it later-is not personal; everyone has it. Instead, it is the voice of a survival system that can take people from commitment to inaction in a matter of seconds. Then, self-hating voices level internal accusations for not having followed through, including thoughts of failure, shame, and lack of self-discipline.
About the Author
Cheri Huber founded the Mountain View Zen Center in Mountain View, California, and the Zen Monastery Practice Center in Murphys, California, and teaches in both communities. She travels widely and often, leading workshops and retreats around the United States and abroad, most recently in Costa Rica and Italy. She lives in Murphys, California.
Reviews
"Huber challenges us to see our resistances and to accept our conditioned thoughts and behaviors -- to live in the present moment with awareness." -- Spirituality & Health Magazine
"Read this book with magic-marker in hand; every page contains some gem-clear dewdrop of wisdom that you'll want to highlight, return to, and savor again and again." -- Don Morreale, editor, "The Complete Guide to Buddhist America, on Sweet Zen"
Book Information
ISBN 9780961475499
Author Cheri Huber
Format Paperback
Page Count 225
Imprint Keep it Simple Books,U.S.
Publisher Keep it Simple Books,U.S.