Saying Yes to Change

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-01
Publisher(s): Hay House Inc.
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Summary

Change is both scary business and an inescapable fact of life. Some changes are natural, like aging through the life cycle. Others are sudden and catastrophic, such as illness, bankruptcy or the death of a loved one.Saying Yes to Change is an inspiring and practical guide, incorporating personal stories, cutting-edge psychological research and the perennial philosophy of the world's great wisdom traditions. This book includes a CD that is a body-based mindfulness meditation.

Author Biography

Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., has been described as a respected scientist, gifted therapist, and unabashed mystic. Trained at Harvard Medical School, she was an instructor in medicine until 1988. Currently the President of Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc., she is an internationally known speaker and consultant in women’s health and spirituality, integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She is the author of nine books, including New York Times bestsellers.
Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D., is president of Dveirin & Associates, a consulting firm in organizational and human development. Dr. Dveirin is currently strategic architect of the Nurturing Pedagogy Project—a three-year national demonstration project involving the National Network for Educational Renewal and the Passageways Institute. In 2004, he co-founded the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and its Interspiritual Mentoring Program, based on a lifelong interest in mindful inquiry and approaches to Presence.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Parable ix
How This Book Came to Be xi
Joan Borysenko
Introduction: Two Kinds of Stories xv
The Natural Intelligence That Guides Transformation
1(8)
Rites of Passage
9(12)
Inquiry as a Path to Freedom
21(10)
The Three Faces of Wisdom
31(10)
Coyote Wisdom: Seeing the World with New Eyes
41(12)
Who's to Blame?
53(12)
What Doesn't Destroy Us Makes Us Stronger
65(8)
Letting Go and Moving On
73(12)
Faith: What's God Got to Do with It?
85(10)
Holding Things Lightly
95(8)
How Stressed Out Am I?
103(8)
The Wisdom of Not Doing
111(10)
Vanquishing the False Self
121(12)
The Synergy of Change: Discovering an Authentic ``We''
133(12)
Making a Difference
145(8)
Finding Your Vision
153(10)
A Guided Meditation on Mindful Presence
163(8)
Afterword: Remembering the Essential Wisdoms 171(6)
Acknowledgments 177(4)
About the Authors 181

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