Mindfulness and Intimacy
eBook - ePub

Mindfulness and Intimacy

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mindfulness and Intimacy

About this book

Go beyond mere mindfulness—and deepen your connection to your self, the people in your life, and the world around you.

Mindfulness is an ancient and powerful practice of awareness and nonjudgmental discernment that can help us ground ourselves in the present moment, with the world and our lives just as they are.

But there’s a risk: by focusing our attention on something (or someone), we might always see it as something other, as separate from ourselves. To close up this distance, mindfulness has traditionally been paired with a focus on intimacy, community, and interdependence. In this book, Ben Connelly shows us how to bring these two practices together—bringing warm hearts to our clear seeing.

Helpful meditations and exercises show how mindfulness and intimacy can together enrich our empathetic engagement with ourselves and the word around us—with our values, with the environment, and with the people in our lives, in all their distinct manifestations of race and religion, sexuality and gender, culture and class—and lead to a truly engaged, compassionate, and joy-filled life.

Information

Publisher
Wisdom Publications
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781614294962
eBook ISBN
9781614295167
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Buddhism

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. List of Practices
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Mindfulness
  8. 2. Intimacy
  9. 3. Self
  10. 4. Body
  11. 5. Mind
  12. 6. Heart
  13. 7. Dying
  14. 8. Values and Meaning
  15. 9. Not-Knowing
  16. 10. Teachers
  17. 11. Sangha
  18. 12. Senses
  19. 13. Nature
  20. 14. Blind Spots
  21. 15. Possessions
  22. 16. Family
  23. 17. Friends
  24. 18. Romance and Sex
  25. 19. Work and Play
  26. 20. Ritual
  27. 21. Art
  28. 22. Food
  29. 23. Community
  30. 24. The Ones We Love
  31. 25. The Ones We Don’t Know
  32. 26. The Ones We Don’t Like
  33. 27. The All
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Selected Bibliography
  36. About the Author
  37. Copyright

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