Summary of Tara Bennett-Goleman's Emotional Alchemy

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The very purpose of life is to be happy, and to achieve this, we must discover what brings about the greatest degree of happiness. We must eliminate our disturbing emotions, which are the basis of anxiety, depression, confusion, and stress.

Sujets

• Mindulness
• Meditation

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822516465
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Tara Bennett-Goleman's Emotional Alchemy
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The very purpose of life is to be happy, and to achieve this, we must discover what brings about the greatest degree of happiness. We must eliminate our disturbing emotions, which are the basis of anxiety, depression, confusion, and stress.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We will explore how through the practice of mindfulness, we can expand the scope of our awareness while refining its precision. We will see how to disengage from the emotional habits that undermine our lives and relationships.

#2

The Power of Mindfulness helps us identify hidden emotional patterns, and free ourselves from their hold. It allows us to see these seemingly formidable emotional reactions as transparent and temporary, and use them as fuel for our practice.

#3

The process of inner transformation begins with refocusing the lenses of our conditioning on things more clearly. We must see things as they are, without trying to change them.

#4

mindfulness is a refined awareness that allows us to see things just as they are from moment to moment. It entails a new way of paying attention that expands the scope of awareness while refining its precision.

#5

The Emotional Alchemy Synthesis is a method that draws from many sources: Buddhist psychology, Tibetan Buddhism, cognitive science, and neuroscience. It helps us understand and transform our emotional patterns.

#6

Schema therapy is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on healing maladaptive patterns, or schemas, like the fear of abandonment. It details the emotional contours of these patterns, and how they affect us.

#7

The deep belief underlying Maya’s problem was that she would never get enough caring or nurturance, that she would always be emotionally deprived. Such self-defeating beliefs about ourselves and the world are highly charged, and they lead to emotional overreactions such as out-of-control anger.

#8

Mindfulness is the path that leads to the liberation from the hold of afflictive emotions. When it comes to our most difficult emotions, we don’t just banish them with a neat explanation; we can use an ongoing inquiry to reach small epiphanies that grow one on the other toward a greater clarity.

#9

If you find this inner work too disturbing to handle, stop or find a psychotherapist to work with. The crucial learning is your own. Rather than seeing the therapist or even therapy as the source of the cure, trust in your own insights.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

The life cycle of a flower is a great analogy for the life cycle of humans. We are constantly being taken away from us, and we often let our impatient, judgmental grown-up inner voices browbeat us about how we’re supposed to feel.

#2

As we unravel the webs of meaning woven into our emotional habits, a sense of compassion for ourselves can emerge. This empathy can be extremely helpful when dealing with the vulnerability of others.

#3

Compassion is the essential ingredient in the process of emotional healing. It is the wish to help others not just for yourself, but for their own sake as well.

#4

Empathy is not the same as colluding with our distorted thoughts. It means understanding how we perceive and how our perceptions are colored and swayed by hidden meanings. Equanimity allows us to accept things we have no control over, and it allows us to have the courage to stay open in the face of adversity.

#5

Equanimity and compassion are two valuable inner resources as we work on our deep patterns and reactions. They can help us get past our personal identification with our emotional pain or confusion, and instead focus on deeper insights.

#6

When we bring mindfulness to bear on our minds, we start to see their repetitive cycles, and we begin to recognize patterns. As we practice bringing awareness to our experiences, we begin to relate to our emotional struggles as a part of the process of meditation.

#7

The practice of loving-kindness combined with a reflection on equanimity is a great way to start your day. It can be done by silently repeating a phrase while you reflect on its meaning.

#8

The loving-kindness practice is a simple way to extend compassion and love to others. It is simply a repetition of phrases that reflect your desire to be free from suffering and the cause of suffering.
Insights from Chapter 4

#1

The tea mind is a state of awareness inspired by the Japanese art of tea. It is a mind alert but at rest, clear attention to the moment, and a surrender to the present. It can be brought to any activity, and it enhances any experience with a focused sensibility.

#2

The meditative arts cultivate the interweaving of aesthetic, philosophic, and emotional threads. They exemplify how we can bring a mindful presence into the daily workings of our emotional life.

#3

The aim of meditation is to awaken to our natural state of awareness, which is an open, clear, and luminous awareness that reflects everything in our experience like a mirror. We must stop our minds from racing and quiet down a bit to see things more clearly.

#4

Mindfulness is the antidote to distractedness. It is the ability to stay focused on a single task, and to maintain that focus on to the next moment, then the next and the next. It allows us to see finer subtlety than ordinary awareness.

#5

The Japanese term mitate, which is translated as reseeing, refers to the aesthetic of tea. This quality of seeing things freshly, as though for the first time, lies at the heart of mindfulness.

#6

Mindfulness training, like most meditation practices, sharpens perception.