Present with Suffering
Being with the Things that Hurt
By (author) Nigel Wellings By (author) Elizabeth Wilde McCormick Foreword by Henry Shukman
Paperback (Published)
(November 2021)
ISBN: 9781913494445
5.08 x 7.28 inches
Price: $31.00
In stock
What is the place of suffering in human experience and how can we learn to be with it? This book answers the question by acknowledging that discontent and unhappiness are inevitable parts of our human experience. By becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more expansive and meaningful way.
What is the place of suffering in human experience and how can we learn to be with it? This book answers the question by acknowledging that discontent and unhappiness are inevitable parts of our human experience. By becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more expansive and meaningful way.
1. Introduction, by Nigel Wellings and Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
2. Suffering in loss and bereavement, by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
– Attachment and impermanence
– Living in a human body
– The heart
– Mind the gap
3. Emptiness, by Nigel Wellings
– A meditation on the pain of emptiness
– A meditation on the delight of emptiness
– Working with emptiness
- By (author) Nigel Wellings
- By (author) Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
- Foreword by Henry Shukman
'The meditations spoke to me, the authors’ personal experiences moved me, and I was left in no doubt of the value of ‘finding a safe way to access a helpful reflective pause’.'
— Sussex Counselling and Psychotherapy News
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