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"Grief and loss are dreaded experiences that many wish to either avoid or to rapidly solve. In "Grieving Mindfully", Kumar offers the alternative of welcoming the experience as an opportunity to develop our humanity. This book offers a path to healthy grieving for people encountering losses of many kinds."
--Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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This book offers a new understanding of the grief process. Readers will learn about the spiral staircase, a metaphor used to describe the ebb and flow of emotional pain that typically follow loss. The book offers ways to cope with the events and situations that trigger personal grief by using mindfulness exercises and radical acceptance, a concept that encourages the experience of grief rather than its denial.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Over the 18 years since my son died, I have read many accounts and self-help books on grief. 'Grieving Mindfully' is the most helpful book I've read. Learning about 'subtle' grief has helped me to understand my mood swings and has allowed me to accept the fact that I'm a bereaved mum and will be for the rest of my life. Overall, I found the book a peace-making read.
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A helpful, practical, comforting guide allowing you to access your feelings of grief through meditation, writing, and other exercises. Written from a Buddhist perspective, its author invites you to engage with the emotion grief brings; not to fear it, but to gently observe it, and, in so doing, eventually to release it. There are many ways in which grief can manifest- which you may not even realise: irritation being one example out of many. The author explains how grief is a journey that spirals to the centre of your heart and out again. It's not a question of reaching a fixed destination - but of understanding that it, "Too shall pass". Whether you are in the agony or numbness of acute grief, or stuck in the grey hinterland of subtle, long-term grief, there is something here to help and console you.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
This book has something for everyone
22 Sep 2005
Format:Paperback
Dr. Kumar has presented the reader with tools, lessons, and goals for coping with grief that are not only compassionate and fulfilling, but also practical and realistic. His guidance can be applied to almost every aspect of life and its stressful times, not only the loss of a friend or family member. The book encourages ones ability to embrace change as an inevitable part of life, whatever the circumstances. I have already employed several of his mindfulness exercises and have found the results emotionally rewarding. This book has something to contribute to everyone's understanding of life and death. I have already recommended this book to many people I know.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Wow!
12 July 2005
Format:Paperback
My rabbi often talks about the goal of judaism as sanctifying aspects of our life. Dr. Kumar has done just that with his book. In fact, he has applied the principle to perhaps the most challenging of circumstances, dealing with the death of someone we love. This book helps us to cope with grace and compassion. Dr. Kumar's words capture the very essence of his message. I highly recommend this book!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
A way through.
20 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
Dr Kumar has taken his years of practice in grief counseling, his Bhuddist belief in the importance of consciously living in the present, and the knowlege he as absorbed from other experts to beautifully write a gentle guide for those of us who are dealing with the loss of someone or something basic to our lives.
There is not an unecessary word in this book perhaps because of the evident respect and compassion with which Kumar seems to have for his grieving readers and his desire to show them how to make their present lives manageable and even enjoyable.
This book should be read by every person who had suffered an invaluable loss. I hope it is.
There is not an unecessary word in this book perhaps because of the evident respect and compassion with which Kumar seems to have for his grieving readers and his desire to show them how to make their present lives manageable and even enjoyable.
This book should be read by every person who had suffered an invaluable loss. I hope it is.
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