Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love - Hardcover

Sofer, Oren Jay

 
9781645472001: Your Heart Was Made For This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

Synopsis

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart's capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges--like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout--from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean.

Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a pragmatic guide to developing the inner resources necessary to meet a world in crisis with clarity, balance, and courage. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. Each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy. You'll learn ways to: <p/>- Experience more choice and freedom in life
- Strengthen your ability to focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals
- Develop healthy states of mind to respond more effectively to stress
- Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself
- Imbue your daily activities with meaning and purpose

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About the Author

OREN JAY SOFER teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. Born and raised in New Jersey, he is the author of several books, including the best-selling title Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication. His teaching has reached people around the world through his online communication courses and guided meditations. Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.

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9781645473893: Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

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ISBN 10:  1645473899 ISBN 13:  9781645473893
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2024
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