Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace
Forges-Ryan, Sylvia,Ryan, Edward
ISBN 10: 4770028857 ISBN 13: 9784770028853
Published by Kodansha Amer Inc, 2003
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What happens when one of America's best-known haiku poets joins forces with her psychologist husband to write a book? The answer: Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace -- a unique collection of guided meditations, drawn from and experienced through the appreciation of haiku.
Sylvia Forges-Ryan, an award-winning poet, and Edward Ryan, a Yale psychologist, have teamed up to introduce an original and heartfelt technique for relaxing: a combination of restful haiku with clear and simple instructions on how to draw out the insights each one contains, and use them for one's own well-being.
Haiku are the perfect form for their exercises because they are the shortest of poems, with the longest of echoes. A good haiku distills a great deal of experience into a few phrases, and sets off a chain of thoughts that expand like the ripples in a pond. Each haiku here makes that little splash which creates a ripple of thought explored in the short commentary that follows.
In today's fast-paced, high-pressure world, Take a Deep Breath can help anyone learn to slow down and take stock, relax and focus on the present moment, and find poetry and depth in their own lives.
Review:
"... an accessible, engaging, and inspiring collection of haiku and commentary that wonderfully illuminates spiritual teaching." -- Sharon Salzberg
"... eloquent and poignant even if, like myself, one resists Enlightenment." -- Harold Bloom
"... the Ryans offer us a unique guidebook for finding insight, love, and peace of mind." -- Varginia Brady Young
"... will delight lovers of haiku poetry and introduce novices to the joys of this simple, classic form." -- Joseph Goldstein
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Title: Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner ...
Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket.