Positive Harmlessness in Practice: Enough for Us All, Volume Two

All spiritual traditions mandate harmlessness, yet the twentieth century was the most violent period in human history. How is this possible? Positive Harmlessness in Practice documents that we have no collective experience of harmlessness because our habits of harm are so pervasive. To build our "harmlessness muscle," Dr. Riddle details a pragmatic three-step daily practice-a Butterfly Shift. Such mini-immersion experiences of harmlessness help us develop the skills and habits that make it possible for us to embed harmlessness as our core value. Positive Harmlessness invites us to embrace an ethic of harmlessness, individually and as a human family. Practical exercises and a Harmlessness Scale(TM) help us learn to model harmlessness in all that we think, say, and do.

Dorothy I. Riddle, Ph.D., CMC, psychologist and economic development specialist, has worked and taught in more than 85 countries. Her engagement in her community and the world focuses on building bridges of understanding among persons from different cultural, socioeconomic, and faith communities while working compassionately for justice and equity. Positive Harmlessness reflects the breadth of her awareness and her ability to integrate disparate fields into a meaningful whole and provide practical strategies for shifting from scarcity to abundance, from fear to joy.