Synopsis
Simple Spirituality: Finding Your Own Way is a self-help guide for people who feel called to include spirituality in their lives but don't know where to begin. It is for the spiritually homeless who don't connect with conventional religion, for the spiritual novice taking the first steps on the spiritual path, and for the spiritually obese who have feasted on too many exotic practices and belief systems and need to return to a basic yet nourishing spiritual foundation grounded in their own uniqueness. Most importantly, it is offered to people who have no time to add one more activity to their to-do list. It teaches one how to make use of time spent stressing out or spacing out to begin a spiritual practice, how to use conflict in relationships as the occasion for deepening the practice, how to discover one's guiding moral and ethical principles, and to know if God has to be part of the program. Simple Spirituality is a map to the treasure that is your own unique spiritual life.
About the Author
James C. Nourse, Ph.D., L.Ac. received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Tennessee in 1975. From 1975-1980 he was a staff psychologist, director of psychology training, and director of the psychological assessment laboratory at the Hampton, Virginia, V.A. Medical Center, and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. He graduated from the Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine in 2004. He and his wife Judith, a registered nurse, reflexologist and Feng Shui consultant have trained with and offered services based upon the work of Bernie Siegel, M.D. (exceptional cancer patients), Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), and Christina and Stanislav Grof, M.D. (Holotropic Breathwork(tm)). Since 1980 he has been in private practice and is currently practices acupuncture and psychotherapy at The Center for Integrated Health and Healing in Brevard, North Carolina. He has lectured and taught classes on a wide variety of health and mind/body/spirit related topics, including stress management seminars through Resource International, a Houston based management consulting firm. He has a longstanding interest in the spiritual aspects of health and illness and over the years has developed a knowledge of what works for clients as they begin to explore this dimension of life. This knowledge is not just the product of clinical experience, but of his own struggles and efforts to nurture a stable yet growing spirituality in his own life. He lives with Judith in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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