Let Go A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits

Martine Batchelor

ISBN 10: 0861715217 / ISBN 13: 9780861715213

Published by Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA, 2012

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190 pages; light pencil markings to the text body of a few pages. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. Slightly cocked spine. ; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Let Go A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0861715217
• ISBN 13: 9780861715213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition; Third Printing.
• Condition: Good+

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Synopsis

When we break free from the habits that limit us, a new world of possibilities opens up. In Let Go, Martine Batchelor leads the way there.

Negative patterns of mind may manifest as fear, avoidance, depression, addiction, judgment of self or other, and any of a host of other physical, mental, or psychological forms. Let Go aims at understanding what really lies at the root of these behaviors so we can reclaim control. Each chapter concludes with an exercise or guided meditation as a tool for the reader to work with negative habits in new and creative ways. You don't have to be a Buddhist for them to work. You just need to want to move on.

Helpful exercises and guided meditations - designed to build understanding of our negative habits, as well as the confidence and skill needed to instead embrace our greatest qualities - appear throughout the book.

Batchelor also looks at Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression, Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz's use of meditation to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), successful combinations of meditation and Twelve-Step programs, and offers her own innovations.

About the Author

Martine Batchelor spent ten years in a Korean monastery studying Zen Buddhism. She works as a lecturer and spiritual advisor, and her books include Principles of Zen, Walking on Lotus Flowers, and Buddhism and Ecology. She lives in the South of France.