Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships

In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being. In this book, readers learn how mindfulness can be brought to bear in our relationships to increase intimacy, strengthen communication, and help us to find greater fulfilment.

    Topics in this collection include how to open your heart and develop lovingkindness for yourself and others, how to improve communication through mindful speech and deep listening, noticing and counteracting destructive patterns, and discovering how intimate relationships can become a rich form of spiritual practice.

    Chapters and contributors include:

   • Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on what mindfulness is and why it lies at the heart real love

   • Psychotherapist David Richo on finding a partner

   • Psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach on the power of forgiveness

   •  Rabbi Harold Kushner on striving to give love rather than get it

   • Novelist Jane Hamilton on a marital meltdown — and recovery

   • Meditation teacher Susan Piver on the value of heartbreak

   • Psychologist John Welwood on relationships as a path of personal and spiritual growth

• Author
• Andrea Miller, David Richo, John Welwood, Tara Brach, Elizabeth Gilbert, Thich Nhat Hanh, Moh Hardin, Diana Winston, Dzogchen Ponlop, Judith Simmer-Brown, Norman Fischer, Barry Magid, Karen Maezen Miller, Erik Hansen, Harold S. Kushner, Jane Hamilton, Ezra Bayda, Ellen Graf, Arthur Jeon, Laura Munson, Brenda Shoshanna, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Geri Larkin, James Kullander, Susan Piver, Gabriel Cohen, Karen Kissel Wegela, Jennifer Lauck, Richard Borofsky, Joseph Goldstein, Dalai Lama XIV, Marc Ian Barasch

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Shambhala

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781590309049

• Genres
• relationships, buddhism, spirituality

• Release date
• 2011