The Great Heart Way How To Heal Your Life and Find Self-Fulfillment

by Wick, Gerry Shishin; Perez, Ilia Shinko

• ISBN13: 9780861715138
• ISBN10: 0861715136
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780861718658
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications

Summary

They're essential parts of our everyday lives-or should be. But each of us struggles with difficult emotions and mental blockages: we might lash out when we should know better, or regress in familiar situations, or struggle with self-confidence. These types of problems occur-and recur-when we're unkind to and negligent of our inner selves. With tools anyone can use, The Great Heart Way offers us a practical method to heal inner wounds and transform our difficult emotions. Using clear language and personal anecdotes, The Great Heart Way details an approach to healing and self-fulfillment that can be easily incorporated into busy schedules (it can take less than thirty minutes per day!) and is accessible to everyone. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Ilia Shinko Perez is the co-leader, along with Gerry Shishin Wick, of workshop retreats using the Great Heart Method. She lives in Lafayette, Colorado.

Gerry Shishin Wick is a dharma heir of Taizan Maezumi. He studied with both Soto and Rinzai Zen masters (as did Maezumi) and for 20 years his understanding of the koans in the Book of Equanimity was examined by Maezumi. A former professor of physics, oceanography, and, later, Buddhism, Wick is a teacher whose unique qualifications make him a particularly appealing author.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Recovering Creativity and Consciousness	p. 13
The Royal Road to the Unconscious	p. 31
The Heart-Mind Connection	p. 47
Exercises	p. 73
The Ego's Fixed Images of Self	p. 77
Exercises	p. 93
Releasing Fixed Images	p. 95
Exercises	p. 116
Transforming Negative Karma	p. 119
Exercises	p. 142
The Great Heart Practice	p. 145
Appendixes
Summary: Eight Steps on the Great Heart Way	p. 161
Exercises	p. 163
Acknowledgments	p. 173
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 195
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