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Find freedom from life’s painful recurring patterns in 12 simple steps, with guided practices of self-compassion, mindfulness, and embodiment.

Do you ever feel trapped by experiencing challenging feelings over and over again—sometimes without realizing it? Or do you find yourself thinking "Why is this happening to me again?" or "Why do I always feel this way?" You're not alone. With Heart Medicine, you can learn to identify your emotional and behavioral patterns through the lens of loving awareness—without self-judgment or blame, learning to hold yourself as you would a dear friend, with space and grace.

Radhule Weininger draws on decades of experience as a therapist and meditation teacher to help readers understand the trauma behind their patterns, then offers twelve simple steps to work toward healing. Each chapter includes short practices so readers can begin to put the book's concepts to work for transformation in their own lives. With Heart Medicine you can finally be equipped with the tools to break through the patterns that hold you back and begin to live with more freedom, confidence, and peace. And that's good medicine, indeed.

ISBN-13: 9781611808230

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Shambhala

Publication Date: 12-07-2021

Pages: 240

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

RADHULE WEININGER, MD, PHD, is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and meditation teacher. She leads weekly and monthly meditation groups in Santa Barbara and leads retreats in both the United States and internationally at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center, Spirit Rock, Insight LA, the Esalen Institute, the Garrison Institute, and she is the author of Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion.

Table of Contents

List of Guided Practices vii

Foreword by H.H. the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ix

Foreword Joanna Macy xi

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction xvii

Part 1 Meet Your Long-Standing, Recurrent, Painful Patterns (LRPPs)

1 What Is a LRPP? 3

2 At the Heart of a LRPP Is Trauma 15

3 Why Do We Obsess and Repeat? 23

4 The Medicine of Awareness 29

5 Awareness When Entangled in LRPPs with Others 41

6 Freedom Is Possible 51

Part 2 Twelve Steps toward Healing

Step 1 Recognizing Your LRPP 65

Step 2 Being Mindful of Body, Thoughts, and Feelings 79

Step 3 Seeing a LRPP with Self-Compassion 91

Step 4 Healing Complex Suffering with Compassion for All 103

Step 5 Creating Mindfully: Setting Clear Intention and Dedicated Motivation 117

Step 6 When Triggered, Time to Pause 129

Step 7 Learning to Stay with Your Suffering 137

Step 8 Breathing Through to Let Be and Let Go 149

Step 9 Forgiveness 161

Step 10 Loosening the Grip of Identification 179

Step 11 Letting In the Mystery 193

Step 12 Service: Sharing Our Healing Sets Us Free 207

Conclusion: Breathing In, Breathing Out 219

Notes 227

Index 231

About the Author 239