Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart's capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges--like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout--from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean.

Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a pragmatic guide to living a life of meaning and purpose in a time of great social, environmental, and spiritual upheaval. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. Each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy. You'll learn ways to:

- Find more choice and freedom in life
- Strengthen focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals
- Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself
- Imbue your daily activities with clarity and vitality
- Respond more effectively to collective challenges

ISBN-13: 9781645472001

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Shambhala

Publication Date: 11-21-2023

Pages: 304

Product Dimensions: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.20d

OREN JAY SOFER teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and Nonviolent Communication internationally. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University, is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, and co-author of Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents. Oren is a certified trainer of nonviolent communication and a somatic experiencing practitioner for the healing of trauma. He is also co-founder of Mindful Healthcare and founder of Next Step Dharma, an innovative online program that helps meditators integrate their retreat experiences into daily life. His website is https: //www.orenjaysofer.com/, and you can find him on social media @Orenjaysofer.