Harness the psychospiritual healing potential of prayer, meditation, breathing, and more!This thoughtful anthology illuminates ancient ways of psychospiritual healing. Research has shown the healing potential of prayer, meditation, controlled breathing, and other timeless spiritual disciplines. This extraordinary book brings together experts who explore these concepts from the perspectives of Christianity, Buddhism, Sufism, the Goddess tradition, Judaism, Native American spirituality, Taoism, and Hinduism/Yoga. In Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World’s Religious Traditions, you’ll discover ancient techniques used by teachers, guides, and practitioners through the ages to facilitate psychological healing.Each chapter of this unique book presents a unique and distinctive view of psychospiritual practice and demonstrates its healing applications. With it, you will explore: 
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<li> the Buddhist concept of Brilliant Sanity and how to help clients reconnect to it through several specific practices </li>
<li> ways of accessing the healing power of Christ as employed by various denominations </li>
<li> a remarkable collection of metaphors in the Goddess tradition to help in the healing process for battered and abused women </li>
<li> Kabbalistic (Jewish mystical) paths to healing </li>
<li> Native American healing rituals and tales </li>
<li> Sufi stories, poetry, and practices--dance, sound, breathing, turning, walking meditation, and remembrance--that encourage the healing process </li>
<li> health and healing resources from the Taoist tradition, including wu-wei (effortless effort), acupuncture, diet and nutrition, and meditation </li>
<li> Hindu yoga techniques that employ physical postures, mantric sound, and breath control </li>
<li> and much more!</li>
</ul>Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom is a book that offers important help to the layperson, psychologist, pastoral caregiver, and professor. It will help religious leaders understand more about the practices of other faiths. It is in harmony with the movement of our post-modern world toward multicultural perspectives, offering a large, varied, and meaningful view of the world.

Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sharon G. Mijares

Neil Douglas-Klotz

Dwight Judy

Sheldon Kramer

Stephen G. Gilligan

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom

The Revelation of the Breath: A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty (SUNY Series in transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath. Faced with unrelenting stresses from daily news, relationships, health, and financial conditions, and unsatisfied with the temporary and side-effect-riddled relief that pharmaceuticals provide, millions are finding measures of peace and positive energy through mindful breathing practices. In this book, Stanislav Grof, Neil Douglas-Klotz, Sharon G. Mijares, Sonia Gilbert, Sheldon Kramer, Ilse Middendorf, Michael Sky, Puran Bair, and other well-known experts and international workshop leaders take up a wide range of Western, Eastern, and Middle Eastern breathing practices, describing the historical development of these techniques and philosophies, and providing examples of modern practices, stories of healing, and specific exercises for application.

The Revelation of the Breath: A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty (Suny Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

Exercise & Fitness

State University of New York Press

Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.

State Univ of New York Pr

Demonstrates that the essence of love and tolerance at the core of all religions, of all great traditions, is universal. This title explores the roots of the world's evils in fundamentalism and patriarchy.

The Root of All Evil: An Exposition of Prejudice, Fundamentalism and Gender Imbalance

Politics & Social Sciences

Aliaa Rafea

Rachel Falik

Jenny Eda Schipper

Philosophy

Imprint Academic

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