The Rhythm of Compassion addresses one of the central spiritual questions of our time: Can we heal ourselves and society simultaneously? The core premise of this book is that the health of the human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without healing the other. The book is written to help readers balance soul and society, offering a seamless set of values that unites the inner and the outer. Providing real answers, inspiration, and practical exercises, this is a book for those who long to make a difference in the world and search for a way to balance self-care with service to the world. Each chapter contains simple exercises on getting to the root of healing, developing compassion, and putting passion into action. Readers will learn how to integrate their rhythm so that their inner self-care helps them serve the world, and their caring for the world contributes to their soul. Using the profound metaphor of in-and-out breath meditation, Straub compellingly invites the reader to connect with the in-breath of self-knowing and the out-breath of acting to heal others. Only through this fascinating yet simple practice, says Straub, can we truly heal ourselves, our society, and our planet. This book is for anyone who wants to develop greater compassion: including parents, teachers, business people, social workers, healers, or activists.

The Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society

Self-Help

Straub, Gail

Personal Transformation

Empowerment Institute

Gail Straub, a leader in the human potential field, had helped thousands around the world find meaning and purpose in their lives, all the while sensing that something fundamental within her was missing. Many years after the premature death of her mother, she undertook a period of soul searching and came to believe that, like her mother and so many women of our time, she had overcorrected in the direction of the masculine, her "successful" life of outer accomplishment and committed social activism having come at the expense of a rich and satisfying inner life.Her search took her around the globe--to Africa, Bali, Russia, China, and Ireland--where she encountered the longing to retrieve sacred female wisdom among the women she met. Finding her way back to her innate female wisdom restored a sense of balance between external and internal worlds, activism and contemplation, and public and private realms and gave her a sense of equanimity that had eluded her for decades. Gail's poetic and heartfelt story is for anyone who has ever struggled to build and sustain an interior life in our driven and fast-paced society--and for mothers and daughters everywhere.

Returning To My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

High Point

Empowerment builds on two decades of work of its authors working with thousands of people to help them create their heart's desire. It is based on the premise that our thoughts and beliefs create the conditions of our life; if we want to bring about changes in our life we need to change our beliefs. The book assists readers in doing this. It covers seven areas of life -- relationships, sexuality, money, work, body, emotions and spirituality. Over 50,000 copies of Empowerment have been sold since it was published in 1989.

Empowerment: The Art of Creating Your Life as You Want It

Gershon, David

Religion & Spirituality

Empowerment Inst

For two decades, David Gershon and Gail Straub have taught thousands of people how to make their dreams come true--and Empowerment builds on that real-life experience. Gershon and Straub believe that our thoughts and beliefs create the actual conditions of our life; to change things, we must first alter our consciousness and our thought processes. That's what this book helps readers do, through practical techniques, inspiring stories, visualizations, and exercises for self-evaluation. It covers seven areas of life: relationships, sexuality, money, work, body, emotions, and spirituality.

Motivational

Sterling Ethos

Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring - For the Self and the World

Tuttle Pub

Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting With Society

Journey Editions

The Rhythm of Compassion presents a novel, powerful approach to healing and spirituality using the profound metaphor of in-and-out breath meditation. Unlike most self-help books, this one offers the revolutionary notion that caring for the self is not the only component of healing our minds and spirits. So too, argues author Gail Straub, is reaching out and giving to others. Straub believes "the health of the human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related, and we cannot truly heal one without healing the other." Here Straub compellingly invites the reader to connect with the in-breath of self-knowing and the out-breath of acting to heal others. Only through this fascinating yet simple practice, says Straub, can we truly heal ourselves, our society, and our planet. Few spirituality books take such a stance-fewer still explain it with such clarity, wisdom, and compassion.

Rhythm of Compassion: Caring for Self, Connecting with Society

Learn to nurture yourself as you nurture others, develop greater compassion and self-confidence, and strike the perfect balance between caring for yourself and caring for your world. The companion to the best selling The Rhythm of Compassion, this pocketsize book of meditations is divided into four parts that provide practical exercises and affirmations to help you find balance in your life. These four sections include: • Learning to Follow Your Rhythm of Compassion • The In-Breath: Caring for Self • The Out-Breath: Caring for the World • Harmony with Your Rhythm of Compassion.

Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring for the Self and the World

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Little Bound Books

The natural world has the power to awaken, restore, and transform us, and nowhere are these capacities more evident than in the thirty-six luminous essays that make up The Ashokan Way. Written in the form of journal entries that take place over the course of a year, the essays explore both the outer landscapes of the awe-inspiring Ashokan Reservoir, a vast open space surrounded by the ancient bluestone peaks of the Catskill Mountain Watershed, and the equally awe-inspiring inner landscapes of our own most personal terrains. Each of the book’s evocative entries describes a walk along the ever-changing reservoir, illuminating the natural world as a portal to self-understanding, restoration, and meaning. Some walks take us deep inside to trek the hills and valleys of our aspirations and sorrows, our joys and confusions. Others offer a profound antidote to an interior landscape that has become crowded with distraction and overstimulation. Still others seem to seem usher us into the realm of the mystical. As surely as we would perish without the water and air that the earth provides, we are at risk of perishing without the spiritual sustenance that the natural world provides through its ability to stir and astonish us. In a world that is ever faster, noisier, and busier, The Ashokan Way is a balm, an inspiration, and an invitation to discover greater intimacy with inner and outer landscapes alike.

The Ashokan Way: Landscape's Path into Consciousness

Cope, Stephen

Homebound Publications

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