Emotional Alchemy, Tara BennettGoleman
Emotional Alchemy, Tara BennettGoleman
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Emotional Alchemy
How the Mind Can Heal the Heart

Author: Tara Bennett-Goleman, Dalai Lama

Narrator: Tara Bennett-Goleman

Abridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

Alchemists sought to transform lead into gold. In the same way, says Tara Bennett-Goleman, we all have the natural ability to turn our moments of confusion and emotional pain into insightful clarity.

Emotional Alchemy maps the mind and shows how, according to recent advances in cognitive therapy, most of what troubles us falls into ten basic emotional patterns, including fear of abandonment, social exclusion (the feeling we don't belong), and vulnerability (the feeling that some catastrophe will occur). Through this program we can free ourselves and others, and the freedom to be more creative and alive.

This remarkable program also teaches the practice of mindfulness, an awareness that lets us see things as they truly are without distortion, or judgement, giving the most insightful explanation of how mindfulness can change not only our lives, but the very structure of our brains. Here is a beautifully rendered work full of Buddhist wisdom and stories of how people have used mindfulness to conquer their self-defeating habits. The result is a whole new way of approaching our relationships, work, and internal lives.

About Tara Bennett-Goleman

Tara Bennett-Goleman is a psychotherapist and teacher. A New York Times best-selling author, she continues to offer workshops on the synthesis of Buddhism and psychotherapy with her husband, Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence. She lives in Massachusetts.

About Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatzo, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and is the temporal and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The author of The Art of Happiness, among many other books, he is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile and resides in Dharamsala, India.Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He lives in exile in Dharamsala, India.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shante on April 26, 2015

To say reading this book saved my life is an understatement. Took me roughly 4 weeks to read this book because after every page I was literally fighting tears. This books challenges you to be painfully honest with yourself. The touch of spirituality woven throughout the chapters is my favorite aspec......more

Goodreads review by David on October 07, 2009

Very interesting, and even useful in identifying distressing schemas and attempting to nip them in the bud as they try to take over. But no use at all when you suddenly wake up at two or three in the morning completely defenceless, as occurred last night. I recognise something - just something - of......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on January 29, 2022

I picked up this book because I was curious to learn more about basic emotional patterns and see how I could use these insights in tandem with my lessons in therapy. I finished this book feeling like I have a fundamentally better understanding of myself and an ability to more deeply empathize with o......more

Goodreads review by Marshall on September 18, 2015

Probably the least interesting mindfulness book I've ever read. The first section glorifies mindfulness, even romanticizing it. She portrays meditation as intrinsically pleasurable, which is such a bad idea. While I suppose it might be for some people, a lot of people find it dreadfully boring and d......more


Quotes

"[Tara Bennett-Goleman’s] distinct power flows from her sincerity. She is not given to neat formulations, yet her stories have the persuasiveness of experience, of transformation drop by drop... Many readers will trust the path that she forges here." – Publishers Weekly

"Bennett-Goleman's melding of insights from cognitive psychology with ancient Buddhist knowledge of human emotions is masterful." – Spirituality and Practice