Guided Meditations for Self-Healing: Essential Practices to Relieve Physical and Emotional Suffering and Enhance Recovery

Meditations to Activate Your Capacity for Healing

Meditation brings you into a deep communion with your own body and heart, but what happens when you are sick or in pain? With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield guides you through meditations created specifically to ease physical and emotional suffering, and activate a powerful capacity for restoring yourself to wholeness.

Join this leading meditation teacher and psychologist for three essential practices that tap the healing power of attention:

• Healing Presence—how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration
• The Healing Temple—guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary gifts for true recovery and blessing
• The Healing Power of Love—directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need

We are conditioned to approach healing as an act of control, in which we judge what is wrong with us and impose a change. The way of awareness teaches us how to turn toward that which is injured in us with a caring and fearless attention, so we may open the door to true healing at every level of our being.

With Guided Meditations for Self-Healing, Jack Kornfield brings you three potent practices to bring compassionate energy where it is needed in your body, psyche, and spirit, and to awaken the “master healer” within you.

Course objectives:

• Utilize meditation to activate your capacity for healing.
• Demonstrate "Healing Presence"—how to use the earth itself as your foundation to support you in self-diagnosis and restoration.
• Practice "The Healing Temple"—guided visualization to your inner sanctuary, encountering the great healer, and receiving the necessary symbols and messages for healing
• Discuss "The Healing Power of Love"—directing the luminous spirit of lovingkindness to all the places in your body and spirit that are in need.

Jack Kornfield, PhD, trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma, and India and has been teaching meditation internationally since 1974. He is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness practices to the West. He co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts and founded the Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre California. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and has taught in centers and universities worldwide. Jack has led International Buddhist Teacher meetings with the Dalai Lama, worked with many of the great teachers of our time, and is a father and activist. He is co-creator of the Awareness Training Institute and has written more than a dozen books, including Meditation for Beginners; A Path With Heart; After the Ecstasy, the Laundry; and more.