Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
A Buddhism, Nonfiction, Spirituality book. While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance...
Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist teacher Noah Levine adapts the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and Eight Fold Path into a proven and systematic approach to recovery from alcohol and drug addiction—an indispensable alternative to the 12-step program.While many desperately need the help of the 12-step recovery program, the traditional AA model's focus on an external higher power can alienate people who don't connect with its religious tenets. Refuge Recovery is a systematic method based on Buddhist principles, which integrates scientific, non-theistic, and psychological insight.Viewing addiction as cravings in the mind and body, Levine shows how a path of meditative awareness can alleviate those desires and ease suffering. Refuge Recovery includes daily meditation practices, written investigations that explore the causes and conditions of our addictions, and advice and inspiration for finding or creating a community to help you heal and awaken.Practical yet compassionate, Levine's successful Refuge...
Download or read Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 288 pages
- ISBN: 9780062123091 / 0
BJvJlv-YunLZ.pdf
More About Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
Mindfulness is defined as nonjudgmental, investigative, kind, and responsive awareness. This sort of awareness takes intentional training of the mind. Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction // It is not a lack of morality or any deep character flaw that creates addiction; it is almost always just a lot of pain and a lack of tolerance or compassion for this pain that get us stuck in the repetitive and habitual patterns of drinking, drugging, overeating, or whatever actions our addictions take. In some cases the underlying causes are not as clear, but the suffering that addiction creates is always obvious and undeniable. Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction // While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us. Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction //
This is an awesome book for anybody in treatment our struggling with addictions. My boyfriend is currently at a residential treatment center and this book has helped me understand what he us going through and how I can support him down his path to recovery If you are looking for an alternative to 12 Step Recovery Programs or an additional tool for your tool kit, Refuge Recovery offers some pretty solid ground upon which to build recovery. With a very serious foundation in meditation practice offering many excellent meditation options and practices, Refuge Recovery offers some excellent... As others have noted, this book is a little simplistic and pedantic, but it very importantly puts responsibility and power for recovery squarely on the addict and not on some "higher power" or "god." Unlike AA, which says you cannot do this without "god's" intervention, Refuge Recovery empowers the individual. If you're open to a fairly...
