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Description
A simple, intelligent guide to meditation and contemplation for those dealing with depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.
Drawing on his experience of meditation within both the Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions, as well as his own times of personal loss and bewilderment, Jim Green offers us a moving account of just how this wisdom practice can accompany each of us as we make 'the gentle pilgrimage of recovery'. He offers a thorough and practical approach to our times of personal desolation, centered on the practice of meditation, showing how we can learn to treat ourselves and each other with care and compassion.
Giving Up Without Giving Up explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are.
Table of Contents
Welcome
Learning to begin
Beginning again
How to meditate
Meditation and Depressions
Meditation: Nothing to be done
By any other name
Meditation: I will give you rest
Loss, grief, mourning and birdwings
Meditation: 'A Moment in each Day'
No self/no shortcuts
Meditation: With the leper and the wolf
Life is the treatment!
Meditation: A perpetual surprise
Into the desert
Meditation: We do not know how to pray
Before You Die
Community
Another Beginning
Meditation: The general dance
Postscript
Notes
Select bibliography
Recommended reading
Organizations and resources
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Notes on the Author
Product details
Published | May 07 2019 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 240 |
ISBN | 9781472957450 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Dimensions | 216 x 135 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
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Jim Green has described a new approach to the corrosive suffering of depression … His special gift is shown in connecting to the sources of healing found in literature, faith and contemplative practice. Anyone suffering from depression who reads this book will feel both understood and gently guided forward.
Laurence Freeman, Director of the World Community for Christian Meditation
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Might “depression” be, not a cold, deterministic diagnosis, but a call to spiritual awakening, to a graced construction of self? Jim Green says it may, and presents his case persuasively.
Erik Varden, author of The Shattering of Loneliness
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If it is true that all human griefs have their roots in our inability to sit quietly in our own company for five minutes, this spare, candid and calm introduction to meditative practice will be a life-saving gift for many living in or on the edge of the darkness that regularly overtakes us in this uncontrollable world.
Dr Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury
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The beguiling title of Jim Green's book both conceals and reveals its revolutionary nature. In beautifully crafted prose, he challenges his readers to let go of their pre-suppositions, habitual attitudes and conditioned responses to life's existential sufferings. Above all, he offers a path out of the prison of dualistic thinking. Meditation, he suggests, leads into the heart of paradox where nothing gives access to everything.
Professor Brian Thorne, psychotherapist, writer, Lay Canon, Norwich Cathedral