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Getting Unstuck | 
 enlarge | Author: Pema Chodron
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 6765
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 159179238X
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3444
EAN: 9781591792383
Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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Product Description
An urge comes up, we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our cravings, habits, and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly. Pema Chdrn guides us through this "sticky feeling" and offers us tools for learning to stay with our uneasiness, soften our hearts toward others, and ourselves and live a more peaceful life in the fullness of the present moment.
Book Description
The beloved American Buddhist nun "demonstrates how effective the Buddhist point of view can be in bringing order into disordered lives" ("Publishers Weekly"). Unabridged. 3 CDs.
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 Sage advice for meditators and other folks, too. August 12, 2005
209 out of 210 found this review helpful
Pema Chodron offers some sound, beautiful ideas on how to cope with not only addictive behavior, but basically anything in life that you just plain don't like. Her lovely, grounded voice is a pleasure to listen to, she's damned funny, and I've found myself listening to the ideas on this CD over and over as I make my way through the often hostile streets of Manhattan. It's like a primer in how to stay clear and calm and grounded in life, no matter how lousy (or terrific) your circumstances may be.
Naked reality never looked so good! January 15, 2006
66 out of 67 found this review helpful
I normally find authors audio series very disappointing. Not this one. I am a huge fan of Pema Chodron's work. She is a great example of someone willing to do the work to shift and change and create a better world around her. In typical fashion, she isn't offering you a blind eye to the painful or negative things in your life. She teaches you how to step into it and allow your own energy to shift and change the negativity. Truly an inspiring piece of work. When you do this work, reality doesn't intrude... it offers you the way out.
Extraordinary, useful, inspiring, freeing June 20, 2005
166 out of 180 found this review helpful
I became interested in Pema Chodron's teachings a few months ago, and continue to be amazed by her simple way of describing things that philosophers, psychiatrists, and academics would take volumes to hint at.
The teachings themselves I appreciate; after zillions of years of every kind of self-help known to womankind, these ideas and instructions are an enormous relief. This isn't a review of Buddhism, or this lineage within Buddhism. This isn't a review of this particular set of CDs. I wouldn't know how to do any of these things. I do know that after hearing countless talks and seminars and audiobooks of all kinds, I appreciate accuracy, clarity, generosity, and suggestions I can use immediately. I listen to these CDs over and over, and love them more every time.
Amazing advice for addictive behavior January 18, 2006
42 out of 43 found this review helpful
I found this to be one of the most helpful and profound series of talks I have ever heard. Pema Chodron teaches a whole new (at least to me) approach to dealing with addictive behavior in ourselves and provides really useful and worthwhile ways of overcoming addictions. I kept going "wow" throughout the talks, and have gone back and listened to them again and again, and still find it helpful. Amazing teacher. Amazing teachings.
Breaking the cycle August 18, 2006
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
Pema Chodron begins by presenting the concept of 'staying', being present, in situiations both mundane and difficult. She points out, with insight and humor the reality that only for a small percentage of our lives are we actually 'present' rather than being preoccupied by- or purposely escaping in- thought. From there she introdueces 'shenpa' the Tibetian term for the quality or pre-cognative engery that is the genisis of the 'hook' that grabs you in the form of both negative and positive emotions. By discecting the events that lead to one's reaction to a given situation, i.e. anger, she shows us how to drive a wedge between the event and our response so we have a choice. We are no longer doomed to react, and repeat the same stimulus and response over and over and over. What makes these concepts so practical is her willingness to discuss them in terms of her own life and how memories of past traumatic events were eventually divested of the their destructive energy; then disucsses how we can use these tools in our own lives.
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