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Description of  Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness

The body is of course integral to meditation, but there are only a few books that focus this specifically on the body and the meditative experience. Awake Where You Are addresses that need, and additionally integrates psychological concepts, which provides a more familiar entry point for people less familiar with Buddhism. My intention is to lead you into the heart of your life. Inside your body, where everything happenswithin a quality of listening rather than knowledge, of feeling rather than reaction. This meditative practice is radically transformative. Martin Aylward Life is happening right in front of us, and within usbut still, we manage to miss so much of it. provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully to learn the art of living from the inside out, and in the process to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom. The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. Aylward writes with sophisticated subtlety, as well as the heart-opening simplicity and clarity born of deep experience. And this book is more than a meditation guideits a guide to living an embodied life. Youll learn about the following areas and practices: Aylward explains how the three primary drivessurvival, sexual, and socialfunction within us, and how we can engage their energy to explore, understand, and liberate them. goes beyond the broad brushstrokes of Buddhist psychology, inviting the reader into an exploration of their own particular psychological history and conditioning. Readers will learn to see the classical Buddhist heart qualities, or brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity) as distinct flavors of love, and as the natural resting places of a free heart. Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life. , author of Read more