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Title: Legacy of the Heart : The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood by Wayne Muller ISBN: 0-671-79784-0 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Life-saving, Life-altering and Life-affirming
Comment: Wayne Muller's gentle approach to the reader's taking ownership of his pain without allowing victimhood to take ownership of the reader is the most valuable non-fiction I ever have read. Muller takes the reader through spriritual practices that promote growth from experience of ever the most hurtful sort. He uses ample and varied examples to show how we repeatedly shoot ourselves in the foot. Better yet, he helps change thinking patterns to avoid those life-laming foot-wounds.
Everyone has some sort of pain from childhood. Some pain can cut more deeply and last longer than others. Muller validates all pain and all the scars it leaves. But, he takes the reader through the pain, without denying it, to a plain of coping with it. And, he helps the reader climb a mountain from which he can view the pain that helped shape but no longer defines the reader.
Muller's book is a gift to every person who reads it. The author combines eastern, Indian and Christian beliefs and practices to produce life-saving, life-altering and life-affirming practices and phiolsophy.
Thank you, Wayne Muller!
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a gift to the soul
Comment: In this book the author outlines twelve distinct manifestations of childhood sorrow; lingering wounds that express themselves as points of tension between our emotional history and our spiritual unfolding. Each chapter begins by examining the shape of a particular childhood wound, and reveals how the scar from that wound affects our emotional and spiritual life.It includes teachings from Christian, Budhist, Hebrew, Sufi, Hindu, and Native American traditions that describe these same points of tensions as doorways of the spirit
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful, comforting and full of hope!
Comment: As the product of a dysfunctional childhood with trauma, abuse and alcoholism. Legacy of the Heart was not only insightful, but soothing, comforting, and offered hope! Although I have had many accomplishments and successes in my life, I have suffered deep depression and conflicts in my relationships because of the way I thought about myself and others due to my early family experiences. I was diagnosed with mental illness, attempted suicide and thought at times I was doomed to a life of emotional pain.
Although I had never stopped believing in God, I never truly felt a spiritual connection with Him. In fact, I didn't feel a true connection to anyone, even my spouse or closest friends. I felt so alone.....
Outwardly, I am a competent, intelligent and talented person. I make friends easily and people seem to like me ... Yet inside I have felt like an emotional mess and eventually my emotional/psychological problems play out and cause ruptures in my career and relationships ....furthering my belief that I am destined to have an unhappy life. I have taken anti-depressants, herbs & vitamins, and tried acupuncture. I have read numberous self-help books and been to several therapists. I have spent time in hospitalized psychiatric care.
Yes, these things have helped me, but I kept struggling with the same issues and problems over and over. I thought I was "Different"... my case was so horrible, so complex, so confusing, no one could ever really understand the real me. Therapy seemed often to increase my pain, in trying to understand the "why" and uncover the source of every painful thing that ever happened and explain or blame every emotion on childhood ... I wasn't solving the problems of today. I wasn't learning how to cope.
Muller address these very issue with such great insight and compassion! I read the entire book in two evenings, but plan on going back and re-reading and practicing the meditations. So many times in reading this I felt a revelation into my heart -- that some one understood me, my pain, and was offering hope for healing!
There are no big miracles in this book, no promises that you will never feel pain again, but it is an incredibly sensitive look inside the behaviors we learn in childhood. I hope to find a therapist who will use this book with me to continue my healing. And I plan on buying a copy for each of my siblings as well. This book, along with Feeling Good by David Burns are a great place to start making permenant changes and heal the suffering. I can't recommend it highly enough.
Thank-you Wayne Muller. Blessings to all children of God in your journey to healing.
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Title: How, Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives by Wayne Muller ISBN: 0553375059 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives by Wayne Muller ISBN: 0553380117 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Learning to Pray: How We Find Heaven on Earth by Wayne Muller ISBN: 0553105531 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: The Spiritual Gifts of a Painful Childhood by Wayne Muller ISBN: 1564554627 Publisher: Sounds True Pub. Date: 01 March, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine, Ann Frederick ISBN: 155643233X Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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