Drawing from the practices of Tibetan Bön Buddhism, a meditation teacher offers tools for self-healing and unlocking your most authentic nature
In The True Source of Healing, meditation teacher Tenzin Wangyal introduces powerful practices to help you connect deeply with your authentic nature and heal your soul, so you can lead a more joyful and fulfilling life. Drawing on traditional soul retrieval teachings of Tibetan Bön Buddhism, Tenzin Wangyal offers practical guidance for overcoming feelings of disconnection and dissatisfaction, and reawakening your inherent creativity, playfulness, and sense of ease. Done daily, these transformative practices can help you:
• Overcome difficult life challenges
• Clear negative emotions and cultivate positive qualities
• Revitalize your personal and professional relationships
• Feel more engaged and productive at work
• Experience healing on all levels—physical, emotional, energetic
• Bring happiness and well-being to others
Using the meditations and informal practices in the book, you’ll learn how to tap into the healing power of nature as well as your own capacity for self-healing.
Meditation and mindfulness practices are something that I know I can benefit from, but finding information suitable for my absolute novice status can be a challenge. This book is a great start. It is simple and easy to read, and is presented in fairly uncomplicated problem/answer format.
The book is based on tradition Bon Buddhism, and centers around the "three precious pills" - stillness, silence, and spaciousness. It also discusses the five elements (air, water, earth, space, and fire), their associated qualities, and how to figure out if you have too little or too much of any of them.
The book includes formal/informal meditation practices to go along with each chapter, and it recommends that people do - to start - 30 minutes of meditation, eventually bumping up to 30 minutes, twice a day. For someone new like me, I think that will be a bit much to start off with. Actually, I think my goal will be 30 minutes, and I will start with 10. However, as part of the book, there is also a guided meditation that can be downloaded to assist with the path to healing prescribed by the book.
Overall, I look forward to going back and using the book as a guide to working on beginning my own mindfulness practice.
