Five Things We Cannot Change And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Name: Five Things We Cannot Change And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them
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ISBN: 9781590303085

ISBN-10: 1590303083

ISBN-13: 9781590303085

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Authors: David Richo

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Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness--and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment. There are certain facts of life that we cannot change--the unavoidable "givens" of human existence: (1) everything changes and ends, (2) things do not always go according to plan, (3) life is not always fair, (4) pain is a part of life, and (5) people are not loving and loyal all the time. Richo shows us that by dropping our deep-seated resistance to these givens, we can…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/13/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

DAVID RICHO, PhD, is a psychotherapist, teacher, writer, and workshop leader whose work emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness and loving-kindness in personal growth and emotional well-being. He is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling How to Be an Adult in Relationships and The Five Things We Cannot Change.



Introduction



The Givens of Life



Everything Changes and Ends


How We Avoid or Accept


Attracted or Repelled


A Changing Image in the Mirror


What Makes Us So Controlling


Nothing Separate


A Two-Handed Practice


Death and Renewal



Things Do Not Always Go According to Plan


Nature's Design


Our Calling


The Larger Life


It All Balances in Love



Life Is Not Always Fair


Revenge or Reconcile?


Why Does Harm Come to the Innocent?


The Art of Taming Ego


Commitments beyond Ego


A Mindful Reply to Unfairness



Pain Is Part of Life


Are We Victims?


A Yes to the Pain Nature Brings


Being with the Suffering of Others


When Cheer Doesn't Work


The Fertile Void



People Are Not Loving and Loyal All the Time


The Lifelong Influence of Childhood


Taking Care of Yourself As You Open to Others


Givens of Adult Relating


A Checklist on Boundaries in Our Relationships


Egoless Love



Refuges from the Givens


Religion as a Refuge


Religion and Refuge in Nature


Three Refuges


Distraction or Resource?


Magical Thinking


Backstreet Refuges


Safety in No Refuge


Wisdom within Us



An Unconditional Yes to Our Conditioned Existence



How to Become Yes


Loving-Kindness


Tonglen Practice


No Outside


Nature Practices Yes



Yes to Feelings


Our Gifts from Nature


How Feelings Become SAFE


Love Liberates


How Fear Holds Us Back


The Life Span of a Feeling


How Do We Receive the Feelings of Others?


Tracking Our Feelings


What Feelings Are Not


Feelings Are Three-Dimensional



A Yes to Who I Am


Psychologically


Spiritually


Mystically


Self or No-Self?


A Stable Sense of Myself


Epilogue


About the Author