Living Fully, Dying Well Reflecting on Death to Find Your Life's Meaning

Name: Living Fully, Dying Well Reflecting on Death to Find Your Life's Meaning
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ISBN: 9781591797012

ISBN-10: 1591797012

ISBN-13: 9781591797012

Edition: 2009

Authors: Edward W. Bastian, Tina L. Staley, Ira Byock, Tessa Bielecki, Joan Halifax

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Most of us try to avoid thinking about deathuntil the moment it stares us in the face. But as Tina L. Staley and Edward W. Bastian have discovered, when we engage with our inevitable mortality at this moment, we open the door to fearlessness, joy, and the complete experience of being alive. In Dying Without Fear, these two healers present a guide for bringing an open mind and heart to the final challenge we all must face. Integrating scientific and spiritual perspectives from around the world, this collection of teachings includes: Life review exercises to access the liberating deathbed revelation at any stage of your life Practices for easing the suffering of a terminal illness …

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 374
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Edward W. Bastian, Ph.D., is a Buddhist scholar, president of the Spiritual Paths Foundation (which offers retreats, classes, and a two-year certificate program in InterSpiritual Wisdom), and co-author of the award-winning book, Living Fully, Dying Well (2009).



Note to the Reader


Introduction




Dialogue and Reflection on Living Fully and Dying Well



Coming to Terms with Our Mortality




A Life of Deaths, and More Life!




Care from the Heart




Living Through Our Dying




The Great Opportunity




Purgatory and the River of Light and Gaia, Samsara, Narnia




Life After Life?




Afterlife and Reincarnation Reconsidered




Final Thoughts: The Concluding Dialogue




Are You Living Fully?




Resources for Living Fully and Dying Well


Introduction



Life Review Exercises



The Cycles of Our Life


The Turning Points


The Journey to Our Future Self



Exercises for Facing Our Mortality



Examining Our Ideas About Death


Doing Our Philosophical Homework


Scripting Our Last Moments on Earth


Letters of Appreciation


A Voice for the Planet



Exercises for Healing Emotional Wounds and Forgiveness



Healing a Painful Memory


Giving Ourselves the Gift of Forgiveness


A Testimonial Dinner for Severe Teachers



Practices for Transforming Pain and Suffering



Transforming Pain Through Awareness


Transforming Pain with Affirmations of Loving-Kindness


Transforming Pain with Affirmations of Compassion


Transforming Pain with Affirmations of Equanimity


Acceptance of Pain and Surrendering


Transforming Pain Through the Elements


Affirmations for Forgiveness



Meditations and Preparation for the Moment of Death



The Body Scan Meditation


The Dissolution of the Body Meditation



Practices for the Caregiver and the Bereaved



Practicing with a Dying Person


Giving and Receiving: A Practice of Mercy


Preparing the Body after Death


Facing Loss



Visualizations for Emotional Healing



The Path


Forgiveness


Light



Ministering to the Bereaved



Acknowledgments


Notes


A Selected Reading List


Index


About the Authors


Contributors


The Spiritual Paths Foundation


Pathfinders