Levine, Stephen, Levine, Ondrea
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Product Description From his early influential and moving book, Who Dies?, to his most recent bestseller, A Year to Live, Stephen Levine has quietly t
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ransformed the way we live and die in America. Over the past 20 years he has created a series of masterpieces and guidebooks for conscious living, including the modern classics Grist for the Mill (with Ram Dass), A Gradual Awakening, and Healing into Life and Death. On The Grief Process, Stephen Levine turns his attention to the resolution of unresolved grief the injury of our age which leaves no scars. Through a series of deeply-felt guided exercises that he has shared and refined with meditation groups, hospice residents, and others caught in the wake of physical and emotional grief Stephen Levine demonstrates awareness techniques available to everyone seeking true healing. Culminating in an intensive guided meditation, The Grief Process is a milestone in Stephen Levines long career as a meditation teacher, caregiver, and healer. Stephen Levine ... is a meditation teacher and the author of many well-loved books, including the perennial bestseller Who Dies? (over 300,000 copies in print), A Gradual Awakening; Healing into Life and Death; and A Year to Live. He is also the coauthor, with his wife, Ondrea, of Embracing the Beloved. Book Description The author of guidebooks for conscious living turns his attention to the resolution of unresolved grief, offering guided exercises that improve awareness techniques, ending with an intensive guided meditation. About the Author Writer Stephen Levine was born July 17, 1937, in Albany, New York, the child of chemist father Clarence and mother Ruth Levine. In the mid-to-late 1950s Levine attended the University of Miami; shortly thereafter he published his first work, A Resonance of Hope (1959). He then entered the field of journalism, returning to New York City to do editorial work for the Frederick Fell Publishing Company and later contributing to the Rikers Island (N.Y) Review. In 1965, Levine founded the San Francisco Oracle and continued his career in publishing. Stephen Levine has a variety of interests, including poetry reading and wildlife protection. His writing career also focuses on psychology and spirituality. He spent time helping the sick and dying, using meditation as a method of treatment; a program he shared with psychologist Richard Alpert and psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Levines's wish to help the suffering is perhaps most apparent in his 1990 book, Healers on Healing. Levine and his wife Ondrea created their book, Embracing the Beloved: Relationships as a Path of Awakening in 1994 in an attempt to help the ailing by employing poetry and meditation within families. This work was a culmination of 17 years of work with the dying. Beginning New Year's Eve, 1994, Stephen and Ondrea Levine decided to pretend that each new year was their last. It was their hope that this would help them understand and cherish the beauty of life. From AudioFile When someone dies, the intellect wants to protect us by hardening our bellies and not allowing our suffering to heal us. But if we experience those emotions, the authors say that they can make us whole again and thereby available for healthy emotional connections with the living and the dead. The live seminar recording jumps into this stream of ideas, which, along with some poignant audience interactions, validate both the authors' noble purpose and central message. The last quarter of the program has powerful meditations that are so well done that few intellects will be able to keep them from connecting with the soul. Highly recommended as a healing experience for those who are grieving. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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