{"product_id":"awake-where-you-are-the-art-of-embodied-awareness-9781614297222","title":"Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe body is of course integral to meditation, but there are only a few books that focus this specifically on the body and the meditative experience. \u003ci\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e addresses that need, and additionally integrates psychological concepts, which provides a more familiar entry point for people less familiar with Buddhism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Embodied awareness is the way back home--intimacy with where and how we are right now, with what is happening and how we are meeting it.\u003c\/b\u003e My intention is to lead you into the heart of your life. Inside your body, where everything happens--within a quality of listening rather than knowledge, of feeling rather than reaction. This meditative practice is radically transformative.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Martin Aylward \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePulled around by desires and distractions, we're so easily disconnected from ourselves.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Life is happening right in front of us, and within us--but still, we manage to miss so much of it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e provides the antidote, inviting us to go deep into our own bodies, to inhabit our sensory experience carefully; to learn the art of living from the inside out, and in the process to find ease, clarity, and an authentic, unshakeable freedom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The practices in the book literally bring us back into our skin, where we can reconnect with a more rich, meaningful, and peaceful life. Aylward writes with sophisticated subtlety, as well as the heart-opening simplicity and clarity born of deep experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And this book is more than a meditation guide--it's a guide to living an embodied life. You'll learn about the following areas and practices: \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding and liberating our primal human drives.\u003c\/b\u003e Aylward explains how the three primary drives--survival, sexual, and social--function within us, and how we can engage their energy to explore, understand, and liberate them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntegrating psychological understanding with meditative practice.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eAwake Where You Are\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the broad brushstrokes of Buddhist psychology, inviting the reader into an exploration of their own particular psychological history and conditioning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating the nuances of love.\u003c\/b\u003e Readers will learn to see the classical Buddhist heart qualities, or brahmaviharas (loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity) as distinct flavors of love, and as the natural resting places of a free heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eJack Kornfield\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNo Time Like the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wisdom Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614297222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232","brand":"Martin Aylward","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41187394519221,"sku":"9781614297222","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_d66e94dc-2f3c-4398-b117-1f87d2bc7232.jpg?v=1633437475","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/awake-where-you-are-the-art-of-embodied-awareness-9781614297222","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}