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  • Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
  • By: Bruce Tift MA
  • Narrated by: Bruce Tift MA
  • Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
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Summary

Different Paths, Different Strengths

Freedom from unnecessary suffering is the goal of both Buddhism and modern psychotherapy, yet each approaches this intention from a very different perspective. "Buddhist practice helps us awaken to a well-being that is independent of our circumstances," explains Bruce Tift, "while Western psychotherapy helps us bring our disowned experience into awareness in order to live in a more skillful and satisfying way."

On Already Free, this therapist and Buddhist practitioner opens a fresh dialogue between these two perspectives, and explores how each provides us with essential keys to experiencing full presence and aliveness.

Practical Tools and Wisdom from the Eastern and Western Traditions

Buddhism gives us powerful tools for breaking free of our own identity drama and our fascination with day-to-day problems, yet it does not address how early childhood experience shapes our adult lives. Western psychotherapy provides a wide range of proven techniques for understanding and untangling the development of our neurotic patterns, but it is only beginning to recognize the powerful impact of exploring awareness itself."These two approaches sometimes contradict and sometimes support each other," Tift explains. "When used together, they can help us open to all of life in all its richness, its disturbances, and its inherent completeness. "With a keen understanding of the wisdom of East and West, and a special focus on working with intimate relationships as a pathway to spiritual awakening, Bruce Tift presents seven immersive sessions of insights, wisdom, and practical instruction for realizing the fundamental freedom that is your birthright.

  • The Developmental Approach - why we still use our childhood survival skills after we outgrow them
  • The Fruitional Approach - Buddhist wisdom on finding liberation without resolving our historic issues
  • Relationships and Awakening - practices for couples to develop "healthy intimacy" and welcome connection and separateness
  • Why we use "neurotic organization" to limit our life experience, and how to challenge this self-perpetuating process
©2011 Bruce Tift (P)2011 Bruce Tift

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INVALUABLE !

Enjoyed the delivery and content immensely. Have listened twice and will certainly listen a third time !!
This book delivers great insight from beginning to end.

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Spectacular work

Such a densely distilled down and clearly communicated ideas. Couldn't recommend more for people interested in how east and west psychology can work together

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One of the most helpful books I've read/heard

A wonderful book that I've started listening to again, because it's so helpful, and there is so much to appreciate in it. What is so clever about Tift's approach is that you can mull it over in regard to your whole life or big issues, but also make use of what he says right now, in the present moment. What he has to say about relationships is some of the most enlightened and enlightening stuff I've ever heard. He wears his learning lightly: it's simple and accessible, but theoretically rigorous behind the scenes, so it has none of the frustrations of a quickly
written self-help book.

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powerful

try it yourself. many powerful ideas. great narration. one of my favourites. listened through twice and will do so again.

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A simple yet profound approach

Bruce Tift compassionately delivers a deceptively simple yet profound approach to living our lives with more presence and less struggle. Many people in relationships may find the last two chapters particularly useful. I highly recommend this to any person keen to understand themselves better.

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Very enlightening book

Detailed text from a well seasoned Buddhist Therapist. The book held several revelations for me and I listened to it twice it is so good!

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