Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love by Sofer, Oren Jay
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Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love by Sofer, Oren Jay

Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love

Shambhala
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Description

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart's capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges--like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout--from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean.

Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a pragmatic guide to living a life of meaning and purpose in a time of great social, environmental, and spiritual upheaval. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. Each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy. You'll learn ways to:

- Find more choice and freedom in life
- Strengthen focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals
- Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself
- Imbue your daily activities with clarity and vitality
- Respond more effectively to collective challenges

Author: Oren Jay Sofer
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 11/21/2023
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781645472001
ISBN10: 1645472000
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Philosophy | Buddhist
- Body, Mind & Spirit | Mindfulness & Meditation

About the Author
OREN JAY SOFER teaches Buddhist meditation, mindfulness, and Nonviolent Communication internationally. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University, is the author of Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication, and co-author of Teaching Mindfulness to Empower Adolescents. Oren is a certified trainer of nonviolent communication and a somatic experiencing practitioner for the healing of trauma. He is also co-founder of Mindful Healthcare and founder of Next Step Dharma, an innovative online program that helps meditators integrate their retreat experiences into daily life. His website is https: //www.orenjaysofer.com/, and you can find him on social media @Orenjaysofer.