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


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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.

Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Oren Jay Sofer offers a pragmatic guide to living a life of meaning and purpose in times of great social, environmental, and spiritual upheaval. From cultivating the heart's capacity to face our greatest challenges (such as the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and more) to finding joy, belonging, and deep connections with others, each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation.

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 with clarity and vitality
- And more

Author: Oren Jay Sofer
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 09/24/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781645473893
ISBN10: 1645473899
BISAC Categories:
- Self-Help | Meditations
- Self-Help | Personal Growth | Happiness
- Philosophy | Buddhist

About the Author
OREN JAY SOFER teaches meditation and communication internationally. He holds a degree in comparative religion from Columbia University and is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for the healing of trauma. Oren is also the author of several books, including the best-seller Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication and his latest book, Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices to Meet a World In Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love. His teaching has reached people around the world through his online communication courses and guided meditations. A husband and a father, Oren lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he enjoys cooking, spending time in nature, and home woodworking projects.