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Healing Into Life and Death
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A guide to healing meditation, from revered teacher Stephen Levine.
Drawing on years of first-hand experience working with the chronically ill, here Levine presents original techniques for working with pain and grief. Addressing the choice and application of treatment, discussing the development of a merciful awareness as a means of healing, and providing practical meditation techniques as well as personal anecdotes from his career, Levine has crafted a valuable resource for anyone dealing with painphysical or mental.

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F IRST A NCHOR B OOKS E DITION, 1987

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in the United States by Anchor Books in 1987.

Anchor Books and Colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following: Excerpts from Open Secret: Versions of Rumi copyright 1984 by John Moyne and Coleman Barks. Reprinted with permission of Threshold Books. Excerpts from The Kabir Book by Robert Bly copyright 1971, 1977 by Robert Bly. Copyright 1977 by The Seventies Press. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press. Excerpt from A Part by Wendell Berry copyright 1980 by Wendell Berry. Reprinted with permission of North Point Press.

Excerpt from Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh 1987 by Thich Nhat Hanh. Reprinted with permission of Parallax Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levine, Stephen, 1937- Healing into life and death.

1. Spiritual Healing. 2. New age movement. I. Title.
BP605.N48L48 1987 155.9 37 11498

eISBN: 978-0-307-77369-2

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Should I stop trying to heal and just let myself die?First explorationsat what level is healing to be found?what method?the naturalness of healinghealing not limited to the bodyembracing illnesspity versus compassionmy pain as opposed to the painletting life intouching pain with mercy instead of fearthe innate power of healing.

Techniques for healing the mind/bodymeditation as a toolhealing techniquesthe great balancing act.

. Healing the body, healing the minda willingness to healuncovering the pain withinyou are the path!becoming a complete beginnerspontaneous healingskarma and gracethe spirit of healingcombining techniquesapproaching deathjust beingmeeting illness with loving kindnessconfusion versus dont knowbecoming new.

. Directly participating in lifeapplying mercyat what level is healing to be found?healing patientslove is the only gift worth givinghealing as process.

. Life unlivedexamining that which resists lifeself-acceptancereentering liferecognizing the minds top fortyeverything is workableopening mindfully, heartfullynot forcing the momentinvestigating the separate to discover the universal.

. Exploring resistancediscovering a new tendernessa natural truth, a fundamental trustseeing with soft eyes.

. When the mind is clear, we can see all the way to the heartexploring lovethe ever-connectedunlimited receptivityunconditional lovea keener awarenesshaving mercy on our mercilessnessthe path toward the heartgoing beyond the hearts armoring.

. Heart and mind as onereleasing emotionemotions as lensesopening to the teachings of illnessjust this muchletting go of the blockages to the hearthealing storiesemploying healing practicesdying into lifedeath too is impermanentthe mind sinking into the heart, the heart sinking into the bodysending love into the once-abandonedentering the moment fully alive.

. The end of life unliveda subtler awarenessthe practice of forgiveness as a means of healinglevels of healingthe two becoming onea daily forgiveness practicefinishing businessan all encompassing compassion.

. Grief as armoring against healingself-judgmenteven grief is workablethe mirror of our self-imagegrief as mental and physical painapplying the grief meditationthe touchpoint of grief as it becomes the touchpoint of the heartdense body, dense mindgrief takes many guisesexamining the long-submergedacceptancethe reservoir of lossfeelings of separation, feelings of onenessallowing the paina profound recognition.

. Exploring the momentsending love into diseaseanger, shame, and guiltan AIDS storypassing the healing on.

. Sexual abuseopening the lower heart to make room for the upper heartseveral womens storiesusing the opening-the-heart-of-the-womb meditationexploring the body with mercy and awarenessmens use of this practiceending the conspiracylightening the loadexperiences with the meditation.

Brailleing our way toward the truthto be or not to be?the pilgrims pathgoing beyond sufferingattuning to sensationsthe body as solidified mindI am this bodyexploring identificationWho am I?am-nessthe experiencer and the experiencedletting go of credentialsno obstruction.

. Breaking addiction to automatic actiongood medicineopening the channels to healingmedications as an opportunity for awakeningtaking the healing within.

. Reestablishing balanceskillful effortgiving healing every opportunitysoftening the bellya deep opennessold mind dissolvingexposing the heart of essential healing.

. A sweeping attentionscanning the bodyareas of sensitivity, areas of numbnessthe unfeltreading the body in intimate detailthe map of sensations.

. Removing the blockages to healinga healing processthe conduit for the heartintegrating levels of healinginvestigating discomfortvisualizationso much healing availablemaking the healing your own.

. Experiencing directlyrecognizing distortionwatching the breathsensation as the wordless hum of beingseeing each moment uniquelynoticing instantly all that is other than sensationwatching thought and feelingsdiscovering the breath within the breathacknowledging the momentwatching old minds tendenciesawakening to new mindthe unconscious becomes consciousa freedom synonymous with the heartthe healing within healingexamining perceptionstates of mind dissolvingnonclingingmonkey mindthe practice of mindfulnessa gentle receptiona moment-to-moment healing

. Examining the obstructions to awarenessthe greater the hindrance, the greater the enlightenmentreleasing the longheldrelating to the mind instead of from itexamining patterns of fear and doubt in the light of clear awarenessreconditioning the momentcrossing the river of forgetfulnessexploring judgment nonjudgmentallya new trustMilarepas caveapproaching old mind demonsnoticing the subtle soonerthe constant unfoldingunhindering mercybringing the submerged into the light of a healing awareness.

. Harmlessness as the basis of compassionhealing angersensing the power of noninjurydiscovering peacebringing the underground fire to the surface it lights our waydissolving compulsivitythe uninvitedexploring the grief of anger as a means of discovering the ocean of lovethe skillful use of angerletting thoughts floatthe nature of emotionguilt as conflicting desire systemstaking life as a blessing instead of a curse.

. All mind is old mind a moment after its perceptionthe reduction valve of perceptionthe direct experience of the under-dreamgrasping at sufferinga choiceless letting bekeeping the heart open in hellsuffering is graceillness as a mirror for the heartwalking in a sacred mannereach step a new healing.

. The preciousness of a healing relationshipOndreas cancertriangulating on the sourcefocusing on an area to be healed in a loved onethe profound potential of relationships to heal the body/mind.

. Practicing what we preachit is only true if we have experienced it for ourselvesworking with burns, kidney stones, strep throathealing a congenital spinal disorderthe wounded healerlife as an experiment in truth.

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