Awake Where You Are A Guide to Embodied Meditation and Living Fully

Description: Awake Where You Are: The Art of Embodied Awareness Description Product Description The 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. Awake Where You Are addresses that need, and additionally integrates psychological concepts, which provides a more familiar entry point for people less familiar with Buddhism. “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. 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.” —Martin Aylward Pulled around by desires and distractions, we’re so easily disconnected from ourselves. Life is happening right in front of us, and within us—but still, we manage to miss so much of it. Awake Where You Are 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. 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. 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: - Understanding and liberating our primal human drives. 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. - Integrating psychological understanding with meditative practice. Awake Where You Are goes beyond the broad brushstrokes of Buddhist psychology, inviting the reader into an exploration of their own particular psychological history and conditioning. - Investigating the nuances of love. 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. “Martin is a marvelous teacher and offers us the refreshing wisdom of an embodied life.” — Jack Kornfield, author of No Time Like the Present Review “In the introduction to Awake Where You Are, Martin Aylward tells the reader that this is not another book about ‘how to meditate,’ and that is very true. He writes with honesty, insight, and experience to offer us a guidebook to awareness of the body, connection to the body, and deep acceptance no matter the state of that body.” -- Sharon Salzberg, author of Real Change “All that we cherish—love, creativity, wisdom, and aliveness—becomes available when we are fully grounded in our bodies. In Awake Where You Are, Martin Aylward offers his profound wisdom for how we become disconnected and the timeless practices that lead us home to embodied presence.” -- Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion “This beautiful and subtle book illuminates and grounds us in the truth that meditation and the practice of loving awareness are an ‘in-the-body’ experience.” -- Frank Ostaseski, author of The Five Invitations “ Awake Where You Are is a marvelous offering for anyone who is on the path of embodied living. Martin is a jewel of a teacher and friend, and his book is a beautiful afternoon listening to a dear companion. This book is a treasure.” -- Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher and author of Wholehearted “In Awake Where You Are Martin Aylward has skillfully weaved together two mutually supportive themes—learning to live a life of embodied presence and knowing a freedom without limits. Martin draws upon a wealth of first-hand e Returns Domestic USA Orders Only. We accept returns on items for a period of 30 days from the date of purchase. All product and packaging must be in new and unused resalable condition. Shipping is non-refundable. To initiate a return, please contact us for an RMA number. RMA's can take up to 2 business days to generate. Returns without an RMA number will not be accepted. Payment We accept the following forms of payment: PayPal All major credit cards. Please note if payment is made via PayPal on any purchase that exceeds the amount of $100.00 a signature will be required upon delivery and a confirmed address is required. 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