Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child

by Thich Nhat Hanh

Overview

Based on Dharma talks by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and insights from participants in retreats for healing the inner child, this book is an exciting contribution to the growing trend of using Buddhist practices to encourage mental health and wellness. Reconciliation focuses on the theme of mindful awareness of our emotions and healing our relationships, as well as meditations and exercises to acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us experienced as children. The book shows how anger, sadness, and fear can become joy and tranquility by learning to breathe with, explore, meditate, and speak about our strong emotions. Reconciliation offers specific practices designed to bring healing and release for people suffering from childhood trauma. The book is written for a wide audience and accessible to people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935209645
Publisher:	Parallax Press
Publication date:	10/09/2006
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	114,760
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 11.28(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Thich Nhat Hanh was a world-renowned spiritual teacher and peace activist. Born in Vietnam in 1926, he became a Zen Buddhist monk at the age of sixteen. Over seven decades of teaching, he published more than 100 books, which have sold more than four million copies in the United States alone. Exiled from Vietnam in 1966 for promoting peace, his teachings on Buddhism as a path to social and political transformation are responsible for bringing the mindfulness movement to Western culture. He established the international Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism in France, now the largest Buddhist monastery in Europe and the heart of a growing community of mindfulness practice centers around the world. He passed away in 2022 at the age of 95 at his root temple, Tu Hieu, in Hue, Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Child Within 1

Part 1 Teachings on Healing

The Energy of Mindfulness 9

We Are Our Ancestors, We Are Our Children 17

Original Fear, Original Desire 27

Breathing, Walking, and Letting Go 35

Transforming Suffering 51

Healing the Inner Child 65

Reconciliation 77

Becoming a Bodhisattva 107

Part 2 Stories of Healing

Lillian Alnev, Joanne Friday, Glen Schneider, and Elmar Vogt 123

Part 3 Healing Practices

Removing the Object 141

The Sixteen Breathing Exercises 143

A Letter from Your Inner Child 161

The Five Earth Touchings 163

Peace Note 167

Beginning Anew 169

Emotional Release and Physical Movement 173