Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself Audiobook (Free)

“Most people will never find a great psychiatrist or an excellent Buddhist instructor, but Mark Epstein is both, and the wisdom he imparts in Suggestions Not Given can be an act of generosity and compassion. The reserve is a tonic for the health problems of our period.”-Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling writer of Commonwealth

Our ego, and its own accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt once we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is 1 affliction we all talk about. And about Advice Not Given: HELPFUL INFORMATION to Getting Over Yourself while our ego claims to possess our needs in mind, in its never-ending quest for interest and power, it sabotages the very goals it pieces to accomplish. In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and writer Dr. Tag Epstein discloses how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two customs that developed in entirely differing times and locations and, until recently, had nothing in connection with one another, both recognize the ego as the restricting factor in our well-being, and both arrive towards the same bottom line: When we supply the ego free rein, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.

With great insight, and in a deeply personal design, Epstein offers readers a how-to guide that refuses an instant fix, grounded in two traditions specialized in maximizing the human potential for living an improved life. Using the Eightfold Path, eight areas of self-reflection that Buddhists believe essential for enlightenment, as his scaffolding, Epstein appears back productively by himself experience and that of his individuals. While the tips of the Eightfold Path are as previous as Buddhism itself, when informed from the sensibility of Traditional western psychotherapy, they become something even more: a street map for religious and psychological growth, a way of coping with the intractable issue of the ego. Wearing down the wall structure between East and Western, Epstein brings a Buddhist sensibility to therapy and a therapist’s practicality to Buddhism. Speaking obviously and directly, he offers a rethinking of mindfulness that stimulates people to be more watchful of their ego, an idea with a strong foothold in Buddhism but now for the very first time used in the framework of psychotherapy.

Our ego reaches once our biggest obstacle and our greatest hope. We are able to end up being at its mercy or we are able to learn to mold it. Unique and practical, Epstein’s advice can be used by all–each in his or her own way–and provides wise counsel within a complicated world. In the end, as he says, ‘Our egos may use all of the help they can get.’