The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame Audiobook (Free)

The price tag on emotional renunciation is a constant, wasteful expenditure of energy that leaves us depressed and taciturn, imprisoned in the apathy and ennui from the ‘Seen-that-Been-there-Done-that’ syndrome. When we surrender and soften to our feelings, we reconnect with our inborn vitality, and with the very helpful instinct and intuition our feelings naturally bring.

The Tao of Fully Feeling represents the middle ground of emotional aliveness that lies between emotional deadness and about The Tao of Fully Feeling: Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame emotional explosiveness. It helps us to soften and loosen up into our feelings without exiling them or enshrining them. It manuals us to be psychologically expressive in benign, intimacy-enhancing ways.

The Tao of Fully Feeling teaches us to react to our painful and potentially disruptive feelings in healthy ways. It illustrates the enriching aspects of the so-called negative emotions, and helps us accomplish the emotional flexibility whereby sadness conveniently mellows into solace, anger unfolds into laughter, fear evolves into enthusiasm, jealousy starts up into understanding, and blame gives method to forgiveness.

The Tao of Fully Feeling refutes the black-and-white notion that blame is by no means justifiable. It explains safe, nondestructive ways of feeling and expressing blame-ways that ironically enhance our capacity to feel genuine forgiveness.

Whenever we authentically forgive our parents, we realize what we should are forgiving them for, and what specifically was blameworthy about their behavior in the first place. When we forgive before we blame, we risk dragging the entire weight of our childhood hurt and anger around permanently, like an tired backpacker who’s too dulled and over-trusting to note that someone has put a boulder in his/her pack.