Book by Tsultrim Allion
Do you wrestle with your demons?
Don't let the title scare you. There is a small list of books that I believe should be required reading for every human being. This book is one of them.
As a human being, you will travel through life accompanied by a crowd of demons - fears, anxieties, worries, illnesses, addictions, abuse, egocentricity, and anger, to name a few. This book teaches you how to engage with those demons in a way that transforms them ... and yourself. Typically, our Western response to a demon is to battle it in some way. You can hear it in our language; "the war against drugs", "battling an illness", "breaking through fear", and "beating an addiction". The problem is, when it comes to demons, the act of fighting one or trying to push it aside simply makes it stronger and more fierce. If you don't stop and listen to fear when it whispers to you, it will eventually pull out the sledgehammer to get your attention. That's going to hurt. The wisdom is to reverse how you respond and nurture the demon instead. In this wonderful book, Allione has taken the spiritual teachings she learned as a Tibetan monk and adapted them for the Western mind. The result is a simple, five-step practice that is an effective strategy for coping with negative emotions, troubled relationships, fears, illnesses, and self-defeating patterns. Instead of going into battle, you greet your demon, sit down with it, get to know it, and then feed it what it needs. In the process, you will see your demon transform into something non-threatening and quite often into an ally who will look after you in the future. How different would your life be ... how different would the world be, if every child was taught how to manage what troubled them in this way?! I love this book. It's not just loaded with wisdom, but it also provides you with an extremely practical and easy way to incorporate that wisdom into your life. Enjoy it!
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