Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person

by Judith Blackstone Ph.D.

Overview

Profound empathy. Clear insight. A gift for healing. These are just some of the talents of the “spiritually sensitive” person—yet these apparent blessings can often become a source of loneliness, self-doubt, and limitation. Belonging Here is a lifesaving book that shows how our spiritual gifts become entryways into both the depths of human connection and our innermost selves.

Written by one spiritual sensitive for another, Belonging Here draws from Dr. Blackstone's personal story as well as her 30-year psychotherapy practice, which has focused on teaching clients how to integrate personal healing and spiritual awakening through an embodied approach she calls the Realization Process. Join this pioneering teacher to explore five of the most common challenges of the spiritually sensitive, along with exercises and meditations for living mindfully and compassionately with each, including:

• Thin Skin—how to create strong but permeable boundaries between ourselves and the external environment
• Landing on Earth—staying grounded within the whole of one's body by mending inner fragmentation
• Hearing the Cries of the World—how to open to our own joy even as we respond to the suffering in the world around us
• Shape Shifters—removing the protective masks of the false personality
• The Stranger—how to make the return from self-exile to self-acceptance

You can live authentically in a world that once seemed alien. You can find happiness and acceptance where isolation and confusion have reigned. You can come home at last, with Belonging Here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604078282
Publisher:	Sounds True, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/01/2012
Sold by:	Macmillan
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	346 KB

About the Author

Judith Blackstone
Judith Blackstone, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychotherapist in New York and an innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality. Her published works include the books Belonging Here, The Enlightenment Process, The Empathic Ground, and The Intimate Life, as well as the audio learning course The Realization Process.

Judith Blackstone, PhD, is a psychotherapist and innovative teacher in contemporary spirituality. She developed the Realization Process®, an embodied approach to personal and relational healing and nondual realization. She is the author of Trauma and the Unbound Body, Belonging Here, The Intimate Life, The Enlightenment Process, and The Empathic Ground. For more, see realizationprocess.org.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Spiritual Sensitivity ix

Part 1 The Realization Process 1

1 Embodiment 3

2 The Realization Process: Practices for Embodied Spiritual Awakening 27

3 Healing from Relational Trauma 65

Part 2 Spiritual Sensitivity 81

4 Thin Skin: The Challenge of Becoming Resilient 83

5 Landing on Earth: The Challenge of Grounding 113

6 Hearing the Cries of the World: The Challenge of Being Happy 139

7 Shape Shifters: The Challenge of Being Authentic 161

8 The Stranger: The Challenge of Acceptance 183

Notes 203

About the Author 205

Editorial Reviews

“Belonging Here is a superbly written, wonderfully profound, and helpful book—the distillation of a lifetime’s wisdom and practice. It is the clearest guide to embodiment that I have ever read, and its truths will illumine anyone who comes to it. With this book, your experience of yourself and the universe will be transformed.” —Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path and The Hope

“Writing with compassion and using engaging case studies, Judith Blackstone presents a powerful system of practices to help us move toward embodiment while at the same time remaining connected to all of life. I recommend this book to all who are spiritually sensitive and who feel discomfort in living in this world. Brilliant work!” —Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval

“A subtle and searching book about the spiritual soul in all of us, the part that sees through the veils yet may have suffered greatly because of it. With sensitivity and warm insight, Judith Blackstone shows us how to develop our gifts of spiritual sensitivity, emotional depth, and courageous insight. A book to love and treasure, a sure and tender guide on the path to our own deepest spiritual unfolding and realization of the beauty and wonder of life.” —Reggie Ray, author of Touching Enlightenment

“I am excited by the clarity and power of Judith Blackstone’s approach to embodied meditation. This book offers practical wisdom that will be of great value to anyone with a spiritual practice. Highly recommended.” —Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It

“This book lucidly reveals the most profound insight known to humankind: that we are made of the luminosity of awareness itself. Drawing on a lifelong spiritual journey and decades of teaching experience, Dr. Blackstone is uniquely qualified to illumine the healing power of nondual awareness. She gives special emphasis to the work involved in repairing the injuries that often happen on the journey into self-realization—especially those that befall us in childhood as open, defenseless, and sensitive beings. I highly recommend this book as a path to realization in its own right.” —Peter Fenner, PhD, author of Radiant Mind, The Edge of Certainty, and Essential Wisdom Teachings

“I love this book. Embodiment is the next frontier in terms of our Western understanding and evolution of consciousness, and Judith Blackstone escorts us into this new wave with brilliance, radiance, and wisdom.” —Mariana Caplan, PhD, author of Eyes Wide Open and The Guru Question

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