Author:John Ruskan,Ruskan
There is more and more discussion today about our vital need to release trapped, negative feelings as a way of reaching personal fulfilment and optimal health. In this ground-breaking, highly praised work, John Ruskan presents a profound system of self-therapy, based on both Eastern and Western methods, through which you can learn how to: Understand your real feelings and use them for emotional and spiritual growth. Prevent negative ones from contaminating your life and relationships. Enhance emotional release through well-tested, easy-to-follow techniques. Initiate deep personal change. Typical emotional issues with which we all struggle include depression, anxiety, anger, love/hate, loneliness, sexual blocks, tendencies to control, various compulsions, relationship problems and so on. This book provides the practical skills to deal intelligently with your feelings - and touch and transform all levels of your being. 'Ruskan has achieved a challenging and difficult task, clarifying the interface between Western psychology and Eastern spiritual tradition'
A warmly intelligent introduction to Nietzsche
—— William T. Vollmann , New York Time Book ReviewA refined, an intellectually ingenious, and a very civilised discussion of the possible importance of sexual selection for mental evolution
—— John Constable, Cambridge University , Psychology, Evolution, and GenderEntertaining and wide-ranging
—— NerveFlies in the face of evolutionary orthodoxy - proposed by Stephen Jay Gould and others - which suggests that cultures evolve on their own, separate from the evolution of the human mind
—— ObserverThoughtful, witty and vividly written
—— Richard Dawkinsdesigned to help people thrive during periods of change
—— Sunday Timesa motivational book to help you deal with change in your life
—— GuardianEffortlessly, elegantly, Tom Wolfe bestrode both fiction and non-fiction… a style at once objective, subjective, and hallucinatory
—— Andy Martin , Independent[Tom Wolfe’s] gleeful use of punctuation and italics, along with entertaining asides and neologisms that often quickly cemented themselves into the English lexicon, helped Wolfe stand out from other journalists
—— Guardian[Wolfe] made literature fun and bores don’t like fun
—— Freddy Gray , The Catholic HeraldA day-glo book, illuminating, merry, surreal!
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—— Terry SouthernNot simply the best book on the hippies, it is the essential book... The pushing, ballooning heart of the matter... Vibrating dazzle!
—— The New York TimesAn American Classic
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