num_pages: 200
description: When we break free from the habits that limit us a new world of possibilities opens up. In Let Go Martine Batchelor leads the way there.Negative patterns of mind may manifest as fear avoidance depression addiction judgment of self or other and any of a host of other physical mental or psychological forms. Let Go aims at understanding what really lies at the root of these behaviors so we can reclaim control. Each chapter concludes with an exercise or guided meditation as a tool for the reader to work with negative habits in new and creative ways. You don't have to be a Buddhist for them to work. You just need to want to move on.Helpful exercises and guided meditations - designed to build understanding of our negative habits as well as the confidence and skill needed to instead embrace our greatest qualities - appear throughout the book.Batchelor also looks at Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) for depression Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz's use of meditation to deal with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) successful combinations of meditation and Twelve-Step programs and offers her own innovations.
language: English
title: Let Go: A Buddhist Guide to Breaking Free of Habits
publisher: Wisdom Publications