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Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person Kindle Edition

by Judith Blackstone PhD (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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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.

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“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

About the Author

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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008674F50
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sounds True (June 1, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 872 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 218 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #865,215 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #725 in Psychology of Personalities
- #811 in Occult Spiritualism
- #1,953 in New Age Mental & Spiritual Healing

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Judith Blackstone, PhD, developed the Realization Process, a method of embodied psychological and relational healing and nondual spiritual awakening. She is the author of The Fullness of the Ground, Trauma and the Unbound Body, Belonging Here, The Enlightenment Process, The Intimate Life, and The Empathic Ground. An audio series of the Realization Process is available from Sounds True. She lives in Woodstock, New York, with her husband, neuroscientist, Zoran Josipovic. For information on Judith's teaching schedule, visit www.realizationprocess.org.

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Amara Alban

An answer to a prayer

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2015

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Beautifully written and so grounded in reality and personal insight! After experiencing a non-dual awakening 18 months ago, the consistent overarching question has been, how do I live what I now know to be True? What does this understanding look like in the day-to-day life? How does one live as Presence? As I've found that the best meals contain few ingredients, simple wisdom can be the most profound. Embody Consciousness by being consciously in the body! Of course there's a bit more to it than that - the mind wants all the whys and hows - and the author delivers confidently and experiencially with practices that are compelling and easy to follow. I'll be purchasing this for two spiritually sensitive friends and sharing the practices with my daughter whom I feel I know better now because of this book. A very important work. In deep gratitude.

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Candace Cave

Embodiment Guide

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013

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Judith Blackstone's work is simple, effective, and deeply sustaining. She's uncovered an easy method to inhabit one's whole body and then attune to the fabric of all-that-is. If you feel overwhelmed by the world, if you withdraw or over reach for connection, learning to embody the quality of your self and then attuning to fundamental consciousness will soothe your fears and heal your deepest wounds. Most of her basic exercises are in this book. All it takes is practice and desire. (if you intend to practice Judith's work, I recommend the CD set published by SoundsTrue to guide the exercises). Belonging Here is the most comprehensive and appealing of all of her books. Readable and insightful; compelling if you are a seeker. I have sought enlightenment via embodiment for 40-years; Judith Blackstone has given me a readable map for that journey.

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Baltchik

The moment I began to read it I could feel a wonderful calm spread over me

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2016

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This has been such a helpful book for me. The moment I began to read it I could feel a wonderful calm spread over me. This book speaks truth and wisdom, and it speaks it in accessible language. As I remember my past life I can detect the presence of "sensitivity" and consider it less malevolent than the labels I gave myself at the time. Dr. Blackstone's writing has been a godsend and I'm rereading it so as to have her more gentle words in my mind and heart. For all of us out here who've never or rarely experienced truly belonging in our lives, this is a masterpiece!
Thank you!

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Mari Wadsworth

A must-read for anyone who feels like they've tried and heard it all

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2013

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Reading this books feels like a conversation with the author, from which I came away deeply comforted and encouraged that there are exercises -- simple, profound, inexpensive, self-teachable -- that restore balance to exhausted empaths. I feel more understood and enlightened from this one book than I have after years of spiritual study and, more recently, counseling. My counselor recommended this book: she said I would love it. She was right. My analogy for this book is that each of us is like a strand of Christmas tree lights where if one bulb is out, the whole strand is "dead." This book explains how to find and "fix" that burned out bulb in our being, so that our whole body and being turn on and glow. It offers an elegant solution to a lifetime of struggle and effort.

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John Sullivan

Not what you'd think. Written by a dancer. Read it all the way through

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2014

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I don't remember this well enough to review but I just had to say that this book has some astonishing material.
It is well worth the read. It's not as easy as other new age books or smoothly-written but not too hard to receive the kernel. It's not your everyday mish-mash of the same old bromides(although muchos cheers for the same old bromides!-) It's an original take. It is more kinaesthetic, by which I mean that the author teaches somatic(bodily) applications.

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Daniel

Belonging Here

Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2012

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It was okay. I was hoping for more helpful suggestions on dealing with all the stimuli and people's not so great energy that I pick up on without even trying.
I don't think I will purchase her other books.
Stephanie

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Gale

Creates a deep whole body experience

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014

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Judith Blackstone is a Master Teacher that tells it like it is. Cuts through spiritual misconceptions and gives you a deep confidence in your own true nature. I can't stop reading it. Great exercises that leave you feeling the depth of your soul. I highly recommend it to people who are stuck in the head. It delivers a whole body experience that stays with you.

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KGF

Very different "spiritual" journey

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2015

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This book was good and it hit home in many different realms of my life. The stories of the author's clients was extremely interesting, but my journey of spirit does not reside in only my body and my body alone. It is bigger than that! I will say that the angle this book attacks the spiritual journey is one that I have never read of before and it was sort of refreshing.

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