| Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood |  | Author: Wayne Muller
Publisher: Fireside
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Pages: 224
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0671797840
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.924
EAN: 9780671797843
ASIN: 0671797840
Publication Date: February 1, 1993
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 Simply one of the BEST self-help books ever! July 29, 2010
M. Denise (Golden State)
I've owned this book for awhile and came here tonight after recommending it to someone looking for clarity about the past. Over the years I've sought out many books to explain and help me try to understand my feelings growing up - a situation that was not ideal. Nothing helped me as much as this book. It's so clear, honest and thorough. For the seeker it is the total package and a completely fulfilling experience. I'm so grateful for Wayne Muller writing this book. I believe "Legacy of the Heart" ought to be available in every school library for any kid to pick up and read. My only regret is that I was already in my 30's when I found it. Better late than never though!
A loving and helpful tool towards recovery April 10, 2010
Cyndy Workman (Hixson, Tennessee United States)
I met the author of this book some years ago when he came to my city. He writes in a compassionate, straitforward manner. His words offer logical ways for a person to explore childhood traumas and find how to reconcile the harms that have shaped his/her life. I have several family members who suffered abuse at the hands of their parents and are now suffering from the effects of the abuse in their adulthood. I ordered several copies of this book and sent a copy to each of these loved ones. They have all told me what a wonderful, valuable book they find it to be, and how it has offered them a new way of thinking as they try to make sense of what happened to them in their childhoods. I find this author to be an enlightened brother who has embraced a calling to help people find healing through forgiveness and their own logical thinking. I would recommend this book to anyone who is searching for a way to make peace with the pain from a traumatic past and to truly move forward, unburdened by the hurts inflicted by those who were there to be protectors but were unable to do so.
A Must Read for Warriors and Wounded Children August 20, 2009
Robert R. Henderson (Metro Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Those most in need of practice in "being present" are those who're mired in a painful past, in particular, warriors and abused children. Both have developed habitual vigilance and a "lens" that filters out everything but what is, or may be, essential to their survival in a moment of clear and present danger. Sadly, well after the danger's past and they've grown up or mustered out of the time or place in which they cultivated habitual vigilance, they are unable to live freely in the present. They continue to scan, to dig foxholes, and to hit the dirt at the slightest indication of whatever used to be an actual danger. Muller speaks practically and compassionately to these perceptual prisoners of war and teaches them how to rewire their brains through the healing practices of Buddhism: not viewing change as the "enemy" but as a neutral fact of life; learning detachment in order to unbind one's self from the past; seeing here, now. This is the highly effective approach used in the Yoga Warriors program. It is the Way of Western psychotherapy. It is the Way that Jesus urged all to follow. Muller's Legacy of the Heart has a prized place on my bookshelf, not because I had a painful childhood (mine was far from it), but because, writing in cyberspace as Rapierpen and as Bob the Bard, I have a passion to understand warriors and wounded children and to do what I can to help survivors find peace and healing.
This book changed my life February 3, 2008
trailsinger (Port Townsend, WA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had the great good luck to attend a workshop with Wayne Muller based on this book when I was in the throes of a divorce that brought up painful issues from childhood. Wayne helped me to stop seeing myself as a victim of people who were themselves damaged, and instead to build an image of myself as a creative, spiritual, compassionate person worthy of being loved.
We attract to ourselves exactly what we think we deserve. As long as I thought of myself as a victim, I was one. When I changed this mental idea, my whole life changed for the better. I can't recommend it highly enough for those who feel held back by their past.
Wayne Muller is a psychologist who went back to school to become a minister because psychology didn't explain what he saw in many of the people he worked with. Time after time he watched people find the strength within themselves to rise above even the most horrible of circumstances. He finally realized he was witnessing grace in action; that there is some kind of force or ability in us that can overcome anything. This book is about how to allow that grace to work for you.
 Help for growth beyond childhood hurts November 19, 2006
Elizabeth (Wisconsin)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I would describe this as a self-help/spiritual guidance book for people struggling in their personal/spiritual growth because of the wounds of their childhood. I think that it might help people to identify the ways they are getting caught on old pain and thought patterns, and free themselves a bit.
The book's perspective is arguably more psychological than spiritual, and it does not delve deeply into any particular spiritual tradition, nor is it for instance an exploration of the relationship between childhood pain and mystical experience. Mueller quotes more or less equally from a variety of different traditions, in a way that probably wouldn't be too offensive to any of them, unless the reader would be troubled by a quote from another religion or details of an eastern meditation practice.
The quality of the writing is 4 stars out of 5; read the book for the advice and perspective rather than the way the author expresses himself which is nothing special.
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