Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
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The New York Times bestselling author and a central figure in the field of meditation, Sharon Salzberg, uses ancient Buddhist wisdom to redefine love and experience it in a more profound way.
You are a person worthy of love. You don’t have to do anything to deserve all the love in the world.
Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, your partner, friends and family, and with life itself.
Sharon Salzberg, a leading expert in Lovingkindness meditation, encourages us to strip away layers of negative habits and obstacles, helping us to experience authentic love based on direct experience, rather than preconceptions. Across three sections, Sharon explains how to dispel cultural and emotional habits, and direct focused care and attention to recapture the essence of what it is to love and be loved.
With positive reflections and practices, Sharon teaches us how to shift the responsibilities of the love that we give and receive to rekindle the powerful healing force of true connection. By challenging myths perpetuated by popular culture, we can undo the limited definitions that reduce love to simply romance or passion, and give the heart a much needed tune-up to connect ourselves to the truest experience of love in our daily lives.
Sharon Salzberg
Sharon Salzberg is a meditation pioneer, world-renowned teacher, and New York Times bestselling author. She is one of the first to bring mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation to mainstream American culture over 45 years ago, inspiring generations of meditation teachers and wellness influencers. Sharon is co-founder of The Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA, and the author of twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, now in its second edition, and her seminal work, Lovingkindness. Her forthcoming release, Real Life: The Journey from Isolation to Openness and Freedom, is set for release in April of 2023 from Flatiron Books. Her podcast, The Metta Hour, has amassed six million downloads and features interviews with thought leaders from the mindfulness movement and beyond.
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Reviews for Real Love
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well of course it’s a pretty gooey self-help book. I guess I knew it would be. I *like* Sharon Salzberg, based on some interviews I’ve seen and a few meditation lessons from her on the 10% app. She has a bit of a sense of humor that I like. But there’s not much of that on display here. I think there’s probably a lot of good stuff here, but nothing terribly surprising or new. And there’s a lot of quotes from dubious studies and “experts” that I’m getting pretty intolerant about. Oh well, I still *like* her and will be happy to hear her meditation advice, but I guess I’ll be skipping her self-help books. Might like to read her memoirs if she ever writes them up - I think she’s had an interesting life, and she’s willing to crack a smile when she’s being introspective.
Listened to the audiobook, read by the author.