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In this beautifully written and profoundly affecting new book, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen explores what it means when serious illness brings one "close to the bone": close to the soul's needs. As in her critically acclaimed best-seller Goddesses in Everywoman, the author weaves myth, experience, and story to produce a book which at once illuminates the experience of the seriously ill patient and shows that facing one's mortality can be a life-transforming, and even a life-saving, process. Close to the Bone follows the patients and their loved ones on a path which, soon after diagnosis, brings them into a kind of underworld of experience, a state of emotional trauma that has the potential to strip away what become merely superfluous concerns, focusing the individual on what is truly important. This process can be enhanced by prayer, meditation, participation in rituals, the sharing of stories, and a deeper and more honest level of communication with those we love and with ourselves.
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Close to the Bone, Jean Shinoda Bolen
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1998
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 10,99 €
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- Titre
- Close to the Bone
- Sous-titre
- Life Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Jean Shinoda Bolen
- Éditeur
- Scribner
- Publié
- 1998
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0684835304
- ISBN13
- 9780684835303
- Séries
- Catégories
- Mots clés
- Manuels et guides, Spiritualité et spiritualisme, Santé, Fitness
- Description
- In this beautifully written and profoundly affecting new book, Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen explores what it means when serious illness brings one "close to the bone": close to the soul's needs. As in her critically acclaimed best-seller Goddesses in Everywoman, the author weaves myth, experience, and story to produce a book which at once illuminates the experience of the seriously ill patient and shows that facing one's mortality can be a life-transforming, and even a life-saving, process. Close to the Bone follows the patients and their loved ones on a path which, soon after diagnosis, brings them into a kind of underworld of experience, a state of emotional trauma that has the potential to strip away what become merely superfluous concerns, focusing the individual on what is truly important. This process can be enhanced by prayer, meditation, participation in rituals, the sharing of stories, and a deeper and more honest level of communication with those we love and with ourselves.