What Awesome Books Are You Reading?

Hi Nynn,

Some interesting titles there. Whilst I’m not really the spiritual type 🙂 I do read quite a bit. The following are what I can recommend:

Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
The Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau

Yoga: The Spirit and practice of Moving into Stillness by Erich Schiffmann
The Five Things we cannot Change and the Happiness we find by Embracing them by David Richo

The key Muscles of Hatha yoga by Ray Long (Part of a series called Scientific Keys) – useful for someone who has no background in anatomy.

Now if you were to ask me about novels – that would be a completely different story!! 🙂

That is so funny that I came across this because I was just reading Ilysium’s post about her conflict with her yoga instructor and I wanted to tell her about this book, but then I saw that the post was almost a year old and figured I’d skip it.

I experienced an intense transformational process just before starting Bikram last September when I discovered that I have anxious attachment disorder and after my practice let loose some very interesting and left field emotions I decided that some counseling to help me through the process of this discovery was in order, which in itself has been very stressful and anxiety inducing. Over the last three or four months my problem has evolved into deep seated anger/victim issues so I went on a quest to find a book about it since my counselor is retiring in March and honestly, I know I can do this on my own. Anyway, this is what I found:

“Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible” by Ruth King

I am going to turn 41 on Monday and my life and emotions have never made sense until now. I am beyond grateful to this woman for writing this book. It is proving to be a lifesaver. I thought it could benefit Ilysium because of her child-like reactions to this ‘bully’ and the way she would call her names like, “the spawn of satan” and “cretan”. Anyway, if she’s still on, maybe it will help her, too.

I don’t have a lot of time to read because I work full time and am a student as well, so that’s all I’ve got for books. However, there’s a video documentary out that is also wonderful and potentially life changing:

“The Living Matrix: A Film On The New Science Of Healing”

Hope you all are well and happy 🙂
Michele

my life changers are purpose driven life and eat pray love