The Zen Path Through Depression
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A Compassionate and Spiritual Approach to Rediscovering Joy
Using easy-to-follow techniques and practical advice, Philip Martin shows you how to ease depression through the spiritual practice of Zen. His lessons, full of gentle guidance and sensitivity, are a product of his experiences in using Zen practices and wisdom to alleviate his own depression.
Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of depression and recommends a meditation or reflection. With these tools, coping with depression becomes a way to mend the spirit while enriching the soul.
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Reviews for The Zen Path Through Depression
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Plenty of good ideas and insightful quotes to revisit at a later date. I would recommend this book to someone experiencing depression.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I think this book is awesome because it teaches you about real life and the things you've never seen before in life. I think this book is a great leader to those who don't know the truth about the real world. I love it!???
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thanks, this book really helped with my depression!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a short guide to getting through depression taking a Zen Buddhist approach. There are a lot of short chapters not really organized in any specific way that touch on emotions you might feel when going through depression or emotions commonly used to cover up the pain and sadness such as fear, anger, doubt, etc. There are chapters on gratitude, community, usefulness and work, etc. Each chapter begins with a quote or two related to that chapter topic. At the end of each chapter, there is an optional "Further Exploration" which is an activity to get you to write, think, meditate on what was just discussed in the chapter. The author, Philip Martin, has a degree in Buddhist psychology and he holds Buddhist psychology workshops. His regular job is as a psychiatric social worker and case manager or at least this was all true in 1999 when the book was published. Martin decided to write this book after suffering from depression himself and getting through it by using Zen Buddhist approaches. He thought the best advice would be from someone who's been there and tried these things, so he wrote this book.I think it's a good starting place. It wasn't as helpful as I was hoping it would be. But I also read a library copy. I think I would have utilized the book more if it was my own copy, and I could take my time with it and annotate it throughout. I might order my own copy and re-read the book.
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