"We need tools. We need guidelines. We need understanding. We need books like this. I am grateful to Lee Jampolsky for the work he has done here, for placing these tools in our hands....Your soul has answered your hearts desire with the words you will find on these pages. Turn them now, and move into peace." —from the foreword by Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God "A deeply profound and powerful book that offers the reader practical guidance. I highly recommend it." –Caroline Myss, Ph.D., author of Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts "At a time of tremendous turbulence in the world, this beautiful book offers us the possibility of replacing turmoil with transformation and hostility with understanding. The world mirrors each individual–Healing Together can help catalyze world peace one soul at a time." –David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center for Well Being, author of the Nautilus Award—winning Vital Energy and Return to Wholeness, and coauthor of The Chopra Center Cookbook "This beautiful, profound book on healing and the road to peace provides an entirely new look at catastrophe and the ways in which we can recover from it and transcend its effects. It is especially timely, wonderfully written, and filled with much-needed wisdom. I was enriched by every page." –Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D., author of Zen Miracles: Finding Peace in an Insane World "Lee shares practical ways in which we can begin to implement the stopping of the recycling of anger in our lives....Throughout the book are fascinating stories.... In addition, this book has various exercises that lead us to inner peace.... In a most sensitive way, Lee inserts some of his own prayers, poems, and meditations, bringing a sense of sacredness." –Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., author of Love Is Letting Go of Fear "Peace doesnt happen, it is crafted–in the hearts, minds, and actions of people like you and me. Lee Jampolsky is a masterful guide in leading us down the path of peace, which our world desperately needs." –Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Words, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Beyond the Body "Healing Together delivers a timely and much-needed message of vision and hope for our world. Lee Jampolsky masterfully penetrates to the heart of how to rise beyond fear and conflict. I wish everyone on the planet would read this book and practice its noble truths." –Alan Cohen, author of Why Your Life Sucks and What You Can do About It and A Deep Breath of Life It is all too easy for the tragedies of life to overwhelm us. When life gets very rough, when tragedy occurs, it invariably touches deeper wounds within all of us-feelings of vulnerability, denial, fear, sadness, anger, and vindictiveness. This groundbreaking work is a book for all times of crisis. In Healing together, Dr. Lee Jampolsky writes that the path to healing begins when we make room for all of our emotions, then work toward compassion and the understanding of other people's points of view. This process helps bring us together and helps us find peace in ourselves and in our common world. In healing together Dr. Jampolsky explains how turbulent times can lead to spiritual awakening and self-improvement. He shows that there are no circumstances or situations that truly cut us off from our vital connection with God and humanity. Dr. Jampolsky shows that, through peace-based thinking, we learn to experience love instead of being consumed by hate, and we perpetuate acts of compassion rather than acts of violence. Integrating the wisdom of many spiritual and political leaders and his own work with patients, Dr. Jampolsky includes dozens of exercises, meditations, and prayers as well as an eight-step program that shows us how to change our perceptions, find the opportunity to love, and alter our ways of thinking so that genuine and lasting peace--with ourselves and the world--can truly be achieved. Healing Together How to Bring Peace into Your Life and the World......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Foreword by Neale Donald Walsch......Page 8 Foreword by Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.......Page 12 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Introduction......Page 16 PART ONE What to Do When Tragedy Enters Your Life......Page 22 1 The Key to Maintaining Peace of Mind......Page 24 2 Universal Spiritual Truths to Remember......Page 44 PART TWO Eight Steps to Personal and Global Healing......Page 58 Step 1 Let Yourself Feel......Page 61 Step 2 Rise above the Details......Page 78 Step 3 Ask Important Spiritual Questions......Page 92 Step 4 Find Opportunity in Crisis......Page 107 Step 5 Let Go: A Time for Prayer......Page 120 Step 6 Decide between Violence and Nonviolence......Page 136 Step 7 Develop and Commit Together to a Purpose of Peace......Page 147 Step 8 Understand and Practice Forgiveness......Page 161 PART THREE Building a Positive Future......Page 176 1 How Tragedy Affects Our Relationships......Page 178 2 How to Overcome Feeling Separate and Helpless......Page 203 3 How to Talk with Our Children about Tragedy......Page 225 4 How to Create a New Vision for Our Lives Following Tragedy......Page 231 Epilogue......Page 246 Suggested Reading......Page 248 Index......Page 253
