Choosing What's Chosen You

About the Book

Choosing What's Chosen You is a unique self-help workbook that will guide you through the process of developing lovingkindness toward yourself and others. The reader is asked to choose a personal learning goal to explore through the Eastern practice of Lojong, which includes helpful slogans and daily meditation. Hundreds of probing questions, revealing the preciousness and impermanence of life, and distinguishing between needless and inevitable suffering, are used to promote inner healing.

A learning goal might focus on the needless suffering caused by a sense of unworthiness, insecurity, loneliness, or abandonment that limits your ability to open your heart to yourself, or to others. Author Mark Pelter provides a way to change how you relate to your emotional issues.

Choosing What's Chosen You uncovers your real emotional need for a heart connection to self, others, higher consciousness or God/dess. Working through this process will help you to develop your ability to meet core level needs by transforming painful emotions into your personal path of freedom. This workbook can be used over and over again throughout your life. It is a step-by-step guide for consciously choosing, meeting, and embracing your own humanity.

About the Author

Mark Pelter is the Director of Twelve Meadows, A Center for Renewal located in the High Sierras of California. He has been a spiritual guidance counselor for 20 years. His training includes the study of Western and Eastern wisdom teachings as well as 12 years of Buddhist monastic life. Mark holds a BA in Psychology, an MA in Consciousness Studies, a Masters of Divinity Degree, and is a Board Certified Chaplain. He has also narrated the meditation instruction CD entitled Same Old Zafu.