Flowers in the Dark:Reclaiming Your Power to Heal from Trauma with Mindfulness

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In this accessible and insightful work, Buddhist nun and former physician Dang Nghiem ( Healing) outlines an approach to healing from trauma by using Buddhism-inspired mindfulness. I take a moment to look at the picture: A large ceramic vase, overflowing with white and pink flowers. You can mean a lot of different things when you make a painting, but ultimately it holds only what the viewer sees in it. After a few more bouts of the terrible cramping, I read a bit more about this idea of heading straight into the pain. It showed a world where everything is planned out and explainable, straightforward and magical at the same time.We will see how mindfulness practice provides a bridge to our inner wisdom and calms the mind and nervous system. After a long day working on a project on the coast south of San Francisco, I check into the Harbor View Inn. Over the years, as I became a Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s tradition, known as the Plum Village Community of Engaged Buddhism, many young people have come to me for counseling and I have taught them the same practices and walked together with them, privileged to witness their healing.