The Tao of Fully Feeling

Harvesting Forgiveness out of Blame

By: Pete Walker

Narrated by: Christopher Grove

Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

The price of emotional renunciation is a constant, wasteful expenditure of energy that leaves us depressed and taciturn, imprisoned in the apathy and ennui of the "seen that, been there, done that" syndrome. When we surrender and soften to our feelings, we reconnect with our inborn vitality and with the invaluable instinct and intuition that our feelings naturally carry.

The Tao of Fully Feeling describes the middle ground of emotional aliveness that lies between emotional deadness and emotional explosiveness. It helps us to soften and relax into our feelings without exiling them or enshrining them. It guides us to be emotionally expressive in benign, intimacy-enhancing ways.

The Tao of Fully Feeling teaches us to respond to our painful and potentially disruptive feelings in healthy ways. It illustrates the enriching aspects of the so-called negative emotions and helps us achieve the emotional flexibility whereby sadness easily mellows into solace, anger unfolds into laughter, fear evolves into excitement, jealousy opens up into appreciation, and blame gives way to forgiveness.

The Tao of Fully Feeling refutes the black-and-white notion that blame is never justifiable. It describes safe, nondestructive ways of feeling and expressing blame - ways that ironically enhance our capacity to feel genuine forgiveness.

When we authentically forgive our parents, we know what we are forgiving them for and what specifically was blameworthy about their behavior in the first place. When we forgive before we blame, we risk dragging the full weight of our childhood hurt and anger around forever, like an exhausted backpacker who is too dulled and over-trusting to notice that someone has put a boulder in his/her pack.

©1995 Pete Walker (P)2019 Tantor

Powerful

Everyone should read this book!! It was very well spoken and such great healing content!

This book will heal you

Probably the most healing book I've listened to yet. I feel validated, understood, and like I have the tools to make things better.

This book should be required reading for everyone

This is the gold standard for instructions on dealing with emotions. It is truly EPIC!

Awesome book!

I have never heard anyone describe the emotions and processing them in such a detailed way. So helpful. Very validating. The book is invaluable in understanding and healing childhood wounds

love it

sooooo good!!!!!🌝🌝🌝🌝 this book is a life saver!
Ive learned more from it than i did from
years of therapists ! thanks Pete😘😘😘

Life Changing

Pete Walker’s work has had a profound impact on my life. Pete shares his experience in finding and processing emotions in a way that is relatable and provides clear ways to arrive at a place of “fully feeling”. Highly recommend getting a hard copy too.

wonderfully written and read.

love this book. will definitely refer to friends. will put to great use in my life

A much needed perspective

This book teaches us to come out of denial and appreciate our emotions for what they are: a part of us. Sounds simple, but it's far from it.

Monotone Narrator Kind of Ironic for Fully Feeling

I love Pete Walker and have benefitted immensely from his work. I wish he'd narrated this audio book himself or had chosen someone who was more skilled at emoting while reading. The narrator's monotone wasn't just less than ideal, it interfered with my ability to track the material, understand it, and to retain it afterward. I'm glad that I also got the text edition of this work so that I can more fully absorb it by reading it.

The voice

I literally can’t get past the voice actor. Please make options available, I legit got a headache.