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Reconciliation

By: Thich Nhat Hanh
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
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Publisher's summary

Based on Dharma talks by Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and insights from participants in retreats for healing the inner child, Reconciliation is an exciting contribution to the growing trend of using Buddhist practices to encourage mental health and wellness.

Reconciliation focuses on the mindful awareness of our emotions and the healing of our relationships as well as meditations and exercises to acknowledge and transform the hurt that many of us experienced as children. Hanh shows how anger, sadness, and fear can become joy and tranquility by learning to breathe with, explore, meditate, and speak about our strong emotions.

Written for a wide audience and accessible to people of all backgrounds and spiritual traditions, Reconciliation offers specific practices designed to bring healing and release for people suffering from childhood trauma.

©2010 Unified Buddhist Church (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Life Changing book

After a lifetime struggle coming to terms with severe trauma as a child, I have found in this book an answer to how to heal. I am now 79!

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Excellent content but poor narration

I have to reread this book in a physical copy because the narrator’s voice is very mournful. If you’ve ever heard Thich Nhat Hanh speak, he has a way of speaking the most serious topics with joy. I have liked all the other narrators for Thich Nhat Hanh’s books but this particular narrator... I just couldn’t get over how sad his voice was- it was very distracting and not in align with the nourishing content of the book.

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A well-written. well-narrated intro to inner child healing

This invaluable narration takes the listener to reflect first hand on inner child healing with anecdotes that fit well in one's history.

There is so much to learn from this audiobook book I had to listen to it three times: while driving, while working out, at home. As a result of the listening, my notes are copious, my action list long. My healing has begun.

Wonderful book. Highly recommended to anybody.

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Unhelpful in the extreme

Yet another book that counsels writing love letters to your terrible parents. Thich Naht Hanh, bless him, has no idea what it is like to have terrible parents.

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Reconciliation by Thich Nhat Hanh

Would you consider the audio edition of Reconciliation to be better than the print version?

It was very good in the audio version. I don't have the print version to compare with the audio version.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Reconciliation?

When he read about connecting with your inner child and healing wounds from childhood.

Have you listened to any of Edoardo Ballerini’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No, first one

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

Not really. It was all good.

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I liked the performer and his voice.

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A Meditation

If you’re looking for a guided meditation, slow this one and listen while following the breath. Slow down the speed and use the timer function to time as need.

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Exceptional!!!

I very much enjoyed this book, so much so I am re-listening to it; as to continue to learn from it. Yes the author speaks from a Budist Philosophy perspective, which I enjoyed. but if you listen to the message it pertains to all of us regardless to our beliefs. For those reviewers who rejected this book because of this you lost out on an important lesson. I highly recommend you add this book to your reading list.

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Get the printed copy, great book, but the narration is terrible

This is the great book but very bad narration. Ironically the book should make you feel centered, grounded and uplifted, but all you feel is anger at the syrupy, cooing tone of voice of the narrator. Where was the editor? Have to return it and get a printed copy.

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Top notch!

TNH is the True Master of our time. This book is indispensable!!! A must read for all!

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Priceless wisdom for seekers of any faith

I discovered Thich Nhat Hanh by accident scrolling through Audible, and downloaded this book for free. Like most of the best things, that small whisper from the universe has changed my whole course of thinking - about God, the nature of my relationship to His creation, and my own relationship to my Christian faith.

The trick is that he doesn’t actually TALK about any of these things. But only the simple everyday practices that heal us : the practice of seeing deeply and embracing all things - even suffering - so that we can heal our own hearts deepen our own understanding of others. That, he says, is how we change the world.

I find myself refreshed and quieter, able to see past my own church-taught guilt and shame to the glowing soul that is each of us. And I can see again with “beginner’s eyes” my own path as it really is, unclouded.

This is the 3rd time through this transformative text, because the focus is entirely on me and practices I can do to alleviate my own suffering, right now. My whole self resonates with the truth here, and I think even if - or especially if - you are a monotheist or a Christian, you will find sparkling gems that bring you closer to your own true being, seeing as we are seen and knowing as we are known.

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