Here is the first thing you have to know about heartbreak:
YOU'RE GOING TO BE OK.
You really are.
Free Press 2010
$23 Hardcover
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When your heart is broken, you find yourself inhabiting a different planet than the rest of humanity, one where tears erupt at the slightest provocation, hours (and hours) can be spent on fantasies of revenge, reprieve, and regret, and every single thing that happens in the course of an ordinary day becomes either a good omen or an awful one in your quest to heal your heart. Waking and sleeping, heartbreak becomes your whole world. Sorrow (your own or others') pierces you to the core. Joy (your own or others') does as well. You are keenly attuned to the presence or absence of love. Things that used to trouble you are revealed as inconsequential. Any certainty you had about the future is gone and you have to let go of the past.
Welcome to the world of poets, adventurers, sages, and saints. According to wisdom tradition, this is how they see the world all the time. Every moment is alive with meaning. 100% of their focus is on love. The conventional world holds no flavor and there is only the present moment. This is your world now. It has a lot to teach you.
The Wisdom of a Broken Heart is about learning those lessons and becoming stronger, smarter, more loving, and, ultimately, the possessor of a kind of happiness that is indestructible.
More Information
There are five things you can do to right now to begin to heal your heartache.
1. Learn to Meditate
For meditation resources, click here.
2. Practice Lovingkindness (first toward yourself)
Instruction in Loving kindness here.
3. Share Your Story
Please open this questionnaire and answer the questions as best you can. The questions are designed to help you dig below the surface of your heartache and get to know it a little better. This helps you regain some control. If you feel comfortable doing so, please go to my blog and post your story here. It helps others so much to know that they aren’t alone. Feel free to post anonymously.
4. Consider doing the 7-Day program in The Wisdom of a Broken Heart.
It is designed to help you begin changing your life immediately--in a lasting way. It is in the book which you can buy here, Click here for a book excerpt describing the program. Coming soon, this page will go into ever more detail.
5. Email me
I can't promise I'll get back to you quickly, but I want to hear your story and I will get back to you. I'll also include you in my meditation practice and do a Buddhist version of sending you good vibes.
About the Book
The Wisdom of a Broken Heart draws on Buddhist teachings on how to make your heart strong and whole. With exercises and instructions designed to help you cultivate peace, compassion, and joy, you will acquire the quaiities that enable your heart to heal.
It is divided into four parts:
1. Relax
Insights and techniques to help you lessen the pain immediately.
2. See Where You Are
Insights and techniques to help you work skillfully with the pain should it re-arise.
3. Be Where You Are
eInsights and techniques to help you rediscover happiness in a whole new way.
4. From Brokenhearted to Wholehearted, Learning to Breathe Again: A 7-Day Program
A step-by-step program for healing and strengthening your heart and rouse insight, joy, and love.
“The Wisdom of a Broken Heart is an achingly beautiful window into the softest part of us, helping us make friends with the deepest part of our soul. Yet, as always, Piver leads us from brokenness to openness without our hardly noticing. This book is a gift to anyone who knows there is some juicy aliveness at the bottom of pain and wants a way to feel whole again.” —Mark Hyman, MD, author of UltraMetabolism and The UltraMind Solution
