Product Description

How to transform all aspects of our lives through the traditional Tibetan skills of positive thinking.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40871 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-12
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Carolyn Myss, author of Anatomy of Spirit
'The Tibetan Art of Living is an exceptional and essential book for everyone's library. It's absolutely brilliant.'

Synopsis
It is common knowledge that the way we think profoundly affects our health and happiness. As Tibetan Bon culture has known for centuries, true, original thought is one of the most powerful energy resources that we each have, and tapping into it can bring us great spiritual, emotional and financial success. But, as Christopher Hansard - leading authority in Tibetan medicine - explains, most of us don't know how to think effectively. What we imagine to be thoughts are simply reactions to our environment and to other people, and are far removed from 'original thought', which has the power to transform lives. In this enlightening book, Hansard shows us how to take control of our thinking. Using simple meditations and exercises he shows how we can each harness the power of positive thinking to block negativity, transform emotions, and discover the deepest meaning of our lives, to make it the life we truly want to live.

About the Author
Christopher Hansard was trained in the spiritual and medical traditions of Tibetan medicine from the age of 4 and is now a leading practitioner in the field. He is Director of Clinical Affairs at the Eden Medical Centre, London. He writes a weekly column on herbal medicine in the Sunday Express magazine and a monthly column for the Life section of the Express. He regularly appears on TV and newspapers in Britain, Europe and the US. He is married with a young daughter.

Customer Reviews

Good book but!
I liked the book and what it was trying to get over about how to change your life, but it did not explain HOW to MEDITATE. It just assumed you already knew.

The Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking
I saw a review of this book in a health magazine, while in hospital. As soon as I got home I bought it on impulse and read it straight away. It turned out to be one of the best purchases of my life. Each time I find myself overwhelmed by things I re-read the relevant section of the book; every single time something happens - probably inside me - that makes things turn better.
It is strange and fascinating.
I would recommend this book to everyone and have lent it to my friends. It changed my life, it may change yours...!

Not everybody's cup of tea.
I must say that I was not greatly impressed by this book. Mr Hansard clearly knows all about the Tibetan Bon tradition, but I found his style of writing cluttered and overblown - it took me several days to plough through it all. When I had finished I felt that he could have said as much in half the space. Some of his ideas are basically common sense dressed up in frankly pretentious language and with a complete absence of humour. These same ideas could be readily obtained, in a far more simple way, from many self help books obtainable in an average sized bookshop. What I found useful were some of the visualing techniques and this may appeal to some people, but again visualising effectively is not a skill that everyone can manage. From my experience working with people who suffer from deep seated trauma and stress issues, visualising can achieve very little. I would say that the most likely people who will benefit from this book are those who are fairly well grounded and balanced but are going through a temporarily difficult period. For such people buried away there are some useful ideas that could help in getting them back onto an even keel. I have my doubts however that this book will provide a blueprint for life or offer some kind of deep life changing insight for more than a minority of its readers.