Mind Whispering - by Tara Bennett-Goleman (Paperback)

About the Book

With her book Mind Whispering, Tara Bennett-Goleman, the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Alchemy, draws on the the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and Eastern traditions to present a workable means to overcome the negative patterns in our lives.

Mind Whispering is a new map of the emotional mind. This groundbreaking approach shows us that we have a choice of our moods, emotions, actions, and reactions. Mind Whispering teaches how to manage our brains, and incorporate the timeless wisdom of mindfulness into everyday situations.

Ultimately, Mind Whispering exposes the modes of being that act as obstacles in our lives and relationships, and shows us how we can choose to improve our relationships and free ourselves, living with a lasting sense of happiness. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama, Bennett-Goleman's Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits gives you the keys to lasting emotional freedom.

Book Synopsis

With her book Mind Whispering, Tara Bennett-Goleman, the New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Alchemy, draws on the the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and Eastern traditions to present a workable means to overcome the negative patterns in our lives.

Mind Whispering is a new map of the emotional mind. This groundbreaking approach shows us that we have a choice of our moods, emotions, actions, and reactions. Mind Whispering teaches how to manage our brains, and incorporate the timeless wisdom of mindfulness into everyday situations.

Ultimately, Mind Whispering exposes the modes of being that act as obstacles in our lives and relationships, and shows us how we can choose to improve our relationships and free ourselves, living with a lasting sense of happiness. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama, Bennett-Goleman's Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits gives you the keys to lasting emotional freedom.

From the Back Cover

"The road in life forks in every moment, with one path leading toward confusion, separateness, and entanglement, and the other toward clarity, connection, and mental freedom. With mind whispering, the choice can be ours."

Why sometimes do even the smallest events send us into a downward spiral? Whether we're aware of it or not, our feelings and outlook are constantly shaped by learned patterns, or habitual modes of being. These have the power to dictate our sense of wellbeing and our very perceptions of our lives and the world around us. These modes--distinct orchestrations of how we think and feel, how we act and interact--can open us up to delight and wisdom or preoccupy us with fear and despair, driving and distorting our experiences like invisible puppeteers of the mind.

In this engaging and insightful work, New York Times bestselling author Tara Bennett-Goleman offers us new ways to cut the strings of our self-defeating habits and find emotional freedom.

By bringing together the latest in cognitive psychology, the neuroscience of habit change, Eastern philosophy, and her experience with horse whispering, Bennett-Goleman helps liberate us from our most challenging mental roadblocks so we can identify emotional triggers and dysfunctional habits in ourselves and our relationships and begin to build new positive patterns in our lives and our world.

A groundbreaking map of the emotional mind, Mind Whispering helps transform our emotions, improve our relationships, connect us with a wise and compassionate heart, and finally live with a more lasting sense of happiness.

Review Quotes

"In weaving together so many different strands of wisdom and compassionate response, Mind Whispering creates a striking and inspiring tapestry of engaged understanding. Tara Bennett-Goleman draws on an amazingly rich and varied life and in so doing illuminates our path of love and freedom." - Joseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace, and One Dharma
"Bennett-Goleman has written a book of exquisite sensitivity and wisdom, in which she invites us to cultivate a healing relationship to the deepest aspects of ourselves and the world, through 'mind whispering'. Brilliantly synthesising the ancient wisdom of Asia, with modern psychology, she offers a lasting source of nourishment." - Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, and author of Mindfulness
"Tara Bennett-Goleman's Mind Whispering furthers the dialogue of psychology east and west. She is truly a pioneer in the integration of Cognitive Therapy and mindfulness. This book is not only useful for clinicians, but for people in their everyday lives." - Dr. Aaron Beck, Founder of Cognitive Therapy
"Mind Whispering is an inspired and innovative look at the ways we can be tripped up by our habitual thinking. As she did in Emotional Alchemy, Tara puts a refreshingly clear and practical take on the subject, this time beautifully melding the teaching of Buddhism, horse whispering and her own decades of therapeutic practice." - Bonnie Raitt
"With a masterful amalgam of clinical wisdom, modern neuroscience, and ancient Buddhist psychology, Tara Bennett-Goleman's Mind Whispering will teach you how to harness the light touch of a horse whisperer to shed negative emotional habits, raise your positivity ratio, and thereby flourish." - Barbara L. Fredrickson, Ph.D., author of Positivity and Love 2.0
"My dear friend Tara shares her wise and playful insights into why we are continually at the mercy of negative mind patterns and how, if we do the work, we can change them. Genuine and lasting happiness is definitely achievable. Her longtime Buddhist and therapeutic training bring fresh insights through delightful wisdom stories and clear common good sense. Mind Whispering is like spending time with a sane and cherished friend, whose warmth and wisdom we can completely trust." - Richard Gere, actor/activist
"An extraordinarily beautiful, compassionate exploration of the nature of our minds, the roots of our suffering and clear and simple pathway toward healing, Mind Whispering combines insights from western psychology, eastern wisdom and the profound attention and listening required in cross species communication into a fresh and disarmingly obvious way to be delivered into joy and happiness. If you struggle with habits of mind that prevent you from being fully alive, this book is can free you." - Mark Hyman, MD, author of the New York Times bestsellers, The Blood Sugar Solution and The UltraMind Solution.
"Breathtaking in scope, profound in its message and inspiring in its invitation, Mind Whispering has something for everyone. Tara Bennett-Goleman is a psychotherapist, meditator, student of horse whispering, science synthesizer, and arts practitioner who brings all of these extraordinary modes of knowing to understanding the subtle habits of our mind and how we can flourish.This book is brilliant and will be helpful to all!" - Richard J. Davidson, co-author of The Emotional Life of Your Brain
"Mind Whispering is the connection between thought and action, leading to a paradigm shift in consciousness. Tara Bennett- Goleman's poetic story telling is addictive, mesmerizingly beautiful and meditatively calm. Mind Whispering is a little gem, a story of conscious evolution." - Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, Founder and President of the Sarvodaya Movement, also known as "Sri Lanka's Gandhi"
"Tara Bennett-Goleman has done a masterful job in Mind Whispering synthesizing three distinct realms of understanding by combining ancient wisdom practices, modern cognitive psychology, and equestrian "horse whispering" in a unique way that sheds helpful light on our experience of being human. With passionate concern and personal experience with each of these ways of understanding the world, our guide focuses on how states of mind, or "modes" of being, influence our moment-by-moment perceptions, thoughts, and emotions. Through examples of numerous individuals, and of her relationship with her own horse, she demonstrates how the modes of prey or predator shape our sense of reality in rapid and often hidden ways that often repeatedly constrict our emotional lives. Strengthened with these new insights, we are offered empowering suggestions on how to liberate ourselves from automatic modes, such as insecure states of mind, as we learn to create more freedom, kindness, and compassion in our inner and interpersonal lives." - Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., author of Mindsight, Whole-Brain Child, and Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology, Executive Director, Mindsight Institute, and Clinical Professor, UCLA School of Medicine