{"product_id":"healing-into-life-and-death","title":"Healing Into Life and Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eStephen Levine spent decades sitting with the dying. What he discovered there — about pain, about healing, about the startling mercy available in the midst of suffering — became one of the most quietly transformative books in contemplative medicine. \u003cem\u003eHealing Into Life and Death\u003c\/em\u003e is not a book about getting better. It is a book about becoming more fully present to whatever is: pain, grief, illness, loss, and the extraordinary possibility of an open heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on Buddhist meditation practice and years of work with the terminally ill alongside his partner Ondrea, Levine offers original techniques for working with physical and emotional pain, practices for cultivating merciful awareness, and a vision of healing that reaches beyond cure into something far more enduring. Endorsed by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Ram Dass, and Gerald Jampolsky, this is a book that has accompanied countless readers through the hardest passages of a human life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers drawn to contemplative literature, \u003cem\u003eHealing Into Life and Death\u003c\/em\u003e is both a spiritual classic and a living practice — for those facing serious illness, for caregivers and therapists, and for anyone seeking a more honest and tender relationship with their own mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore more on healing and mortality: Continue with \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/radical-acceptance-embracing-your-life-with-the-heart-of-a-buddha\"\u003eRadical Acceptance\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e by Tara Brach for the practice of meeting life with compassion, or explore \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/the-wild-edge-of-sorrow-rituals-of-renewal-and-the-sacred-work-of-grief\"\u003eThe Wild Edge of Sorrow\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e by Francis Weller for the sacred work of grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOriginal techniques for working with physical and emotional pain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePractices for developing merciful awareness as a path to healing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuidance for supporting others through illness, grief, and dying\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA vision of healing that embraces rather than resists what is\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWisdom drawn from Buddhist meditation and decades of hospice work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen Levine was a poet, meditation teacher, and one of the foremost voices in the conscious dying movement. Alongside his partner Ondrea Levine, he worked for decades with the terminally ill and the bereaved, and authored numerous beloved works including \u003cem\u003eA Year to Live\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWho Dies?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e Those facing serious illness or loss, caregivers and hospice workers, therapists and counselors, readers of Ram Dass or Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, practitioners of Buddhist meditation, anyone exploring the relationship between healing and mortality, and seekers of a more conscious relationship with life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperback edition. Stephen Levine's enduring classic on healing, pain, and the opening of the heart — timeless wisdom for the most difficult passages of a human life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephen Levine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48117047427203,"sku":"BS-3QC-262194","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/1583\/7571\/files\/9780385262194-HD.jpg?v=1788739908","url":"https:\/\/www.merceliarose.com\/products\/healing-into-life-and-death","provider":"Mercelia Rose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}