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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss Paperback – July 1, 2005

by Sameet M. Kumar PhD (Author)
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Grief is a personal journey, never the same for any two people and as unique as your life and your relationships. Although loss is an inevitable part of life, how you approach this fact can make the difference between meaningless pain and the manifestation of understanding and wisdom. This book describes a mindful approach to dealing with grief that can help you make that difference.

By walking this mindful path, you will discover that you are capable of transforming and healing the grief you carry and finding the spiritual and emotional resilience you need to move through this challenging time. These mindfulness practices, explained here in simple and practical language, will help you bear your time of grief. But they will do more than that, too. They will guide you to a life more fully lived, with more meaning. These simple practices will help you experience what richness comes from asking deeper questions about loss and about life.

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“Grief and loss are dreaded experiences that many wish to either avoid or to rapidly solve. In Grieving Mindfully, Kumar offers the alternative of welcoming the experience as an opportunity to develop our humanity. This book offers a path to healthy grieving for people encountering losses of many kinds.”
—Richard Tedeschi, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte



“Kumar’s approach to dealing with grief and loss is creative and radically transformative. Drawing on his experience as a practicing psychologist and his training in the Buddhist enlightenment tradition, he suggests that instead of hiding from our grief, trying to forget or get over it, we take a more demanding and rewarding path—walking straight through grief with mindful awareness, fearless observance, and profound compassion. His book has the potential to bring strength and healing to the millions who grieve and to revolutionize the approach of psychologists and counselors working with those in profound grief.”
—Glenn H Mullin, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition

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A powerful and effective combination of mindfulness meditation techniques and moment-to-moment awareness, along with proven psychological strategies, helps readers cope with, understand, and transform their grief.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Harbinger Publications; 1st edition (July 1, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1572244011
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1572244016
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Sameet Kumar, Ph.D., is the clinical psychologist for the Memorial Cancer Institute in Broward County, Florida. He specializes in working with cancer patients and their caregivers. In addition to his training as a psychologist using mindfulness-based therapies, he has also studied with many leading Buddhist and Hindu teachers. He is the author of Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination: Letting Go of Anxious and Depressive Thoughts and Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief.

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Olnes famly
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books about the grieving process
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
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I have used this book over and over through fairly simple losses and much more difficult and even complex ones. With each loss, this book has offered me unique help to process my loss. I believe that by doing many of the exercises I was able to dive deep into my grieving process and also allow myself to not feel so lost. I have given this book to countless friends during times of loss as well.
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Nathanael Greene
5.0 out of 5 stars Me too - FIVE STARS. Plus, Deliverance!
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016
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"There is strength in numbers!" The other "five star" reviewers have stolen any thunder I could have added to what they have already said. But I can contribute my own "five star" rating in appreciation, to bolster the total number of customer approvals.

I am very gratified that so many reviewers have merited this book with "five star" ratings, as well as those who have posted "four star" ratings - thanks to them all.

This book seems to have been published by an obscure publisher, which may not have a significant market position to bring the existence of this book to the attention of a wide consuming public. This possibility made me worry about the public recognition this book should be receiving - I feared it may become a buried treasure from the consuming public, unknown to many who experience grief, and could benefit from this book's healthful wisdom.

One minor detail in this book had a seismic impact on me, i.e., the author's distinction between "grief" and depression, and how a person's "natural" grief may evolve into depression. Depression is such an over-worked and often misunderstood concept, yet here depression is connected with a person's "natural" grieving process. Even the Buddha said that grieving is natural, and people will feel what people naturally feel - there is nothing "wrong" with a person who grieves over a significant loss.

The book's pay-off comes when the book moves beyond the "coping" content, to discuss how the powerful emotion of grief can be utilized as a driving force for a transformation of one's life. Metamorphosis. Great stuff. Plus good discussions of the application of Buddhist concepts of "impermanence" (a central concept), compassion, equanimity, "no-self," as well as 'spirituality,' in general.
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E-Gypsy
4.0 out of 5 stars Grieving Mindfully
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2013
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This is a useful book giving practical advice about dealing with grief. The author is a therapist with Buddhist background, but the principles fit any religion. I liked the examples given from his counseling practice, and I thought the later chapters of the book (which were more concrete) were easier to read and apply. He provides many useful and productive ideas and perspectives that could help a person who is grieving a relationship loss, job loss, or other kinds of loss. I will keep the book and likely read later chapters again, as it is the kind of book that will lead you to deeper understandings if you read it at different times in your life.
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Matter
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievably helpful
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012
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First of all, if you're looking at this book and the reviews and deciding whether or not to get it, it probably means that either you or a loved one are grieving and trying to find some help. If so, get this book, you'll be happy that you did.

I picked up this book when dealing with a very shocking and difficult break-up, which I don't think is the typical reason people might be looking for this book, but, as the book points out, grieving can occur whenever you lose anything that you value. It could be the loss of a loved one, and also the loss of a job, a relationship, or any other change in your life where something that you once "had" is now gone. The book, I think, was a key part of my getting over that loss as well as I did, and now I read the book whenever I'm struggling with another loss.

The key part of the book is that it teaches you to accept grief for what it is, not what other people say it should be or what you think you should be experiencing at a given point. That acceptance is crucial, both in helping you to not beat yourself up over something you can't help at a time when you already feel pretty low, and also because it sets the foundation for the other methods described to help you cope. It's not something I've picked up anywhere else, and it's very helpful.

Also, although it's based on some basic Buddhist principles, mainly impermanence, the methods taught could easily be used by everybody. The book doesn't really get into Buddhism that much, and doesn't describe things in Buddhist terms, so it worked well for me as a secular Buddhist, and I think should work for most people.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delivered in time, and in excellent condition
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023
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Sapheryn
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a light in the darkness.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2019
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When my mother died unexpectedly and far too young, I remember having the thought in the ER, “I don’t know if I can survive this. Or even want to.” I was single at the time and she was my *person*. She was my mother, best friend, who I talked to every day and the primary person I walked this life with. It felt like she was my everything.

I’ve always coped with life by reading and immediately began looking for a book to guide me through something that felt not just difficult but impossible. This is the book that will do that for you. I bought three, one for each of my brothers, too, and asked them to read it along with me. They would tell you the same thing that I am.

Whatever courage or hope or validation you need, you will find it here. Knowing that we are all walking this path together and the emotions that you are feeling, maybe for the first time, are normal brings a strength to keep going. Buy this book for yourself or someone you love who is facing the mountain of grief. And this book is compatible with any religious belief or lack thereof.
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airracepilot
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful reading for a grieving person. Highly recommended. Thanks
Reviewed in Canada on March 14, 2020
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This is an excellent little book for a grieving person.
The author is also a practicing Buddhist and I found some of the aphorisms very helpful in my grief journey.
I'm not a religious person, I am aware of spirituality, this book has been extremely comforting on my grief journey. My wife died five months ago and this book came to me after three months. So I bought my own.
If I could give it more stars I would
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Tabbycat
5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful help to those who have lost a loved one
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2016
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I recently lost my husband after an exhausting year caring for him with cancer. He was young and we were happy. This book has been a companion to me - I bought on the recommendations on here- and although nothing will take away the pain of losing him, this book has helped me to bear the awful waves of grief that at times can threaten to overwhelm me. It is a hopeful but doesn't shy away from the reality of grief. It helps me to know that even grief isn't a permanent state of being- even though at times it can feel that way. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone suffering from loss.
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maya
5.0 out of 5 stars Grieving
Reviewed in Germany on July 8, 2013
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Easy to read and understand. I just started reading it but i like it very much. It Helps so far.
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Glo
5.0 out of 5 stars Soothing
Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2021
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I love reading this insightful book. My father just passed away, I needed to get a hold of something so promising in words as it is this book. When i feel acute grief coming about, I grab Grieving Mindfully and process peacefully the wise words of this writer. Thankyou. Very helpful.
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Billie
5.0 out of 5 stars Grieving Mindfully: A good companion for the bereaved looking for a way through the darkness.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2015
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This book is a very good companion in the early days, weeks and months of grief. It helps you find things to hold on to that will get you through the days and ways for coping longer term. If your loss was a sudden one I would also recommend 'I wasn't ready to say goodbye' by Blake Noel the two of them combined are helping me through the darkest time in my life. Highly recommended if you are battling grief without people close around you all the time.

Mindfulness really does help you look at things in a different way, you might not manage it all the time, but it really helps.
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