Emotional Alchemy

How The Mind Can Heal The Heart
Tara Bennett-Goleman

In his forward to the book Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman, the Dalai Lama identifies the desire and attainment of happiness as the fundamental human life purpose. With an opening like that - who can disagree?

The Dalai Lama explains that because our feelings, what he terms "disturbing emotion
s", can be reinterpreted through the strength of the mind, healing the mind can lead us to a path of happiness. In her book, Bennett-Goleman shows us a way of reaching that happiness.

This book can almost be considered the sequel to
Emotional Intelligence, written by Bennett-Goleman's husband. The pair certainly seems to have things all worked out!
Bennett-Goleman's approach to self-healing combines Buddhist concepts of mindfulness and compassion, with Western principles of psychotherapy. She uses the metaphor of the legendary tales of alchemy - the alchemists' transformation of lead into gold - as symbolic of our potential psychological and spiritual transformation to a more peaceful mental state.

Emotional Alchemy shows us a way in which the mind can be returned to a purer form of happiness that existed before our negative emotional habits set in. Without doubt, if you are on a mindful journey towards a higher level of happiness, Bennett-Goleman's book can help you on your travels.

Author: Elisabetta Celata