{"product_id":"9781594734199","title":"Blessed Relief: What Christians Can Learn from Buddhists about Suffering","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA thoughtful, down-to-earth look at helpful ways to lessen human suffering.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes you on a lively, sometimes light-hearted, journey through nine Buddhist practices that can bring \"blessed relief\" to a wide range of human suffering—and teaches you skills to reduce suffering in the long term for yourself and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe practices help you: Loosen the grip of suffering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngage and question limiting views, thoughts and opinions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeconstruct ten common assumptions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBe present in each moment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSurvive emotional storms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevelop peaceful communication skills\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeepen communication with your partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppreciate mortality and the preciousness of life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCultivate compassion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs you read the chapters and engage in each practice, you will work with your own stories of suffering—stories in which you have felt abandoned, deprived, subjugated, defective, excluded or vulnerable—and you will learn how to release yourself from suffering by investigating it with curiosity and kindness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turner Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182768374000,"sku":"9781594734199","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781594734199_p0.jpg?v=1763810614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781594734199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}