Inviting A Monkey To Tea

Product Description

To invite a monkey to tea" is to befriend your own mind -- which is often compared to a drunken monkey for all its mad twists & turns. A wild monkey is full of irrepressible desires & thus chases its own tail in its search for happiness! This book is about learning to welcome the mind as an ally without fear or resistance thus relaxing that frantic search discovering genuine contentment & resting in the joy of who you are. As a psychotherapist author Nancy Colier has accompanied hundreds of people in their "search for happiness" for nearly two decades. She has watched her clients try everything under the sun to be -- & stay -- happy. Witnessing & participating in this process she has become an expert in happiness or more specifically in the monkey-mind's search & demand for it & the unhappiness that all the striving ultimately creates. Along the way the author has come to understand the workings of the mind -- both from her clients & by her own diligent practice of meditation & self-observation. This book distils the wisdom & experience of her dedicated work & offers readers a roadmap of the territory of mind plus a toolbox of practical means for identifying & working gently with the unrealistic expectations that keep us from the enjoyment of who we are."