Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: brutal honesty regarding the hindrances to awareness -- The karma of closing : our emotional inheritance -- Meditation and how the hindrances have us over the barrel of our monkey minds -- Sidestepping cookie monster : learning to dance with desire -- The boiling point : opening up to turn down the dial on hostility -- Worry warts : restlessness and leaping forward -- Waking the wilting mind : managing sluggishness and dullness -- Becoming a know-(nothing)-it-all : working with doubt -- Karma Chameleon : the path of opening up one's patterning -- Notes -- Index.