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For victims of injustice, embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. Magee shows us how to slow down and reflect on microaggressions–to hold them with some objectivity and distance–rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. She helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division.
It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee’s hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road map to a more peaceful world. -- from publisher
Table of Contents:
Grounding --
Pausing and reckoning --
Sitting with compassionate racial awareness --
Honoring and remembering --
Mindfulness practice as ColorInsight practice --
True inheritance --
Seeing --
Looking at the reality of racism --
Deepening insight through compassion --
Seeing implicit bias --
RAINing racism : recognizing, accepting, and investigating racism with non-identification --
Developing mindful racial literacy amid complexity --
Making the invisible visible through mindfulness --
Being --
Mindful social connection --
Personal justice --
Entering a room full of people (and elephants), and leaving a community --
From identity-safety to bravery --
Particularity as the doorway to empathy and common humanity --
Doing --
"Fuck!" and other mindful communications --
Deconstructing whiteness and race --
Color-blind racism and its consequences --
The wolf in the water: working with strong emotion in real time --
In living color: walking the walk of mindful racial justice --
Liberating --
Walking each other home --
That everything may heal us --
Hearts without borders: Deep interpersonal mindfulness --
Stepping into freedom.
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New Age. Psychology. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:�??Illuminates the very heart of social justice and how it might be approached and nurtured through mindfulness practices in community and through the discernment and new degrees of freedom these practices entrain.�?� �??from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn In a society where unconscious bias, microaggressions, institutionalized racism, and systemic injustices are so deeply ingrained, healing is an ongoing process. When conflict and division are everyday realities, our instincts tell us to close ranks, to find the safety of those like us, and to blame others. This book profoundly shows that in order to have the difficult conversations required for working toward racial justice, inner work is essential. Through the practice of embodied mindfulness�??paying attention to our thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations in an open, nonjudgmental way�??we increase our emotional resilience, recognize our own biases, and become less reactive when triggered. As Sharon Salzberg, New York Times-bestselling author of Real Happiness writes, �??Rhonda Magee is a significant new voice I've wanted to hear for a long time�??a voice both unabashedly powerful and deeply loving in looking at race and racism.�?� Magee shows that embodied mindfulness calms our fears and helps us to exercise self-compassion. These practices help us to slow down and reflect on microaggressions�??to hold them with some objectivity and distance�??rather than bury unpleasant experiences so they have a cumulative effect over time. Magee helps us develop the capacity to address the fears and anxieties that would otherwise lead us to re-create patterns of separation and division. It is only by healing from injustices and dissolving our personal barriers to connection that we develop the ability to view others with compassion and to live in community with people of vastly different backgrounds and viewpoints. Incorporating mindfulness exercises, research, and Magee's hard-won insights, The Inner Work of Racial Justice offers a road… (more)