Title Page -- The Destitute Child -- Introduction -- part one - TEACHINGS ON HEALING -- One - The Energy of Mindfulness -- The Mind Needs Good Circulation -- Occupying the Living Room -- Dismantling Barriers -- The Function of Mindfulness -- Two - We Are Our Ancestors, We Are Our Children -- Interbeing -- The Karma of Thought, Speech, and Action -- Walking with Our Ancestors -- Habit Energy -- Three - Original Fear, Original Desire -- Knowing We Have Enough -- Caught in the Past -- Appropriate Attention -- Learning from Suffering -- The Five Remembrances -- Four - Breathing, Walking, and Letting Go -- Recognizing and Calming Painful Feelings -- Deep Relaxation -- No Distinction between Means and Ends -- Taking Care of Painful Feelings -- Leaving Behind -- Beneath the Surface -- Letting Go -- Mindfulness -- Letting the Buddha Breathe -- Five - Transforming Suffering -- Acknowledging Suffering -- Introducing Manas -- The Six Characteristics of Manas -- Transforming Manas -- The Wisdom of Nondiscrimination -- Happiness and Suffering -- Nourishment -- Accepting Life as It Is -- Six - Healing the Inner Child -- Meditation on the Five-Year-Old Child -- Listening to Your Inner Child -- Talking to Your Inner Child -- A Conversation with Your Inner Child -- Writing a Letter to Your Inner Child -- Sharing Delights with Your Inner Child -- Sitting with Sangha Friends -- Seven - Reconciliation -- Wrong Perceptions -- Healing Our Relationships with Our Family -- Expanding Our Heart -- Metta Meditation -- Peace Treaty -- Writing a Letter -- Three Sentences for Reconciliation -- A Letter of Reconciliation -- Lack of Skillfulness -- Reconciling with Ourselves -- When We've Hurt Other People -- What Prevents Us from Being Happy? -- Transforming the Past in the Present Moment -- Eight - Becoming a Bodhisattva -- The End of Misunderstanding -- Homo Conscious.

Bodhicitta -- part two - STORIES OF HEALING -- Little Eyes -- What Can I Do to Help? -- The Real Me -- Sitting with a Friend -- part three - HEALING PRACTICES -- Practice - Removing the Object (from the Buckeye Sangha) -- Practice - The Sixteen Breathing Exercises -- The First Set of Four Exercises: The Body -- The Second Set of Four Exercises: Feelings -- The Third Set of Four Exercises: The Mind -- The Last Set of Four Exercises: Perceptions -- Practice - A Letter from Your Inner Child (Glen Schneider) -- Practice - The Five Earth Touchings -- Practice - Peace Note -- Practice - Beginning Anew -- Practice - Emotional Release and Physical Movement (Thay Phap An) -- Copyright Page.