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Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict Hardcover – April 8, 2008

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Are you wrestling with your demons? Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction, or anger? Renowned American Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. If we want to liberate ourselves from the fight once and for all, we must reverse our approach and nurture our demons.

In Feeding Your Demons, Allione adapts the revolutionary wisdom of Tibet’s greatest female spiritual master for the first time, providing a powerful method for coping with the inner enemies that undermine your best intentions. Based on an extraordinarily simple yet effective five-step practice, Feeding Your Demons outlines a strategy for transforming negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. By recognizing your demons, giving them form, and then feeding them, you can free yourself from the battle. And the paradigm shift from fighting to feeding demons can apply not only to your personal challenges but also to the challenges of the world at large. 

Enriched with detailed examples to show how others have transformed their demons, Feeding Your Demons will give you remarkable new insight into the forces that threaten to defeat you, along with the tools to achieve inner peace.

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"Tsultrim Allione has performed a remarkable feat of cultural translation and offered the western world a new treasure. With exquisite detail and accuracy she shows us how we can transform the energy of addiction, shame, illness, anxiety, fear, and anger into the energy of liberation."―Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"In Feeding Your Demons Tsultrim Allione offers us a powerful and transformative practice...one that can heal the deepest wounds and reveal profound spiritual truths. What is so striking is how, through her own tremendous clarity and heart, Allione brings this practice alive and renders it truly accessible. This book will serve all those who want to untangle the tangles with wisdom and love."
 ―Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance

"Tsultrim Allione shows us what life could look like if we were not struggling, not hating ourselves for our problems and frailties, but rather were relating to these challenges with awareness and compassion. She illuminates a clear and practical guide to transformation, based on her many years of exceptional meditation training."
 ―Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

"Feeding Your Demons is a bold, beautiful, and original work, a book that Carl Jung could only have dreamed of writing. Bringing the wisdom of Tibet straight into our daily lives, Tsultrim Allione shares the accumulated fruits of her own deep understanding. She does this in a completely accessible way, taking the most profound insights and rendering them simply and straightforwardly without compromising them. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, a gift to all who read it."―Mark Epstein, M.D., author of Thoughts without a Thinker and Psychotherapy without the Self

"Feeding Your Demons offers an original and powerful approach to challenging the forces at work in the shadows of our psyche. Tsultrim Allione has done a masterful job of translating ancient-and fascinating-methods to heal modern emotional troubles."
 ―Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence

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Tsultrim Allione was one of the first Western women to be ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She is considered an authority in the world of American religious life, recognized as an emanation of Machig Labdrön by the resident Lama at Zangri Khangmar, and chapters have been written about her in several books. Allione is the founder and director of Tara Mandala, a retreat center in Colorado and the author of the classic Women of Wisdom.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown Spark; First Edition (April 8, 2008)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316013137
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316013130
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1 x 8.5 inches
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    Lama Tsultrim Allione is an author, internationally known Buddhist teacher, and the founder and resident lama of Tara Mandala Retreat Center. She is the author of Women of Wisdom and national bestseller, Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, which is now translated into seventeen languages, and Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine, May 2018. Born in New England to an academic and publishing family, Lama Tsultrim traveled to India in her late teens and in 1970, at the age of twenty-two, was ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun by H. H. the Sixteenth Karmapa. After four years living as a nun in the Himalayan region, she returned her monastic vows, married, and raised a family of three children. She has a Master's degree in Buddhist Studies/Women's Studies from Antioch University. Her writings and teachings come from her sublime Tibetan lamas as well as her experience as a Western woman and mother. She is known for her ability to translate the wisdom of the ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition into clear teachings that are relatable and relevant to Western audiences. Lama Tsultrim continues to guide Tara Mandala as the resident lama and thousands of students around the world. She was named Buddhist Woman of the Year in 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand.

    Tara Mandala Retreat Center is a vibrant international Buddhist community centered on 700-acres in the San Juan Mountains near Pagosa Springs, CO. Under the spiritual direction of Lama Tsultrim, Tara Mandala hosts various group retreats each year and is home to numerous solo retreat cabins and a three-level Tara Temple which celebrates the sacred feminine in the Buddhist tradition.

    For more information on Lama Tsultrim Allione watch a documentary on her life story “Feeding Your Demons,” www.bit.ly/FYDdocumentary, and visit the Tara Mandala website, www.taramandala.org.

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Mountain Mystic
5.0 out of 5 stars At last, the essence of Chöd for Westerners
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2014
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This book is an excellent little tome which describes a simple five-step process created by Lama Tsultrim Allione to present the essence of Chöd, the Tibetan practice of feeding the demons to achieve liberation from them. The practice itself is simple, yet as all things related to our Shadow, there is much to be known as well. I especially liked knowing more about Machig Lapdrön from whom the Chöd pracitce comes, and knowing more about the many different kinds of 'demon' that she described in her writings almost a thousand years ago.

Machig Lapdrön said that 'a demon is anything which stands in the way of our liberation", and in this book and in this practice, I am learning how to meet these demons, gods and god-demons, and am learning how to transform them into ally energies that help me rather than hinder me. The practice is simple. The results are astounding. If you are looking for inner work that is completely transformational, buy this and begin feeding your demons today.
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Michaela Kapilla
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful!
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2008
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I have found the perspective of Feeding Your Demons to be insightful and wise and the technique itself to be invaluable. Over the years I have explored and benefited from both meditation, yoga and breathing practices from the East as well as various psychological insights and practices from the West. With Feeding Your Demons, I am experiencing the result of a beautiful melding of the wisdom of both orientations.

Even before trying the process itself, I found that just reading the book brought a way of seeing myself and my life that was richly rewarding. I felt some doubt about my ability to do the technique, though, because I don't visualize easily or well (visualization being part of the process). But the good news is that even without clear visualization, I have grown to trust and feel comfortable with my own way of experiencing the technique (it is usually more a feeling sense than `seeing') because of the positive changes that have come from each session!

Thank you Tsultrim!
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Terry L. Parke
5.0 out of 5 stars As Good As It Gets
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2011
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I have used this book to deal with prostate cancer. It has been the most effective treatment in dealing with the emotional dis-regulation that comes from having something physically wrong within you, and from having no easy path to deal with it . There are many demons surrounding illness, but the unknown remains the most troublesome for me. This technique of feeding the demons has gotten me through some long nights. As a psychotherapist I find I can drop right into the visualizations without much effort. As a former Zen monk, I can realize the message behind Tsultrim's teaching. I find it easier to move my ego out of the way, but still have enough executive functioning to attend to my cancer treatment. I like the fact that healing comes from within and is processed in a receptive feminine way. Western medicine goes looking for a cure, grabs it, and takes a masculine stance. I find both approaches to be compatible. I attended a one day workshop with the author in NYC, and wish her Dharma Center were closer. I would love to study with her. I have met many of the well known teachers of meditation in the US, and the author appears to me to be the real thing. I have watched her grow with her practice. During a recent trip to Tibet, she sent descriptive emails back to her students. Her insight and transparency were evident in those letters. I don't think anyone needs a Buddhist background to access her techniques. All that is required is a willingness to try.
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E. Lewis
4.0 out of 5 stars Catharsis without guilt
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2012
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This is a guide to an ancient Tibetan spiritual practice involving visualization and role-playing, to expiate one's personal "demons" or issues by confronting them in a non-threatening way. One can learn to deal with fear, inhibition, anger in a way that does not involve guilt or destructive self-analysis. A direct and effective method of realistic introspection leading to personal change and release. Compassionate and honest.
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Annette Seidenglanz
5.0 out of 5 stars TAIL OF THE TIGER
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2014
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This book on the practice of Chöd is a good one for an uninitiated student of Tibetan Buddhism.

It will be helpful to understand the practice of meditation and to have a basic education in the three turnings of the wheel of dharma. As with all disciplines, the more invested and educated the practitioner can become, the greater the rewards.

The story of Tsultrim Allione's life and her research into female Buddhists is inspiring. As Buddhist practice is established through lineage, her work has deep significance for women interested in developing a spiritual connection to their wise mother ancestors.
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Student_of_Life
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and Deeply Healing
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2016
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Love this book. The healing exercise really works for me. I use feeding your demons along side other healing exercises, as I have found it wise to have more then one healing method in your back pocket to carry around with you where ever you go.

I like how the author starts out by telling the story of how she discovered the exercise and when it started to work for her, giving examples along the way. The author then takes you step by step how to do the exercise and has you ask yourself questions to help you along. She then goes on to describe some of the most common demons. This is just a wonderful book. I am thrilled that I got this book in hardcover so can last for years to come.
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Karen M
5.0 out of 5 stars a jewel offering
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2008
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Since she first glimpsed Buddhist lives and practice over 40 years ago at age 19, Lama Tsultrim has devoted herself not only to her own practice but also to finding ways to bring this joy, compassion and devotion to others. In this jewel of a book she offers those experiences to benefit people who may never resonate with Buddhism or Tibet, but who do notice our lifes' continuing struggles, the world's distresses, and our deep longing for ways to nurture less conflict and more hope. The book offers a way for anyone to turn toward that distress and longing, elegantly and skillfully placing this remarkable meditation practice in a modern, Western framework. So whatever your own spiritual inclinations are, whatever form your personal 'demons' may take, however you're thinking about war and peace and disharmony in the world, you'll find an ally here - in the practice, in the stories, and in the remarkable woman who brought us this book.
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Guadalupe Elena Ramos Villarreal
5.0 out of 5 stars maravilloso contenido
Reviewed in Mexico on February 25, 2024
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Me encantó la sencillez del método y lo bien que lo explica, así como sus comentarios sobre qué hacer cuando algo no funciona como se esperaría.
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Reviewed in Spain on December 17, 2022
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Potente metodo de atenderte a ti misma y transformar, resolver lo que no somos capacez de resolver normalmente a solas.
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Adragantus
5.0 out of 5 stars Une pratique essentielle.
Reviewed in France on February 18, 2018
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Une pratique essentielle dans un parcours spirituel et thérapeutique. (Y'a t'il finalement une différence ?)

Un Chöd - "Tcheu" différent de ce que la tradition offre, mais c'est là une approche moins lourde et moins complexe, plus simple à mettre en pratique et à vivre - très bonne approche dépouillée pour l'esprit occidental.

Si vous avez de l'expérience dans la rituellie, voyez si vous avez besoin de "Chod Practice Manual and Commentary" de Thekchok Dorje & Jamgon Kongtrul, qui vous permettra alors d'étayer et d'approfondir la connexion avec l'égrégore de la pratique. Mais je reste convaincu que le Chöd peut être Christianisé ou Shamanisé au besoin. Je pense que pour le Chrétien la première étape est la bénédiction et nettoyage par les forces lunaires de cet aspect, puis le "nourrissage" eucharistique, via le sang ou le coeur du Christ. C'est plus alchimique selon moi, tout en étant à la fois spirituel, thérapeutique, et shamanique en approche (en effet les Bouddhistes utilisent un tambour aussi) et si vous avez bien compris comment cela fonctionne dans le livre de Tsultrim Allione, alors vous pourrez au besoin et selon votre expérience, aider votre travail énergétique avec de la visualisation de type pathworking, afin de donner un cadre à votre évocation intérieure de votre démon, ou encore travailler plutôt dans le monde des esprits avec un voyage type monde d'en haut/bas ou médian/passé présent/futur.

Je trouve que les exemples donnés sont bons, la pratique est bien décrite et elle reste accessible aux néophytes (avec un peu de pratique). Je trouve qu'elle ne mets cependant pas assez d'importance sur le cadre de travail physique (bougies ? encens ? musique? rituels préliminaires ?) et mentaux, je le précisais ci dessus avec le pathworking. C'est pour moi ce qui cloche. J'aurai aussi voulu un peu plus de détails sur les pratiques traditionnelles.

Cela reste pour moi une de phases essentielles du travail sur soi, (entre autres) avec le recouvrement d'âme de Sandra Ingermann (Soul Retrieval et Welcome Home, à lire à la suite).

Je le classe comme un de mes top livre dans la liste de mes lectures de cette année, avec ceux de Ingermann et pour ceux qui veulent pousser l'idée, de (feu) Michael Harner, décédé en janvier cette année.
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Zoe E. Routh
4.0 out of 5 stars Good process, not a panacea
Reviewed in Australia on April 12, 2021
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I was interested in this process to discover more about shadow work. This book is heavily steeped in Buddhist imagery and may feel too esoteric for some. All the examples are good for benchmarking/ seeing how your own ‘demons’ look on someone else.

A good read for exploring our own intuitive wisdom, but should not be seen as the only strategy for processing challenges.
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