I’ve always loved Table’s of Contents.

A snap shot of between the covers.

Good ones can sell me on a book, while others shouldn’t have gone beyond.

Here’s the Table of Topics for my new book, Waking Up to the Heart of Care

Tell me you’re not intrigued, and I’ll tell you that you don’t have a pulse.

Table of Topics

Gratitude’s and Dedications
Someone Much Like You

Section 1 — pg. 11
Preliminary Perspectives and Rules of the Road

Regarding the Length of This Book
The Origins of These Perspectives
Waking Up Your Caring Heart
Wellness and the Promotion of Mediocrity
Searching For Understanding and Finding My Heart
I See You!
Trust Yourself, Or Put This Book Down
Pulled Between Your Greatness and Your Smallness
What Happens When You Understand?
A Few Thoughts about ‘Best Practices’
The Practice of Tonglen Will Ruin You
The Cover Story
Are You a Light Bringer?

Section 2 — pg. 37
From the Eyes of a Caring Professional

The Call to Be a Caring Professional
The Practice and Life Path of Opening the Heart
Detachment IS
Unconditional Love With Conditions
Are You Avoiding Relationship?
Love’s Threshing Floor
Home Is Where The Heart Is. Where Are You?
Will You Die With Love Ungiven?
Are You the Hand of Death?

Section 3 — pg. 55
Reactive Patterns: Are You Trigger Happy?

Do You Know This Familiar Stranger?
Why Are You Avoiding Peace and Harmony?
Discomfort, Midlife and the Birth of Wisdom
You Are Possessed By Reactive Patterns
Do Any Of These Triggers Belong To You?
Overcoming Emotional Reactivity In
the Dance of Life and Love
The Origins of Withholding Love
The Warrior and the Nobleman
Four Steps to a Life Experience That Sucks
Managing Workplace Gossip, Backbiting and Other Forms of Immaturity
The Fire-Question That Consumes All Reactive Patterns
The Guest House

Section 4 — pg. 83
Advanced Perspectives For
Advanced Caring Professionals

Awake In the Cockpit of Life
The Bottomless Pit of Personal Development
Four Things You Can Do Right Now, To Improve Your Life
Injured Innocence for the Caring Professional
You Are Beyond All Roles
The Value of a Largest Context
Its Way With You
How to ‘Not Sweat the Small Stuff’
Using Your Messy Life
Reclaiming Your Non-negotiables
The Practice of Bridging the Heart and Mind
How Very Strange We Are!
Are You a Deep Diver or a Seagull Target?

Section 5 — pg. 117
Waking Up and the Key To Life,
Freedom and Amusement

Waking Up to a Definition of Waking Up
Surveying the Sleepers
Talking About Waking Up While Still Asleep
Attention Training, The Spectrum of
Satisfaction and Beyond
The 5 Factors of A.W.A.K.E.-ness
Waking Up Isn’t Being Awake
How Do You Do, Waking Up and Being Awake?
A Sleep-walk and Awakening In Kin Canyon
The Mind Is A Nice Place To Visit, But…
Debunking the Myths of Attention Training
The No-Thought of the Day
The Look That Scares Kids and Silences Minds
The Wake Up Guy Wakes Up
The Missing PD Key
An Experiment in Caring Voyeurism

Section 6 — pg. 147
In the Trenches — Face to Face, Eye to Eye

The Grateful Caring Professional
The Practice of Locating, Magnifying and Expressing
Benevolence
Waking Up to a Culture of Care
Preparing to Forgive
Opening Beyond the Play of Patterns
Beyond a Life of Healing
Remembering To Remember
Have You Been Left In the Bud?
Are You Like a Fist or a Flower?
It’s ALL About the Caring Professional
The One True Thing

Two bonus excerpt’s from Waking Up to Life!