Clarity & Connection (The Inward Trilogy)

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If you study Buddhism at all you will find a lot of familiar ground here although he only once, if my search worked correctly, mentions the word Buddha or Buddhism. That is very much to his credit, I think. Our language is not healing us at the moment, whatever language it is that you identify with. (And, yes, language does have both meaning and consequences.) This book has a lot of helpful advice about growing and loving yourself. Even so, it's not a good poetry book to me. I would not recommend this book to a poetry lover. I would recommend it to someone who wants a short, rough draft, self help book. In Clarity and Connection, Yung Pueblo explores how intense emotions accumulate in our subconscious and condition us to act and react the ways we do. With his distinctive voice, at once spare and evocative, the author guides us through the excavation and release of the past that is required for growth. On the topic of intimate relationships, he reflects: This book of "poetry" is more of a brainstorming session for a self help book in my opinion. I have read loads of self help and poetry books but this book isn't poetry to me. It was a continual repetition of the same 4 key points, which was all about self help. I appreciate self help books and I like them but this isn't listed as a self help book it's listed as poetry.

Various thoughts on topics revolving around authenticity, compassion and simply being okay and growing as a person. The poems read like self help platitudes in free verse form or in long paragraphs. Nothing particularly special or sparkly or piercing about the language.Als Self Help Buch hätte mich das Buch komplett überzeugt, längere Texte, genauer auf Dinge eingegangen und nicht so viele Wiederholungen (manchmal hab ich mich echt gefühlt als wenn wir uns im Kreis drehen) und das Buch hätte mindestens 4 Sterne von mir bekommen. An insightful and impressive poetry collection of emotions, relationships, healing, self-awareness, growth, releasing, acceptance, communication, vulnerability, and love. Yung Pueblo is the pseudonym of Diego Perez, who was born in Ecuador, raised in Boston, lived in New York City, and returned to Massachusetts. He was inspired to write this body of work after seeing the power of healing and transformation while attending a silent vipassana mediation course. He and his wife continue to meditate. There were a lot of poems that I loved, and here are a few of my favorites:

Find a partner who accepts you as you are but also inspires you to evolve because they take their own growth seriously. Vielleicht hab ich das Buch auch zur falschen Zeit gelesen. Ich bin traurig, ich wollte das Buch so sehr mögen. The courage you both have to stay committed to the inner journey will reflect brightly on your relationship. His vision of self is a very healthy one. He doesn’t promote participation awards. But he does suggest, rightly so, I think, that we “throw away the idea that you need to pause your life until you are fully healed.” Life is motion. “How many times have you been unable to fully enjoy a special moment because you couldn’t stop thinking about what was missing?” I am certain that this work will help some people and some will find it very useful. But for me it's not good poetry and it's not self help I need at this moment. Really just seemed like mantras or good advice with line breaks:A lot of the poems are repetitive—the same ideas expressed multiple times throughout the volume without much meaningful variation. Self help statements in the guise of poems. The content isn’t bad, but I’d have rather read the ideas in essay format, expanded upon & explained better. These poems just didn’t feel very poem-like to me. In such an unknown time for the world, this book has helped me, by focusing on the positive while so much negativity is out there. So much healing needs to be done by us all singularly and together. Book Genre: Contemporary, Health, Mental Health, Nonfiction, Personal Development, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Relationships, Self Help, Spirituality His perspective alone would have made a valuable contribution. He didn’t really need to tie it all up in a bow and it is a bow that will sadly turn some readers off.