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Royal Book of the Week: Monday 8/8/11

Practicing Peace in Times of War by Pema Chödrön is the Royal Book of the Week.  For Duke Augustus, this book is a necessity to anyone trying to lead a more nonviolent life.  It is the perfect follow-up to the Monday 7/25/11 Royal Book of the Week  Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s book explores our emotional reactions to other people’s behavior, and tries to give us back control of interactions with other people by separating the emotions we are feeling from what our response to the person is in order to resolve conflict instead of increasing it.  Chödrön’s book takes us inside those emotions second-by-second so that our thought and action can be separated from our emotions rather than controlled by them. Continue reading Royal Book of the Week: Monday 8/8/11