Your Heart Was Made For This

A practical roadmap to cultivating the heart's capacity to face and transform our greatest challenges--like the climate crisis, oppression, anxiety, and burnout--from the bestselling author of Say What You Mean. Meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer shares a pragmatic guide to developing the inner resources necessary to meet a world in crisis with clarity, balance, and courage. Through touching stories, insightful reflections, and concrete instructions, Sofer offers powerful tools to strengthen our hearts and nourish the qualities that can transform our world. Each chapter guides you to cultivate a quality essential to personal and social transformation like mindfulness, resolve, wonder, and empathy. You'll learn ways to: - Experience more choice and freedom in life - Strengthen your ability to focus, sustain energy, and accomplish goals - Develop healthy states of mind to respond more effectively to stress - Identify burnout and take steps to renew yourself - Imbue your daily activities with meaning and purpose