A Zen teacher for more than thirty years, Cheri Huber is a one-of-a-kind spiritual teacher, known for her warmth, playfulness, and simplicity. She has a knack for bringing heady Zen philosophy down-to-earth and making it relevant and useful in our everyday struggles.

In her new book, she takes on the topic of changing ourselves: how do we break "bad habits" and start good ones, whether it's in the realm of exercise, eating, shopping, or committing ourselves to a spiritual practice such as meditation? Huber points out that we've all been led to believe that if we were only a little better in some way, we'd find happiness. We're always thinking, "Life isn't the way it should beand "it's my fault!" But, Huber explains, no amount of self-punishment will ever make us happy or bring us control over life's problems. The happiness and peace we are looking for is ultimately found only in self-acceptance and kindness.

Making a Change for Good encourages us to focus on what is true for us in this moment so that our experience can be authentic, awake, honest, and joyful, with no need to hide out in addictive behaviors or run away from reality by using substances or other habitual escapes. This book includes a guided thirty-day program of daily meditation, contemplation, and journaling.

Making a Change for Good, Cheri Huber, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 2007, 128 Pages, $12.95

Cheri Huber is a Zen teacher and the author of eighteen popular books. She founded A Center for the Practice of Zen Buddhist Meditation in Mountain View, California, in 1983, and the Zen Monastery Retreat Center in Murphys, California, in 1987. She founded Living Compassion in 2003, a nonprofit group comprised of There is Nothing Wrong with You Retreats (based on the booK); Global Community for Peace: The Assisi Peace Project; The Africa Vulnerable Children Project; and Open Air Talk Radio, which she hosts weekly. She lives in Murphys, California.

	Contents: Making Change for Good
1.	Compassionate Self-Discipline and Presence	1
2.	Who's Talking	14
3.	Meditation	26
4.	Disidentification	36
5.	Egocentric Karmic Conditioning	44
6.	Mentoring Kind and Wise Support	63
7.	Self-Discipline and Eating	75
8.	Self-Discipline and Time Management	83
9.	Self-Discipline vs. Self-Improvement	88
10.	Awareness Practice	90
	Guided Retreat: 30 Days of Compassionate Self-Discipline	91