Meditational Self-Care is a skill and practice that loosens the grip of personal unhappiness, no matter what your situation or history is. It dissolves personal unhappiness and transforms it into a deeply felt lightheartedness and love of existence. It joins modern Western psychology and philosophy with the ancient tradition of meditation practices. It is a practice more than a theory, even though it revolves around a core of fundamental ideas. It goes beyond the limitations of modern psychotherapy, in three ways. First, it is not something that one person does to another but a learned personal skill and practice. Second, it goes beyond merely reducing abnormal experiences and behaviors and addresses the normal unhappiness of existence that is present even in the best of circumstances. Third, it does not regard unhappiness as the result of circumstances or history but as the result of what we tell ourselves about ourselves. Its basic premise is that we suffer from who we think we are. Its basic strategy is to dissolve that unhappiness by practicing willing suspension of all beliefs about ourselves and about the very concept of a solid and fixed personal self. The book describes the core of eight meditational self-care practices and the fundamental and liberating views on which they are based. The practices make these liberating views into directly experienced realities. In turn, the views guide the practices. The book goes hand in hand with free audio recordings of the teaching materials that are available at meditationalselfcare.com