As one reader wrote, "These secrets are so obvious and simple that we complicated human beings keep overlooking them."

Yet they are so profound that they transmit deep spiritual truths as well – without requiring any belief whatsoever.

Full of powerful exercises and suggestions for journaling, this book will take you into deep harmony with your own body and its real life, whatever you may have previously thought about "it" and "you."



"With the plethora of self-help and spiritual work available today, Great Relief is a breath of Real fresh air. I've been involved with the self-development and spiritual disciplines movements for most of my life. Great Relief is unique, evolutionary, and on the cutting edge of what real transformation is about."

"When you dare to drop into the ALL of your SELF, then you will not find a way more thorough than the way of Great Relief. It's a knowing like no other."

"Great Relief brings what has been mostly esoteric down to earth in easily understandable words."

"I've spent the last three years in an intense spiritually based psychotherapy relationship, and in a master's program in spirituality, and the last year working in Waking Down. But I've recently found that Saniel's simple 9 Secrets of Great Relief, leaned into and felt at the deepest levels, with others doing the same work, have worked to significantly shift my understanding and acceptance of the wondrous joy and intense pain that exist side by side in our daily lives."

"I was surprised doing the second exercise for the first secret (confessing I feel something is fundamentally wrong, missing or unclear at the core of my life). Through Saniel and Linda’s work, I had a profound spiritual and whole-being awakening over two years ago that’s continued ever since.

"But doing this exercise, I still felt a deepening recognition and acceptance of an ongoing feeling sense of not-completeness, in the midst of my simultaneous sense of wholeness and wellness. And I felt an inner relaxation and connection with others in further clarifying for myself that the feeling of something not finished or completely right, exists for pretty much everyone most or all of the time."

"I feel moved to share with you my profound experience of the past week and the holding of Secret #2, 'It's Really Hard to Be Here, Isn't It?' A sequence of events culminated one day with workmen coming to my home. As the day progressed, I was witnessing my physical inability to perform heavy manual tasks. A deep sense of anger at my stature and how difficult it was to be here in my body began to build up in me. Eventually, privately, I just had to vent out loud.

"The vehemence of my feelings no doubt arises from the setbacks I have experienced, as you mention in Secret #2, but what was different this time for me was the frustration arising without condemnation. Yes, I am entitled to find it hard to be here and I can be angry without destruction. I felt profoundly 'winded' at the end of it.

"I think it is such a good idea to spend the allotted week of time to bring these secrets into awareness as you suggest on the audio Hero's Journey, and I am resisting the temptation to skip onwards. I am getting the meaning of 'repetition' as Linda said in the first recording. Interesting, for me it took me four days to actually do the exercise of looking in the mirror and saying Secret #1 aloud.

"Thank you, Saniel and Linda, for bringing Great Relief to life in these audio discussions."

If you feel like something's missing in your life but you can't quite put your finger on it, and nothing brings you peace for long...

…then read Saniel Bonder’s Great Relief. In ordinary language, he presents 9 Secrets “your body wants you to know” for maximum serenity in your real, and sometimes really stressful, life.

“This is a wonderful book. It makes me think, feel, relax, and hum with vibrant energy – all at the same time! Reading Saniel Bonder is like having a conversation with someone who's really smart and thinks I'm smart, too. Someone who really cares about me and has a healing message for my heart. Someone who honors complexity and refuses to oversimplify our human predicament into 'feel good' messages. It's a great relief that Great Relief is as authentic as it is soothing, and as open-minded as it is passionate.”

Great Relief for the Everyday Hero or Heroine

You know your life is challenging and often thankless. Underneath, do you feel ill at ease, empty, an ache at the core? And – do the solutions you find in the mass media and even advanced teachings fail to deliver, for real?

Great Relief for the Religious Believer

Many people of faith today are loyal but troubled. Does the real world of church or tradition contradict the core of the faith you love? Are you tormented by fundamentalist dogma and violence, and institutional hypocrisy?

Great Relief for the Spiritual Practitioner

Sometimes spiritual practitioners, even if they're awakened, hit a wall. Do you feel irresolvable conflicts between the ideals of your practice and the realities of daily life? Does that pressure exhaust you – and even lead to despair or cynicism?

The "core wound" you'll explore in Great Relief opens you to freedom, love, and trust – in the inescapable mystery of being human

Whether you’re an everyday hero, a religious believer, a spiritual practitioner, or a mix, each Secret in this book can help you learn to stop adding unnecessary pain to the paradoxical distress of the core wound—the stark mystery of being human.

“Great Relief does what it says. With deep compassion for the human condition, Saniel Bonder leads us to a greater awareness of our core anxiety, and in so doing lightens our load. The more people who read and digest this book, the better. I personally was quite moved – and relieved.”

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What Others Say About Saniel & Linda and Their Work

“For years, Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder have guided seekers in search of what really matters. Their spiritual teachings embody timeless wisdom, immense practicality, and a refreshing lightheartedness and joy. They are authentic healers – practitioners who help people become whole by discovering their intrinsic holiness. And, they are among the most talented, multifaceted, awake people I know. May their work soar.”
“Saniel Bonder is one in whom the Conscious Principle is awakened, and he is attempting to forge a new path of mutuality in the midst of ordinary, messy, everyday realities — and Linda Groves-Bonder is a brilliant teacher in her own right.”
“I have seen what I call 'translucent' consciousness arising in myriad different flavors and locations, but I am hard pressed to find a fresher, more integral example than in Saniel Bonder and the work he does together with his community.

“Saniel's vision is born out not only in his writings, but it is vibrantly obvious in his marriage, in the way that he relates with people, in the way he offers you a cup of tea. Saniel is not only writing about waking down in mutuality, the way he moves through each of his days demonstrates it.

“On those grounds I endorse Saniel as a human being as much as a writer. He writes very well, don't get me wrong. But I know so many prolific wordsmiths whose words inspire and soar, only to leave one disappointed and confused by the human being who wrote them. In Saniel's case it's his natural and spontaneous embodiment which is impressive, his words are a transmission from that embodiment. Having drunk his tea, sat with him and his wife Linda, and frequently been the recipient of his kind, attentive and generous heart, I offer you a five star recommendation for Saniel and his vision as high-integrity spirituality.”