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Candy Paull
Category:
Self-Help
Publisher: Grand Harbor Brilliance
ISBN-10: 1477848118
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 220
Copyright: November 26, 2013
ISBN-13: 9781477848111
Price: $3.99 (eBook)
Words of encouragement and inspirational quotes for difficult times. Learn to tap into the wisdom of the body for healing and stress relief and explore spiritual practices that help you cultivate inner serenity.
Words of inspiration and motivation show you how to reduce stress and how to find peace. Encouragement for men and women who want an effective and meaningful way to deal with stress.
In a high stress, high anxiety world, a serene life may feel like an impossible dream. But serenity can be consciously cultivated, if you are willing to make simple, life-enhancing choices. Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress offers practical help that addresses the outward symptoms of stress and tension, and encourages you to examine the root causes, which are spiritual in nature.
Candy Paull shows you how to:
• tap into the wisdom of the body for healing and stress relief
• explore spiritual practices that help you cultivate inner peace
• bring your best to life for serenity at home and on the job
• make empowering choices that honor your heart’s deepest desires
• find courage and strength in the storms of life
Discover an antidote to the frustration and stress of modern life, and a deeper perspective on inner serenity. Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress offers inspiring affirmations, spiritual insight, and practical tips for cultivating serenity in every season of life.
From listening to your body to hearing the still small intuitive voice in your heart, Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress will help you find both spiritual and practical inspiration. It will brighten your day and show you tried and true ways to create a life you love. This guide to thriving in difficult times offers a way to return to the deepest part of yourself—the true heart that is sacred, serene, and beautiful at all times.
Words of Encouragement | Words of Inspiration | Words of Motivation
Excerpt
Stress is the perception that we are separated from our divine source.
Brian Luke Seaward
Finding Serenity in Seasons of Stress offers a combination of practical help and spiritual insight to help you bridge the gap between the way things are and the way you wish they could be. There are no guarantees or promises of nirvana, just simple suggestions for coping with the stress of daily life and thoughts that might inspire you to find a higher perspective during troublesome times. You’ll find practical ideas for body, mind, and spirit that will help you cope with unavoidable stress and inspire you to eliminate that which no longer serves you. With small adjustments to seemingly minor stress points, you can learn to simplify your life and make room for more beauty, meaning, and joy. You’ll be reminded of things you already know but often forget when the pressures of life become overwhelming.
May you make a simple choice to become more aware and to cultivate a serene spirit. This is the starting place for an inner revolution that can color your entire life with light, joy, love, and a sense of peace and plenitude. Open your heart to accept the sweet serenity that is always at the center of your being.
Man ordinarily goes no further than his own experience (and that includes the experience of the race) for help in an emergency. But those who go still further within themselves for the answer will find a timeless wisdom and inspiration to be translated into the human need of the moment.
Letters of the Scattered Brotherhood
Chapter One
Serenity Is a Choice
We have to make peace and reduce the suffering in ourselves first, because we represent the world. Peace, love, and happiness must always begin here, with ourselves. There is suffering, fear, and anger inside of us, and when we take care of it, we are taking care of the world. . . . So first you have to focus on the practice of being. Being Fresh. Being peaceful. Being attentive. Being Generous. Being compassionate.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Making More Conscious Choices
Our lives reflect who we are and what we have allowed ourselves to become. We do not become more serene by chance but by choice. The only difference between those who have control of their destiny and those who feel controlled by events is how conscious they are of the choices they make. If we make choices unconsciously, moved by a reaction to outer circumstances or driven by our own random and chaotic thoughts, we have habituated ourselves to being constrained in a mental prison created by our own lack of understanding.
We have often chosen without knowing we had a choice. We assume that life controls us, that we are victims of circumstance. But it is our choices that lead us step-by-step into the circumstances in which we find ourselves. We sometimes drift with the tide and run aground on the rocks, choosing by not choosing. We must consciously steer the vessels of our lives in another and more fulfilling direction. We constantly make choices and each choice has its consequence, which leads to more choices and more consequences. Most people are so unaware of their own choices that they never realize they had made a decision and never recognize that the chain of causation was set in motion by their own unconscious assumptions.
For instance, it’s easy to react automatically to a negative situation and replay old victim stories with a new cast of characters, even when the new situation has nothing to do with the situations of the past. Perhaps someone betrayed us in the past, and when confronted with a new hurtful situation, we assume that we have been betrayed again. What has happened before seems to be happening again, and so we fall into the same patterns of behavior without thinking.
The first step toward serenity is recognizing that you are replaying an old script in a new situation. Observing without judgment is a powerful way to gain better perspective. With this perspective, you are able to make a more conscious choice to respond to a negative situation in a more positive way—you empower yourself and become a responsible actor in the scenario instead of limiting yourself to old, childish patterns.
Feeling powerless is one factor that contributes to our perception of life as being stressful. Modern society is built around concepts of power that make us feel our individual choices are meaningless. A traffic jam on the way to work, an arbitrary supervisor who thwarts our best efforts, the impersonal bureaucratic red tape that complicates even the simplest task, a system of government that increasingly favors the rich and penalizes the poor, or a family system of enablement and denial all seem to trap us into negative-feedback loops that pull us into pointless tail chasing. We can get caught in our own limiting cycle of poor choices, dooming us to forever repeat the same mistakes. One definition of craziness is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results. Our attempts to control results or overcome negative systems are often frustrating attempts to force change from the outside, and they end up reinforcing the negative-feedback loops. What we resist persists.
However, small, incremental choices that come from a positive sense of authenticity and meaning can create a renewed and vibrant experience. Choosing to see the truth that is beyond mere fact and condition exerts a subtle influence that can lead to consequences in ways we cannot imagine. Chaos theory tells us that a change as subtle as the movement of a butterfly wing can affect the formation of a storm on the other side of the globe.
You cannot predict how or when or even if your choices will change the world, but a new thought and a different choice will certainly help you begin to see beyond a current belief structure and past experience. You can choose to move beyond your own outdated boundaries and limited context to create a more intelligent response to a challenging situation. In doing so, you will open yourself up to new possibilities.
Choices are the hinges of destiny.
Edwin Markham
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