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The ancient wisdom of Hawai'i has been guarded for centuries --
handed down through lines of kinship to form the tradition of Huna.
Dating back to the time before the first missionary presence
arrived in the islands, the tradition of Huna is more than just a
philosophy of living -- it is intertwined and deeply connected with
every aspect of Hawaiian life.
Blending ancient Hawaiian wisdom with modern practicality,
Serge Kahili King imparts the philosophy behind the beliefs,
history, and foundation of Huna. More important, King shows readers
how to use Huna philosophy to attain both material and spiritual
goals. To those who practice Huna, there is a deep understanding
about the true nature of life -- and the real meaning of personal
power, intention, and belief. Through exploring the seven core
principles around which the practice revolves, King passes onto
readers a timeless and powerful wisdom.
Simple tailored exercises designed to calm the mind, promote
well-being and help readers relax, ready for sleep.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and
by far the most powerful and wealthy man in the world. Yet he was
also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and
deep reservoirs of personal insight. He collected his thoughts in
notebooks, gems which have come to be called his Meditations. Never
intended for publication, the work survived his death and has
proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most
important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language,
the entries range from essays to one-line aphorisms, and from
profundity to bitterness. Marcus wrote to console himself in the
face of the shortness of life, the shoddiness of the world, and the
challenges of being human. He asks the very same questions that
every thinking person must ask themselves today: Does the universe
have a moral purpose, and what is my role in it? What exactly is it
to be a good person, and how do I get there? Life is short: what
does that mean for me? How can I get to know myself better? Anyone
who is puzzled by such questions or searching for answers will
profit from this timeless book, which is both an important
historical document and a personal spiritual diary. This annotated
edition will be the definitive translation of this classic and
much-beloved text, with copious notes that will illuminate one of
the greatest works of popular philosophy for new readers and enrich
the understanding of even the most hardcore Stoic.
In this modern tale for the ages, hit Instagram illustrator
@iuliastration takes us a on a healing journey. Following the story
of a traveller as they move from darkness to light through the
rhythm of the seasons, this is a deeply relatable quest for inner
peace told through calming and original illustrations. Using
ancient wisdom and philosophical quotes from around the world -
from Rumi to Emily Dickinson - to anchor her striking visual
storytelling, Iulia Bochis weaves a timeless story of personal
growth and self-love.
The profound and radical Native American idea of "wetiko," a virus
of the mind, underlies the collective insanity and evil that is
destructively playing out around the world. Yet, as Paul Levy
reveals in depth, encoded within wetiko itself lies the very
medicine needed to combat the mind-virus and heal both ourselves
and our world. Levy begins by investigating how the process of
becoming triggered, wounded, or falling into suffering can help us
better understand the workings of wetiko in a way that transforms
our struggles into opportunities for awakening. He reveals the
source of wetiko: unhealed multi-generational ancestral trauma,
which gets acted out, passed down, and propagated through the
family lineage via our relationships. He highlights one of the
primary archetypes currently activated in the collective
unconscious of humanity--the wounded healer/shaman--and shows how
recognizing this archetype can help us as we navigate a collective
descent into the underworld of the unconscious, a true bardo realm
between our past and future worlds. Drawing on the work of C. G.
Jung, Rudolf Steiner, Henry Corbin, Wilhelm Reich, and Nicolas
Berdyaev, the author introduces the inner guide--a daemon/angel
that lives within us as an ally in our encounters with the daemonic
energy of wetiko. He explores how to cultivate "symbolic awareness"
(interpreting events in our lives symbolically--like a dream) as a
path to creating meaning, which alchemically transmutes the poison
of wetiko into medicine for healing the psyche. Examining the
nature of synchronicity, Levy reveals how wetiko can only be seen
when we recognize that--like a dream--our inner and outer worlds
reflect each other. He also explores the quantum nature of wetiko,
showing how this helps us comprehend the elusive trickster nature
of this mind-virus and sheds light on the quantum nature of both
the world and ourselves. Ultimately, the author reveals that the
best protection and medicine for wetiko is to connect with the
light of our true nature by becoming who we truly are.
The Sunshine State may seem an unlikely venue for tales of the
paranormal. However, florida has its own dark and haunted past.
Some of these stories come from St. Augustine, Miami University and
the historic Biltmore Hotel.
It's time to bring therapy out of the therapy room and into the
real world. In recent years, therapy and self-care have become
familiar buzzwords, but it's clear that people are having to face
their emotional difficulties without the tools and insight to work
through them. Enter Real Talk: A book to enable readers to have
genuine, authentic conversations with themselves, and to start the
journey of healing their past experiences and cope with the
challenges of modern life. Filled with techniques and wisdom from a
therapist's toolkit this is a must-have handbook for optimising
your mental health. Drawing on her experience as a qualified
psychotherapist and applying her intersectional perspective Tasha
Bailey shares the knowledge and skills you need to change your
life. Tasha's straight-talking but compassionate style will help
readers hold up a mirror to their present situation and make sense
of their past - delving into topics such as: · Trauma &
inner-child healing · Love, trust, and attachment · Family:
intergenerational cycles of behaviour, rupture, and repair. ·
Self-Esteem, bodies & sex Real Talk contains a collection of
lessons which the reader might typically learn in therapy. Tasha
teaches readers modern language and ideas about mental health,
exploring self-love and self-understanding. Connecting
psychological theory, lived experience, references from modern day
media and case studies from Tasha's work to create a more current,
creative, and inclusive perspective of mental health.
In this comprehensive guide to empathing and energetic protection,
energy worker and psychic empath Suzanne Worthley explores all of
the ways one can feel and perceive energies from human energy
fields, places, paranormal situations, and across dimensions as
well as how to energetically protect yourself and your loved ones.
She looks at the different types of empaths and empathing,
including sensitive empaths, psychic empaths, quantum empathing,
and multidimensional empathing. Explaining how multidimensional
energy works, Suzanne reveals how it affects each of us, including
through our chakras and the auric field. She discusses how learned
and programmed beliefs trigger empathic behavior and explores how
to identify and release different types of limiting beliefs to
evolve from fear-based empathing to love-based empathy. She
examines the differences between empathy and sympathy--and why one
is truly helpful and the other, limiting. She shows how to identify
energy fields that may be risky alongside advanced strategies for
protecting yourself, including how to prevent unwanted energy
transference. She also details the Four Discernment Practices,
techniques that demonstrate how our empathic behaviors are
connected to the health of our energy field. Sharing extraordinary
client case studies from her professional energy healing and
psychic empath work, Suzanne explores the practices of quantum
empathing, paranormal empathing, and empathing places and the
natural world. She also looks at soul contracts, the Akashic
Records, the energetic stages of dying, and healing people, places,
and objects in the present, the past, and the subtle energetic
dimensions. Teaching empathic readers how to understand their
abilities and energetically protect themselves, this guide shows
how empaths can live an empowered life and contribute in a
responsible and meaningful way to creating a more positive,
life-affirming reality.
Many people find themselves feeling stuck, unable to reach their
goals. The same problems keep showing up in jobs and relationships
no matter how much they try to make changes and overcome obstacles.
What if the patterns that repeat in your life and relationships
didn’t originate with you? The source of your challenges could be
rooted in your family energy field--and the problematic patterns
that arise in your life could be ancestral trauma calling out to be
healed. Presenting a guide to releasing the family patterns that
hold you back, Anuradha Dayal-Gulati, an energy practitioner
specializing in ancestral and emotional healing, explores the
energetic principles that govern your family lineage and the many
ways your ancestral field can support you as well as how it can
hold you captive. She explains how the experiences and wounds of
your parents or grandparents as well as more distant ancestors can
affect you and how, sometimes, themes reappear in a family for
several generations in a row--patterns of financial distress,
sibling rivalry, divorce, or conversely long happy marriages, good
health, and good humour. The author provides exercises and
tools--such as journal practices, visualizations, meditations, and
mind mapping--that can help you recognize and release negative
family patterns, explaining how you don’t have to know anything
about your ancestors to bring about healing. She shares her own
healing journey and her experience with family constellation
therapy and explores in depth the use of flower essences to
transform emotions and release generational trauma. She discusses
the importance of honoring your ancestors, sharing suggestions
about altar creation, prayers, and the Vedic ritual of Tarpanam.
Teaching you how to recognize the patterns that manifest in your
daily experiences, this guide shows how, by healing your ancestral
roots, you can lift the unconscious, invisible barriers that keep
you from creating the life you want.
The bad news is that our civilisation is collapsing. The good news
is that you are already helping create a new and better one. The
Ocean in a Drop follows the quest of Roz Savage, a frustrated
environmentalist and ocean adventurer, to find out why her own
endeavours and the environmental movement more generally have
failed to achieve change of the necessary scope, scale and speed.
Her journey takes her from the environment through economics and
politics into patriarchy and a global culture of domination - the
domination of rich over poor, strong over weak, humanity over
nature. She examines the tragic psychological flaws in the way we
think, and the apparent inevitability of civilisational collapse,
and deduces that our best hope is to transcend the current trap of
runaway materialism. But how? Exploring cutting-edge theories on
the nature of reality and the relationship between matter and
consciousness, she peels back the veils of our shared delusions to
arrive at a new narrative about what it means to be human in the
twenty-first century. She paints a bold, exciting vision of a
future in which people and planet thrive.
The Pleiadians, a collective of multidimensional beings from the Pleiades star system, have been speaking through Barbara Marciniak since 1988. This long-awaited book shares new inspiration from over nine years of previously unpublished Pleiadian wisdom, and Marciniak offers innovative ideas for changing beliefs, reclaiming one's power, and creating a world of unlimited possibilities. She also presents critical new material on how to deal with the world's increasing chaos and the accelerated pace of life. Consisting of profound new insights on power, fear, love, desire, health, sexual intimacy, energy, and creativity, this timely text is for those ready and willing to embrace self-empowerment, seek the truth, broaden awareness, and meet the challenges of a world on the brink of major change. Individual chapters include Energy and Frequency - A New Playground of the Mind, Accelerated Energy and Stretching Your Mind in the Nanosecond of Time, and The Intimate Dance of Beliefs and Emotions.
Being Myself is a contemplative exploration of the essential nature
of our self. Everyone has the sense of 'being myself,' but not
everyone knows their self clearly. In most cases, our sense of self
is mixed up with the content of experience and, as a result, its
natural condition of peace and happiness is veiled. Through
investigation and analogy, the meditations in this collection take
us back to our true nature again and again, until we begin to find
our self naturally and effortlessly established there, as that. In
time, experience loses its capacity to veil our being, and its
innate peace and joy emerge from the background of experience. * *
* The Essence of Meditation Series presents meditations on the
essential, non-dual understanding that lies at the heart of all the
great religious and spiritual traditions, compiled from
contemplations led by Rupert Spira at his meetings and retreats.
This simple, contemplative approach, which encourages a clear
seeing of one's experience rather than any kind of effort or
discipline, leads the reader to an experiential understanding of
their own essential being and the peace and fulfilment that are
inherent within it.
More talking. Less suffering. More living alive with intention and joy. Helena Dolny imagines a world in which people engage in death-in-life conversations as part of everyday living. She believes we’d live better and suffer less if we were to talk about dying more readily. Archbishop Desmond Tutu told her:‘This taboo about not talking about dying…needs to be challenged.’ Helena interviewed family and friends as well as people across continents in diverse professions including the funeral business, palliative care, spiritual leaders and financial advisors. The outcome: 57 stories on nine themes that will stop you in your tracks and make you think about how you choose to live and how you’d prefer to die. This book’s rich cast of storytellers does not provide answers. The gift Before Forever After offers is the inspiration to craft clearer and sharper questions so that you, the reader, may shape your own unique response to this fierce, fundamental and inevitable force of life. From rural development worker, activist and agricultural banker, to leadership coach and aspirant death doula, Helena Dolny facilitates conversations to enhance life and ease death. She works internationally maintaining closeness to her family in the USA and Europe. Home is Johannesburg, shared with her husband John Perlman and Beijinho, aka ‘the big red cat’.
Learn how to create powerful, transformative rituals that are both
effective and deeply meaningful to you. Phoenix LeFae helps you
build a strong foundation of ritual practice while also leaving
room for your own creative exploration. She covers not only how to
craft rituals, but also why rituals are important, and she offers a
variety of exercises, meditations, and activities to enhance your
experiences. This inspiring book walks you through every step of
ritual work, from setting your intentions to creating sacred space
to closing the ceremony. You'll discover the breath, bones, and
blood of ritual as well as guidelines for building unique rituals
from scratch. A great companion to Life Ritualized, this book helps
you make solitary and group rituals that are the perfect fit for
you.
It is not uncommon for children's drawings to end up in the
wastepaper basket. Yet these early artistic expressions indicate
how children communicate with their environment. From the first
scratches and scribbles to the detailed sketches of houses and
people, the drawings and paintings of our young ones are
significant manifestations of inner processes, containing important
statements about their development and gradual incarnation into a
physical body. Michaela Strauss's classic work is a pioneer study
that can strengthen observation, understanding and love for the
being of the child, both in the home and the kindergarten. First
issued in 1978, it is republished here with revisions, improved
reproductions, a larger format and more than 40 pages of colour
illustrations. 'In its drawings, the child describes for us
different conditions of consciousness, which are parallel with
those of cultural epochs.' - Michaela Strauss
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