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Our Wisdom Years - Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience, and No Regrets (Paperback)
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Our Wisdom Years - Growing Older with Joy, Fulfillment, Resilience, and No Regrets (Paperback)
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Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
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Some of the most profound growth of our lives can happen in the
home stretch, the years after age sixty or so. It's a time when we
can finally crystallize the meaning of what we've been and done so
far and fully expand into the self we've always intended to be,
guided by the voice of the soul. But, says psychologist Charles
Garfield, that can only happen if we first loosen the grip of the
life we've led so far, the one that's been focused outwardly - on
activity, achievement, and the idea of success - and let our souls
lead the way. In Our Wisdom Years, he skillfully and practically
guides readers through nine tasks that can transform the struggles
of aging, bringing fulfillment, joy, and serenity. Drawing on the
understandings that come from both his work as acclaimed "success
guru" in the 1980s and the truths distilled from long-term work
with those at the end of life, Garfield offers a fresh, uplifting
vision of the wholeness that awaits us in our wisdom years. Our
Wisdom Years is unique among books in the "conscious aging" genre
in its understanding of how challenging it can be to make the shift
from the ubiquitous values of drive and achievement that infuse our
contemporary "success culture" to the inner orientation that gives
richness to later life. Because of that, Garfield is well
positioned to offer considerable expertise on retirement, its inner
challenges for people leaving the work force, and the promise of
transformation that can come with a turn from a focus on
achievement to a focus on satisfaction. Filled with the author's
insights and life experiences, the reader is taken through the nine
tasks of transformation. Dr. Garfield shares how we can gracefully
let go of the younger selves we've been and walk through the
opening that keeps beckoning toward this soul-driven version of
later life. He encourages us to take the risk of being fully alive
as our years pass. This is no small task - aging is not for the
faint of heart! The beautiful paradox of growing older is that none
of the gifts of age are available without the kind of loss that
forces us to confront mortality in a way we can't deny. In the face
of loss, we're changed and expanded by truths that come from the
heart, not the mind. We learn that we're more than our bodies, part
of something much larger than we are; that love and kindness matter
most of all.
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