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An A to Z of Emotional Freedom: Book I - Standing On Your Own Two Feet by Caroline Anson 80 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-1932; ISBN 1-4120-1555-3; US$17.08, C$22.18, EUR14.42, £9.99 The goal of this series is to give you a few ideas about learning to stand on your own two feet.
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About the Book
The intention of this book is to help you claim back the life of personal respect, integrity and honour you were always destined to live.
This book is aimed at anyone who has a dream inside waiting to break out but is imprisoned by their personal history.
It does not aim to provide the answers, but hopes instead to provoke you into asking the right questions about your life and how you really want to live it: The rest is up to you.
This book is part of a series of four, which are defined as 'living books'; in other words, as readers read and learn and grow, and feedback to us, we want to evidence that learning and growing so maybe other peoples' learning and growing can acquire compassion and wisdom about their own and others' lives less painfully.
As the authors of this book, we have learned certain incontrovertible truths; the most important one being that we are all ultimately responsible for our own life stories. We have the final decision on what story we choose to tell.
If it is too late to change the chapters that have preceded where we are now, we certainly have the power to transform the rest of the story to describe our blooming.
Contained within these pages, and the pages of the other three books comprising the series, are some ideas to help you along the way*
All the words and phrases used throughout the series are intended to be explained within the context of how they are presented. If however, you do not understand anything you read, please ask for an explanation. We will be happy to clarify in later editions and via our website updates.
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About the Author
Caroline Anson travelled the world many times from the age of 9. She saw that every human heart was woven from the same spiritual cloth, and when we lose sight of this we become unhappy and lost. Catherine Hawthorne also travelled the world and immersed herself in experiencing all aspects of the human condition. When they met, they acknowledged and respected the soul truths of the other. Out of this acknowledgement and respect An A to Z of Emotional Freedom was born.
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Introduction:
The goal of this series is to give you a few ideas about learning to stand on your own two feet. Maybe you are in emotional turmoil; maybe you are confused, lost or disheartened. Maybe you feel you have lost your way.
If any of these things are true for you, these series of books will remind you that it isn't necessary to violate, belittle, confuse or dishonour yourself in order to twist or distort yourself into what you think the world wants you to be.
The goal is to remind you that any bad thing that happens in your life isn't a threat, a punishment or a violation of your free spirit or that you must deserve it in some way. Rather, whatever happens is simply a lesson - so learn it and move on. Learn to see that life is a spiral you move around yourself: You might think you have been going around in circles, but in fact every moment is unique.
Acknowledging the power of spirals means that although it feels like you might have visited this place before, you can in fact use your prior experience and the new knowledge of yourself to take the gifts of the lesson in front of you that are needed for your journey, and to let go of the burdens you no longer need to carry.
If you have forgotten what you have always known in your heart, the goal of this series is to remind you that you always know what you need to say, do, and be in order to make those steps towards living your True Self: You just need to relocate the voice of the wisdom within.
This series works on the basis that the complexity of life can be broken down into a series of simple steps, which you are able to follow to arrive at your True Self. If you are not standing on your own two feet, but are instead leaning on another's life to sustain your own, when your paths go off in different directions, you will fall over without the support you have become addicted to. If you decide to maintain your comfort levels by following the path of the other, which is not your own path, you are living a lie.
This series aims to help you retrieve and define the beautiful and unique human being you are and will always be, which perhaps at this moment seems hidden inside you like a butterfly waiting to unfurl its wings and fly. To retrieve that lost self you can only find it within. To move forward to claim ownership of your life, you will need to go within. If you want to stand on your own two feet, the muscles you need to clothe your bones are all found within.
Ultimately, the goal of this book is to honour you and your journey, whatever path you have chosen to take thus far, and to remind you that if you do not like the path you are on or the place you have found yourself, you are free to choose another path, another way, another truth.
The book is laid out as a series of steps winding like a spiral path around the mountain of self, with your big or higher self described here as your true self. The goal of this book is to achieve an inner transformation, ultimately achieving a consistent and reliable dialogue between your small or ego-centred self and your big or true self.
Your small self gained its knowledge of self and the world when you were a child, before you had full cognition and ownership of what you wanted and did not want in your world, and what was true and was not true for you. The small self operates out of a survival mode * fight or flight, and lives in fear of ridicule or death. To the small self, ridicule of self is a small death, and in its rush to protect itself, it can take control of the higher or big self, relegating the true self to the status of prisoner.
Some how, some way, some time, we all need to go through a process of inner transformation where we lovingly, but firmly, acknowledge the pain and confusion of the small self, but no longer allow that unknowing self to run our lives. This book, and indeed the series in which it is placed, aims to provide you with a series of small steps through which you can exercise your mind muscles into taking ownership of your life and the circumstances in which you live. It aims to remind you through ideas and mental exercises of the possibilities of all that you were born to be.
It is not a book written by experts, rather it is written from the voice of experience, where we, the authors, have between us lived out the range of human emotions, mistakes and possibilities talked about here. In seeking to stand on our own two feet, we have practised the ideas and mental exercises suggested here in our daily lives.
Often we have stumbled, many times fallen, but always have risen once more to stand on our own two feet. Sometimes the only way we have remained standing is through leaning against one another until we were strong enough to stand alone. Although this need is not mentioned in this book, an important part of learning to stand on your own two feet is through the fellowship of the other, a friend or companion who is honest enough to remind you of who you are and who you are not.
On our own journeys, our ability to rise after we have been knocked off our feet, or the ability to remain standing when the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune shower down around us, has often depended on being able to call out to the other, "I am afraid, the night is long, and I do not think I will see the new day dawning." The other has then called out, "I am here for you; my best prayers and blessings are here for you; my most compassionate love, friendship and wisdom are here for you * but at the end of the day you must remember you were born to stand on your own two feet!"
If such a friend is not present in your life at this moment, make a space for them to come in. In the meantime, lean on our words, let us remind you of all you can to be, and above all, remember that you were born to be free. So whatever barriers or inhibitions stand between you and your ability to achieve emotional freedom, take a deep breath, take a hundred deep breaths, and practice the art of standing on your own two feet!
To help you gain insights into the nature of yourself, the book is laid out as a series of simple transformations, questions, which may guide you towards becoming your own best friend. You can use them daily or whenever you feel you have need of them. They are insights only, and should not replace you exercising your own mind muscles in order to attain true emotional freedom.
What do we mean by emotional freedom? In the context of this book, and the three additional books that follow, we are referring to an ability to observe, acknowledge, and eventually manage your own emotions. This inner recognition then allows you to come to an understanding of why certain feelings have arisen and are causing turmoil in your life. Then if you no longer wish to be trapped by unruly emotions, you can develop your own mind muscles to bring about an inner transformation.
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