Those on the Insiders’ List have access to a private part of this blog where they can ask me a question. In the extract below, Charmaine tells us what she struggles with. I have re-written her story for her and I am sharing it here because I suspect it may help you too.
It shouldn’t take much thinking about now you are in a place of focus and alignment with your inner voice. The easiest question is to ask yourself, what am I worrying about, thinking about, dreaming about? You can also think about the past, recent events or your future direction.
Repose means to be peacefully calm and quiet, to lie or to rest on something. This step is entering the state of quietness, letting go of the thoughts in your head, and resting on yourself rather than the world around you.
The purpose of the first step is to set up a sacred space and a devoted time to your practice. In the same way that you have a space for meditation you should have a space to connect to your inner voice.
My current obsession is writing therapy. I realised that the secret to my recovery from both my eating disorder and my husband’s suicide was that I wrote down my thoughts either here in my blog or in one of my notebooks. I looked into what studies had been done on writing as therapy and uncovered some amazing facts.
The list remains open so you can still sign up. Right now I am working hard on developing a 6-step practice that combines meditation, writing and NLP techniques that will quickly and easily connect you with your inner voice, give you clarity, improve your physical health and transform your relationships.
Sometimes it takes despair for us to no longer care what other people think of us. When you run out of options, when the facade is too painful to keep up, that’s when you give up pretending and start living. That’s when the growth starts to happen.
Sometimes the voices in my head speak loudly. They tell me I’m not good enough, I’m not trying hard enough and the bad things that happen are my fault. The words crash into each other inside my brain and press against the inner surface of my skull.
So this is my greatest fear … that I will stroke the face of suffering and make something beautiful and worthwhile from my pain and no-one will need it or want it. This terror keeps me awake at night.
Karen’s book “After” isn’t another book about what to do and what not to do, how to lose weight or how to never diet again, it’s about her journey of self discovery. If you are interested in what it is like to go from dieting to trusting your body and loving yourself then this book is for you.
I’ve been struggling with my non-fiction book project because I don’t want it to be another misery memoir – you know the type … how I overcome all sorts of tragedy and emerge relatively unscathed and the reader either feels depressed, inspired or bored.
The tour guide is a Buddhist nun. She is young, Asian, and beautiful in spite of, or maybe because of her shaved head. She reminds me of Tripitaka, the Buddhist boy priest in the cult TV series Monkey. I wonder for a moment if the majority of my Buddhist education comes from television. No wonder I am confused.
When I decided to fix my life through applying the teachings of the most popular gurus, things went horribly wrong.
The journey through the landscape of self help books is the theme of my book. I thought I would share with you the eight books that shaped my life over the past two years.
