Full Description
Living a Conscious Life: The Thinking Person's Guide to Wholeness, Peace & Freedom offers profound, prescriptive advice with a practical footing across a wide expanse of human experience. Grounded yet uplifting, factual yet inspiring, it can be considered a "user's manual for human beings"in its broad reach of topics, its depth of meaningful insights, and the transformation it brings to its readers.
Contents
CONTENTSPreface IntroductionPART ONEFor the Heart When You Live from the Heart, No One Forgets What You Leave BehindA Failed Vasectomy Changed My LifeThe Power of Healing Broken RelationshipsHow to Light Up a Room without Stepping InsideThe Path to Finding Love Can Be a Long, Winding RoadYou' re The Only Person That Needs to Know How Good You AreTenacity Pays OffBe Yourself— Not Someone ElseInspiration to Stir Your SoulPART TWO Nurturing the Inner World How I Reclaimed My Life after Ten Years in a CultHappiness Comes from Learning to Play the Inner GameThe Real Reason We Get into Stupid ArgumentsHow to Face Your Limiting Beliefs and Transform Your LifeThe Stories You Tell Yourself Make or Break You.How to Weather the Storm in Your HeadThe Difference between Winning and SuccessListening and Curiosity Make a Better WorldTwo Phrases That Drain Our PowerAll Personal Growth Starts with an EndingLessons from Black HolesPART THREE Building Meaningful Relationships Wisdom Begins When You Ask This One QuestionFour Steps to being Honest. Even When it' s Hard.Avoid Stupid Arguments with Verbal AikidoHow to Be a More Interesting ConversationalistOpinions Are Not FactsWe Behave Differently Because We' re Wired DifferentlyPractical Tips for Type A Personality TypesForget about Trying to Change Someone' s MindHow to Deal with Difficult People without Losing Your MindEight Easy Things Extraverts Can Do That Introverts LoveTurn an Argument with your Partner into aHealing ConversationPART FOUR Living a More Fulfilling LifeHow to Get Deeper Meaning in Work and LifeHow to Recover from Losing Your Identity WhenYou' ve Only Lost Your JobFive Simple, Powerful Leadership PrinciplesHow to Quickly Size Up Someone' s Personality StyleHow to Survive the Dark Side of Corporate LifePART FIVE Meditation and Spirituality Five Things I' ve Learned From 49 Years of MeditationFive Ways to Fire Up Your Meditation PracticeHow to Reduce the Noise in Your Head Before You MeditateThe Power and Beauty of MeditationJust One Habit to Deepen Your Meditation PracticeThe Importance of Being in a World Consumed with DoingTips for More Inner QuietPART SIX Navigating the Business WorldHow to Get Deeper Meaning in Work and LifeHow to Recover from Losing Your Identity When You' ve Only Lost Your JobFive Simple, Powerful Leadership PrinciplesHow to Quickly Size Up Someone' s Personality StyleHow to Survive the Dark Side of Corporate LifeAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the Author