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How to identify your innate
gifts and apply
them in your life's work & your relationships
By Hal Zina Bennett, Ph.D with
Susan J. Sparrow
Published by Tenacity Press 1997, 228 pages, ISBN 0-9656056-1-2
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For anyone seeking greater meaning and purpose in their work,
relationships, or in simplifying and improving the quality of
their lives. This book has already helped over 50,000 readers
follow their bliss by cultivating the rich inner resources of
their own lives. The authors tell how to unlock the creative
treasures of peak experiences, essential wounds, and those
fleeting but magical moments of simple inspiration and joy
that we all have.
Far more than a career guide, this book
helps you find new meaning and purpose by choosing a life path
that is guided from within. Includes a workbook section for
discovering your bliss and truly expressing who you
are.
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This is the book that got us into self-publishing. Originally
published by Avon Books-William Morrow, over 30,000 copies were
printed and sold. They gave us our copyrights back after four
years and because we kept getting requests for it we decided to
put it back into print ourselves. Readers continue to find the
book and sing its praises, so we keep it in print. |
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"A provocative
journey inward, discovering the bliss that results from
self-realization...indeed a new window on the much neglected
invisible dimension of our humanity. Great reading." ~ Wayne W. Dyer, bestselling author & lecturer
"Discover your gifts, heal your wounds and
follow your bliss… A treasure of a book." ~ Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Describes what each of us can do to remove blocks to
our own creativity and thus more fully express our essential
being." ~ Shakti Gawain
"Combines insight, experience and ancient wisdom. Not
only worth reading but referencing and studying." ~ Hugh and Gail Prather
"A wonderfully lucid and intelligent book, fully of
fascinating insights… I love this book." ~ Gabrielle Roth
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Excerpt No. 1 (Pages 21-22)
So many of us are
finding that our most successful choices in life come not from
following the pull of people, events, or even socioeconomic
forces outside us, and not from following our own fears, but
from certain promptings that come from deep within
us.
There are so many phrases that describe
these inner promptings: "follow your bliss, "dancing your
inner dance," "living your own life," "doing what makes your
heart sing," and "trusting your own rhythm."
Every one of these expressions confirms our
belief that
there is, deep within us, something that seeks expression,
something that asks for recognition. It makes itself known in
a thousand different ways: as a certain gut feeling, a pull to
experience ourselves as productive, creative, and loving, able
to love and be loved, and able to make a contribution that
perhaps will be important far beyond the limits of our own
lives.
How do we find the "right work" or the
"right relationship" or simply the "right action" to satisfy
these deep and insistent inner needs? How do we find the life
path where we can feel that we can make a difference, and
truly experience our bliss? The good news is that there is a
part within each one of us that can provide the guidance to
satisfy our deepest needs in work and relationships. It is a
part that, at our birth, we bring into this world for the very
first time. While this part is highly individualize and new,
it is also universal and ageless, giving us a precious
identity that we can share with every other human being, even
since the beginning of time, connecting us all as one. When we
are in touch with it, life takes on a quiet excitement. This
is our bliss, and it is like no other experience we can name.
Like an inner compass or the homing device on a great ship, it
gives us direction and purpose. It provides guidance for every
activity in our lives.
If we stop to get in
touch with this part, and we learn to trust what it is telling
us, we have the sense that we are never alone. Decisions and
choices that come from this source seem "positive and right,"
effortless and natural, with a logic and simplicity that has a
beauty all its own. There is never any doubt that our choices
and actions make a difference, both to others and to the world
around us, and perhaps for generations to come.
Our bliss can help move us forward, providing a positive
momentum. When we are following it, it is as if we are
energized in a new way. We may even begin to feel that our
work is eased and our relationships enhanced by a swift but
invisible current that carries us along.
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Excerpt No. 2 (Pages 156-157)
Think about a relationship you have
had with one other person in your life. Let yourself recall a
time when the two of you shared a moment of great pleasure.
Recall what you were thinking or feeling at that moment.
Recognize that the world you created within your lens of
perception made this moment possible, and your friend's
pleasure would not have been the same without your
participation.
You make the
difference!
This exercise is a subtle one. You
may not immediately feel any dramatic results from doing it.
But each time you repeat it, your appreciation of the power
you posses through your lens of perception will increase. Take
the time, while going through a normal day of activities, to
look at the world the way you did in this exercise. As you do
this, you will have a natural tendency to value your own
contribution in the world more, and to see the resources in
every situation where you are involved.
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