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Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World
Offers techniques for achieving balance in one's life, discussing mind-body-spirit harmony and finding balance at home, play, work, and in the world
333 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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December 6, 2008
Awesome! Love it! One of my favorite school books so far.. It doesn't look like much, but it's such a wonderful book. I did feel at first like most of the stuff in here was stuff I've already learned, or read, before. Then, I realized that much of the information I've learned over many years of study, countless books and several epiphanies are all contained in this one little book.. in a very concise and easy to understand format. Marvelous. It's also chock full of insightful quotes and interesting statistics. Below is a paragraph from the section titled: "Original Confusion and Mistaken Identity" from the chapter titled: "The Balanced Mindstate"
"Imbalance in our lives is rooted in a fundamental mental confusion regarding who we really are. This confusion leads us to misperceive ourselves and our world, and leads to out-of-balance thinking and relating. This original confusion is largely a case of mistaken identity. We know only a tiny fragment of the totality of ourselves and have lived our lives ignorant of our true nature. This is mainly due to habit. Who and what we call ourselves is based on a story that we keep telling ourselves over and over again. Over time, we forget that this story is only a story, and we come to believe and live in the story, rather than in the deep, vast, intense mystery of our totality. Research in the cognitive sciences suggests that we think tens of thousands of thoughts each day. Yet as many as 90 percent of these thoughts are thoughts that we thought yesterday---mindless reruns, cycling through our minds again and again and again. Habit energies of the mind programming and reprogramming themselves into endless cycles of confusion, distortion, entropy and dullness. If this is true for you, can you imagine how much creative potential and energy you could liberate if you were to live more wakefully?"
"Imbalance in our lives is rooted in a fundamental mental confusion regarding who we really are. This confusion leads us to misperceive ourselves and our world, and leads to out-of-balance thinking and relating. This original confusion is largely a case of mistaken identity. We know only a tiny fragment of the totality of ourselves and have lived our lives ignorant of our true nature. This is mainly due to habit. Who and what we call ourselves is based on a story that we keep telling ourselves over and over again. Over time, we forget that this story is only a story, and we come to believe and live in the story, rather than in the deep, vast, intense mystery of our totality. Research in the cognitive sciences suggests that we think tens of thousands of thoughts each day. Yet as many as 90 percent of these thoughts are thoughts that we thought yesterday---mindless reruns, cycling through our minds again and again and again. Habit energies of the mind programming and reprogramming themselves into endless cycles of confusion, distortion, entropy and dullness. If this is true for you, can you imagine how much creative potential and energy you could liberate if you were to live more wakefully?"
October 27, 2014
This book was enlightening! It made me feel like I've been looking in a fogged up mirror, than wiping it clean to see my true reflection. I highly recommend it and plan on reading it again in the future.
December 6, 2013
enjoyed it, I wish I had to read this years ago.
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