Living Awake

Living Awake
Author: Mary Bea Sullivan
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1604945230

Imagine renewal in fifteen minutes a day. This forty-day program includes simple, yet meaningful spiritual reflections and practices that will guide you on the path toward emotional, physical, and spiritual restoration. Simplicity reigns-just show up every day for forty days and trust the process. Living AWAKE is a gentle reminder that all in life is sacred. Busy, stressed-out people will welcome Living AWAKE's clear and straightforward approach. Drawing from diverse sources and the author's own experience as a retreat leader and spiritual companion, Living AWAKE is accessible to all, regardless of faith or background. About the Author Mary Bea Sullivan is a retreat leader, inspirational speaker, and spiritual companion. She lives in Northern Alabama with her husband, Malcolm, and children, Brendan and Kiki. She is also the author of Dancing Naked Under the Moon: Uncovering the Wisdom Within, a spiritual memoir. Praise for Living AWAKE "Mary Bea Sullivan is a wise guide because she--through her own experience--knows that being and becoming human is a craft which requires practice, like playing a musical instrument or learning how to paint. Here the reader will find a series of practices over a classic period of forty days which will heal the soul, refresh the mind and heart, and open up new pathways." --Alan Jones, Dean Emeritus of Grace Cathedral and Honorary Canon of Chartres Cathedral. "Living AWAKE is a treasure chest of insight, wisdom, and practice. This forty-day journey invites the reader to know herself with love, and to then lavish that love on others. In a day and age when a lot of spiritual pablum is in the marketplace, Mary Bea Sullivan serves up real food for body, mind and spirit, food that is like the bread of communion, giving bread so that the reader can offer bread." --Rev. Mary C. Earle, Days of Grace: Meditations and Practices for Living with Illness. "Living AWAKE is a wonderful manual for the spiritual seeker who thinks globally and is not afraid to move beyond the confines of his or her belief system. Using a combination of personal narrative and insights into the sacred traditions of the world's religions, Mary Bea offers practical exercises for everyday people whose hearts ache for something more. She writes as a seasoned mentor well familiar with the territory, inviting the uninitiated to take the first steps towards living awake because it is a journey she herself has taken." --Elizabeth-Anne Stewart, Ph.D, Jesus the Holy Fool "There is a deep hunger today to have a more intimate experience with the Divine. Living AWAKE is a great way to get started or to get back on your journey with the Divine. This meditative guide comes from the deep wisdom of both eastern and western spirituality, yet it is simple and short enough that it can realistically be done in the midst of our busy lives. And if you stick with it for forty days, you will have established a habit that becomes natural to you and you will be living more awake." --Rev. Bob Haden, Director of the Haden Institute

Living Awake

Living Awake
Author: Landon Carter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-01-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781481976428

Living Awake addresses the age-old quest for enlightenment and the desire to have more love, happiness, and fulfillment in life, yet is written from a modern western perspective. It addresses questions such as: Who am I? How did I get to be the way I am and how can I change? How does this reality I find myself in actually work? How can I create more of what I want in my relationships and in life? The book presents easily understandable models that the reader can validate in his or her own experience. Exercises in each chapter assist the reader in making these models experientially alive. Once the models are built, Landon presents a powerful process of self-actualization to help the reader begin to create more love, happiness and fulfillment in his or her everyday life - where it counts the most. This is the manual for how to be a human BEING that we all should have received as we began life's miraculous journey. But since we didn't, it is essential reading for all those who wish to transform their everyday lives and especially their relationships, creating more joy and fulfillment. Landon Carter went to some of the best schools America has to offer: Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School. In 1972, at age 28, he had achieved most of the elements of 'the American Dream' and yet was not happy. This wake up call prompted a life long quest for the answers to some of life's most fundamental questions. Over the years, Landon has worked with over 70,000 people in both the public and business arenas on the subject matter presented in this book. Living Awake represents his current understanding of the answers to the above questions. It contains the essential information he feels each of us should know, a guidebook on being a human Being.

Heart Minded

Heart Minded
Author: Sarah Blondin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-02-07
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1649630492

A treasury of meditations for living from your heart--from a top teacher at the #1 online meditation service Insight Timer"Heart Minded offers us guidance on the sacred journey home ... to the heartspace where love is always and already right here." -Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance"Heart Minded is all at once a centering meditation, a practice, and an olive branch extended to the depths of your soul." -Pixie Lighthorse, author of Prayers of HonoringIn our noisy world, it can seem impossible to turn off our busy minds, which are so often flooded with worry and unending lists of tasks. So, when you feel overwhelmed and afraid, how can you return to grounded connection?"When we turn toward our hearts, we arrive like a bolt of lightning in the present moment, and all our arguments against ourselves and life go quiet," teaches Sarah Blondin. "No matter where you are, you can touch this place in yourself to feel free and alive."With poetic brilliance and skillful instruction, this renowned teacher brings you Heart Minded, a treasury of meditations and spiritual teachings to help you tune into your feeling heart. As the students of her popular online trainings can attest, these simple and powerful practices can instantly bring you into a deeper connection with yourself and others.In this new paperback edition, Heart Minded presents a full course in living a life guided by the wise heart. Open to any page for a reminder that, beneath your burdens and troubles, you are fundamentally whole and free.

Awake in This Life

Awake in This Life
Author: Michael McAlister
Publisher: Infinite Smile Sangha
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-05-03
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1419693026

In the groundbreaking book Awake in This Life, Michael McAlister offers an alternative path to uncovering an enlightened perspective amidst our busy lives.

Awake in the World

Awake in the World
Author: Michael Stone
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0834827492

How can we live a balanced life in unbalanced times? How can the practices of meditation and yoga support our relationships, our work lives, and the greater good? Author, teacher, and psychotherapist Michael Stone presents the essential insights of mindfulness and yoga, emphasizing the teachings of simplicity and the interdependence of all life. Stone explains that the practices of yoga and meditation are not about escaping reality but about living fully in the here and now, opening to our experience, and gaining access to stillness within the flow of life. The essence of yoga and Buddhist practice is opening the heart—our own and the heart of the world. With that awareness, Stone encourages us to get involved in our communities, to speak out when we see wrongdoing, and to find ways of helping others.

Fully Awake and Truly Alive

Fully Awake and Truly Alive
Author: Jane Elizabeth Vennard
Publisher: SkyLight Paths Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1594734739

Fulfill the reality that the glory of God is the human fully alive. "Reverend Vennard is fearlessly awake to the wild dance of life. Rather than sleeping through life, she awakens to it. Rather than escaping from reality, she embraces it. Rather than distracting herself with a life to come, she dares to live the life that is. And she wants you to do all this as well. Read this book. Live this book. Wake up." --from the Foreword In a culture enthralled with technology, striving and speed, people of many faith traditions and no faith tradition long to slow down, pay attention and wake up to the present moment. They want help in realizing their hope that they can become more truly alive. This engaging and highly readable book offers you guidance for the journey. Sharing stories from her personal life as a spiritual seeker and from her professional career as a retreat leader, spiritual director and teacher, Reverend Jane Vennard illustrates the joys and frustrations of spiritual practice, offers insights from various religious traditions, and provides step-by-step exercises and meditations to practice: Caring for the body - Rest - Silence Solitude - Letting go - Community - Hospitality - Service - Living gratefully

Living Awake

Living Awake
Author: Lisa Carrillo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2021-05-20
Genre: Mindfulness (Psychology)
ISBN: 9781737156406

We may know life as one benevolent flow but not always perceive it that way--the "I got it; I lost it" phenomenon. Living Awake demonstrates 20 techniques that help us return to experiencing oneness, peace, and freedom. Each technique includes real life examples and questions for application. Lisa shows: --how to unravel the sense of a separate identity --how to dispel the illusion of trouble and discover natural benevolence --how to savor the human experience without getting lost in attachment. Using diverse modes of inquiry, she engages the emotions and body as well as the mind. Suffering is like bumpers on a bowling lane, nudging us back to truth. These techniques enable us to use our life experience as a pathway to peace. Her approach is one of gracious inclusion, embracing our problematic thinking as the perfect tool for awakening.

Lying Awake

Lying Awake
Author: Mark Salzman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2003-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1400077753

Mark Salzman's Lying Awake is a finely wrought gem that plumbs the depths of one woman's soul, and in so doing raises salient questions about the power-and price-of faith. Sister John's cloistered life of peace and prayer has been electrified by ever more frequent visions of God's radiance, leading her toward a deep religious ecstasy. Her life and writings have become examples of devotion. Yet her visions are accompanied by shattering headaches that compel Sister John to seek medical help. When her doctor tells her an illness may be responsible for her gift, Sister John faces a wrenching choice: to risk her intimate glimpses of the divine in favor of a cure, or to continue her visions with the knowledge that they might be false-and might even cost her her life.

Awake at the Bedside

Awake at the Bedside
Author: Koshin Paley Ellison
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2016-05-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1614291195

"In Awake at the Bedside, pioneers of palliative and end-of-life care as well as doctors, chaplains, caregivers and even poets offer wisdom that will challenge, uplift, comfort--and change the way we think about death. Equal parts instruction manual and spiritual testimony, it includes specific instructions and personal accounts to inspire, counsel, and teach."--Amazon.com.

Living Life Awake

Living Life Awake
Author: Kristin Walker
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1665707577

Are you programming yourself, or is your life programming you? In Living Life Awake, author Kristin Walker offers a process of programming your brain to be smart—to do more than help your body survive and exist in a happy state. The concrete, brain-researched information in this guide ensures you stay on track with your life plans. Walker liberates you from crippling, negative thoughts; shows you how to overcome challenges; and equips you to live life fully. Through seventy-five daily messages, Living Life Awake helps you develop a smart brain. You will learn skills and develop habits to: • get even better grades; • excel in leadership roles; and • attract healthy relationships. Walker teaches you how the brain works and how to use that knowledge to your advantage to upgrade your focus, putting and keeping your life on track with your true potential. “When I reflected upon the difficulties faced by today’s rising generation, I knew I had to do something. I combined my knowledge of the brain with my mom heart and gave birth to this book.” —Kristin Walker