Finding time for your self : a spiritual survivor's workbook : 52 weeks of reflections and exercises for busy people

Finding Time for Your Self invites busy women and men to connect with deeper longings for self-fulfillment as they navigate the stressful demands of daily life. Thought-provoking reflections by the author are followed by practical exercises for a weekly study over a year of many aspects of life experience. Most of us feel scattered a lot of the time. Like the dismembered Egyptian god Osiris, we are spread out all over our personal world. Finding Time for Your Self offers help to bring ourselves back together again and learn how to re-member ourselves, not by withdrawing from the world but by being engaged right in the middle of our daily life. Fifty-two reflections on familiar life situations help the reader stay inwardly alive and present to meet life's many challenges - to pause and reflect at any moment of the day. They are followed by practical exercises that offer day-by-day experiments to assist in finding a more balanced sense of ourselves in the midst of outer activity. The old Shaker song "It's a gift to be simple" tells us that the solution is in the turning, until "by turning, turning, turning we come 'round right." When we turn away for a short time from activities, goals and commitments - and toward the inner self - we discover a world that's just as active and full of surprises as the outer one. Turning our attention to the world within allows us to reconnect with that person who we essentially are, in the depths of our being. Inviting busy women and men to connect with deeper longings for self-fulfillment as they navigate the stressful demands of daily life, the thought-provoking reflections in this volume are followed by practical exercises for a weekly study over a year. Most of us feel scattered a lot of the time; like the dismembered Egyptian god Osiris, we are spread out all over our personal world. Finding Time for Your Self offers help to bring ourselves back together again and learn how to remember ourselves, not by withdrawing from the world but by being engaged right in the middle of our daily life. These 52 reflections on familiar life situations help the reader stay inwardly alive and present to meet life & rsquo;s many challenges & mdash;to pause and reflect at any moment of the day. They are followed by practical exercises that offer day-by-day experiments to assist in finding a more balanced sense of ourselves in the midst of outer activity Inviting busy women and men to connect with deeper longings for self-fulfillment as they navigate the stressful demands of daily life, the thought-provoking reflections in this volume are followed by practical exercises for a weekly study over a year. Most of us feel scattered a lot of the time; like the dismembered Egyptian god Osiris, we are spread out all over our personal world. Finding Time for Your Self offers help to bring ourselves back together again and learn how to remember ourselves, not by withdrawing from the world but by being engaged right in the middle of our daily life. These 52 reflections on familiar life situations help the reader stay inwardly alive and present to meet life{u2019}s many challenges{u2014}to pause and reflect at any moment of the day. They are followed by practical exercises that offer day-by-day experiments to assist in finding a more balanced sense of ourselves in the midst of outer activity "Finding Time for Yourself invites use to connect with our deeper longings for self-fulfillment as we navigate the stressful demands of daily life. Fifty-two thought-provoking reflections on familiar life situations help the reader stay inwardly alive and present to meet life's many challenges. Each reflection is followed by daily exercises which can help us find a more balanced sense of ourselves in the midst of outer activity."--Back cover Patty de Llosa is the author of The Practice of Presence: Five Paths for Daily Life and Taming Your Inner Tyrant: A Path to Healing through Dialogues with Oneself . She has led group classes in the Gurdjieff work, Tai Chi and Taoist meditation, and the Alexander Technique. She is a consulting editor for Parabola Magazine , and her articles have appeared in many health and lifestyle journals