Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom for Your Journey
Break free from limitations and become self-empowered by saying "Yes" to change

The pain and loss associated with change results in the temporary loss of our habitual identity, or false self. The false self is an idealized image of who we are, adopted in childhood to ease the fear associated with possible rejection and lack of love. When this ego self shatters during intense periods of change, a period of great opportunity opens up. It’s easier to become vulnerable and real, which can lead to a taste of true nature. When loss makes it clear that the false self can’t make us happy, but that our true nature is always accessible, motivation to work toward self-realization increases. This is one of the most precious gifts of change.

Change is both scary business and an inescapable fact of life. Everything is impermanent and eventually passes away. Some changes are natural, like aging through the lifecycle. Others are sudden and catastrophic, such as illness, bankruptcy, or the death of a loved one. Change is an opportunity to shed the limitations of the lower self and be reborn to the higher self. This book is an inspiring and practical guide to that process, incorporating personal stories, cutting-edge psychological research, and the perennial philosophy of the world’s great wisdom traditions.

This book includes a link to an audio download which is a body-based mindfulness meditation that guides you in developing moment-by-moment awareness and honoring emotions and other experiences without attachment as they arise and pass away. The audio is suitable for daily use both by beginners and experienced meditators.
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Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom for Your Journey
Break free from limitations and become self-empowered by saying "Yes" to change

The pain and loss associated with change results in the temporary loss of our habitual identity, or false self. The false self is an idealized image of who we are, adopted in childhood to ease the fear associated with possible rejection and lack of love. When this ego self shatters during intense periods of change, a period of great opportunity opens up. It’s easier to become vulnerable and real, which can lead to a taste of true nature. When loss makes it clear that the false self can’t make us happy, but that our true nature is always accessible, motivation to work toward self-realization increases. This is one of the most precious gifts of change.

Change is both scary business and an inescapable fact of life. Everything is impermanent and eventually passes away. Some changes are natural, like aging through the lifecycle. Others are sudden and catastrophic, such as illness, bankruptcy, or the death of a loved one. Change is an opportunity to shed the limitations of the lower self and be reborn to the higher self. This book is an inspiring and practical guide to that process, incorporating personal stories, cutting-edge psychological research, and the perennial philosophy of the world’s great wisdom traditions.

This book includes a link to an audio download which is a body-based mindfulness meditation that guides you in developing moment-by-moment awareness and honoring emotions and other experiences without attachment as they arise and pass away. The audio is suitable for daily use both by beginners and experienced meditators.
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Saying Yes to Change: Essential Wisdom for Your Journey

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Break free from limitations and become self-empowered by saying "Yes" to change

The pain and loss associated with change results in the temporary loss of our habitual identity, or false self. The false self is an idealized image of who we are, adopted in childhood to ease the fear associated with possible rejection and lack of love. When this ego self shatters during intense periods of change, a period of great opportunity opens up. It’s easier to become vulnerable and real, which can lead to a taste of true nature. When loss makes it clear that the false self can’t make us happy, but that our true nature is always accessible, motivation to work toward self-realization increases. This is one of the most precious gifts of change.

Change is both scary business and an inescapable fact of life. Everything is impermanent and eventually passes away. Some changes are natural, like aging through the lifecycle. Others are sudden and catastrophic, such as illness, bankruptcy, or the death of a loved one. Change is an opportunity to shed the limitations of the lower self and be reborn to the higher self. This book is an inspiring and practical guide to that process, incorporating personal stories, cutting-edge psychological research, and the perennial philosophy of the world’s great wisdom traditions.

This book includes a link to an audio download which is a body-based mindfulness meditation that guides you in developing moment-by-moment awareness and honoring emotions and other experiences without attachment as they arise and pass away. The audio is suitable for daily use both by beginners and experienced meditators.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781401932756
Publisher: Hay House Inc.
Publication date: 01/01/2006
Sold by: Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format: eBook
Pages: 168
File size: 705 KB

About the Author

Joan Z. Borysenko, Ph.D., has been described as a respected scientist, gifted therapist, and unabashed mystic. Trained at Harvard Medical School, she was an instructor in medicine until 1988. Currently the President of Mind/Body Health Sciences, Inc., she is an internationally known speaker and consultant in women’ health and spirituality, integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She is the author of nine books, including New York Times bestsellers.Gordon Dveirin, Ed.D., is president of Dveirin & Associates, a consulting firm in organizational and human development. Dr. Dveirin is currently strategic architect of the Nurturing Pedagogy Project— three-year national demonstration project involving the National Network for Educational Renewal and the Passageways Institute. In 2004, he co-founded the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and its Interspiritual Mentoring Program, based on a lifelong interest in mindful inquiry and approaches to Presence.

Table of Contents

Preface: A Parableix
How This Book Came to Bexi
Introduction: Two Kinds of Storiesxv
Chapter 1The Natural Intelligence That Guides Transformation1
Chapter 2Rites of Passage9
Chapter 3Inquiry as a Path to Freedom21
Chapter 4The Three Faces of Wisdom31
Chapter 5Coyote Wisdom: Seeing the World with New Eyes41
Chapter 6Who's to Blame?53
Chapter 7What Doesn't Destroy Us Makes Us Stronger65
Chapter 8Letting Go and Moving On73
Chapter 9Faith: What's God Got to Do with It?85
Chapter 10Holding Things Lightly95
Chapter 11How Stressed Out Am I?103
Chapter 12The Wisdom of Not Doing111
Chapter 13Vanquishing the False Self121
Chapter 14The Synergy of Change: Discovering an Authentic "We"133
Chapter 15Making a Difference145
Chapter 16Finding Your Vision153
Chapter 17A Guided Meditation on Mindful Presence163
Afterword: Remembering the Essential Wisdoms171
Acknowledgments177
About the Authors181

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