Contents

Chapter 1 The Magic Elixir

How Long Does It Take to Love Yourself?

What Qualifies Me to Write About This?

When is a Good Time to Start?

How Will Loving Myself Improve My Life?

So Loving Myself Will Solve All My Problems?

How Do We Become Unloving To Ourselves?

Exercise: Sit and Breathe

The Energy Battery

Assessment: Where Am I Now?

Chapter 2 Making a Start

Set Your Intention

The First Step

Excavation

Growing Self Awareness through Enquiry

Appreciation

Exercise: Self-Appreciation

Appreciation Inventory

Chapter 3 Making Space to Be Yourself

Letting Go and Getting Out of The Way

Letting Go of Perfectionism

Letting Go of Mistakes and Hurts

Feng Shui: Combining Physical Action with Mental Intention

Puja: Ritual for Letting Go

Chapter 4 Nourishment

Physical Nourishment

Emotional Nourishment

Spiritual Nourishment

Mental Nourishment: Words that Shape Your Life

Visualisation: Discovering the Treasure Within

Chapter 5 Recovering Your Power

Waiting for the Prince on a White Horse

Blame versus Responsibility

Life Review

Forgiveness

Exercise: Forgiveness

Chapter 6 Releasing Fear

Overcoming Negativity

Challenging the Inner Critic

Imagination and Self-Talk

Recognising Truth

Visualisation: The Safe Place

Chapter 7 Light hearted and Light footed

The Power of Humour and Play

Healing Through Dance and Movement

Drumming and Resonance

Chapter 8 Becoming Still To Learn: Mindfulness

The Gifts of Mindfulness

Presence versus Absence

Emotions and Mindfulness

About the Body Scan

Exercise: The Body Scan

Chapter 9 Getting Through Grief and Loss

The Experience of Loss

Gentler Questions

Visualisation: Lovingkindness Meditation

Chapter 10 Resurrecting Dreams and Living Your Life Purposefully

Soul Purpose

Being and Doing

Investigating What We Want

Service

Exercise: Discovering What Is Important

Chapter 11 Becoming Authentic

Speaking Out From the Heart

The Blues

Integrity

Freedom

Permission

Practice and the Ego

Chapter 12 Gathering Resources for the Journey

Abundance and Prosperity

Letting Go of Scarcity

The Sequence of Manifestation

Gratitude

The Shape of Help

Controlling Your Dominant Thought

What will you allow?

Visualisation: Attracting and Allowing Abundance

Chapter 13 Near Death Experiences and Near Life Opportunities

Learning from Death

Aligning with our God-Self

A New Way of Being in the World

Visualisation: Integrating the Positive Changes

References

Suggested Reading and Resources

Acknowledgements