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