Go Within to Change Your Life
Go Within to Change Your Life: A Hidden Wisdom Workbook for Personal Transformation
When you want to change but don’t know why you’re struggling to make it happen, the best course may be to seek answers within. From award-winning, best-selling self-help and spirituality author Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, comes a workbook for tapping into a forgotten resource we all have: our hidden wisdom. Go Within to Change Your Life offers transformational techniques inspired by shamanism and Jungianism and poses questions that will get you thinking more deeply about what’s stopping you from moving forward.
Regardless of where you are on your journey, the abundance of exercises and guidance here will help you:
- gain insights and energy that will motivate you
- discover what’s holding you back
- work with powerful tools for establishing new habits
- attain the momentum you need to change your life, habits, and path
Along with journaling prompts, you’ll find exercises for:
- Interpreting dreams
- Doing guided visualizations
- Taking journeys to transpersonal realms
- Dialoguing with the help of your unconscious
- Creating a nature painting
- Writing a death poem and a life poem
- Dancing for insights
Exploring an array of life issues you might want to address, from experiencing fewer conflicts in relationships to improving your health and wellness to strengthening your connection to nature and Spirit, Go Within to Change Your Life offers the promise of genuine breakthroughs wherever you may be stuck.
Book Contents for Go Within to Change Your Life:
A Hidden Wisdom Workbook for Personal Transformation
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Introduction: You Have the Power to Change Your Life for the Better
Part 1: Learn to Access Your Hidden Wisdom and Its Treasures
Chapter 1: The Secret of Hidden Wisdom Within You
Overcoming Any Fear
Encountering and Engaging Energies
Stories and Archetypal Energies
On Being Pushed Out of Your Comfort Zone
You Have More Power to Change Than You Think
Chapter 2: Meet the Archetypal Energies You’ll Engage
Which Archetypal Energies Are Affecting You?
Multiple Archetypal Energies Can Affect You
The Changing Influence of Multiple Archetypal Energies
Identifying More Archetypes That Are Influencing You
The Shadow
The Animus and Anima
The Persona
Roles You Play
Who Cast You in Your Roles?
Identifying Your Story
Chapter 3: Hidden Wisdom in Dreams, Visualizations, and Journeys
Working with Dreams
Beginning to Interpret What You Experienced and Encountered
Journeys and Visualizations
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Room of Contracts to Change a Hidden Belief
Sidebar: When You Get No Response from Your Unconscious
Chapter 4: Working with Your Wise Inner Self
The Wise Inner Self and the Archetypes
What Your Wise Inner Self Can Express to You
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Room of Treasures to Gain Insights and Energy for Change
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Dialoguing
Chapter 5: Your Story and How You Can Change It
Stories That Aren’t Working for You
What Will Your New Story Be?
Give Yourself Credit and Have Some Faith
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Depict Your Story with a Changeable Nature “Painting”
Part II: Making Changes
Chapter 6: Know Your Values and Priorities and Be True to Them
Identifying Your Values and Priorities, the Foundations of Your Goals
Freeing Up Energy
Contemplation and Self-Discovery
Your Story of Happiness
Making Difficult Changes
Chapter 7: Pause and Become Mindful
Become Mindful Through Observing and Appreciating Moments
Discover the Potential for Change in One Short Pause
Pause to Reflect on How You Make Decisions
Pause to Reflect on Your Role in a Situation
Pause to Make an Inner Shift
Pause to Connect with Nature
Chapter 8: Take Wise Action to Establish New Habits
New Habits Start with Achievable Goals and Accountability
One Healthy Change Leads to Another
Making New Habits Stick
Hook a Habit onto a Habit
Make Your New Habit Convenient
Give Yourself Structure and Flexibility
Hold Yourself Accountable
Be Mindful at Choice Points
Chapter 9: If You’re Not Meeting Your Goals
Do Your Goals Match Your Values?
Getting Unstuck
Chapter 10: Resolve Conflicts
Conflict Resolution Using the Martial Arts Wisdom of Kime and Ma
Use Your Words, Choose Your Words—and Pause Before Responding
Chapter 11: Create the Life You Desire
Access Your Creativity, Vitality, and Sense of Adventure
Express Yourself through the Arts, Without Judgment
Try Doing Everyday Activities Differently
Aim to Expand Your Life
Let Vitality Cross Over from One Chapter of Your Life to Another
Allow Yourself to Be a Little Uncomfortable as You Make Changes
In Your Imagination, Visit the Past and the Future
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Visualization to Observe Yourself in the Past
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Visualization of a Future Day
Begin to Design a New Future for Yourself
Find Resources for Change
Chapter 12: Resilience When Presented with Life’s Suddenlies
Use a Setback as an Opportunity to Learn Something New
Address Any Sense of Tiredness or Lethargy
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Receiving Wisdom with Help from the Earth_
Let Go of Any Anxiety or Pessimism
Exercise: Walk in Nature to Release Anxiety
Play with Metaphors to Help You Gain Insights about Transformation
Don’t Be a Perfectionist Who Is Too Hard on Yourself
Exercise: Ritual for Energy-Releasing and Energy-Absorbing
Accept the Need to Move on from Losses
Part III: Transformations Regarding Spirituality, Health, and Your Mortality
Chapter 13: Connecting with Your Spirituality and with Nature
Your Relationship with Source and Its Benefits
Your God-and-Religion Story
How Nature Helps You Feel More Connected to Source
Doing Rituals and Using Hidden-Wisdom Techniques Outdoors in Nature
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Engaging Nature for Wisdom
Ayni and Nature
Special Places in Nature
Exercise: Writing Poetry or Drawing in a Natural Spot That Draws You
How You Can Commune with Nature Despite Limitations
A Goal for Connecting with Nature and with Spirit
Chapter 14: Hidden Wisdom About Health
Discovering Your Health Story
Hidden Obstacles to Optimal Health
Your Genes Don’t Have to Determine Your Health Story
Further Exploring Your Health Story
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Upper World to See Your Future Health
A Balance Between Battling Toxins and Building Immunity
Dance for Health, Dance for Healing
Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Dancing for Insights
The Truth About “Healing”
Four Levels of Awareness Regarding Health and Healing
Chapter 15: Contemplating Your Life and Mortality
Back to Basho
What Are You Willing to Let Go Of?
When You Have Unfinished Business with Someone
Exercise: Ritual to “Let It Go”
Your Bucket List
The Poem of the Life You Would Like to Have Lived
Appendix: Additional Goals
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