Living With Heart - Vol 1
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Living With Heart
If you enjoy the monthly column, you will enjoy this collection of the first columns published! Questions for personal illumination added
Author: Candace Croft, Ph.D.
Outskirts Press, 2010, 217 pages, paperback, ISBN: 1-43276-406-3.
Contact: 1-888-672-6657 or www.outskirtspress.com
Self-health - Spirituality / Personal growth / Transpersonal psychology
Bitesize musings from daily life to delight the soul
19th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, Excellence in all criteria categories, Judge’s comments:
“The writing is rich with this author’s insights and her understanding of the concepts of collective and individual spirituality, and with her compassion for the human experience with all of its inevitable ups and downs as lived by everyday people. The author conveys practical advice and suggestions while always keeping at the forefront the wonder of making oneself vulnerable through the act of opening the heart and the mind. An inspiring work in showing how to develop strength of character by presenting knowledge in a readable fashion. The selection of fables that illustrate her points engage the reader with a heartfelt message.”
Reader comments:
“…Utterly engaging, witty, refreshing, with principles that never lose their value.”
—Keith Smith, MA, EdD, MBA (minister, therapist, and educator)
Walking a daily path in this material world, it can be easy to forget that each of us is born of a holy seed. Living With Heart is a gentle reminder that each person is sacred. Sometimes we need to look beyond the obvious to find the humorous, the profound, or even the common touch of the greater universe at work in our lives. When we are able to find life’s sacredness and connect to the world from our divine center, our spirits become light—and we, in turn, can take flight.
Written in the form of essays and fables, Living With Heart is fun and uplifting. It examines the spiritual path that is often obscured by daily living and provides a pathway to align our daily lives with our spiritual selves. These divine connections to daily life will not only improve mental health but physical health as well. Let these inspirational and enlightening stories help you “feel the beat of your heart and spark the flame of its hope!”
Excerpt from Living with Heart
Home Is Where the Heart Is
After several months of careful searching, our friends found the perfect house on the perfect piece of property, one that matched their vision of an ideal life situated in an impeccable neighborhood. To hear them talk, they had moved to Eden and were living next door to Father Knows Best, the Brady Bunch, and Wally and the Beaver. The biggest daily challenge was maintaining a perfectly manicured lawn. Dysfunction existed in other towns. Who could ask for anything more? Patience when dealing with numerous realty-related frustrations had paid off. They dressed their prize catch for display and, with great pride of ownership, extended an invitation for a visit.
As my friend and I neared the house, I questioned our route. According to my watch and the odometer, we should have been in the neighborhood. Surely, we had misread the directions and taken at least one hard left instead of a right. We could not be in the correct place. We had to be lost. My partner greeted my navigational suggestion that we stop at a gas station for directions with silence, a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel, and a bit more gas to the engine. Damn the directions! Full speed ahead!
Not that I really minded his reaction. We appeared to be in a locale better left behind. Our friends mentioned brokering a great deal on the place, but at what price exactly? The area lacked heart. Looking out the car window, I took notice of the lifeless gray pall that draped the vicinity. Hundreds of industrial smokestacks belched poisonous fumes. Transformers sizzled and electrical fallout showered down from the high-voltage wires criss-crossing the sky. A burnt marshland, the ground around steamed and bulged as if irradiated then mutated by a thermonuclear accident. Waterways were clogged and foamy with chemical slag that spawned scum, mosquitoes, and decaying fish. The stench made working the dead animal removal service in August seem like a dream job in a perfumery. Did my friends own a time-share in Chernobyl as well?
Pulling into their driveway, our car stopped before a house that would have fit neatly into any suburban subdivision. Located in this abandoned nuclear waste dump, however, it took on a surreal façade—or glow, perhaps. Vowing not to eat the food, drink open beverages, or touch anything that might eventually melt my skin, I got out. Lacking a gas mask or a containment suit to wear, I merely donned a perky, cruise-director smile to greet our hosts. There was no need to rain on their parade; I imagined an abundance of the acid variety existed to handle that.
Who would buy property on the site of Three Mile Island’s cousin, you ask? No one would be that foolish or ignorant, you say? Why, the very thought is ridiculous?
Is it? I would guess that, most days, each of us is no different from my friends. We position our selves in an existential wasteland. We dip our spirits daily in toxic baths ranging from smog and hydrocarbons to chemical additives. We immerse our selves in thoughts more paralyzing than curare, more poisonous than cyanide, and ingest words that hydrolyze souls. Our skin erupts with open sores and, ravaged with pustules, we wonder why we feel ill. We would never buy property in the neighborhood of Three Mile Island, but routinely expect our heartmind and souls to thrive in areas equally destructive. Is that healthy? Hardly. Preposterous? Certainly. Why? Because it is heartless. Still, we choose to live and play in contaminated neighborhoods. . . .
Keep Your HeartLight Shining™
Personal Illumination
• Design a negativity-free zone where your soul can exist organically.
• Create a motto for your zone. Write the rules. What behaviors, words, and thoughts are welcome? Unwelcome?
• Maintain awareness of the energy in your zone compared to other areas. What does this energy awareness teach you about you?
If you enjoy the monthly column, you will enjoy this collection of the first columns published! Questions for personal illumination added
Author: Candace Croft, Ph.D.
Outskirts Press, 2010, 217 pages, paperback, ISBN: 1-43276-406-3.
Contact: 1-888-672-6657 or www.outskirtspress.com
Self-health - Spirituality / Personal growth / Transpersonal psychology
19th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Awards, Excellence in all criteria categories, Judge’s comments:
“The writing is rich with this author’s insights and her understanding of the concepts of collective and individual spirituality, and with her compassion for the human experience with all of its inevitable ups and downs as lived by everyday people. The author conveys practical advice and suggestions while always keeping at the forefront the wonder of making oneself vulnerable through the act of opening the heart and the mind. An inspiring work in showing how to develop strength of character by presenting knowledge in a readable fashion. The selection of fables that illustrate her points engage the reader with a heartfelt message.”
Reader comments:
Walking a daily path in this material world, it can be easy to forget that each of us is born of a holy seed. Living With Heart is a gentle reminder that each person is sacred. Sometimes we need to look beyond the obvious to find the humorous, the profound, or even the common touch of the greater universe at work in our lives. When we are able to find life’s sacredness and connect to the world from our divine center, our spirits become light—and we, in turn, can take flight.
Written in the form of essays and fables, Living With Heart is fun and uplifting. It examines the spiritual path that is often obscured by daily living and provides a pathway to align our daily lives with our spiritual selves. These divine connections to daily life will not only improve mental health but physical health as well. Let these inspirational and enlightening stories help you “feel the beat of your heart and spark the flame of its hope!”
After several months of careful searching, our friends found the perfect house on the perfect piece of property, one that matched their vision of an ideal life situated in an impeccable neighborhood. To hear them talk, they had moved to Eden and were living next door to Father Knows Best, the Brady Bunch, and Wally and the Beaver. The biggest daily challenge was maintaining a perfectly manicured lawn. Dysfunction existed in other towns. Who could ask for anything more? Patience when dealing with numerous realty-related frustrations had paid off. They dressed their prize catch for display and, with great pride of ownership, extended an invitation for a visit.
As my friend and I neared the house, I questioned our route. According to my watch and the odometer, we should have been in the neighborhood. Surely, we had misread the directions and taken at least one hard left instead of a right. We could not be in the correct place. We had to be lost. My partner greeted my navigational suggestion that we stop at a gas station for directions with silence, a white-knuckled grip on the steering wheel, and a bit more gas to the engine. Damn the directions! Full speed ahead!
Not that I really minded his reaction. We appeared to be in a locale better left behind. Our friends mentioned brokering a great deal on the place, but at what price exactly? The area lacked heart. Looking out the car window, I took notice of the lifeless gray pall that draped the vicinity. Hundreds of industrial smokestacks belched poisonous fumes. Transformers sizzled and electrical fallout showered down from the high-voltage wires criss-crossing the sky. A burnt marshland, the ground around steamed and bulged as if irradiated then mutated by a thermonuclear accident. Waterways were clogged and foamy with chemical slag that spawned scum, mosquitoes, and decaying fish. The stench made working the dead animal removal service in August seem like a dream job in a perfumery. Did my friends own a time-share in Chernobyl as well?
Pulling into their driveway, our car stopped before a house that would have fit neatly into any suburban subdivision. Located in this abandoned nuclear waste dump, however, it took on a surreal façade—or glow, perhaps. Vowing not to eat the food, drink open beverages, or touch anything that might eventually melt my skin, I got out. Lacking a gas mask or a containment suit to wear, I merely donned a perky, cruise-director smile to greet our hosts. There was no need to rain on their parade; I imagined an abundance of the acid variety existed to handle that.
Who would buy property on the site of Three Mile Island’s cousin, you ask? No one would be that foolish or ignorant, you say? Why, the very thought is ridiculous?
Is it? I would guess that, most days, each of us is no different from my friends. We position our selves in an existential wasteland. We dip our spirits daily in toxic baths ranging from smog and hydrocarbons to chemical additives. We immerse our selves in thoughts more paralyzing than curare, more poisonous than cyanide, and ingest words that hydrolyze souls. Our skin erupts with open sores and, ravaged with pustules, we wonder why we feel ill. We would never buy property in the neighborhood of Three Mile Island, but routinely expect our heartmind and souls to thrive in areas equally destructive. Is that healthy? Hardly. Preposterous? Certainly. Why? Because it is heartless. Still, we choose to live and play in contaminated neighborhoods. . . .
• Create a motto for your zone. Write the rules. What behaviors, words, and thoughts are welcome? Unwelcome?
• Maintain awareness of the energy in your zone compared to other areas. What does this energy awareness teach you about you?
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