Be Your Own Guru: Personal and Business Enlightenment in Just 3 Days!

248 Pages·2007·3.68 MB·English

by  Olivia Stefanino

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be your own guru
personal and business enlightenment in just 3 days!
olivia stefanino
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Copyright © 2007 by Olivia Stefanino
First published 2007 by Capstone Publishing Ltd. (a Wiley Company)
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Contents
What it means to be your own guru xi
How to get the most from this book xiii
Introduction The Banker 1
Section 1 Me! Me! Me! 7
Until you know who you are, how can you
know what kind of life you want to live?
Chapter 1 Meeting the delegates 9
Chapter 2 Why most training simply doesn’t work 12
Chapter 3 Jenny dumps her emotional baggage 19
Chapter 4 W hy healing the past is the only way
to guarantee a great future! 33
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Chapter 5 Pete turns stress to his advantage 45
Chapter 6 Getting to the real cause of stress 50
Chapter 7 M att discovers the childhood reason
for his shaking hands 54
Chapter 8 Learning to deal with negative emotions 64
Section 2 F ree! Free! Free! 79
When you know that you’re more than just
a physical body, you’ve got a real head start in life
Chapter 9 D iscovering the amazing power
of the subconscious mind! 81
Chapter 10 Getting to grips with what makes you tick 89
Chapter 11 Experiencing the mind/body connection 111
Chapter 12 Using your body to read your mind 121
Chapter 13 Learning to talk the talk 129
Chapter 14 Watch your language 136
Chapter 15 Death is our teacher 143
Chapter 16 I t’s only when you can face death
that you’re ready to live 151
Chapter 17 Are you simply a fi gment of your imagination? 157
Chapter 18 A re you the product
of your history or your potential? 164
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Contents / ix
Section 3 You! You! You! 171
Until I understand you, and you understand me – how
can you and I create ‘WE’?
Chapter 19 Different views, same world 173
Chapter 20 It’s our differences which make life so exciting 180
Chapter 21 U sing intuition and energy
t o create phenomenal relationships 189
Conclusion T he Banker announces the results
for the pilot project 203
Afterword 207
Section 4 Tools! Tools! Tools! 209
Gathering knowledge isn’t power –
applying knowledge is power
Tools to be your own guru 211
The Self Journey (using PEAR) 218
The Relationship Journey (using PEAR) 221
The Soul Journey 225
Index 229
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