Listening to Your Inner Voice: Discover The Truth Within You And Let It Guide Your Way - A New Collection Of Affirmations And Meditations

173 Pages·1994·0.46 MB·English

by  Douglas Bloch

Listening to Your Inner Voice : Discover the
Truth Within You and Let It Guide Your Way : a
title:
New Collection of Affirmations and
Meditations
author: Bloch, Douglas.
publisher: Hazelden Publishing
isbn10 | asin: 1568380798
print isbn13: 9781568380797
ebook isbn13: 9780585340661
language: English
Self-help techniques--Affirmations,
subject
Meditations.
publication date: 1995
lcc: BV4837B563 1995eb
ddc: 242/.2
Self-help techniques--Affirmations,
subject:
Meditations.
Page i
"An easy-to-use and practical handbook for anyone seeking to live life fully.
Douglas Bloch skillfully and with great insight guides the reader to the most
important discovery anyone can makethe discovery of the inner voice."
Mary and Haven Boggs, directors of
Living Enrichment Center
"Douglas Bloch's affirmations are healing and empowering, helping the
reader to remember and renew the all-important connection to spirit, the very
source of guidance and love."
Joan Borysenko, author of Minding
the Body, Mending the Mind
"Spiritual 'bites' to stimulate a richer perspective and bring renewal to all who
need it."
Marilyn Ferguson, author of
The Aquarian Conspiracy
"Thank you for your beautiful, inspiring writing. Listening to Your Inner
Voice will help to guide many thousands of people into greater freedom, joy,
peace, and wholeness through the truth that it teaches and exemplifies."
Kathy Juline, editor,
Science of Mind magazine
"Listening to Your Inner Voice provides the reader with empowering and
practical messages that can be used to add focus and provide comfort to us
all."
Rokelle Lerner, author of Daily
Affirmations for Adult Children of
Alcoholics and Affirmations for the
Inner Child
"A wonderful guide to promoting high self-value and inner confidence
through the affirmation process."
Dennis Wholey, author of
The Courage to Change and
Becoming Your Own Parent
Page ii
Inspirational books by Douglas Bloch
Words That Heal
Listening To Your Inner Voice
I Am With You Always
Positive Self-Talk for Children
Page iii
Listening to Your Inner Voice
Discover the Truth Within You and Let It Guide Your Way
Douglas Bloch
Page iv
Hazelden
Center City, Minnesota 55012-0176
©1991 by Douglas Bloch
All rights reserved. First published by
Hazelden Foundation 1995 (originally
published by CompCare Publishers 1991)
Printed in the United States of America
No portion of this publication may be
reproduced in any manner without the
written permission of the publisher
ISBN: 1-56838-079-8
Cover design by Lois Stanfield
The quotation on page 1 is excerpted from Living in the Light by Shakti
Gawain. Copyright 1986 by Shakti Gawain. Reprinted by permission of New
World Library, San Rafael, California.
Page v
And I have the firm belief in this now, not only in terms of
my own experience but in knowing about the experience of
others, that when you follow your bliss, doors will open
where you would not have thought there were going to be
doors and where there wouldn't be a door for anybody else.
Joseph Campbell
Page vii
Dedication
for Joan
Page ix
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Listening to Your Inner Voice 1
Supporting Your Inner Voice through Affirmations 9
Healing the Beliefs That Bind You
Revelations from the Unconscious
Creating a Daily Ritual
The Main Text 25
Instructions for Using the Main Text 26
Listening to your inner voice means . . .
. . . to go within and find your sense of purpose.
1. To Dream Is to Be Practical 28
2. Your Life Is Your Art 30
3. To Thine Own Self Be True 32
4. The True Treasure 34
5. Living Your Priorities 36
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6. Finding Your Purpose 38
7. Not by Bread Alone 40
8. Life Is for Giving 42
9. What Will I Leave Behind? 44
10. All Assignments Are Equal 46
. . . to consciously choose to express that purpose.
11. The Divine Partnership 48
12. Persistence 50
13. The Power of a Made-up Mind 52
14. Discipline 54
15. It Is Better to Light a Candle 56
16. Courage 58
17. Claim Your Inheritance 60
18. Let the Power Work through You 62
19. Each Must Carry His Own Burden 64
20. Believe in Yourself 66
. . . to work with resistance and pain as it comes up and
release it.
21. The Wounded Healer 68
22. Turning Lead into Gold 70
23. Better the Pain Than to Remain the Same 72
24. Healing the Inner Child 74
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25. Open Your Heart Again 76
26. Forgive and Move On 78
27. Letting Go 80
28. Moving through Loss 82
29. You Can't Heal What You Can't Feel 84
30. The Strength to Overcome 86
. . . to work with spirit and let the Universe direct and assist
you.
31. The Future Is Not What It Used to Be 88
32. Who Is Directing This Movie? 90
33. Hang On Tightly, Let Go Lightly 92
34. The Universe Knows Best 94
35. God Does Great Things through Me 96
36. Keep the Faith 98
37. The Eleventh Hour 100
38. One Step at a Time 102
39. Turning It Over 104
40. The Readiness Is All 106
41. If God Seems Far Away, Who Moved? 108
42. The Wisdom of Insecurity 110