New PN: The Prism
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Seven Steps to Heal Your Past and Transform Your Futureby Laura Day |
“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation."LAO-TZU |
FROM THE BOOK“The book you have just opened, my seventh, has been more than ten years in the making. I have workshopped and tested it through countless sessions with thousands of my students. It is the next step in the Practical Intuition program, the next step in applying intuition to your life, your business, and your understanding of the world. The next step in creating effective change.
I call this study The Prism. It begins with an understanding of how intuition (mobile attention) and its active brother, healing (directed attention) can utilize what is commonly called ‘spirit’ in a practical way, producing evidence-based results and affording you the opportunity to make a life-changing impact on the world around you. There is a lot of mystification out there about spirit, about ‘oneness,’ about experiencing one’s union with the Universal Mind, the Highest Good, Source, Atman— call it what you will. But spirit is simply energy. The human structure that creates what you experience as part of that energy is the ego. The ego has been much aligned in spiritual practices. Yet it is the ego, and its adaptable yet precise structure, that allows us to channel spirit and create physical forms and events. This is what you will be mastering in the chapters to come. Mastery doesn’t mean you will never have another loss or difficulty. Life is far too complex for that, and your subconscious patterning has so many layers. It does mean that you will experience your disappointments as guides to what you truly want to create, and you will use them to do just that: create your best reality.” |
Brian's Notes
This is the first Note I’ve created on one of Laura Day’s books but it’s one of three book of hers I’ve read.
Alexandra has had her first book, Practical Intuition, forever. I’ve seen that book around the house for YEARS, but was never particularly interested in reading it.
To be very direct: I tend to have an allergy to “psychics.” (Hah.)
Then, Alexandra got THIS book and told me I’d *really* like the way Laura discusses our ego. She told me I should read it. I follow orders from my Boss so I grabbed the book, looked at the table contents, and flipped to the chapter on “Ego.”
Let’s just say I was HOOKED.
Laura’s take on the role a healthy ego plays in our lives was shockingly (goosebumps) GREAT.
We’ll talk about it in a moment and I’ll show the parallels between her thinking and the thoughts of other wise teachers with whom I’m aligned on the subject of a healthy ego including Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis), Richard Rohr (see Notes on Falling Upward), Joseph Campbell (Pathways to Bliss), Ken Wilber (Ken Wilber), and Nathaniel Branden (The Art of Living Consciously).
After reading that chapter on “Ego,” I devoured the book then went back and read Practical Intuition and another one of her books called Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want. We’ll be featuring the other two soon.
This book was one of my favorites from last year. If you’re a “spiritual” practitioner looking to integrate more power into your life, I think you will especially love it, but I HIGHLY recommend it for everyone. Get a copy here.
It’s packed with Big Ideas and I’m excited to share a few of my favorites so let’s get to work!
P.S. As you know if you’ve been following along, I’m a big fan of Ryan Holiday and his practical application of Stoicism. We’ve featured SEVEN of his books. (Check them all out.)
And... The ONE thing with which I’ve disagreed with him? His assertion that, as per the title of one of his books, “Ego Is the Enemy.” No, it isn’t. A FRAGILE ego is the enemy. We MUST have a strong, integrated sense of self (aka “ego”) if we want to flourish. Period. This book by Laura is one of the best I’ve read on how to go about forging that.
Alexandra has had her first book, Practical Intuition, forever. I’ve seen that book around the house for YEARS, but was never particularly interested in reading it.
To be very direct: I tend to have an allergy to “psychics.” (Hah.)
Then, Alexandra got THIS book and told me I’d *really* like the way Laura discusses our ego. She told me I should read it. I follow orders from my Boss so I grabbed the book, looked at the table contents, and flipped to the chapter on “Ego.”
Let’s just say I was HOOKED.
Laura’s take on the role a healthy ego plays in our lives was shockingly (goosebumps) GREAT.
We’ll talk about it in a moment and I’ll show the parallels between her thinking and the thoughts of other wise teachers with whom I’m aligned on the subject of a healthy ego including Jonathan Haidt (The Happiness Hypothesis), Richard Rohr (see Notes on Falling Upward), Joseph Campbell (Pathways to Bliss), Ken Wilber (Ken Wilber), and Nathaniel Branden (The Art of Living Consciously).
After reading that chapter on “Ego,” I devoured the book then went back and read Practical Intuition and another one of her books called Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want. We’ll be featuring the other two soon.
This book was one of my favorites from last year. If you’re a “spiritual” practitioner looking to integrate more power into your life, I think you will especially love it, but I HIGHLY recommend it for everyone. Get a copy here.
It’s packed with Big Ideas and I’m excited to share a few of my favorites so let’s get to work!
P.S. As you know if you’ve been following along, I’m a big fan of Ryan Holiday and his practical application of Stoicism. We’ve featured SEVEN of his books. (Check them all out.)
And... The ONE thing with which I’ve disagreed with him? His assertion that, as per the title of one of his books, “Ego Is the Enemy.” No, it isn’t. A FRAGILE ego is the enemy. We MUST have a strong, integrated sense of self (aka “ego”) if we want to flourish. Period. This book by Laura is one of the best I’ve read on how to go about forging that.
Big Ideas
01: BE THE HERO
02: THE EGO
03: THE COMPONENTS
04: THE CHAKRAS
05: A LITTLE-KNOWN LAW
“The question that should be constant in your being is not, 'Why is this happening?' but 'What course am I taking, and what is the lesson I need to master in order to manifest what I want to create in the world?'"LAURA DAY |
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