The 9 Intense Experiences

Brian Vaszily

Description

What are the 9 most intense experiences—the transformative steps that can improve your life starting now? How do these experiences generate happiness, health, and success in every aspect of your life? Why have people throughout the centuries valued them and why do so few people today realize their power? With this book, you can become the person you were meant to be and experience the life you’ve always dreamed of. The 9 intense experiences are core to the teachings of the world's great spiritual and healing traditions. Prominent artists and leaders throughout history have understood their unparalleled importance. Now the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields is verifying how essential they are. In The 9 Intense Experiences , internationally acclaimed life coach and speaker Brian Vaszily shows you how to take the ultimate journey within yourself that will engage your body, mind, heart, and spirit, knock down the barriers that have built up inside you, and put you back in touch with the real you. After decades of professional and personal exploration, Brian Vaszily -- founder of one of the world’s most popular and unique personal growth websites and a rising star among today’s top positive growth visionaries – helps you achieve your 9 intense experiences. With Vaszily’s gentle and inspiring guidance, you’ll learn how to abandon your stress and frustration and rediscover the wonder and possibilities in life. In The 9 Intense Experiences, you will learn how to: Enjoy your life more than ever before Achieve peak energy and success Ignite your, and others’, brilliance Laugh off negative emotions Create deeply trusting relationships Discover your spiritual center The experiences you’ll discover in this life-expanding guide are truly intense, but getting there is more enjoyable and deeply satisfying than you can imagine.
An Important Note for Doubters and Skimmers.

Preface: An Unusual Phone Call to My Father.

Part I. How to Become Who You Know You Really Are.

What Life Do You Envision for Yourself?

A Crucial Question for You.

You’ve Already Had Intense Experiences But…

Which One of These Two Types are You?

Part II. The 9 Intense Experiences.

Intense Experience #1: Journey Back to Neverland.

Intense Experience #2: Dive Deeper Into Your Blood.

Intense Experience #3: Wander Into the Forest But Don’t Bump into the Trees.

Intense Experience #4: Ignite Yourself with Genius.

Intense Experience #5: Laugh It Off.

Intense Experience #6: Reveal Yourself.

Intense Experience #7: Give to Really Live.

Intense Experience #8: Embrace Death and Dance the Night Away.

Intense Experience #9: Be Like Water.

Thank You.

Additional Resources.

Index. 

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• développement personnel
• Success
• Self-help
• health
• Personal Growth

Informations

• Publié par: Turner Publishing Company
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781118000847
• Langue: English

Extrait

Contents
An Important Note for Doubters and Skimmers
Preface : An Unusual Phone Call to My Father
Part I : How to Become Who You Know You Really Are
Chapter 1 : What Life Do You Envision for Yourself?
Chapter 2 : A Crucial Question for You
Chapter 3 : You ve Already Had Intense Experiences But . . .
Chapter 4 : Which of These Two Types Are You?
Turn off the Poison Valves
Before Each Exercise, Prime Your Hippocampus
Write in Your Journal Afterward
Part II : The 9 Intense Experiences
Chapter 5 : Intense Experience #1: Journey Back to Neverland
A Flamingo with Lagoons Flying over It
Reagan Whittles, Eisenhower Putts, and Kennedy Canters
The Journey Back to Neverland Exercises
Chapter 6 : Intense Experience #2: Dive Deeper into Your Blood
How to Ruin Your Sleep, Worry More, and Feel Old
The Dive Deeper into Your Blood Exercises
Chapter 7 : Intense Experience #3: Wander into the Forest, but Don t Bump into the Trees
Bland Colors and Dull Light
Please Be Quiet
City Mouse, Country Mouse
Wander into the Forest Exercises
Chapter 8 : Intense Experience #4: Ignite Yourself with Genius
Mediocrity in, Mediocrity Out
Mozart Fuel or Muzak Fuel?
The Ignite Yourself with Genius Exercises
Chapter 9 : Intense Experience #5: Laugh It Off
Drop DeGeneres Bombs
Laugh It Off Exercises
Chapter 10 : Intense Experience #6: Reveal Yourself
Grab All of the Toys You Want
Reveal Yourself Exercises
Chapter 11 : Intense Experience #7: Give to Really Live
What s in It for Me?
Thank You for Reading This
Give to Really Live Exercises
Chapter 12 : Intense Experience #8: Embrace Death and Dance the Night Away
Wait, This Is Not Bad News!
Everyone Lives Forever in America
So, Do the Tango Already
Embrace Death and Dance the Night Away Exercises
Chapter 13 : Intense Experience #9: Be Like Water
Infinite Metaphors to Gain Access to Spirit
Before and After
Always Flowing
Be Like Water Exercises
Thank You
Additional Resources
Index

Copyright 2011 by Brian Vaszily. All rights reserved
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Vaszily, Brian, date.
The 9 intense experiences : an action plan to change your life forever / Brian Vaszily.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-59635-7 (hardback : acid-free paper))
1. Self-actualization (Psychology) 2. Change (Psychology) I. Title. II. Title: Nine intense experiences.
BF637.S4V38 2011
158-dc22
2010045248
Dedicated to my mother, Maryann Vaszily. Scholars, authors, doctors, artists, and sages have guided me and I am grateful, but they don t hold a candle to you. You live the knowledge, you live love, and that has been by far the greatest lesson. Thank you.
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Important Note for Doubters and Skimmers
This book will have you laughing out loud, crying to yourself, getting lost, dreaming vividly, giving stuff you love away, and running around in your underwear. It is unlike any other book you ve ever experienced, but don t let that stop you. It will change the course of your life in powerful and positive ways. And it will do so rapidly. You will soon see why the profound changes I am promising that you will discover with The 9 Intense Experiences are natural and inevitable.
If you are seeking to overcome barriers to your happiness and success, such as fear, guilt, anger, depression, heartbreak, low self-esteem, apathy, feeling overwhelmed, and not knowing the direction to take in life, this book will inevitably help you. If you want to achieve greater success in your career, love life and other relationships, health, weight, finances, or all of these, this book will guide you in powerful ways you can t yet imagine.
In today s go-go, faster-faster, feel-as-if-you-are-getting-nowhere world, many people tend to believe they have visited and know a lake, when in reality their eyes have only skimmed the surface of that lake. We re in an age of skimming life when we were born to dive deep, and that causes a painful disconnection from the success, happiness, and inner peace we are meant to have. That is precisely the disease that this book cures.
A term I often use for this problem is the Muddy Slope Syndrome -when you have it, you feel as if life is an uphill climb in the pouring rain, and you re moving faster and faster and digging in deeper and deeper, trying to get up that hill. The faster you move and the deeper you dig in, the muddier that slope gets, and you slip farther and farther backward. You feel increasingly weighed down and blinded by the mud splattering all over you.
Please do yourself a giant favor: take a few deep breaths and slow down long enough to read just a bit more of this book. Slow down the way you slow down to kiss your lover, the way you slow down to eat really good chocolate, or the way you slow down to savor whatever you already know gives your life vibrancy.
After reading just a few more sections, you will understand why this book will inevitably change the course of your life in powerful and positive ways. It will make perfect sense. You ll also have more than a few big aha! moments that will immediately provide you with greater energy, clarity, and focus, and there s nothing wrong with a little instant gratification!
We are constantly invited to be who we are, Thoreau wrote. Deep inside, you already know who you are. If you can see yourself achieving greater happiness and success in your relationships, finances, health and weight, career, and elsewhere in your life-that is who you already are. You cannot see something that is not there.
The challenge comes from clearing through the rust and crust -another phrase I often use to describe the years and decades of self-sabotaging habits, thoughts, and emotions that paralyze your ability to be, and sometimes even see, who you are.
As you will shortly discover, intense experiences are precisely how to clear through all of that rust and crust. So dive deeper. Accept the invitation to finally be who you know you really are. Life is way too short not to. Now is the time. You absolutely deserve it. And by the way, you re going to love it.
Preface: An Unusual Phone Call to My Father
I ve pulled into a strip mall parking lot. The rain beats on my car windows, and the steam from my breath makes them hazier still.
Hey, Dad, it s Brian, I say into my cell phone. There s no need for a phone, but it helps with this connection. I swallow hard. It s been a long time.
It is 2002. A decade ago my first wife, Mireya, was twenty-three, I was twenty-two, and we were raising our one-and-a-half-year-old son. We were both full-time college students and working minimum-wage jobs. We were deep in debt, on food stamps and welfare, and living in an apartment smaller than some closets. When Mireya got pregnant in 1990, we had been dating for only four months. At age twenty, when I discovered that I was going to be a father, my own father had already been on his deathbed for three months in a hospital. Prior to that, he d been dying for more a decade at home from emphysema, alcoholism, depression, and bitterness.
Dad lived what his World War II buddies would have called one hell of a life-high highs and very low lows. He was born in Brooklyn but raised on a sugar beet farm in Hungary by an aunt who often beat him. He moved back to Brooklyn, where he boxed, played handball, and indulged his passion for learning languages. He spoke several by the time he enlisted in the U.S. Army. By the end of his life, he spoke at least seven fluently. He served in intelligence during World War II, doing secret work throughout Europe. During the war, he fell in love with a Russian spy. One day she disappeared, and he never heard anything about her again.