YOUR HIGHER SELF

Stephen Warren

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YOUR HIGHER SELF is the ultimate guidebook to bringing more meaning and purpose to your life. You will clearly know who you are, where you are going and how you will get there!
Uncovering your Purpose is one of life’s most perplexing puzzles. YOUR HIGHER SELF will unlock this mystery and will inspire you to create the meaningful life that you deserve.
Using a practical approach, this guidebook will move you past the fears and indecisions that have been holding you back. You will discover how to:
• Uncover your passion,
• Create a highly valued life,
• Overcome self-doubt and mental blockages,
• Bring order and sanity to your daily challenges,
• Instill a simple and balanced approach to life, and . . .
• Enjoy a life of no regrets and one that truly made a difference.
YOUR HIGHER SELF is the ultimate Wakeup Call for taking back control, where you will be making your life happen instead of just letting life happen to you. You will know who you are, where you are going and how you will get there . . . and you will wonder why you didn't make this happen sooner . . . But you can now!

Sujets

• Values
• Philosophie et théologie
• Potential
• Philosophy
• Value (personal and cultural)
• Fulfillment
• Purpose
• Meaning
• Success
• Happiness

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 17 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765240786
• Langue: English

Extrait

YOUR HIGHER SELF
 
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO BRINGING MORE MEANING AND PURPOSE TO YOUR LIFE

 
STEPHEN WARREN
 
 

 
 
Copyright © 2023 Stephen Warren.
 
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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
 
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ISBN: 979-8-7652-4077-9 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-4078-6 (e)
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 04/17/2023
DEDICATION
YOUR HIGHER SELF was written for my family members with the sincere hope that they could each find more purpose and meaning to their lives.
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE:
Your Quest for Purpose and Meaning
Prologue
1     What Purpose Is There?
Unravelin g Life’s Complex Secret
2     What Is The Right Thing?
My Great Expectations
3     How Do I Get There From Here?
Renewal and Transformations
4     What Is The Meaning Of My Life?
Destiny or Determination
5     Who Am I Really?
Discovering Your Higher Self
6     What Is My True Potential?
Realizing My Higher Self
7     What Is The Value Of My Life?
Going Forward with Purpose
PART TWO:
The Power of Purposeful Living
Prologue
8     How Can I Manage It All?
The Great Balancing Act
9     What Is The Real Secret To Success?
Committing to the Vital
10     How Do I Avoid Failure?
Mastering the Difficult
11     Where Do I Find My Inner Strength?
Self-Empowerment: Focusing, Flowing and Centering
12     How Do I Find More Time?
Managing Your Greatest Endowment
13     What Makes It All Worthwhile?
The Ten Paths to Happiness
14     Where Should My Life Be Heading?
The Unified Way through Life
Epilogue
Can I Make A Difference?
The White Stone Promise
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
You , as part of the collective whole of humanity, serve as my primary motivation for writing this book. If it were not for all of our interactions with each other, none of us would possess the knowledge of who we are, what we want and how we are going to get there. Thus, this book is based almost entirely upon everyone that I have ever met, talked to, learned from or read about. You , therefore, have inspired me to think about the many facets of life meaning and purpose and how it should be guiding our lives. To that end, I must first thank You for helping me write this book.
God certainly deserves the highest acknowledgment. As part of the Grand Plan I have been given total responsibility for determining how purposeful my life will be. I was also given complete freedom to think, feel, react and question all of my self-beliefs about life and how it should be lived. My ultimate self-empowerment comes from a divine creator, and I am appreciative for this privilege to make my life what I choose it to be.
My family will always receive an immediate indebtedness for this book. Each of them has provided me with such uniquely interesting behavior to study . . . and I say that with total loving admiration of their strong personalities and unrelenting advice, whether I have asked for it or not. But most importantly, they have given me the opportunity to be myself, having accepted me as I am rather than trying to make me somebody I am not. Their unselfish and unconditional love is the greatest gift I will ever hope to receive.
PREFACE
My life began in 1986. That was the year that I lost everything - my family, my company, a million dollars, my health, and my mind!
IT WAS THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE!
I wouldn’t take anything now for that experience. In order for me to find it all, I had to lose it all. It was the only way I could learn who I really was and get on track for rediscovering my purpose and real inner peace. This was also God’s way of whacking me between the eyes with an invisible two-by-four, and saying Wake Up, You Fool!
Until then, I was too stubborn to figure out for myself that I was on a collision course with disaster, that I would have a heart attack, end up in an institution or commit suicide if I continued running at the same pace. After five years of eighty-hour weeks with no vacation, I had lost touch with my family, my friends, myself and, indeed, my very soul. I had no purpose nor sensed any meaning for my life. I had literally lost myself!
Outwardly, I appeared to have everything associated with a successful life: a wife and two great kids, a half million-dollar home, luxury cars in the garage, annual trips to exotic places, and the prestige of being President of a company based in Washington, D.C. To this point in my life I had never experienced any real failure. I held graduate degrees from top universities, received promotions every other year, gained industry wide recognition and possessed the luxury items that normally come with success. I had a future with no imaginable limits.
Then the ambulance showed up!
I had been patiently sitting on a couch in a stranger’s office where I had a planned business meeting. As I awaited my clients to appear for our scheduled appointment, a rush of panic suddenly consumed me. I instantly felt that I couldn’t breathe. My heart began pounding. I was sweating, dizzy, and felt the greatest sense of doom that I had ever experienced in my life. I knew this was the big one – a cardiac arrest, that my successful life was over.
The paramedics said I was lucky, that it wasn’t a heart attack after all. They had me sign a release and told me to go see my doctor. I was so shaky I had to call my wife to come get me. A few hours later and the diagnosis was delivered: Stress! I was having a classic panic attack. Acute Anxiety Disorder.
“Not me!” I protested. “That’s for weak wimps! I’m in charge here!”
The doctor insisted I was doing too much; taking on too many things; that I was the guy on the old Ed Sullivan Show trying to keep all the plates spinning; that I had a significant bodily reaction to pressure and work overload. He lectured me on the stressors in my life, told me to relax, learn to cope and change my perspective on things. He then gave me a prescription for Xanax and sent me on my merry way.
I instantly felt defeated. The panic attacks increased in frequency and intensity over the next few weeks. Then depression set in. My wife told me to be strong, that it was simply mind over matter. I tried, but it only got worse. I ate the tranquilizers like candy, chained smoked and drank myself to sleep. I was basically existing in a semi-vegetated state, seldom leaving the confines of a dark room.
A month later my wife told me “Get Out!”
Needing income, I found a management job at a bank in Florida. I thought living in a sunny paradise might help but quickly discovered the stress of working was too much while trying to get my life back together. Before long, I wasn’t able to even get out of bed. I couldn’t think, walk, talk, or do anything!
The panic attacks were now increasing in frequency, occurring at least every two hours. I tried counseling. Again, the verdict was stress, burnout, anxiety, depression, and any other label that says you can’t deal with reality.
Often at night I heard strange voices in my head. I felt detached from the real world and sometimes felt like I was floating above the ground. I even saw imaginary things crawling on the walls. I thought I was going mad and even contemplated suicide.
LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL!
This went on for over a year. There were moments when I thought I was getting better, but then I would have setbacks that made me feel there would never again be any hope. Ever! I didn’t know where to turn. A highly recommended psychologist was of some value. He began to make me understand the problem and to believe that there was hope. But he couldn’t fix it for me.
“You have to do it for yourself,” he said.
Easier said than done. I still couldn’t find any solutions. Nothing in my life made sense anymore. And the harder I tried, the further away and more elusive the answers became. I became financially depleted and my physical health was an equal mess. I was in complete despair the day I walked into a church in the middle of the afternoon and told God that He was my last hope.
“Please either take the pain away or take my life away. Your choice!” I pleaded.
I sat by myself