Russell A Sturgess

Get Out of Jail Card (eBook, ePUB)

A journey of self-worth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One of Australia's thought leaders in Western Mindfulness, Russell Sturgess, shares intimate details of his own journey to illustrate his groundbreaking approach for helping people discover the self-worth, needed to manifest a better quality of life. As with most people, Russell had become imprisoned by his fears. The walls of Russell's prison were made from bricks of depression, obesity, divorce and bankruptcy. All cemented together with a mortar of fear and self-doubt.

In 2006, Russell had the rare opportunity to unlock mysteries never before revealed from a set of 22 medieval images that he calls The Cathar Code. What he discovered was a process that had the capacity to free people from their prison of fear and doubt. Going on to formulate the code into a program of personal growth, Russell found that people who fully participated in the program were naturally choosing to be more self-loving, since they had become more aware of their true worth.

Besides creating a better quality of life, these people naturally became compassionate and kind toward others. This was expressed through social justice, forgiveness, unconditional love, while being committed to peace.

In Get Out of Jail Card, Russell explains how the bricks of his prison were dismantled, which saw his weight becoming healthy (he lost 50kg), his relationships being consistently joyful, his bouts of depression being replaced with clarity of purpose, as well as making significant strides in rectifying his finances. When self-worth and compassion, replaced fear and self-doubt, the mortar that held together the walls of the prison dissolved, making the dismantling a reality.

The keystone to Russell being freed from his imprisonment, was the understanding he developed of what he called 'his story'. The 'story' is a personally held belief of poor self-worth, that moulds the bricks that form your prison wall. Given its capacity to hold anyone imprisoned for the whole of their life, Russell playfully referred to the story as a life-sentence. In his book, Russell gives you a tool for identifying your life-sentence. It is literally a sentence that describes the unique form that your poor self-worth takes.

What Russell came to understand was that anytime he was out of stillness, anytime his inner-peace was disturbed, he was running his story. This meant that he was responsible for his own happiness, peace, and joy. They weren't consequences, they were choices. And in order to choose them, he had to be free of his story.

In medieval times, when someone sinned seriously enough that they had to pay penance, they would often be sent on a pilgrimage. In 2011, Russell went on a self-imposed pilgrimage. The result saw Russell being granted parole (partial freedom) from his imprisonment. A significant part of Get Out of Jail Card includes Russell's personal experiences while walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain, including the aftermath. Even though he had been paroled, he hadn't been pardoned.

While walking the Camino, Russell still wasn't aware of his story. It wasn't until almost two years after completing the Camino that he finally 'got' his story. Only when he understood his story was it possible for him to be pardoned. Being aware of his story meant that Russell could see his true worth, this meant he could make self-loving choices. Russell finishes his book by describing how the quality of his life improved once he was no longer held prisoner by his 'story'.

You know you are free of your life-sentence when you can feel gratitude for it. This happens when you can see the gift in your story and use that gift to bless the lives of others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Russell Sturgess
• Seitenzahl: 16
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780980608922
• Artikelnr.: 52593544

Autorenporträt

Russell first learnt awareness and mindfulness approaches to healing in the late eighties, when he regularly travelled to the USA to attend trainings on Attitudinal Healing with Dr Gerry Jampolsky, Dr Susan Trout, and then later with Paul Ferrini. Now 25 years later, Russell well qualifies as one of Australia's thought leaders in Western mindfulness. Russell was trained in Osteopathic massage at the of 15. On leaving high school in the mid seventies, Russell went on to study Osteopathy and Natural Therapies at the South Pacific College in Sydney. Having completed his studies in the early eighties he went on to build a successful country practice. By the mid nineties Russell was personally treating 125 clients a week. Concurrently, Russell developed Fascial Kinetics, an Osteopathic connective-tissue therapy based on the work of Australian Osteopath, Tom Bowen. Russell taught this extensively throughout the USA, New Zealand and Australia. Russell began lecturing in the USA in 1990, regularly teaching his Osteopathic approach to healing called Fascial Kinetics. Besides his national US lecture circuit, Russell also presented at conferences and conventions, of both state and national bodies of the American Massage Therapy Association, from 1991 to 1996. During this time, Russell presented on Fascial Kinetics at various Natural Therapy conferences throughout Australia and New Zealand. By the mid nineties Russell had developed his own healing-philosophy program called BeAttitudinal Healing, which was the fore-runner to his current work--EAP (Enhances Awareness Program). This lead him to present at conferences for Nursing, Catholic Education, Massage Therapy, Bowen Therapy and Scouting. He has also presented sessions on his work at corporate conferences in Australia. It was in 2006 that Russell commenced researching his first book and began working on an expanded approach to his healing philosophy from which he developed EAP. After publishing his first book Metanoia, Russell was invited to present his work at conferences throughout Australia, as well as France (2011), England (2014) and the USA (2015). To this day Russell does regular lecture circuits throughout Australia and New Zealand. In 2009, Russell developed the fundamentals to the program that is now called the Enhances Awareness Program (EAP). He now works full-time in his business, EAPMentor, in several capacities. Besides personally mentoring clients, Russell has also developed a training program to teach other people how to be an EAP mentor. He currently has 30 mentors, in Australia and New Zealand, in various stages of training, who are working with their own clients. EAP is expanding and touching the lives of many people. In 2011, Russell walked the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain, and then some. Covering a distance of over 1000km, Russell felt he had to walk his talk about awareness. Starting out at 143kg wasn't a good reflection on his work. Spending 18 months preparing, Russell left to do the Camino weighing 95kg, returning he weighed about 87kg. Russell has maintained this weight since 2011, through practicing mindfulness: now weighing in at 91kg. Russell produces a monthly blog and video on various aspects of awareness and mindfulness, and has gone onto to develop Pathways to Mindfulness (PTM), a series of two-day workshops targeted at various career roles. The PTM series gives participants the understanding and tools for creating work/life balance and for living more mindfully. This circumvents; burnout, anxiety, compassion fatigue, and some depression. Russell lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Australia, with his youngest daughter, Adelaide (28yrs). Russell is her primary carer. She was born with William's Syndrome.