Bridgitte Jackson Buckley

The Gift of Crisis

How I Used Meditation to Go from Financial Failure to a Life of Purpose (Debt, Loss of Job, Gifts of Failure)

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Produktbeschreibung

Oprah Winfrey Network contributor, Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley's THE GIFT OF CRISIS: How I Used Meditation To Go From Financial Failure to a life of purpose, is a prescriptive meditative approach to identifying and overcoming crisis no matter how big or small, and where the meditation practice allows the practitioner to understand that crisis has an underlying purpose to ultimately giving the practitioner a deeper understanding of who they are and how they should llve.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mango Media
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 142mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781633537941
• ISBN-10: 1633537943
• Artikelnr.: 51143920

Autorenporträt

Bridgitte Jackson Buckley, is a freelance writer, author and ghostwriter whose focus includes spirituality, transformational documentaries, and in-depth interviews. She is a former contributor to General Religion on the National circuit of Examiner.com as the National Spirituality Examiner. In this capacity, she interviewed New Thought luminaries such as Eckhart Tolle, Iyanla Vanzant, Deepak Chopra, Radhanath Swami, Elizabeth Gilbert, Penney Peirce, James Van Praagh, Paul Selig, Gary Zukav, Marie Forleo, and several others including American singer, songwriter and guitarist Trevor Hall. As a freelance writer, she has written online articles for Examiner, Tiny Buddha, Recreate Your Life Story, Thrive Global, Medium, Gaia and Patheos' Spirituality Itself. Print publication includes: Awareness Magazine, January/February 2017, "An Interview with Megan McFeely: As She Is Honors the Feminine Consciousness" Awareness Magazine, March/April 2017, "Global Warming: A Crisis of Consciousness" In addition to the aforementioned work, she was the lead writer to launch the following projects on behalf of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN): Oprah & Deepak's Guide to Whole Health: 'Seven Days to Restful Sleep'; Oprah & Deepak's 21-Day Meditation Experience: Become What You Believe; SuperSoul.TV Website Launch Bridgitte was born in Los Angeles, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., Psychology).She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) from Honduras, Central America. She is a fluent Spanish speaker and has traveled extensively throughout Central America including Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua. Additional travels also include Hong Kong, Malaysia and (her favorite adventure) Thailand. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, three children and Miniature Schnauzer.

Inhaltsangabe

Gift of Crisis Introduction Excerpt #1 : Within each of us there is a higher part that goes beyond our conscious awareness. This part of us, the Higher Self, communicates with a higher, more expansive and intelligent Divine Consciousness that some refer to as God, Goddess, I AM Presence or something else. The Higher Self is a part of the Divine Consciousness. It is part of you, yet more than you. Within the practice of quieting the mind to connect with our Higher Self, we can access unconscious information from the highest part of ourselves. Meditation is the "doorway" through which information can be brought into our conscious awareness, to identify the highest course of action towards the highest outcome. I began to notice the ways in which meditation helped me become aware of how I blocked the flow of inner guidance with constant thinking and worry, and my resistance to let go of that which I no longer wanted. I also began to notice how grace appeared in my life in simple, yet miraculous outcomes. These experiences pushed me to thoroughly examine my self-sabotaging habits, beliefs, emotional patterns and ways of perceiving and being in the world. I had to make an effort to uncover the hidden parts of myself that kept me attached to financial disarray and problematic situations. I had a lot of "un-learning" to do. Overtime my mind began to interpret fewer situations as stressful. I was able to remain more centered and be less agitated by external events. I wasn't as susceptible to emotional triggers. As I continued to meditate and pray, there was less fear and agony and more openness to new possibilities. I share this with you because I have come to see that although the guidance was for me and came through me, it was not solely for me. It is also for those who find themselves in similar situations of distress, and are willing to cultivate a connection with a higher consciousness to better discern where life is trying to lead you. Knowing that we see ourselves in the stories of others, it is my sincerest wish that the guidance from these meditations is as helpful to you as it has been for me. It is my wish that you will grow to trust yourself; that you will trust the inner guidance that is available and within you. It is my hope that you will seek out opportunities for personal growth that lie in mundane long-term struggles, and come to know that nothing we experience in this life is futile. With hindsight it becomes clear that struggle and triumph both serve a higher purpose for personal growth. And finally, it is my greatest hope that you will have the courage to let your crisis become the catalyst that leads you onto your highest life path. So often it is said that "meditation helps" until it almost seems like a redundant Hallmark-ish cliché. I can honestly say this is absolutely true. Meditation does help. Meditation can help. 1
Gift of Crisis Introduction Excerpt #2 : After years of prolonged financial problems, I could no longer dismiss the repetition of these problems in my life. The crises in my life eventually served as catalysts for me to understand that I needed to make different choices to engage higher perspectives. In reading self-help and personal growth books, I began to understand when there is a reoccurring problem, such as the financial hardship we experienced, the underlying higher messages want to be revealed. They will make a continuous unyielding effort to get our attention through repeated states of crisis. The opportunity that lies within perpetual crisis is to be willing to look closely, and identify the underlying patterns and message in what is happening around you. The prolonged crisis, along with the hundreds of books I read and uplifting talks I attended, encouraged me to be still to allow the deeper messages to make themselves known. It was from this humble beginning that I actively began to participate in my personal unfoldment by means of what would become my saving grace, going within and seeking clarity through meditation and prayer. During my meditations, in addition to periods of silence after prayer, I began to ask questions to solicit clarity and guidance. I noticed that answers would indeed come into my awareness. However, as soon as the meditation was over, I would forget what guidance came into my awareness. The only way to remember would be for me to write it down. It was at that time I decided to bring a pad and pen to my meditation and prayer sessions. At the start of the meditation, I would first pray then move into a period of sustained silence. With my eyes closed I would then say the following: "I call upon my Higher Self to join me in my meditation. During this meditation, I ask that you protect me from any and all vibrations, energies, frequencies and communications in all directions of time past, present and future that are not of love, light and the highest good. Please let this communication be clear. Let the answers be communicated to me in a way that is easy for me to understand. Please let me feel your loving energy when you are ready to begin. I thank you in advance for your presence." For more than one year, I sat in a meditative state and asked questions to help me navigate the difficult and uncertain times I faced. The guidance I recorded helped me to move through some of the most difficult and unsettling times with comforting reassurance that I was deeply loved, there was no need to be afraid and that I was not alone. The guidance I received, however, were not the answers I wanted. My posed questions and concerns were attempts to address the immediate unfavorable conditions that surrounded me. The guidance during my meditation, however, provided the larger context of what was happening in my life and the higher messages that sought to make themselves known.
Foreword Introduction PART I: THE CRISIS Ch. One: The Foreclosure Ch. Two: Notice-to-Quit 1. What is a Vision? 2. Let the Vision Reveal Itself
Contemplative Questions 3. Hold the Vision
How to Hold the Vision
How to Nurture the Vision
What Sabotages the Vision? 4. Trust the Vision 5. Surrender 6. Faith Ch. Three: Change is Simply Change 1. Change
Key components to accept change
Key points to remember regarding change
Contemplative Questions 2. Let Fearful Beliefs Disintegrate
Key points to remember regarding fearful thoughts
Contemplative Questions
How to let fearful thoughts disintegrate 3. Let the Universe Support You
How to let the universe support you 4. Let the Experience Flow
How to let the experience flow
Quiet reminders to repeat when having difficulty letting the experience flow 5. Create the Pathway for Expansion 6. Maintain a State of Calm
Suggestions to maintain a state of calm 7. Believe It, Then See It PART II: THE CATALYSTS Ch. Four: Hiding the Hardship 1. Nothing is Futile
Key points to remember nothing is futile
Exercise
2. Importance of Being Grounded
Key points about being grounded 3. Everything is Rising to the Surface
Examples of negative core beliefs
Contemplative questions
Key points about everything rising to the surface 4. Speak from Your Heart
Key points to speak from your heart Ch. Five: Letting Go 1. You Cannot Escape What Needs to be Resolved
How to release what no longer has a place in your life 2. Allow your Higher Self to Reconnect with Your Worldly Self
How to allow the reconnection 3. Move Toward Growth, Toward the Life Force 4. The Pull of Old and Destructive Patterns 5. Let Love Express Itself Ch. Six: The Role of Family in Spiritual Growth PART III: THE PATH Ch. Seven: Opening up to Grace 1. Welcome New Opportunities 2. Be Open to All That Needs to Flow through You 3. Embrace Courage Ch. Eight: Willing to be Visible 1. To Look for it is also to Notice it's "Not There." 2. You Will Know Where and How to Serve 3. The Possibility to Create Greater Discomfort or More of What You Want
How to encourage possibilities 4. Participate in your life Ch. Nine: Living on Purpose 1. There is No Magic Formula, No Magic Sprinkle Dust 2. Take Another Step 3. Know Without Needing Validation 4. Soul Call Epilogue On Morning and Becoming