Friday, 22 April 2011 21:58 Written by Nirmala
We are happy to be self-publishing Gina's book, Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships. This book was published recently by Hampton Roads, and now by self-publishing we can offer the Ebook version for just $2.99 (formerly $9.99). Follow the links below to buy it on Amazon's Kindle Store or Barnes and Noble's Nook Store. It is also available on Apple's iBooks, Sony Reader and Kobo ebook stores (just do a search for the title or Gina Lake). As always our books are also available in paperback on Amazon and other online retailers.
Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships
Find out how you may be sabotaging the love that is possible and what you can do to transform your relationship just by changing your relationship to your own thoughts. You have the power to determine how much love you will experience in any moment and in any relationship. Learn to unlock the love that is your true nature and express that in your relationship. Loving in the Moment offers a spiritual approach to finding love, asking us to acknowledge and then drop the preconceived ideas and judgments about others that get in the way of developing authentic relationships. Loving in the Moment offers profound insights and practical advice about finding your way back to love and, more specifically, about:
• How the ego interferes with love and happiness
• How to move beyond romantic illusions
• How to recognize, find, and sustain a meaningful relationship
• How to overcome anger, judgments, criticism, and resentment
• How to resolve common issues, such as infidelity, money, commitment, and sexual differences
• How to see the Divine in another
Exercises throughout provide an opportunity for practicing and integrating the information. This book was formerly titled Choosing Love, but it has been expanded since it was first released in 2007. 168 pages
"Loving in the Moment is filled with crucial ideas that help shed some much-needed light on the true nature of love and its higher possibilities."
-Guy Finley, author of The Essential Laws of Fearless Living
Free PDF download of an excerpt from this spiritual book
Purchase a paperback of Loving in the Moment on Amazon.com
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Reviews of Loving in the Moment:
"This is by far the best book on conscious relationship written to date. Easy, short, and to-the-point, this amazing book transmits an energy while helping you get back in touch with your Essence. As a relationship coach and workshop facilitator, I thought there weren't any books that had new or better information. I was wrong. This one is full of practical understandings that help you see how your conditioning is often running the show, not Who You Really Are. Whether with a partner or attracting your next relationship, this book will assist you immensely in deepening your experience of Self, coming back to your center, and making your relationship a win-win. This book transmits the wisdom that you can apply in this very moment to every relationship in your life, not just romantic ones!" -Dr. Talia Miller, relationship coach and workshop leader
About Gina Lake:
Gina Lake, Nirmala's wife, is a spiritual teacher who is devoted to helping others wake up and live in the moment. She has a master's degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. Her books include Radical Happiness, Embracing the Now, Anatomy of Desire, Return to Essence, What About Now? Loving in the Moment, Living in the Now, and Getting Free. Her website offers information about her books and consultations, free e-books, book excerpts, a free monthly newsletter, a blog, and audio and video recordings: www.radicalhappiness.com.
Wednesday, 20 April 2011 17:00 Written by Nirmala
In this culture where more is felt to be better, there is often an implication that bigger truths are better. If your Heart can open and expand, then it may seem best to find a way to open the darn thing all the way and keep it that way.
However, if you check in your Heart right now as you hold the idea that it’s better to open your Heart and keep it that way, you may be surprised to find that this idea actually feels tight or limiting. It’s simply not the biggest truth or the most freeing possibility. An even bigger, freer possibility is to allow the sense of your self to be whatever size it is. If your Heart is always accurately and appropriately opening or contracting to show you how true each moment’s perspective is, then the best result of experiencing a small truth is for your Heart to contract and show you how small that truth is. It can be as liberating to find out that a small truth is small as to find out that a vast dimension of Being is profoundly real. In both cases, the nature of truth has been more fully illuminated.
Once you realize you can trust your Heart just the way it is right now, whether it is open or closed, you can just rest within the folding and unfolding of all perspectives. You don’t do anything to get rid of the small perspectives, which just arise out of the conditioned parts of your Being, and you don’t do anything to bring on the bigger perspectives, which just arise out of the unconditioned parts of your Being. You just rest in the moment as it is.
There is never a need to have a bigger or smaller experience, as Being is still Being even in the small experiences. Its nature is the same, and part of its nature is this capacity to discriminate how true—how complete—a particular perspective is. The small experiences of Being are still an expression of Being’s ultimate nature, just as a single drop of water is still wet.
Spiritual seekers often think of liberation as staying in an expanded experience of truth. While expanded experiences are freeing (especially when you’ve been contracted for a long time), the ability to move in and out of many different perspectives is an even greater freedom. Walls are only a problem when you don’t know where the door is and therefore can’t get in or out.
True freedom is when you can move in and out of identification with a small sense of your self. You don’t have to take my word for it. Find out what happens in your Heart if you just let the opening and closing of your sense of self be just the way it is right now. Does this allow your Heart to open? Does it allow you to just be for a moment?
The above is an excerpt from the book Living from the Heart by Nirmala. Download part 2 of this book for free.
Saturday, 02 April 2011 16:11 Written by Nirmala
Someone wrote and asked me simply how they could become aware. Here is my response:
As for your question of how to become aware, you cannot become something that you already are. I would invite you to explore the awareness that is already here. What is it that is reading these words? How do you know what words you are seeing? Are you aware right now of the words on this page? What is that awareness like? Where does awareness come from in this very moment?
Everything that really matters including fulfillment is found in this already present simple awareness. We tend to overlook it because it is so ordinary, and yet it is actually a profound mystery that is present right here in this moment. The misunderstanding is that awareness is something we need to seek or become. Awareness is something we can explore and recognize more fully, but there is no seeking or becoming required for that. In fact seeking gets in the way as when we are seeking we tend to overlook the experience of awareness that is here to explore right now.
Awareness is not an object and it does not come from an object: it is a capacity of empty space or alive presence which is not a thing or a person. So when you explore awareness you can tend to become "spacey" or disoriented. It is normal to feel spacey when exploring space! We are not used to directing our attention to emptiness or the nothingness behind our eyes. And so sometimes we look away again and go looking for something. But what happens right now if you simply pay attention to the space behind your eyes? What happens if you pay attention to the empty silence that your thoughts are appearing in?
There is no right or wrong experience of awareness. There are many different flavors or qualities of this alive capacity that is always here. You have always been experiencing some capacity or quality of your true nature. Awareness is what experience is made of, so you have already explored a huge amount of your capacity. And yet there is always more to discover about your inherent capacity to be aware.
The one thing you can be sure of is that your experience of awareness will never be the same twice. It is just the nature of presence or Being that it never expresses the same experience twice. So in that sense you will never be done exploring the limitless capacities or your nature as awareness, even though you do not need to go anywhere or seek anything to find it. It is always showing you a new face, a new disguise, a new possibility. The only question is will you acknowledge and savor the unique flavor awareness has right now?
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