Reader Resources
Here are the links mentioned in the book:
Exercise 1: Pay Attention to Right Now. This five minute relaxation and awareness exercise will help you become more aware of the present moment. Give yourself five minutes of privacy, put on your headphones if you’d like, and have a NOW experience!
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Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture. An inspiring ten minute video of Dr. Randy Pausch on Oprah, reprising his Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Pausch was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the age of 45 and died July 25, 2008 at age 47. He offered his lecture as a message to his young children about life – and it has swept the world. Watch it, and allow it to inspire you. (You can see the entire 75 minute lecture on the Carnegie Mellon website at http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor Dr. Jill Bolte-Taylor, Harvard-trained Neuroanatomist, speaks about her discovery that “nirvana is never more than a mere thought away.” A massive stroke, which took her eight years to recover from completely, gave her the opportunity to understand, and now explain in simple terms, the right brain/left brain wonders that we can all claim and use. 20 minutes. Her book, My Stroke of Insight, is published by Viking.
The Center for Non-Violent Communication is a global organization helping people connect compassionately with themselves and one another through Nonviolent Communication, language created by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Nonviolent Communication (NVC) helps connect us with what is alive in ourselves and in others moment-to-moment, with what we or others could do to make life more wonderful, and with an awareness of what gets in the way of natural giving and receiving. http://www.cnvc.org/
Abraham-Hicks Who is Abraham? Wisdom channeled through Esther Hicks? “You could leave the channeling out of it. Call it inspiration; that’s all it is. You don’t call the basketball player a channeler, but he is; he’s an extension of Source Energy. You don’t call the surgeon a channeler, but he is. You don’t call the musician, the magnificent master musician, you don’t call him a channeler, but he is. He’s channeling the broader essence of who he is into the specifics of what he is about.” Abraham is the source material for The Secret - movie and book. Great fun, intriguing Q & A, multitudinous resources to help you shift your perspective and find the joy that is yours to claim. http://abraham-hicks.com/
HatBox Journeys - Your source for intriguing adventures into your inner world. Group and solo guided journeys via CDs, designed for women to share with other women. Start with the Chocolate Journey of Sensory Awareness (available through our SevenPractices.com Store) if you’d like. Visit their web site, www.hatboxjourneys.com for more.
