Your Ultimate Life Plan: How to Deeply Transform Your Everyday Experience and Create Changes That Last - Softcover

Jennifer Howard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601632312 ISBN 13: 9781601632319

Publisher: Weiser, 2012

Synopsis

WINNER OF 12 BOOK AWARDS, INCLUDING:
* 2013 Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner *
* Gold Readers' Favorite Int'l Book Award Winner *
* USA Best Book Award Winner*
* Silver Benjamin Franklin Book Award Winner *
* ForeWord Book of the Year Award Finalist *
* Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist *

"Wise, warm, illuminating and instructive: this gentle book is for anyone ready and willing to start the wondrous exploration of what it means to be whole."
--Guy Finley, author of The Secret of Letting Go and The Courage to Be Free

We live in difficult and stressful times. You've read books and done workshops, but you still have to face so many stubborn obstacles. Yet it's often our pain and dissatisfaction that pushes us to seek a more conscious life.

Your Ultimate Life Plan is the missing "how to" for getting unstuck and moving past your problems into a richer and more meaningful life. It's a roadmap to living your most happy, most authentic, most amazing life.

A practical guide that will help you improve every moment of your life and create changes that last, Your Ultimate Life Plan teaches you how to build:

• Confidence: Remove what's stopping you.
• Strength: Move from your wounded ego into your sacred self.
• Courage: Make smarter choices by embracing the Four Dimensions of Consciousness.
• Success: Rise to your next level of happiness, clarity, and transformation.

The distillation of Dr. Howard's 20-plus years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, this "workshop in a book" will help you do more than understand Wholeness--you will experience it.

Why settle for average, when the potential to live an amazing life is inside you, right now? This book will help you step boldly into your next, deeper level of happiness, wholeness, transformation, and success.

"Through her depth of experience as a therapist and spiritual practitioner, Jennifer Howard introduces skillful means for loving ourselves for who we are in this very moment, even as we cultivate deeper self-realization through powerful practices of introspection, meditation, and acceptance of our innate wholeness. Enjoy this nourishing and self-empowering book."
--Michael Bernard Beckwith, author of Life Visioning

"Dr. Howard offers you, through her wisdom and book, a chance to abandon your past and create the life you have been searching for. If you're ready to show up for practice, the wisdom contained here can coach and direct you on your healing journey."
--Bernie Siegel, MD, author of 365 Prescriptions for the Soul

"Filled with meditations and awareness-provoking exercises, this book both reassures you that your life has meaning and then helps you align with your purpose, finding that fine balance between surrender and guided action."
--Melody Beattie, author of Codependent No More

About this title

From the Author:

An excerpt from Your Ultimate Life Plan: How to Deeply Transform Your Everyday Experience and Create Changes That Last by Dr. Jennifer Howard.
INTRODUCTION
Are You Ready to Live the Life You've Always Dreamed Of?
Are you living the life you've always dreamed of? I mean, really? Are you the person you want to be? Or is there a persistent issue in your life you've yet to change or improve? If any of these questions leaves you longing for something more out of life, then this book is for you!
Whether you're a teacher or CEO, are frustrated with your job, have a chal­lenging relationship with your spouse or partner, are longing to live your passion and purpose more fully in the world, or feel that life wasn't meant to be such a struggle, it's often your desire for greater peace and happiness that sets you on the path of living a more conscious life.
In your search for change and growth, you may have begun your transfor­mational journey with self-­help books, workshops, or some kind of counseling or coaching. Maybe you've been looking at certain problems for a while, yet they still persist. You might have seen some positive changes at first, only to notice they didn't seem to last. Maybe it's been a while since you sat down and thought about what you want. Perhaps your already full life keeps you so busy that you aren't able to spend as much time as you'd like on what you're learning, or old habits and issues get in the way.
No matter where you're starting from, you can go to your next level of happi­ness, wholeness, transformation, and success. Using Your Ultimate Life Plan and the Conscious Living 2.0™ principles and practices on a daily basis will take you there. You'll feel more deeply, experience life more profoundly, and enjoy a more intimate connection with yourself, your soul, and others.
So how do you do it? How do you stay on course to reach your ultimate life and create real, lasting change? By diving deeper. Going deeper means getting to know your internal dialogue and emotional connections by paying attention to your thoughts and feelings, which allows you to be more conscious of what's initiating the vibratory quality that actually creates your life experiences. This is the fuel that ignites your co-creation with God in every moment. If you're willing to stay on your cutting edge, increasing insight and consciousness, and becoming more awake and aware, then you'll be happier, and have more freedom and aliveness. Diving deeper helps you achieve authentic and lasting happiness. It's your path to freedom and it's worth every bit of effort. You go deeper because you want to understand, and create real and lasting change. You go deeper because you want to experience the core of your being. You go deeper because, really, what could be more important?
As you live more consciously, moment by moment, you continue growing in ways that allow you to experience and embody more wholeness and freedom. This path leads you to uncover, grieve, and work through historical difficulties, opening the door to the emergence of your real self. Consider the possibility of living a fully integrated life--physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
When you're living a conscious life, your job is to be with whatever arises, and to address any difficult or painful thoughts and feelings that block you from experiencing yourself as Wholeness, or non-dual consciousness. As you identify and heal these obstacles, you naturally return to being present in the now. Out of frustration you might say, "I've been through this before and I don't want to feel it again." Yet here it is, right in front of you. If you deny what arises, you just create a stronger energetic charge that holds on to that difficulty. When you live in, "I don't wanna," the tension and resistance just magnifies what's there. 
Persistent problems, however unpleasant they may seem, contain the unpro­cessed and unexamined thoughts and feelings that, if left alone, keep you from your greatness. That's why the pain, emptiness, and longing you feel can be your greatest gift--it can motivate you to examine parts of yourself that have been overlooked, forgotten, or hidden. It's the irritant of sand in the oyster, which is the impetus for the pearl. In walking the conscious life path, you reveal your deepest Reality, layer by layer. From here you can let yourself be. You come home.
In addition to navigating all the aspects of your inner life, you also have to contend with the environment around you. Our planet is changing at a dizzying rate. Globally, there is intensifying unrest, escalating conflict, financial instability, unemployment, alarming climate change, and environmental destruction. We grieve with those experiencing the devastation of earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters. Our old way of living and relating has been fundamentally disturbed, and it's easy to be frightened by the unknown.
Most of the world's problems affect us, while leaving us without any sense of what we can do to change them. This book is an inward look at the things you can affect. Living a conscious life is empowering. It facilitates change and helps you live a life of integrity, passion, and contentment.

About the Author:

Jennifer Howard, Ph.D., teaches the art of conscious living. She's equally at home sharing ancient spiritual wisdom, the latest scientific understanding, and proven and practical life-changing techniques culled from more than 20 years as an internationally acclaimed licensed psychotherapist, life and business coach, spiritual teacher, and energy healer. A leading expert on spirituality and psychology, Dr. Howard has appeared on numerous national network television shows, is a featured expert in the Walk With Walgreen's national wellness campaign, and is a Huffington Post blogger. As creator and host of the award-nominated radio talk show, A Conscious Life, her wisdom, warmth, and sense of humor shine through. She lives in New York. For more information visit: DrJenniferHoward.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Weiser
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1601632312
• ISBN 13: 9781601632319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288