We welcome Daphne Michaels as she celebrates the release day of her personal development/spirituality book, The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams!
Author: Daphne Michaels
Publisher: Daphne Michaels Books
Pages: 130
Genre: Personal Development/Spirituality
Format: Paperback
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Book Summary:
In The Gifted: How to Live
the Life of Your Dreams author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist Daphne
Michaels celebrates the nine gifts that are our birthright, guiding readers in
how to recognize and use them to transform their lives. In her author's
preface, Michaels reveals how her own journey of life transformation began when
she was young and realized that human existence wore two conflicting faces--one
of love and joy, and one of fear and despair. She decided then to commit her
life to reconciling these two visions because she knew that, irreconcilable
though they seemed, together these two faces held the secret to living a life
of endless possibility and authentic happiness. Her personal journey and formal
education in social science, human services and integral psychology led to the
founding of the Daphne Michaels Institute, which has helped hundreds of men and
women design the lives of their dreams.
In The Gifted Michaels
shows us that the first three “gifts” we must recognize and embrace within us
if we are to re-design our lives are Awareness, Potential and Stillness.
These three allow us to identify and use the remaining six with a life-changing
power: Disharmony, Harmony, Ease, Clarity, Freedom and Engagement.
Each of these six relies on the “essential three” for its own power to change
our lives, and each has its own gifts--its “children.” By approaching the nine
gifts with real-world metaphors, Michaels answers in easily understood ways
what for many readers have been lingering questions about personal
transformation—such as how it works, what kind of commitment it takes, and why,
if we’re committed, real transformation becomes inevitable—and addresses
obstacles that readers may have encountered in the past in trying to reach in
life a happiness every human deserves.
While the human universe’s
face of love is celebrated in The Gifted, so is the face of fear that
haunted a young girl decades ago. As Michaels shows us in her book, even Disharmony—the
“quagmire” of life born of the human ego’s fear, defenses, delusions and
despair—is a gift, too, and one as important as the others if we know how to
see it clearly and use it. Once we understand Disharmony, we are ready to
understand the real purpose of Harmony in our lives. Disharmony does not need
to rule us. It is ours to use as we design the lives of our dreams.
The final gift in The
Gifted, Michaels tells us, is the gift of Engagement.
Engagement—with the universe and with ourselves—allows us to use all of the
other gifts with more power and joy than we ever imagined possible.
That mountaintop decision
never left me. It drove my life’s work and over the years led me to understand
that there are gifts – nine of them, in fact – that we are all born with but
rarely experience in their full glory and potential. These gifts – which
make each and every one of us “The Gifted” of this book’s title – are the keys
to living lives of endless possibilities and, in turn, achieving an
authentic happiness that cannot be lost. They are, in other words, the
keys to achieving the life of our dreams.
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Daphne Michaels
Excerpt:
Life’s greatest mystery is
inside us. It is inside every living thing. Like the deep secrets of the
universe, the mystery inside us will never be fully explained. By exploring it,
however, we can discover gifts available to us that can change our lives
forever.
Life’s great mystery is awareness.
More basic than thoughts and more primal than instincts, awareness does not
require a centralized brain, as scientists have proven through studies with
invertebrates like starfish. While these beautiful creatures have no
centralized brains, they possess awareness. Starfish, like all
invertebrates, use awareness to perceive, eat, grow, reproduce, and survive.
Awareness is so intrinsic to life that
it defines life: living means being aware. From the beginning of life –
before we take an initial breath – humans demonstrate tremendous awareness.
Prenatal psychologists have discovered that we experience, while still in our
mother’s womb, not only light and sound but, even more astonishingly, emotion.
We kick our legs when agitated by loud noises and sway pleasantly to beautiful
classical music. Months before birth we grimace at the taste of sour amniotic
fluid and drink heartily when it is sweet. Awareness grows as we grow.
As we develop as human beings,
our awareness stretches in all directions – from awareness of our five basic
senses to awareness of external events around us, from awareness of our
emotions to awareness of our thoughts, from limited awareness of a topic that
bores us to an expanded awareness of topics we feel passionate about. Of all
the many dimensions of awareness, the highest form is self-awareness.
With self-awareness we begin to appreciate just how far awareness actually
extends. Just as ocean waters are deeper than the surface of the sea, awareness
is deeper than the surface of our physical body or our conscious thoughts. The
infinite depth and breadth of awareness is filled with gifts that are ours
to receive.
About the Author:
Daphne
Michaels is an author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist whose institute has
helped hundreds of women and men transform their lives through the "gifts"
every human being is born with. Daphne began her own journey of transformation
at a young age, pursued it fearlessly, and later studied formally in the fields
of social science, human services and integral psychology. The Gifted: How
to Live the Life of Your Dreams launches both Daphne Michaels Books and The
Gifted series, whose goal it is to share with the widest audience possible
the principles that guide the Daphne Michaels Institute. Daphne's earlier book,
Light of Our Times, featured her conversations with such international figures
in the fields of spirituality and personal development as Ram Dass, Julia
Cameron, Dr. Masaru Emoto, and Thomas Moore.
Visit
her website at www.daphnemichaels.com.
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