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Self-Empowerment Journal: A Companion to The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice
Summary
The journal that transforms a reading book into a life-changing personal experience.
The Self-Empowerment Journal is the perfect companion to Gary Zukav and Linda Francis's The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice, a groundbreaking new book that explains how to take responsibility for the choices you make in life and to liberate yourself from the illusion that you are victim to your own circumstances. The journal contains empowering new material specifically developed to help you to actively apply the authors' suggested exercises and discover for yourself new ways of being that will bring satisfaction and wholeness into your life.
There is a special magic to journal writing. It is not enough to merely read about ways to improve your life. Working through the practical exercises and recording them in your journal becomes a genuine process of self-examination and self-discovery, a way of asking yourself meaningful questions and keeping track of your progress in spiritual growth.
By looking deeply into yourself, you can determine what works best for you. You will discover countless new opportunities and develop the freedom to experiment, decisively taking charge of your actions. You will also find ways to overcome the problems that hold you back, and practice new ways of achieving authentic power and spiritual growth. The journal is a crucial tool that will keep you focused on your journey, helping to make wise and empowering choices in life.
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Self-Empowerment Journal - Gary Zukav
ALSO BY GARY ZUKAV
The Dancing Wu Li Masters:An Overview of the New Physics
The Seat of the Soul
Thoughts from The Seat of the Soul:
Meditations for Souls in Process
Soul Stories
WITH LINDA FRANCIS
The Heart of the Soul:
Emotional Awareness
Thoughts from The Heart of the Soul:
Meditations for Emotional Awareness
SELF-EMPOWERMENT JOURNAL
A Companion to
THE MIND OF THE SOUL
Responsible Choice
Gary Zukav
and
Linda Francis
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Copyright © 2003 by Gary Zukav and Linda Francis
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Designed by Jamie Putorti
Illustrations by Melanie Parks
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 0-7432-5746-4
ISBN: 978-0-743-25746-6
eISBN: 978-1-439-10498-9
This book is dedicated to my parents,
Teresa Compton and the late Hugh Compton,
with love and appreciation.
—Linda Francis
Contents
WELCOME
PART 1 : Choice
⋆ On a Personal Note—Gary
1. The Power of Choice
2. Cause and Effect
3. The Science of the Soul
4. Attraction
5. Intention
⋆ Part 1 Bonus Exercises
PART 2 : How to Choose
⋆ On a Personal Note—Linda
6. The Personality
7. Unconscious Choice
8. Conscious Choice
9. Responsible Choice
10. Pulling It Together
11. Internal Landscape
⋆ Part 2 Bonus Exercises
PART 3 : Power
⋆ On a Personal Note—Gary 93
12. Authentic Power
13. Creating Authentic Power
14. Attention
15. How to Challenge
16. Authentic Needs
⋆ Part 3 Bonus Exercises
PART 4 : Choice and Power
⋆ On a Personal Note—Linda
17. Harmony
18. Cooperation
19. Cocreation
20. Sharing
21. The Greatest Gift
22. Reverence for Life
⋆ Part 4 Bonus Exercise
PART 5 : Responsible Choice
⋆ On a Personal Note—Gary
23. The Inside Story
24. Temptation
25. Possible Futures
26. The Optimal Choice
⋆ Part 5 Bonus Exercises
A New Beginning
Invitation to the Seat of the Soul Foundation
Welcome
Welcome to this special Self-Empowerment Journal. It is designed to accompany our book The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice.
Our intention for creating this Journal is very specific: We want to help you create authentic power—the alignment of your personality with your soul. Responsible choice is one of the essential skills you will need to create authentic power. As you develop the ability to choose responsibly, you will simultaneously become more powerful.
In this Journal we will do what we can to:
Show you the difference between authentic power and external power, and the role of responsible choice in creating authentic power.
Help you understand responsible choice intellectually, experientially, and, especially, emotionally.
Provide exercises, practices, and opportunities to create authentic power both while you are using this Journal and long after you complete it.
We do not ask you to accept what we write as true, but instead to notice what resonates with you and, when something does, experiment with it. If you like what your experiment produces, continue to experiment. If we present something with which you do not resonate, let it go. Don’t try to wear a shoe that pinches. The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice and this Self-Empowerment Journal present a window through which we have come to see the world. This window has been helpful to us and we hope it will be helpful to you, too.
Love,
Gary Zukav and Linda Francis
PART 1
Choice
On a Personal Note
—Gary
I did not realize how important my choices are until I made the effort to look at what they had created. Even then, it took several more years for me to make the connection between what I choose and what I experience.
For example, when I graduated from Harvard I was angry, insecure, and violent. It seemed natural for me to enlist in the infantry and volunteer for the Green Berets. I was not drafted. I volunteered for more and more specialized training, bringing myself into contact with an increasingly homogeneous group of angry, insecure, and violent people. We did not look at ourselves that way. We admired ourselves and our jobs. That was because we shared the same consciousness, even though we had unique histories and challenges, and even though we sometimes did not like one another. Our skin colors, families, religious backgrounds, and the reasons that brought us together—such as running away from home, playing a heroic role, patriotism, and so forth—were different, but our energy was the same. It did not occur to me at the time that my choices about who I was and what I needed were bringing me into the company of
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