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The Essence of Self-Empowerment: Using Flower Essences for Uncovering a Dynamic Existence

This book is about finding yourself and being able to live your life with passion, desire, and a sense of purpose, no matter what comes in life. Based upon the author’s journey of unfolding into her life and more than thirty years experience working with flower essence therapy clients, this book offers an overview and intimate look at the essential quality of self-empowerment. Before you can achieve the goals of your life, whether they are happiness, security, peace, enlightenment, or even self-realization, self-empowerment is the one quality that you need to develop that will make these goals possible. Self-empowerment is both what you need and what you gain as the result of healing your core issues. These are a few treasures that desert flower essences can help you find on the inner journey to self-empowerment: Discovering what you really want, separate from the desires of others Finding self-esteem Liberating yourself from fear Freedom from addictions Resolving regret and guilt Finding forgiveness Feeling protected and secure Taking responsibility for yourself Locating and owning your power Self-empowerment in relationships Empowering others About the author Cynthia Athina Kemp Scherer has been a pioneer in flower essences since 1983. She is the founder of Desert Alchemy, in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and co-creator of desert flower essences from the Arizona deserts. She is an international seminar presenter and the author of The Alchemy of the Desert, The Art & Technique of Using Flower Essences, the Desert Alchemy Expanded Cross Reference, and The Core Issue articles.

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The Truth of Our Existence: Four Teachings from the Buddha to Illuminate Your Life

What would happen if we looked with fresh eyes at the struggles and “impossible situations” that we face every day-and found there four truths that changed everything? For decades, Pema Chödrön has brought clarity and heart to the core teachings of the Buddha, helping to make them relevant and useful in our everyday lives. With The Truth of Our Existence, she immerses listeners in one of Buddhism’s essential distillations of written wisdom known as The Four Marks of Existence.These marks that shape all of us, teaches Pema Chödrön, are like forgotten gifts waiting to be found. And while they may ring familiar to some, they hold vast layers of often-unrealized understanding to both new and seasoned ears alike. In this six-session learning program, Pema Chödrön illuminates for us:

. The truth of the impermanence of all phenomena
. The truth of egolessness-the insight that we do not exist as separate, individual beings
. The truth of the existence of suffering
. The truth of peace-that liberation or nirvana is available when we shed the veils of misunderstanding created by the first three marks
. How to use the wisdom of this profound sutra to touch the open and abundant expanse in which we truly dwell

With The Truth of Our Existence, Pema Chödrön invites us to see that there is, in reality, “no score to settle,” and that we can step out of confusion, frustration, and fear-and into in the open space of heartful awareness.