Would you like to be less stressed?
Would you like to experience more joy?
The key to both is living authentically.
The cure for stress
The cure for stress is to know ourselves and do what we love. In other words to live with authenticity.
So, what causes the stress?
Stress is when what we are doing doesn’t fit who we are. Whatever the task, there is someone who enjoys doing it (so stress is not inherent in the task itself). Having to work hard when we love what we are doing, then doing it with all of our self can be a positively joyful experience (so it’s not hard work that causes stress). We are stressed when there is a mismatch between who we are and the work that we are engaged in.
The antidote to stress is to do what we love: which means knowing what this is and being able to follow through with it. In short, authenticity (knowing who we are and acting in accord with who we are) is the solution to stress.
The path to joy
Joy, even when we are putting all that we’ve got into an activity, has a flowingness, an effortless quality about it. For me joy is action that flows from the centre of who we are. Living with authenticity doesn’t mean that obstacles magically disappear, or that we don’t put in the work to know who we are, or learn how to express who we are. What it does mean is that there can be a sense of joy as we do all these things. For me joy isn’t manic but an elated calmness.
I have various products to help you live more authentically. There is an email course called Living Authentically and an eBook, also called Living Authentically.
From both the eBook and the course you will learn:
* How to have lasting satisfaction in your life.
* The stages our experience goes through.
* Where and when you stop experiencing satisfaction.
* How to get back on track.
What’s in the course?
The course is forty emails. Each email applies one of the eight stages of experience to one of the five dimensions of our lives. There are five emails per week for eight weeks. They are designed to take about one hour each to work through. Naturally you can spend more or less time as you desire, but this is a rough guide to what you can expect. There is also an online students’ forum where you can leave any questions or comments and where students can discuss the lessons with each other.
The eight stages are:
* stage one: resting
* stage two: disturbance
* stage three: looking around
* stage four: locating the particular thing
* stage five: checking the thing out
* stages six: gaining mastery
* stage seven: assessment of our experience (satisfied or not?)
* stage eight: learning, growth and change.
Each stage is applied to the five dimensions of our lives: physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social.
The course costs US$27.00.
What is the eBook about?
It has the same eight stages of living authentically (one chapter per stage) and many exercises to do at the end of each chapter. It is the PDF of a hard copy book (135 pages paperback size). There is no discussion forum attached to the book.
The book costs US$9.95.
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You can find more about my story and authenticity on my About Me page.
There are links to blogs about authenticity in the Blogroll.
Links to particularly good posts about authenticity are on the links page.