Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten principles for spiritual and emotional fulfillment

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Barbara Angelis De. Secrets About Life Every Woman Should Know: Ten principles for spiritual and emotional fulfillment

SECRETS ABOUT LIFE EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW. TEN PRINCIPLES FOR TOTAL SPIRITUAL. AND EMOTIONAL FULFILMENT. Barbara De Angelis, PH.D

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

The Ten Secrets About Life

Secrets About Life

SECRET NUMBER ONE Everything You Need to Be Happy Is Inside of You

Living Life from the Inside Out

Who Robs You of Your Ecstasy?

You Can’t Prevent the Flood. But You Can Learn to Build an Ark

The Greatest Wish of All

SECRET NUMBER TWO The Purpose of Life Is for You to Grow into the Best Human Being You Can Be

The Pieces of My Dreams

Putting the Castle Together

What Is the Purpose of Your Life?

How to Make Every Day of Your Life. a Great Day

How Can You Have a Successful Day from the Inside Out?

How to See Yourself Through God’s Eyes

If Growth Is So Good for Me, Why Does It Feel So Bad?

SECRET NUMBER THREE Change Is Inevitable, So Stop Resisting and Surrender to Life’s Flow

Are You Clinging to Your Comfort Zone?

Ready or Not, Here Comes Change

There are two ways to grow and change in life:

What to Do When You Want to Leap, But You Don’t Feel Ready

Reason 1: I Must Not Be Ready Yet Because I’m Still Afraid

Reason 2: I Need More Confidence Before I Can Make a Move

Reason 3: This Isn’t the Right Time to Do It

Reason 4: I’m Not Sure If I Really Want to Do It Anyway

The Power of Surrendering and Letting Go

The Power of Letting Go

How I Let Go of the Old and Attracted the New

Making Room for Grace

Show Me

Now Is the Moment You’ve Been Waiting for

SECRET NUMBER FOUR All Obstacles Are Lessons in Disguise—Honor Them and Learn from Them

The Hidden Gift in Your Problems

How Obstacles Teach You About Yourself

How Pain Wakes Us Up

Why Is This Happening to Me?

There Must Be a Blessing Somewhere

Learning to Honor Your Obstacles

Getting What I Asked For

Honoring Your Obstacles Doesn’t Mean You Have to Like Them

What to Do When You Encounter Obstacles in Your Life

Questions To Ask Yourself When Confronted with an Obstacle

The Perfect Problems Lead to the Perfect Freedom

SECRET NUMBER FIVE Your Mind Creates Your Experience of Reality, So Learn to Make Your Mind Your Friend

How Your Thoughts Create Reality

How Your Mind Can Be Your Greatest Enemy

Choosing What You Think

Practicing Selective Attention

What You Didn’t Know About Negative Thoughts

Becoming the Witness

Watching the Thought Parade

How to Stop Judging and Battling with Your Thoughts

Whose Mind Is It Anyway?

Breaking the Habit of Negative Thinking

Learning to Let Go of What Your Mind Doesn’t Need

SECRET NUMBER SIX Fear Will Steal Your Aliveness—Make Your Courage Bigger than Your Fear

How Fear Robs You of Your Freedom

Understanding Your Secret Inner Battle

Is It Really a Snake, or Is Your Fear Playing Tricks on You?

Are You Misinterpreting Your Fear?

Making the Decision to Be Afraid or Not

Having a Conversation with Your Fear

Learning to Live with Your Fear, But Not As Your Fear

Starving Your Fear and Feeding Your Courage

SECRET NUMBER SEVEN You Must Love Yourself Before You Can Truly Give Love or Receive Love from Anyone Else

It Was Always Only My Own Love

No One Can Give You Any More Love Than You Already Have

How You Give Other People Credit for Your Own Love

Give Yourself Permission to Be In Love All the Time

You Don’t Need Someone Else’s Permission to Love Them

Your Love Helps Others Love Themselves

You Never Really Give Anyone Else Your Love

Don’t Postpone Loving Yourself

Love That No One Can Ever Take Away

SECRET NUMBER EIGHT All Relationships Are Your Mirrors and All People Are Your Teachers

Who Are Your Loved Ones?

How Love Teaches Us Our Most Essential Lessons

Why Do These People Keep Finding Me?

The Mirror of Relationships

Remembering Your Highest Purpose in Love

When the Lesson Is Learned, the Teacher Disappears

From Heartbreaking to Healing

SECRET NUMBER NINE True Freedom Comes from How You Respond to Life and Not from What Life Does to You

Choosing to Respond and Not to React

Find Your Center and Act from There

How the Habit of Stillness May Have Saved My Life

Acting from the Inside Out

Using the Secrets About Life Every Day

SECRET NUMBER TEN Whatever the Question, Love Is the Answer

Go Where the Love Is

Falling In Love with Life

The Magic of Your Own Love

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I offer these words to you, my Beloved One, who has opened the most secret doorway in my heart and taught me the meaning of true bliss, true peace, and true love.

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One of the reasons I made a serious commitment to my spiritual growth when I was still a teenager was that I was fed up with watching my state of well-being go up and down, up and down, depending upon what was happening in my life. No wonder I was so miserable—I felt like a boat without an anchor, or even a rudder, being tossed around by the stormy seas of circumstance. By the time I turned eighteen, I began formally practicing meditation, and I have continued this and other spiritual disciplines for the past thirty years. And at a certain point after I reached the age of forty-five, I thought I’d achieved a pretty steady state of consciousness. I was spending each summer on a spiritual retreat, where I would dive deep into my own inner silence and experience great tranquillity and contentment.

It was following a summer like this several years ago when suddenly, out of the blue, my life was bombarded by one painful challenge after another, professionally, personally, financially, you name it. It all seemed to hit me at once, like a cosmic hurricane, and no area of my world was left untouched. I remember waking up each morning, my stomach in knots, my heart hurting, not wanting to get out of bed, and thinking, “What happened? Everything was going so well. Where did my peace of mind go?”

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