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    The Awakening: Living an Enchanted Life in a Disenchanted World

    By Colm O'Connor

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    About this ebook

    The Awakening presents a profound yet simple message: how to awaken from emotional imprisonment and find psychological freedom.

    Many of us feel we are not living life to the full or living it as we should. Haunted by anxiety, we long for lifelines that can lift us out of the mundane into what Seamus Heaney called ‘the marvellous’. If you feel like this, then The Awakening may be for you.

    Drawing on the wisdom of ancient Ireland and using the symbol of the Celtic Cross as an image for how to live, Dr O’Connor shows us that we inhabit both a vertical and a horizontal life, which intersect where the eternal breaks into the everyday and ordinary activities are infused with an extraordinary purpose.

    Taking you beyond mindfulness and introducing delightful new concepts like ‘Mind-Flight’, this book uncovers the sparkling jewels buried in the rubble of life’s indifference. You can turn a tiny space into a palace, a misfortune into an opportunity, a disability into a blessing and fly when life expects you to fall. The Awakening, like the first light at Newgrange, will illuminate the hidden blessings in what may seem to be your darkened life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGill Books
    Release dateAug 28, 2015
    ISBN9780717163922
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    The Awakening: Living an Enchanted Life in a Disenchanted World
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    Colm O'Connor

    Dr Colm O’Connor has 25 years’ experience as a clinical psychologist, family therapist, clinical supervisor, workshop presenter and author. A graduate of UCC and Lutheran General Hospital in Chicago, he was a co-founder of the Cork Domestic Violence Project and the Association for Agency-based Counselling in Ireland. He is the author of The Courage to be Happy and The Courage to Love. He can be contacted through his website at www.drcolmoconnor.com.

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    • 5/5
      This one may have had more Christianity than a lot of my usual reads but it wasn't too overt (and particularly not as overt as Sink Reflections), this was about realising that we are spiritual and physical people and need elements of both, in whatever amount we are comfortable with, we can't be just working and sleeping machines but we do need more. I found it interesting and enlightening and well worth reading, in fact I would like to get a copy to re-read.