Completely Human
How Authenticity Leads to Personal Freedom and Meaning
PREFACE
This book has been a journey in and of itself, and it’s time is now.
Oprah Winfrey released a few pages of her personal journey to the public recently showing that celebrities are starting to share more of themselves and also that audiences are ready to receive this kind of truth.
The world is searching for real truth and honesty. Seeing it in others helps you feel okay about who you are.
There have been rapids amount of headway made in the self-help arena in the past decades especially regarding the Law of Attraction models. These have also evolved and changed over time, but encompassed the opening of a new drive to meet the average man on the street, encouraging personal- or spiritual development work.
The largest benefit is that so many of these concepts and principles are familiar to people all over the world who have started on journeys of personal transformation.
But – Are you now ready for the next step in creating a self-empowered and meaningful life? Isn’t it time to get honest about who you are during your individual processes of change.
This book provides that.
It includes raw honesty, even in the form of real, original journal entries that were recorded during my journey so far. I’ve included excerpts from my own feeling-space. I trust this level of vulnerability will resonate with you, the reader and ignite a spark that says, “Oh. That sounds like me. I also feel like that!”
It is like you. And like most others.
My story is one of a ‘normal, average’ person (me) who had a seemingly perfect life on the surface, but carrying an empty, nagging feeling that there must be more to her than this.
There is no huge tragedy or life-altering crisis that changed my life; but rather just the soft, gentle call of my soul for change. From the inside out.
It’s time to take all the head knowledge accumulated over the previous years of self-growth work and take ownership of who you (really) are by personally understanding the concepts to reach full self-acceptance, being Completely Human.
It’s time to truly feel your internal personal transformation as opposed to focusing on external manifestations.
It’s time to stop trying so hard at your growth work; trying to be something that you’re not.
It’s time to stop trying to be good, be better, be spiritual, be enlightenend etc.
This book shows the journey of the reason why we all feel the need to pretend, but then goes beyond that, to demonstrate how it can all be dismantled.
This is not a book on positive thinking or affirmations. Nor is it about being bad and mean. It’s about getting real and understanding your authentic self.
Once you accept yourself authentically, your positive, natural self-expression radiates through naturally. No more trying.
I’ve had a strong calling to write this book as it could be the story of just about anyone. I simply journey with you through various events in my life from a feeling-perspective.
That’s what connects us, after all.
Some of the feelings may sound brutal, childish and selfish. But they’re honest.
By me being open, vulnerable and honest I trust you’ll give yourself permission to do the same. Own your own story through a feeling-state and see where this takes you.
I started off writing this book as a tool for self-healing for myself. I was putting my own pieces back together again as I had very limited memories of my childhood, let alone how I felt about any of it! I desired a deeper understanding of what made me up and how I continually landed up in repeated patterns facing similar unhealthy circumstances.
As I developed closure on a number of hurtful experiences, I felt the urge to share the simple stories and messages. I hope that the simplicity and ordinariness of what you’ll read here will open your heart, spirit and consciousness to enable you to also, set yourself free.
I encourage you to answer the journaling questions at the end of each chapter – this will take you to that honest place and are all questions I worked through.
This may be exactly the right time for you to stop glossing over things and move out behind the mask you show the world.
Remember that the quality of your life is a reflection of the quality of the questions you ask.
I trust that by reading some of the real life encounters, journal entries and answering the questions provided (and some of them are not that easy!) – You too will find an intense pleasure and freedom from being nothing else, but just exactly who you truly are.
Completely Human.
Enjoy the journey to within!
Much love,
Heidi
“My effort here is to help you become aware of all your pretensions. Once you are aware they can be dropped, they can be dropped very easily – the whole thing is to become aware of them. They have gone deep; their roots have reached very deep into your bones, into your very marrow. So one has to be very alert, very aware, to find all the roots. Once you have found all the roots of your false pseudo love, you can uproot all the weeds and you will become again a child and you will start afresh from the very beginning of innocence, and then there will be spontaneity, naturalness.”
Osho: A Must For Contemplation Before Sleep p.225
This book is due for release in a couple of months. Feel free to pre-order your copy with me @ heidi@completelyhuman.com.
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