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TENTATIVE CONTENTS
GROWING THROUGH
JOY
by Shepherd
Hoodwin
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- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
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- Part 1: Growing Consciously
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- Chapter 1 Cultivating the Habit of
Happiness
- Happiness is partly a habit in the way we
approach our lives. We can learn to be happy in all that we
do.
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- Chapter 2 Growth
- There are two parts to every growth
experience: having it, and coming to understand it.
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- Chapter 3 Growth with Awareness
- Each person is growing, but usually growth
is unconscious, and therefore, often painful. Awareness is the
key to growing joyfully.
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- Chapter 4 The Speed of Growth
- It is neither better to grow quickly nor
slowly.
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- Chapter 5 Evolution Through Creative
Play
- The more we play at what we have chosen to
do, the more easily we grow.
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- Chapter 6 Joy
- Joy can be experienced in any circumstance,
although in painful situations, the joy is not in the situation
itself but in transcending it, in using it as an opportunity to
open more deeply to higher energies.
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- Part 2: Essence and Guides
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- Chapter 7 Essence
- As we integrate all our aspects--especially
our essence, or soul--with our conscious selves, we become
whole.
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- What Is Your Essence?
- Essence Boredom
- Integrating with Your Essence
- Essence Contact
- The Big Picture
- Initiative
- Identity
- Like Parents and Child
- The Coming Forth of Your
Essence
- The Technicolor Self
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- Chapter 8 Working with Spirit
Guides
- We each have a nonphysical support
team.
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- Part 3: Spirituality
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- Chapter 9 The Larger View
- We are individually connected to the
whole.
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- A Fountainhead
- Universal Energy
- Reality
- Words
- Seeking
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- Chapter 10 Life Course
- We improvise on the framework we set up
before each lifetime.
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- Destiny
- Free Will
- The Value of Acknowledgment
- Where to Live
- Names
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- Chapter 11 New Age Modalities
- There is a place for every
approach.
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- Right for You
- Meditation
- Out-of-Body Experiences
- Dreams
- Pyramids
- Creative Visualization
- Affirmations
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- Chapter 12 Mastery
- Spiritual mastery is developed by taking
responsibility for your life.
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- The Universe-ity
- Being Unlimited
- The Truth
- Knowledge
- Self-Understanding
- Changing Your Beliefs
- Maintaining Spiritual Movement
- The Spiritual Path
- Comfort in the Body
- Suffering
- Crises
- Unpleasantness
- Busy-Mindedness
- Asking
- Being Spirit-Full
- Completing the Physical Plane
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- Part 4: Perspectives on Self
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- Chapter 13 The Beautiful Self
- We are perfect in our imperfection and
worthy of our own care.
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- Needs
- Perfection
- Appreciation
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- Chapter 14 A House Divided
- Self-judgment and invalid comparisons
create unnecessary inner conflict.
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- Pure Emotion
- Safety
- Self-Judgment
- False Humility
- Comparisons
- Mastering Duality
- Avoidance
- Guilt
- Wanting
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- Chapter 15 Handling Difficult
Emotions
- The way to joy is not through denying our
painful feelings, but through understanding and healing
them.
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- Naming Pain
- A Great Opportunity
- Fear
- Doubt
- Anger
- Hate
- Release
- Priming the Pump
- Layers of Emotions
- Valuing Emotions
- Detaching from Feelings
- Whatever You Are Feeling
- Balance
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- Chapter 16 Working with
Yourself
- We can use simple methods for
self-clarification to great advantage.
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- Finding Yourself
- Generating Answers
- Changing Your Life
- To Someone Seventy-Five Years
Old
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- Chapter 17 Choices
- Choosing from your heart allows things to
work out in the highest way.
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- Lessons
- Priorities
- Decisions
- Solutions
- Keep It Moving
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- Chapter 18 Achievement
- There is a balance to be found between
achieving and being.
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- Accomplishments
- Movement
- Obstacles
- Try and Try Again?
- Experiments
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- Chapter 19 Affirming Life
- We can experience enjoyment in our bodies
by being in harmony with our souls.
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- The Meaning of Life
- Suicide
- To Someone Considering Suicide
- Comfort
- The Pursuit of Joy
- Spontaneity
- Being Carefree
- Happiness
- A Lighter View
- Enjoyment
- Knowing
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- Part 5: Following the Path
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- Chapter 20 Transcendence and
Self-Knowledge
- Taking a higher perspective allows us to
see our lives clearly.
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- Chapter 21 Integration through the
Heart
- Through the heart, the whole self can come
together.
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- Chapter 22 Acceptance and Taking
Action
- In acceptance, we may take appropriate
action to change situations when they can be changed, and are
at peace when they cannot.
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- Chapter 23 Opening to Wholeness
- We can continually open to a larger sense
of who we are.
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- Part 6: Present in the Now
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- Chapter 24 Silence--the Great
Mother
- All creation springs from
silence.
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- Chapter 25 Releasing Fear of the Current
Instant
- Fear of experiencing ourselves keeps us
from being present in the instant we are living.
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- Chapter 26 Engaging with the Uniqueness of
Each Moment
- We experience power and effectiveness by
addressing the unique elements present in each
moment.
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- About the Author
- Glossary
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