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Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual. How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play
Broke, lost, fearful, and weak, I nearly gave up the ghost. Twice. Life had other plans. At what seemed like the most inopportune moment, I was enlightened on a beach in Northern California.
Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual. How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play is the product of 10 years of diligent research and striving to bring myself back out of the depths and into bliss. For a decade I used my body and my life as an alchemical laboratory.
Now I hardly even recognize my own life! My relationships, which were once tenuous and stressful, have shifted to passion and fulfillment; my career, once toilsome and monotonous, has become thrilling and rewarding; and my financial situation, which was once so precarious, is now bustling with spiritual energy.
Healing is not an end but a process... a process we can choose to celebrate.
Now I help others let go of their past pain and rediscover the joy of living a life full of possibilities. When we release our pain, it frees us up to love, work, and play with our whole being! I call this being in “Flow.”
This book is designed as a training manual for a fluid way of being the encourages not only healing but thriving. I draw on cutting edge science, ancient spiritual traditions, and, perhaps most importantly, my own life experience.
Are you ready to join me as we explore:
Sex, Love, Water , Vision, Tantra, Awareness, Healing, Vibration, Purpose, Movement, Sunlight, Energy, Reincarnation, Soul Contracts, Spirituality, Agony, Sustenance, Ecstasy, Emotions, Birth Trauma, Language, Death, Bliss
We will be transformed, you and I. That much I can guarantee.
Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual. How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play is the product of 10 years of diligent research and striving to bring myself back out of the depths and into bliss. For a decade I used my body and my life as an alchemical laboratory.
Now I hardly even recognize my own life! My relationships, which were once tenuous and stressful, have shifted to passion and fulfillment; my career, once toilsome and monotonous, has become thrilling and rewarding; and my financial situation, which was once so precarious, is now bustling with spiritual energy.
Healing is not an end but a process... a process we can choose to celebrate.
Now I help others let go of their past pain and rediscover the joy of living a life full of possibilities. When we release our pain, it frees us up to love, work, and play with our whole being! I call this being in “Flow.”
This book is designed as a training manual for a fluid way of being the encourages not only healing but thriving. I draw on cutting edge science, ancient spiritual traditions, and, perhaps most importantly, my own life experience.
Are you ready to join me as we explore:
Sex, Love, Water , Vision, Tantra, Awareness, Healing, Vibration, Purpose, Movement, Sunlight, Energy, Reincarnation, Soul Contracts, Spirituality, Agony, Sustenance, Ecstasy, Emotions, Birth Trauma, Language, Death, Bliss
We will be transformed, you and I. That much I can guarantee.
- GenresSelf Help
273 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 22, 2012
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About the author
Steven Budden
7 booksSteven Budden is a speaker, catalyst, and the author of Flow: An Illuminated Training Manual - How to Thrive in Love, Work, and Play, The Flow into Joy Journeybook, and The Flop Eared Gospels (a Novel).
An awakening experience in 2005 and a broken neck in 2008 were catalysts to a new way of being, which he refers to as Flow.
"Our physical and emotional pain contains sacred messages from our body. There are no "accidents."
Our past can be used as an excuse for not living a rich, full life, or it can become a gateway to surrender and spiritual awakening; a catalyst to physical and emotional unfoldment." (From his website)
He is the founder and owner of Flow Healing Arts in the bay area, where he supports a diverse group of luminaries in releasing the past, embracing the present, and creating the future, through custom programs and acclaimed private sessions. He is a certified health and wellness practitioner, master bodyworker, and holistic life coach, coaching and consulting on sacred intimacy and trauma release.
For the past 5 years, he has been experimenting with entrepreneurship, running an assortment of innovative businesses, often while living a minimalist lifestyle on farms, in a renovated vintage airstream, and on a sailboat.
He is a published poet, graphic designer, songwriter (Saint Milkweed), and visual artist, earning his MFA from the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute in 2004.
Find him ruminating on love, creativity, life, and the human experience on his blog at flowhealingarts.org/blog
An awakening experience in 2005 and a broken neck in 2008 were catalysts to a new way of being, which he refers to as Flow.
"Our physical and emotional pain contains sacred messages from our body. There are no "accidents."
Our past can be used as an excuse for not living a rich, full life, or it can become a gateway to surrender and spiritual awakening; a catalyst to physical and emotional unfoldment." (From his website)
He is the founder and owner of Flow Healing Arts in the bay area, where he supports a diverse group of luminaries in releasing the past, embracing the present, and creating the future, through custom programs and acclaimed private sessions. He is a certified health and wellness practitioner, master bodyworker, and holistic life coach, coaching and consulting on sacred intimacy and trauma release.
For the past 5 years, he has been experimenting with entrepreneurship, running an assortment of innovative businesses, often while living a minimalist lifestyle on farms, in a renovated vintage airstream, and on a sailboat.
He is a published poet, graphic designer, songwriter (Saint Milkweed), and visual artist, earning his MFA from the prestigious San Francisco Art Institute in 2004.
Find him ruminating on love, creativity, life, and the human experience on his blog at flowhealingarts.org/blog
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September 11, 2022
It was good for beginners
It covers a bunch of ideas on a short amount of pages, but it needs to build up (rather oneself as a prison) but yeah it was a good book...
It covers a bunch of ideas on a short amount of pages, but it needs to build up (rather oneself as a prison) but yeah it was a good book...
August 8, 2013
You could probably speed read through this book in several hours but there are some things in life that deserve to be savored. This book is one of those things. Its clear from the first section that the author's intent is pure giving. Nothing is superfluous here. Every word and sentence is intentional and infused with a genuine desire to empower the reader to take their healing into their own hands. It's a beautiful, hand-crafted gift, interweaving poignant stories of his own healing journey with practical advice on everything from hydration practices and cleansing to releasing fear and traumas. Its a rare experience when a book leaves you feeling genuinely cared about and held. This is a book I will return to again and again. I look forward to more from this author!
August 7, 2013
The study and growth and acceptance of a soul is such a personal endeavor that to feverishly speak away about the beauty and usefulness would likely lessen your own.
I CAN authentically say this:
There are books that interest you and there are books that touch you. And from time to time there comes along a book that is ‘OF ‘ you. This is profoundly the latter.
I CAN authentically say this:
There are books that interest you and there are books that touch you. And from time to time there comes along a book that is ‘OF ‘ you. This is profoundly the latter.
June 11, 2016
Positive book
choose this rating since I was looking who to be more positive in this live through the way o f living flawless. I left led the way the author shared his bad experience in live and the way he pass it through. But not also the bad experiences also the good ones. Love the Zen story and all around the book the
choose this rating since I was looking who to be more positive in this live through the way o f living flawless. I left led the way the author shared his bad experience in live and the way he pass it through. But not also the bad experiences also the good ones. Love the Zen story and all around the book the
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