Embracing the Now: Finding Peace and Happiness in What Is

by Gina Lake

The Now-this moment-is the true source of happiness and peace and the key to living a fulfilled and meaningful life. Embracing the Now by Gina Lake is a collection of essays about the Now, which can serve as daily reminders of the deepest truths. Full of clear insight and wisdom, it explains how the mind keeps us from being in the Now, how to move into the Now and stay there, and what living from the Now is like. It also explains how to overcome stumbling blocks to being in the Now, such as fears, doubts, judgments, misunderstandings, distrust of life, desires, and other conditioned ideas that are behind human suffering.

From Embracing the Now: "You don't have control over what arises in any moment, but you can control where your attention goes, and that will determine how you experience the moment. Any moment can be an experience of peace and contentment or an experience of upset and dissatisfaction, depending on where you put your attention. If you put it on thoughts and emotions and identify with them, you won't experience peace and contentment, but if you put it on your senses or on what is arising from Essence, you will be content and happy. Attention is the secret to happiness!"

Genres: Spirituality

296 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 18, 2008

About the author

Gina Lake is a nondual spiritual teacher and the author of over twenty books about awakening to one’s true nature. She is also a gifted intuitive and channel with a master's degree in Counseling Psychology and over thirty years’ experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. In 2012, Jesus began dictating books through her. These teachings from Jesus are based on universal truth, not on any religion. Then in 2017, at the request of Jesus, Gina and her husband, who is also a nondual spiritual teacher, began offering Christ Consciousness Transmissions to groups online in weekly meetings and monthly intensives. These energy transmissions are a direct current of love and healing that accelerate one’s spiritual evolution. Gina’s YouTube channel has over 175 messages from Jesus to listen to. Her website offers information about her books, online courses, transmissions, a free ebook, and audio and video recordings:
http://www.radicalhappiness.com

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

This woman is nuts. She truly believes that humanity is moving towards are more enlightened state as a whole, and that eventually we will all leave our physical bodies and be energy only. Apparently she doesn't read the papers...oy.

[Dwight Zavitz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful insights

This book is filled with great wisdom and insights on how to live a more peaceful life and move from ego drives to a fulfilling life.

[Seda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gina's written a powerfully clear book about living from presence (as Eckhart Tolle calls it) or essence as she does. The formidable opponent on such a path is of course ego. But ego is not to be resisted or fought against or repressed or denied. Instead, Gina explains how to accept the ego as it arises while still seeing through its various tricks for pulling one out of presence. She details the various emotions, judgments, fears, denials and mind games that are common tools of the ego in clear and easy-to-understand language. I find Gina's books to be as helpful as Eckhart's in the journey to living from presence. With this book in particular, I had an `aha moment' as Oprah calls them around my emotions. Although I had learned not to give attention to the stories and dramas of my mind, I was still paying untold amount of attention to my emotions. I felt them to be somewhat closer to truth because they seemed so intuitive and natural. I know realize that they are simply thoughts translated into bodily sensations and deserve no more analysis or attention than the mind. Of course, essence uses emotions such as joy or love or peace or acceptance and even sadness to guide us towards fulfilling our life plan with the eventual goal of awakening. It does not, however, use grief, depression, anger, jealousy or other such negative emotions.
Gina outlines the ego's mechanisms so clearly that it becomes difficult not to recognize, accept and thus heal them in oneself. All of this is in the service of greater peace, greater joy, and eventual liberation. The messages may be conceptually simple but in an ego and mind-dominated time and society, they are easy to forget. I enjoy reading Gina's words to remind me of what I know in my own heart to be the shining truth.

[Shelby Ford · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was simply amazing. It isn't geared toward any particular religion, which I think is quite remarkable. It definitely puts everything about life into perspective and teaches you how to embrace every situation as a positive one and opens your eyes to viewing days that would seem only mediocre, into loving experiences. I feel a sense of balance and wholeness after reading this book. Definitely a book for anyone.

I will add that there is a lot of repetition in this book.

[Albert Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think the book is magnificent. Gina Lake's insights into our egoic human natures, and the difficulties we cause ourselves by living in our egos, ring true. Her ability to penetrate to the core problem of human existence, and the solution to that problem, is astonishing.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome, intriguing, and well written.

[Dianne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Book !!!! How important it is to be present to each moment. We only get this moment once.

[Jackie Cannady · Rating 5 out of 5]

Peace and Happiness

Well worth the read. Gives you a lot to think about.
I wasn't expecting a lot but was definitely pleasantly surprised.