Treasure Within You

Book excerpt: Your Treasure within you is your inner happiness, love and peace. It is your vitality, intuition and creativity. It is your True Self. Mitra Somerville gives readers the keys to experience these inner treasures through clear narrative, analogies, examples and exercises. He has created a companion CD (Treasure Within You Guided Meditations and Exercises) that has 28 guided meditations, imageries and exercises. You are introduced to the monkey mind or ego and how it can sabotage your experience of your inner treasures, how it can create stress and unhappiness in your life. Somerville shows how the monkey mind or ego can be tamed or managed so that the mind becomes calm and clear. When the mind becomes calm, you naturally connect with your inner happiness, peace and love. This creates a solid foundation for you to thrive in your daily life. Thrive in your relationships, career, health and material prosperity. Treasure Within You will help you to achieve your goals and dreams. Learn how to release stress and how to reduce the amount of stress you create. Understand how to keep your body healthy, relaxed and energetic and the mind more calm through exercise, hatha yoga and good nutrition. Details are given on how the mind functions and what happens when we calm the mind. It contains teachings of many of the world's faiths on calming the mind. The mind can be calmed by using a mantra or sacred sound vibration. Many suggestions are given on how we can become more loving, giving, compassionate and make a beneficial contribution to the world. You will learn how to feel and release negative emotions and how to create less of these detrimental emotions. Suggestions are given to help you reconnect with your inner happiness and create happiness in your daily life. When you breathe easefully, smoothly and deeply the mind becomes more calm, clear, positive and focused, the emotions more balanced and the body more energized and relaxed. Learn what meditation is and how it can benefit every part of your life. You will understand the different types of prayer and how you can effectively use prayer. Letting go of unhelpful habits, desires, cravings and attitudes is essential for those interested in being healthy, happy, loving, peaceful and to thrive in their daily life. When you build your witnessing skills the mind becomes calmer, clearer and more focused, emotions more balanced, body healthier and more energetic. Life becomes simpler, easier and more successful when you just focus on the now. You are shown the power of affirmations and how to effectively use them. Deliberate imagery can be used for many things including health and healing, receiving inner guidance, creativity, finding a job, improving sports performance, realizing goals and dreams, relaxation, meditation and letting go. When you connect to and live from your inner guidance you will be healthier, happier and more peaceful. It will help you to thrive in your daily life and to achieve your goals and dreams.