Inside-Out Healing

Inside-Out Healing by Richard Moss - Transforming your life through the Power of Presence

Summary for my own use:

1. A big part of the challenge is that this particular aspect of healing is a journey you must take alone. It is in the nature of the abysmal feelings that the passage through them is always a solitary one. You are alone with these feelings in your hospital bed, or as you learn to live with a disability. You are alone with them during a divorce or in the dark hours of financial setbacks. They are yours in the solitary depths of grief. [pg.168]
 

2. Extreme pain can be so powerful that it wants to suck you in like a black hole, but if you do not amplify your suffering with stories-and instead let your whole being be a prayer for the lessening of suffering everywhere-your pain has become something more than just yourself. Life naturally brings us physical pain and sometimes extreme pain in the course of illness, injury or normal event such as giving birth. You can never know whether shifting your focus from your own suffering to the alleviation of suffering everywhere will open you to the grace of peace and increased well-being. But this is not about success or some victory for your ego; it is about how pain can teach you to become humble and generous. [pg. 177]

3. Surrender to change is always a leap of faith. For something new to enter your life, you have to let go of the past and join your immediate experience right now. The key is less in what you do than how connected you are in yourself as you do it. In life there is no predetermined path you should or have to walk; you lay down the path by how you take each step. This is one of life great truths. [pg.205]

Prior reading this book, pei already brief me on my self-defense mode. I'm very glad that I've picked up this book, it talks about self-defense behavior in detail and how human behaves - we human usually aren't aware of these, hence brings unhappiness. It talks about death, do not fear but prepare for your death. i.e how you want to die. It talks about expressing emotions thru writing poem, listening to your own voice, drawing etc. Three keys to higher Energy: 

a) Spontaneous creativity - acting in accordance with your natural feeling without premeditation. It is "letting go and letting flow" in anyway that is in harmony with your disposition and uses your natural talents

b) Unself-conscious and wholehearted participation - whatever you do, you do it without holding back' you are totally engaged, fully present, completely authentic. 

c) Grace - grace isn't something you do, but something that may unexpectedly join you and carry you beyond yourself once you make your own effort.