Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water

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Summary: TIMELESS WISDOM SYNTHESIZED by BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD
Review: After the September 11th tragedy, I found myself rereading from the wisdom of Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water to try to find some meaning in all the sadness. His synthesis of the "Ageless wisdom" was very comforting in this time of spiritual hunger. I also found many passages which took on a greater meaning than when I first read it many years ago. I have given the book as a gift to many friends. I HIGHY recommend this book to anyone looking for meaning in their lives at this time. This book is a classic!

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Summary: Stand Like Moutain, Flow Like Water
Review: Brian Luke Seaward, PH.D has great insight when it comes to the human spirit. Just look at the title of this book and you'll get a glimpse of how this author understands what lies beyond the body and mind to make up the real person inside. This book has a wealth of wisdom that leads you down a path of finding your own source of inspiration, balance and inner peace.

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Summary: No very practical, very academic
Review: Desipte the title, this book does NOT teach you how to stand like mountain or to flow like water.

It is not a practical book on how to cope with stress.

However, if you want an academic account of human spiritualaity, it is not a bad book, but this is not I am looking for so just 2 stars.

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Summary: TIMELESS WISDOM SYNTHESIZED by BRIAN LUKE SEAWARD
Review: For someone who is spiritual, but not religious in the sense that there is ONLY one way, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is going through one (or many,as the case may be) life crises. This book is written in a simple manner on a very profound topic that meets you where you are and brings you up a few levels. Balance is the key to life, and I now have the key!

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Summary: Life Crisis Scale on "tilt" ? READ THIS BOOK!
Review: Get cruelly betrayed by some you love, that you though loved you. Loose something precious to you. Be cruisified for speaking the truth. And think that nothing makes sence. Then, pick up "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water". As I read about Andrew, the paralized student that wanted to be admitted in an already filled college class on "Humor", I remembered that there are still things to laugh about and how good it feels to laugh. I read about a woman locked up in a Chinese prison and someone in Chicago who's child was taken away to a foreign country. Then I remembered how thankful I was for my own daughters and all that their lives bring to me. I read about Larry's message to his mother Carolyn and remembered that "holy moments" like that still happen. I felt the grace and peace and strenght that come from using "muscles of the soul" and knew that love is what makes this "flow like water". We are all - for the most part - "wonderful people with horrific life experiences' like Dr. Seaward has come to know and share with us through this incredible book. And, with flexing our soul muscles, we too can come back to the awareness that we can "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water". So, when your "muscles of the soul" feel a little flabby, and you think you need a personal trainer to get back in shape, I highly recommend that you put this book in one hand, a nice cup of tea in the other and go SHAPE UP! :-)

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Summary: Wise and Practical
Review: It is so easy to lose perspective! Stand Like Mountain reminds us of the optimism and possiblities available to us all in warm, human and generous language that is at once emotionally engaging and intellectually stimulating. A truly wonderful guide, that I have read and re-read.

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Summary: Simply the best
Review: Luke Seaward provides inspiration, beauty and simplicity exemplifying this book's title. The book truly stands and flows, weaving the ancient and the current, the philosophical and the practical, the momentous and the mundane into a celebration of how to be your best "spirit on a human path." I have a copy for my office and a copy for my nightstand!

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Summary: No very practical, very academic
Review: Psychophysiologist Brian Luke Seaward advocates finding balance in life as a way of overcoming stress. The title of his book, Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality, is based on a t'ai chi saying. Seaward says "to stand like a mountain suggests a sense of stability, resistant to the winds of change. To move like water implies the ability to go with the flow, rather than trying to change things we have no control over."
He says that balance can be learned, but doing so requires becoming aware of, and using, our inner resources. Inner resources include humor, creativity, courage, intuition, and faith, among others. Inner resources "can and should be employed every day," not just during times of crisis.
Study after study has documented the harmful effects of stress on the human body. Seward says many people feel stress because they have betrayed their spiritual nature by not living the lives they know they should be living. He compares life to climbing up a mountain, with each of us picking out the one path that is best for us. He says "not only are there numerous paths, but we each move at a pace conducive to our soul's growth process." He adds that "it is impossible to get lost on the spiritual path. We can only be immobilized by our own fears." Confronting stressors overcomes those fears and brings balance to our lives.
Seward drew from many disciplines, including psychology, theology, quantum physics, philosophy, sociology, and mythology, as well as from his experience as a therapist, to write Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water. He says that "it is my sole wish that the collective wisdom found among these pages serve as a reminder of what we already know, because the guidance we seek is really within us."

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Summary: Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water
Review: Psychophysiologist Brian Luke Seaward advocates finding balance in life as a way of overcoming stress. The title of his book, Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality, is based on a t'ai chi saying. Seaward says "to stand like a mountain suggests a sense of stability, resistant to the winds of change. To move like water implies the ability to go with the flow, rather than trying to change things we have no control over."
He says that balance can be learned, but doing so requires becoming aware of, and using, our inner resources. Inner resources include humor, creativity, courage, intuition, and faith, among others. Inner resources "can and should be employed every day," not just during times of crisis.
Study after study has documented the harmful effects of stress on the human body. Seward says many people feel stress because they have betrayed their spiritual nature by not living the lives they know they should be living. He compares life to climbing up a mountain, with each of us picking out the one path that is best for us. He says "not only are there numerous paths, but we each move at a pace conducive to our soul's growth process." He adds that "it is impossible to get lost on the spiritual path. We can only be immobilized by our own fears." Confronting stressors overcomes those fears and brings balance to our lives.
Seward drew from many disciplines, including psychology, theology, quantum physics, philosophy, sociology, and mythology, as well as from his experience as a therapist, to write Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water. He says that "it is my sole wish that the collective wisdom found among these pages serve as a reminder of what we already know, because the guidance we seek is really within us."

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Summary: Could never put my finger on it...until I read "Stand.......
Review: The clinical definition of stress has always seemed too convenient and easy a way to explain away the malaise which I have so often felt. You too will exclaim "Eureka!" when reading this book. Thanks Luke!