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The Walk to Nirvana explores the realities of awakening, the call for change and experiences of mysticism. It follows Kim's real-life account on dealing with her life-changing diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) at the age of 28. This book is for the curious soul-seeker where one searches for the "lost soul" and wants answers on identity and purpose when bad things happen. It is a journey of expansion.Filled with practical advice and tools on how to navigate this weird, wacky, and wonderful world, it provides some alternative perspectives and a wand to empower oneself when feeling uncertain, traumatized, lonely, at despair or feeling hopeless.From collapsing; to coughing up blood; to lung-transplant conversations; basically really scary things and a whole lotta trauma, it navigates Kim's story of healing, recovery and triumph as well as a general kick-ass sense of being!As the world goes through its own existential crisis and awakening, from the COVID-19 pandemic to equality crises, political upheavals, social risings, this book is a perfect complement to individual awakening and collective consciousness.It's for anyone looking to get an aggregate view of healing, it contains the most useful paths to self-love, acceptance, expansion, abundance, and enlightenment. It has the ability to raise anyone's energetic vibration, improve their days, weeks and months with ease, longevity, and consistency.The Walk to Nirvana will resonate with students of life, spiritual seekers, modern-day hippy's and anyone who has suffered tragedy, chronic illness, depression, anxiety, grief or 'dark night of the soul' moments. It is after all, about the walk, the journey, and the way forward.

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Publié par	Troubador Publishing Ltd
Date de parution	24 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781803139722
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Copyright © 2022 Kim Lam

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This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of doctors. The reader should consult a doctor in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

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William, Geraldine, Samantha, Lochlan and Evie.

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You shine the brightest at night.

Contents
Prologue

Chapter 1
The Awakening
Chapter 2
The Revival
Chapter 3
Acknowledgement and Awareness
Chapter 4
Mysticism and Miracles
Chapter 5
The Yin/Yang of Life
Chapter 6
Emotional Freedom Tapping (EFT)
Chapter 7
All About the View
Chapter 8
Let the Heart Lead the Way
Chapter 9
The Network
Chapter 10
Contentment, Desire and Abundance

Acknowledgements
Bibliography

Prologue
Shame. Sadness. Fear. Loneliness. Anxiety. Depression. The whole scale of human emotion, I’m quite sure I’ve felt all of the darker sides to such an extent, that they overshadowed everything good about this world. And so have many experienced this. Globally, more than three hundred million people of all ages suffer from depression. 1 Yet, it’s human nature and it’s the yin to the yang. It’s character-building. It’s eye-opening. It’s humbling. It’s gratitude-building. And more often than not, the birth of something beautiful is not usually pain-free.
Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. The implications of depression range from the onset of a heart attack, suicidal thoughts being triggered, the furthering of physical disease in the body, and a domino effect to those around us.
Whilst this book isn’t solely about depression itself, it comes from my experience of battling a lifelong chronic illness – Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). I was diagnosed at twenty-eight. The Fall. And the Rise.
Cliché, you might say, there are a million books on self-help, self-love, radical acceptance, enlightenment and more. Whilst I do not wish to mislead you and claim that this book will get you to Nirvana, I’d like to emphasise the Walk part. The Journey. It does no harm for one to stumble across passages that resonate with them. That can trigger an enquiry, a change, an improvement, a better future and a way forward.

“ Love thy Neighbour as thyself. ”

Whilst this book is about you, it is also about our social responsibility to lift others up. Hence, the writing of this book.
I always saw it as an opportunity to share my experiences, learnings and tools that I used to navigate some of the darkest periods in my life.
This book aims to explore themes, topics and tools which will help you discover more of yourself, along with examples from my own journey, so that you can put it into practice.
At the time of writing in 2021, the world has been experiencing one of the biggest global upheavals human history has ever witnessed and experienced: the COVID-19 pandemic and worldwide movements on inequality, injustice and tragedy, such as Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, Free Palestine campaigns and, unfortunately, a war-torn refugee crisis to an extent never seen before.
Amongst it all, people have experienced loss on a scale never seen before, in relation specifically to respiratory issues, six million deaths globally from COVID-19 alone; significant job losses, the shutdown of economies and millions of businesses worldwide; social isolation, identity and a deepening mental health crisis; destruction and the ‘end’ of ‘normal’ life as we know it.
To say healing is needed is an understatement. To say individual healing is important is also an understatement. It is the beginning of collective consciousness and a path for a brighter future. For yourself. For others. And the rest of humanity. And what better time to do it than in the midst of a spiritual and earthly revolution?
People are looking for answers, peace, faith and a new way of being. Nirvana is described as the bliss of enlightenment. Enlightenment is self-realisation, the extinction of suffering and to live by certain values that will enhance and improve your life and the lives of those around you. It can be messy, joyful, scary, fun, daunting, exhilarating and more. I encourage you to face all of it. The whole spectrum. Healing is not linear: sometimes it is pretty; sometimes it is not. It is a spiral and it will oscillate in ways that make you feel like you are on a roller coaster, but again, I emphasise the journey and the walk. Not the destination.
“ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. ”
Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Man in the Arena’
This reading did not accidentally cross my path. I first heard it on my yoga teacher training course in 2019, then shortly after in Brené Brown’s Netflix debut. It is no coincidence. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. Use adversity to fuel your fire. Get in that arena.

Notes

1 Depression. (2021, September 21). Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/depression

Chapter 1
The Awakening
“ Isn’t it funny, how day-by-day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different… ”
C. S. Lewis
The taste of blood. It was real and pure. As the drops spilled into the sink, I stared in horror. The salty taste of pure, undiluted blood and lurid red was frightening me. What was happening? I felt like I was watching a movie of myself and what they’re told in movies – you’ve got cancer.
Only I wasn’t told that. It was another stint in hospital (my one hundredth visit in hospital, or at least that’s what it felt like). Three years after being diagnosed with COPD in London at the age of twenty-eight in 2014, my body was struggling, it was suffering and I couldn’t seem to get a handle on my immunity, ability to fight and ability to get better.
Thankfully it wasn’t cancer; the doctors put it down to ‘burst blood vessels’. But it was a theory and not concretely confirmed. And that was the story of all my experiences in being diagnosed with a severe lung condition at such a young age – unexplained, a mystery and irreversible. It crashed into me, like a tidal wave – the question of mortality, the fragility of life, the things that I thought were important, suddenly were not.
Flashbacks like this weren’t a single occurrence. My time in London, as a young, aspiring, passionate individual, working for the Financial Times , evaporated, unlike the pollution. It only exacerbated my condition and I had to move back home to Scotland. It killed my desire, my opportunities in life, from my career to my social life. The life was sucked out of me; I was always catching colds, I accumulated disease in my body, cysts, lack of energy and sometimes had an inability to talk, move or get out of bed. I struggled getting up one flight of stairs. Fast forward to 2018: I had been in hospital four times in the first half of that year alone, for bacterial or viral infections, and then finally my body ‘gave up’. I became too sick after all the battles over the years and was put on a nasogastric intubation – a feeding tube – for two months to help me recover weight that I’d lost whilst battli