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This book reaches out to those who are hungry for information. It is about that wonderful robust quality we all have—our inner strength.

Twenty Australians tell stories of enhancing their lives by reaching into themselves.

Switch on to Your Inner Strength is a practical manual describing how to tap into this vibrant source of personal power and how to use it deliberately.

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
* Sandy's encounter with grief and "letting go"
* Self esteem, self worth and self image
* Daily techniques based on verified research
* The importance of love in your life
* Acceptance, guilt, anger and forgiveness
* An easy and practical approach to meditation
* How thoughts impact our lives
* Relaxation for stress release, harmony and tranquillity
* How to handle pain
* Six guided imageries for personal use
* The use of imagination to influence health and healing
* How to tap the mind for creativity
* Skills to cope with every day life stresses—the balance between relationships, employment, family, finance, leisure, spiritual development ...

"Not until we're challenged by adversity do we really experience our inner strength. This book is about how to use your inner strength, at any time, to enhance your peace and power."

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Santé et bien-être

Bien-être émotionnel

Bien-être

Healing

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Publié par	eBookIt.com
Date de parution	09 juin 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781456622411
Langue	English

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SWITCH ON
TO YOUR INNER STRENGTH
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SWITCH ON
TO YOUR INNER STRENGTH
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by

Sandy MacGregor

Copyright © 1996 Sandy MacGregor

Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of study, research, criticism, review or as otherwise permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission of the author.

First published in Australia April 1996

Published by

CALM PTY LTD (ACN 060 570 818)
PO Box 482, Lindfield NSW 2070, Australia.
Telephone: (02) 439 7188 Facsimile: (02) 439 7587

E Mail – calm@ozemail.com.au
Internet Home Page – www.lightenup.com.au/calm

Printed and Bound by
Southwood Press Pty Limited
80-92 Chapel Street, Marrickville, NSW, 2204

Distributed in Australia by
Capricorn Link (Australia) Pty Ltd
2/13 Carrington Road, Castle Hill, NSW 2154

Tapes and Videos Distributed in Australia by
Quest Pty Limited
Theosophy House, 484 Kent Street, Sydney, NSW 2000

Distributed in New Zealand by
Tandem Press
Rugby Road, Birkenhead, Auckland 10

ISBN 0 646 27568 2

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DEDICATION
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To Andrew Robert MacGregor, my son born on 9th November 1964, to whom I am constantly grateful. Andrew has been a tower of strength to me, particularly when I needed him and as I look back on my life so far, I realise just how much I have learned from him and how he has actually inspired me towards my present life's purpose.
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CONTENTS
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Foreword        by David Mason-Jones        9
Chapter 1        Switching to Inner Strength        13
Chapter 2        Pathway to the Present        27
Chapter 3        Letting Go        47
Chapter 4        Building Your Peaceful Place        57
Chapter 5        How Self Talk Affects Us        73
Chapter 6        How to Handle Pain        90
Chapter 7        Influencing Health and Healing        100
Chapter 8        Meditating – a Practical Approach        122
Chapter 9        Forgiving – Are There Benefits?        130
Chapter 10        The Importance of Love in Your Life        143
Chapter 11        Ken Marslew's Cry – Enough is Enough        153
Chapter 12        Discovering Your Creativity        162
Chapter 13        Exploring Uses        179
Chapter 14        David Benedikt – A Survivor Tells        188
Chapter 15        Enhancing Inner Strength        201
Chapter 16        Where the Margins Fade        208
Chapter 17        Time to Review        228
Chapter 18        Where to From Here?        237
Appendix A        Peaceful Place Books, Tapes and Videos        245
Appendix B        CALM Seminars        252

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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David Mason-Jones did far more than write the Foreword to this book. He is a friend from Army days who uses his Inner Strength. Thank you David for your professional advice, writing, editing and ideas that have been incorporated in this book. Your energy has been invaluable.
My wife Sandra has spent many hours reading, typing, suggesting and putting up with me ... I am always grateful for her interest, help and support.
Michael Burge, now departed, and his former wife Kathryn for introducing me to Insight Seminars and for being around in my time of need.
Thank you to David Hammer for his counsel and guidance with the name “Switch On” and the cover of this book.
Adrian Emery who at his Sennikatan paradise retreat in the Blue Mountains encouraged me with my idea for this book and offered suggestions after reading the manuscript.
Thank you to everyone who has so generously shared their personal experiences of inner strength and allowed me to use them in this book so that others may benefit.
My heartfelt appreciation to all those who have contributed to this book by attending my seminars, joining in the discussions and helping me along my own journey of learning and growth.

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FOREWORD
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When Sandy was a young cadet at Duntroon, the Military College where he was educated, he learnt one of the most important maxims of leadership theory. It was drummed into his head over and over for the four student years he spent there. The words were, “Never ask a soldier to do something which you would not be prepared to do yourself.”
Sandy lived by this rule when he became a Tunnel Rat in South Vietnam in 1965. On arrival, as the man in charge of the first Australian Engineers sent to that conflict, Sandy found that the standard procedure for the American forces was to just blow up the entrances to tunnels when they were found. Up until then no one had done the unthinkable – that is, nobody had gone down the tunnels after the enemy.
Sandy knew this had to change.
When Australian troops found the entrance to tunnels in War Zone D in October 1965 Sandy saw the chance to send our men down there. But who to send first??
For Sandy the answer was simple and, armed with a 9mm pistol in one hand, a bayonet in the other, and a rope tied around his ankles in case he was killed or wounded, he went in! After this feat of leadership it became common for Sandy's men to go into the tunnels and this yielded a rich reward of documents, weapons and other supplies. Sandy had led from the front and it was reasonable that his men would do things which he had shown by example.
But that was all a long time ago and far removed from Sandy's life now, in which he teaches people about learning techniques, thinking skills and the deliberate use of their inner strength.
The important thing about what he teaches now is that he still leads from the front! And the example of leadership he has given us in his personal life is far more powerful than that which earned him a Military Cross in Vietnam!
In January 1987 a tragedy of the worst imaginable kind struck Sandy's life suddenly and senselessly. Without any warning, three of his daughters were viciously murdered in the safety of their own home in a hail of shotgun fire. They were the innocent victims of the crazed rampage of a young man with a gun. There was no rhyme nor reason to it, there was no way to prevent the crime and, worst of all, there was no way to say “Goodbye”.
Sandy was driven to the edge of emotional collapse by this. But in this crisis he reached down deeply into his soul to find reserves of inner strength that he hardly knew existed prior to the crisis. Sandy connected with his own wells of inner strength, tapped them and overcame the debilitating effects of a great personal trauma.
It usually takes a lifetime to gain enough experience of life's turbulent course before one can claim to have a modicum of wisdom – the old are the wise. What a pity it is that we become wise often only at the end of our lives. It is invariably too late to influence others; the “wisdom” may be there, but the drive and energy to take the message to others is often gone.
I believe that for some people the “getting of wisdom” is telescoped down to a shorter time frame than normally comes through the “wisdom of age”. Some people get it when they are quite young. This telescopic effect is usually through dire circumstances, requiring a difficult period of introspection. It is not usually through choice. The benefit for the rest of us, when it happens this way, is that the drive and energy to take the message to others is still there. To my mind it all begs the question of whether there is a purpose to suffering.
It would not be possible to find the person who has not suffered something somewhere in their lives. One of the problems with this suffering that we all go through is that it is impossible to put a gauge on suffering. It is impossible to compare one person's pain with another's. What may be a minor incident to one may be a major catastrophe to another.
Sandy MacGregor's tendency to leadership, combined with just a trace of flamboyance in his personality, make it natural for him to want to make the link with all of us; to find the common ground between us. Sandy's idea is to go further than just establish the fact that we share common experiences. His idea is to look into the question, “So what?”. His idea is to examine the possibilities that the mental processes we find from somewhere in a crisis, can be extended into our everyday lives.
Can we use these processes, this inner strength, to get rid of the ghosts in our cupboard, the things that hold us back. Can we use this strength to assist with healing? Can we use it to direct healing? Can we use it to think creatively? Find solutions that had previously evaded us? Explore spiritual purpose? Once we open our minds to think about it these are some of the interesting questions that face us. Sandy's first book Piece of Mind is about how to relax in 30 seconds and using an eight step process to word and achieve goals faster. Switch On to Your Inner Strength is about how to use a deeper state of mind where even more clarity is reached. One outcome of this clarity is that you can examine issues in your life which lead to your goals. As the number of true stories in the book show, Sandy has certainly been successful in reaching out and making a link with many many others. We all stand to benefit from this.
Many of the great ideas start out as uncertain fantasies; flights of the imagination; tentative hypotheses. Science often catches up later on with the imagination of the dreamers. In the field under discussion in this book the gap