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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
1 | The Pillars of My Life Is Art
Who owns your mind?
Where did my trauma come from?
What is trauma?
The flashback that made me attempt suicide
Trauma and hurting those who love you
The universality of trauma
The miracle of surviving trauma
How did I escape trauma?
The Pillars and Principles of My Life Is Art
2 | My Life Is Art • Principle 1: Meditation
M for meditation
What is meditation?
How meditation came to me
The 10 pillars of the pyramid
How the pyramid is built
Meditation and you
How meditation came to rescue me in my teens
3 | Gratitude
Meditation Pillar 1
Higher purpose gratitude
Your joys and your challenges
The gratitude bowl
Life waves
Meditation and Gratitude
4 | Forgiving Heart
Meditation Pillar 2
The Foundations of My Bitterness
Bitterness gave me strength
My Transformation From Bitterness
Letting go of genetic bitterness
Soul-to-Soul Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a Process
The Nature of Unforgiving
Beginning Your Forgiveness Journey
Forgiveness Meditation Exercise
5 | Faith
Meditation Pillar 3
Losing and Gaining Faith
Rebellions Are built on Hope
Faith Meditation
6 | Positive Mindset
Meditation Pillar 4
A World of Emptiness
The Power of the Mind
Visualization
Programming your mind for visualization
Developing a positive mindset
Blue Background and Bright Triangle meditation
Engaging Your Positive Mind to Solve Problems
7 | Reprogramming
Meditation Pillar 5
What did I believe about myself?
What did I believe about others?
What did I believe others thought of me?
The Power of the Subconscious
Habits and Mental Wealth
My habits
Mental wealth
The Genesis of My Programming and Reprogramming—Sugar and Milk Powder
Habit Creation: The Three Pill Method
Repetition—the three pills of red, blue, and yellow
Celebrating Our Achievements
Connecting with our inner being
Self-analysis
The Five Statuses
Programming Meditation
8 | Purpose
Meditation pillar 6
What is purpose?
Don’t know your purpose?
Purpose delivers courage and ideas
Purpose gives birth to vision
Purpose takes us beyond our threshold
The Three Types of Joy
Purpose is . . .
Purpose Mantra
9 | Calm
Meditation Pillar 7
Three Stories
The Universality of Calmness
Creating Mental Space Through Calm Meditation
10 | Courage
Meditation Pillar 8
What is courage?
The need for courage
The Six Pillars of Gaining Courage
Belief
Understanding
Fear
Knowledge
Wisdom
Failure
Is Courage within us?
Can we get courage from others?
Courage Meditation
11 | Soul Food
Meditation Pillar 9
Self-experiments on priming
The bully bull
Knowing ourselves by words
Soul Food Meditation
12 | Love Meditation
Meditation Pillar 10
What is love?
Loving of Self and Loving of Others
Giving can change the world
Love Meditation
13 | My Life Is Art • Principle 2: Yearning
Yearning Pillars
Becoming a rapper
Yearning Meditation
14 | My Life Is Art • Principle 3: Leading
Requirements for a Great Leader
The foundations of leadership—AORAE
Leadership characteristics
The five stages of leadership—PARGO
Heart power—leadership and the heart
Mental Power
The five faculties of the mind
15 | Principles of Leadership
Vision
Inspiration
Communication as a principle
Knowing your listener
Assumption
Confidence
Confidence: my lows and highs
16 | Further Principles of Leadership
leading with questions
Consequences of not questioning
The principle of humility
The principle of discipline
The principle of persistence
Loyalty
Professional loyalty
Rapport
Competence
Skills and talents
Decisiveness
Thinking like a general
Thinking clearly under pressure
Time
TI²—Time, Impact, and Income
Time and love
17 | My Life Is Art • Principle 4: Ideas
Ideas: The Source of Betterment
The magnification of ideas
Twelve ways to expand ideas through imagination
18 | My Life Is Art • Principle 5: Focus
Learning Focus
Snipers and sharpshooters
Training your self-focus
Meditation
19 | My Life Is Art • Principle 6: Endurance
Climbing Mountains
Why people give up
Surviving Personal Crisis
Escape to hell
20 | My Life Is Art • Principle 7: Intuition
Kurki—A Message That Saved My Life
What is Intuition?
Spirit
Soul
Body
Women
21 | My Life Is Art • Principle 8: Sagaciousness
The Search For Wisdom
Types of Sagaciousness
Inherited
Hardship
Educational
Spiritual
Once You Have Wisdom It Can Be Either Corrupt or Pure
Corrupted wisdom
Wisdom as a savior
Sagaciousness is Our Survival Guide
22 | My Life Is Art • Principle 9: Action
The triangle
What is the triangle?
Use of the triangle
The Sixth and Seventh Senses
Discovering Our Purpose
Find your purpose
23 | Genetic Wealth
Talents and Skills Driven by a Purpose
Identifying Your Genetic Wealth
Genetic wealth and our environment
Genetic wealth enhanced by education
Creator’s gifts
Acquired Skills and Talents Driven by Purpose
Doing everything is doing nothing
Problems
Types of problems
Problems and purpose
24 | Guiding Steps
24 Elements That Prevent Us From Succeeding
Using Positive Influences
A soldier’s story
My Life Is Art Life Map
PVM
GIWTRIICEEP
SOCSS
My Life Is Art Business Map
PVM
GAC
TRIIPEEP
DOCS
25 | My Life Is Art • Principle 10: Reading
Reading With the Five Senses
Hearing
Smelling
Touching
Tasting
Seeing
The Power of Reading
Education
Knowledge
Benefiting from the senses of others
26 | My Life Is Art • Principle 11: Training
Rudy Ruettiger’s Story
What Happens When We Train?
A Mother and Child
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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