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The Seeker of Well-Being: Retrieve balance in accordance with self (édition 2015)

par Indrajit Garai (Auteur)

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Titre:The Seeker of Well-Being: Retrieve balance in accordance with self
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Info:Indrajit GARAI (2015), 216 pages
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Indrajit Garai shows the big heart of a therapist in his guide to living, called “The Seeker of Well-Being.” Full of concrete examples of how to help you learn your true self, and to live in accordance with it, “The Seeker of Well-Being,” is not only a concise guide to Ayurvedic medicine (ancient Indian healing) practices, but to achieving true well-being. This has more soul and more insight than any book I have encountered in a long time. It touched my heart.

“Seeker” does not contain any soft, philosophical observations about our lives and how to lead them. It leads the reader through easy, practical exercises to arrive at insights into the self - physical, emotional, spiritual. You are then directed to pathways toward aligning your life with your core beliefs and emotional makeup. The author takes us forward, on a straightforward progression from self-discovery through to concrete steps to help us live in accord to our innermost selves.

Garai also uses a large number of case histories to illustrate his points about well-being. These patients’ stories ring true in our modern way-too-busy world, and we find ourselves reflecting on our own history, our own struggles in a toxic relationship with a job or a partner. He generates good examples in these narratives, of steps forward, and of progress made. Some are touching; all are illuminating.

Some of the deep concepts propounded by the author: our frailties come from the same source as our qualities; solutions based on metrics outside ourselves (like society’s conventional wisdom) will not work for us long term; our lives will lead to conflict and eventually disease or breakdown if we continue to lead them in ways contrary to our fundamental beliefs.

In some of his exercises Garai leads us toward our fundamental beliefs and core values. These are some of the most compelling passages, where readers will find themselves on their own journey to their innermost selves. Learn the principal parts of your own physical and emotional makeup. Take steps toward your own innermost fundamental beliefs, and find what you may have been missing. Indrajit Garai will lead you, gently, supportively toward your true self and happiness.

https://bassoprofundo1.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-seeker-of-well-being-by-indrajit... ( )
  LukeS | Sep 24, 2020 |
To illustrate how this book has helped me, first let me put it into a concrete context.

Around the middle of this September, I have been to a corporate party, where, to my great surprise, the manager of my workgroup started talking about the founder of our company, a great woman who took a lot of care for my development, and then died unexpectedly a few years ago.

This woman had plenty of confidence in me, and always placed me in challenging projects to develop my competences, along with high quality trainings for my professional and personal development. After her death, I suddenly felt a big void inside me, and felt totally lost about how to continue with my evolution. This impasse became particularly frightening to me, after her company was bought by a larger group, and since then I have not had one single training; in this new restructured organization, not a single person cares about my development.

Then in that corporate party, my current manager, who also had worked with that great woman before, made a moving speech about her, which revealed a void similar to mine. This did something to me that I can not describe in words, but, at that very moment, I made this decision: I will never again depend on someone else from the outside for my evolution; rather, from now on, that help has to come from inside me.

And that’s where this book came to me like a gift from god, with a goldmine of wisdom and insights.

But the book did not grab my heart because of that reason. I think, unconsciously, I was looking for someone to understand me, to listen to my feelings rather than giving advice; and the very first chapter of the book fulfilled exactly that need!

I felt understood. I felt I would be understood all along the book. I felt the author did not want to force on me a ton of readymade, general advice; rather, all he really wanted was that I understand myself deeply, and then I develop the solution that fits me the best.

At several points in the book, I could identify myself with the characters and their pains, but what really inspired me is this: these characters faced their challenges with dignity, solved their problems by themselves, and moved forward with deep contentment, without ever leaning upon anyone. These characters and their stories are so alive, so dynamic, so forceful that they transported me. I said: if they could do it, I can too.

And then it occurred to me that, in not even one of those stories, the author has given a single direct advice to these characters. He has always stayed in the background and asked the right questions, which have evoked the solutions from inside these characters. Moreover, I was surprised to see what I have done myself, while reading this book: I have taken notes all over the place!

After I finished the book, I set it aside, and looked at my notes all together. Then I found, all by myself, what I was looking for: what I should do, to continue my evolution.

I have read quite a few authors on personal development, since I began my search for evolution, but this author has one quality that distinguishes him from the rest: it is his unique combination of experience and humility, of his wisdom and modesty. His quiet strength, poise, and compassion kept infusing into me while I read on, and, at the end, I felt I was standing a lot firmer on my feet, on a ground more solid with self-esteem and confidence.

A rare experience occurred to me while reading this book: at three places, I cried!!

Those were not tears of sadness, but of liberation, and of a deep joy from within. Those were tears that cleaned me out from inside, and left me stronger to embrace life with courage and dignity. I have never had this experience with a nonfiction before.

This book made me feel the air circulating in my lungs again, and the blood in my veins. And I saw this book has done as much good to my heart, as it has done to my head. ( )
  CorinneT | Oct 7, 2015 |
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