
Leap Before You Look
Shortcuts of Getting Out of Your Mind and into the Moment
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Arjuna Ardagh
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Arjuna Ardagh
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Have too many opportunities passed you by? Maybe it's time to "leap before you look", suggests Arjuna Ardagh. "Simply begin," he advises. "Don't wait for the perfect time and place, or until you've accumulated the right amount of knowledge."
With Leap Before You Look, Ardagh offers a collection of practical tools and meditations that will help you jump-start any spiritual practice, including "Just Like Me", a simple exercise to dissolve judgments and accept others; "Explode with Anger", a healthful way to experience and harness this much-maligned energy; "Who Am I?" to reveal the mystery of divine presence right there behind your thoughts; "Be still in sex", a yogic exercise for partners to transform lovemaking into a portal to the divine.
Leap Before You Look is a collection of short, guided catalysts to shift you "out of your mind" to the infinite possibilities of the present moment. What's more, these 30 "two-minute" shortcuts will allow you to embody this realization in your daily life, from one minute to the next, wherever you may be.
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