Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality

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Times of stress may bring feelings of panic and mayhem, but when we call upon our inner resources, stress also provides the opportunity for spiritual growth. However, o ur path to our ultimate purpose is often blocked by guilt, greed, laziness, worry, and most destructive of all: fear and anger. In his inspiring and insightful book Stand Like Mountain , Flow Like Water , renowned expert on stress management, Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., teaches you how to maneuver around these troublesome roadblocks and outlines the key to life: Balance–to stand secure and grounded like a mountain, but to flow like water.
To help you reach your goals and destinations, Seaward points out that the mind, body, and spirit must be in harmony during our journey from the tumultuous sea of stress to the unfaltering rock of our spirituality. We can do so by relying on our natural-born inner resources (muscles of the soul) as our guides.
This Tenth Anniversary Edition is filled with the most up-to-date insights and compelling stories regarding the mind-body-spirit connection and includes Dr. Seaward’s latest stress-busting and healing strategies to help you:
•  Identify your innate resources to cope effectively to stressors
•  Strengthen the muscles of your soul for life’s challenges
•  Deepen your soul-searching process to gain personal insights
•  Maintain a sense of balance and inner peace in a stressed-filled world
•  Identify and transition peacefully through the Seasons of the Soul
Dr. Seaward’s extensive research and teachings on the connection between stress and spirituality will soothe and harmonize your spirit and give you the tools to enhance and sustain connectedness with yourself, your purpose, and nature around you.
Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned speaker on stress management, human spirituality, and mind/body/spirit healing. For more information on workshops and products, visit the author at www.brianlukeseaward.net.

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Brian Luke Seaward, Ph.D., is an internationally renowned speaker on stress management, human spirituality, and mind/body/spirit healing. For more information on workshops and products, visit the author at www.brianlukeseaward.net.

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Excerpt from Stand Like Mountain , Flow Like Water
The mountain is the metaphor.
―Ancient Proverb
It’s hard to go anywhere these days and not engage in a conversation about stress. Like the changes we encounter daily, stress is in the air. Sociologists tell us that stress is one of the few factors that knows no demographic boundaries. It is, as the expression goes, an ‘equal opportunity destroyer.’
Likewise, spirituality also knows no bounds. If you listen closely to conversations around the globe today, the topic of spirituality is surfacing everywhere. It’s no coincidence, since stress and spirituality are very much connected. In fact, as the Earth spins into the next millennium, we are realizing that everything is connected.
As another expression goes, ‘The darkest hour is before dawn.’ Yet there is no doubt that eventually a new day will begin as well. Today, the first rays of dawn are visible. I am not alone in my thinking that this is an exciting time to be alive on the planet Earth. Excitement can be realized in many ways, and, I might add, not all favorable. Forsome, even a good change may be perceived as troublesome. But I venture to say that this sunrise will be spectacular, as well as the promise of this new day itself.
I have been attracted to mountains since my first trip to Colorado in early childhood. There is a universal appeal of mountains that goes beyond majestic vistas and scenic beauty. For me the appeal is spiritual.
Perhaps more than any other analogy, the trek toward a mountainsummit, big or small, is the epitome of the spiritual journey. In his play, K2 (named after the second highest mountain in the Himalayas ), Patrick Meyers w