Bestselling thriller novelist J.A. Konrath is widely known as Exhibit #1 for why authors need traditional publishers like a fish needs a bicycle, and the novel — written by Konrath under his “Jack Kilborn” pen name — that tops today’s 200+ Kindle Nation Daily Free Book Alert listings is one of the most frequently downloaded books in the history of our galaxy. If you haven’t downloaded it yet you are in for a scary treat….
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The Now-this moment-is the true source of happiness and peace and the key to living a fulfilled and meaningful life. Embracing the Now by Gina Lake is a collection of short essays about the Now that can serve as daily reminders of the deepest truths. Full of clear insight and wisdom, it explains how the mind keeps us from being in the Now, how to move into the Now and stay there, and what living from the Now is like. It also explains how to overcome stumbling blocks to being in the Now, such as fears, doubts, judgments, misunderstandings, distrust of life, desires, and other conditioned ideas that are behind human suffering.
: “You don’t have control over what arises in any moment, but you can control where your attention goes, and that will determine how you experience the moment. Any moment can be an experience of peace and contentment or an experience of upset and dissatisfaction, depending on where you put your attention. If you put it on thoughts and emotions and identify with them, you won’t experience peace and contentment, but if you put it on your senses or on what is arising from Essence, you will be content and happy. Attention is the secret to happiness!”
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Embracing the Now: “You don’t have control over what arises in any moment, but you can control where your attention goes, and that will determine how you experience the moment. Any moment can be an experience of peace and contentment or an experience of upset and dissatisfaction, depending on where you put your attention. If you put it on thoughts and emotions and identify with them, you won’t experience peace and contentment, but if you put it on your senses or on what is arising from Essence, you will be content and happy. Attention is the secret to happiness!”What the Reviewers Say
“This book from Gina Lake is a collection of essays packed with practical advice about how to find happiness by living in the now….Gina understands the ego’s nature very thoroughly and examines it in many different ways in these essays….she leads the reader into analyzing it, exposing its many pretenses, and then shredding it….Gina’s purpose in these essays is to help move her readers beyond the pain that is cause by the ego. To do that, she points to another voice, one more subtle and quiet, one that sometimes requires spiritual sensitivity training to hear: the voice of essence. Essence–also known as Awareness, Being, Self, etc.–is who you really are. As Gina says, `You know essence when you experience it, just as you know the ego when you experience it. They feel very different and are very distinct.’….
Gina offers guidance on developing sensitivity to it, such as by meditation and by the simple but powerful act of noticing. By various means, its presence gradually becomes obvious, so much so that it can actually be felt, and it becomes an anchor for living in the now. Gina’s writings have an especially notable characteristic. When she discusses the nature of essence and how to live from its perspective, her words take on a special life and energy. There is a feel of essence speaking through her. In this set of essays, that voice has come to the fore, speaking ever more strongly and with the authority of understanding. And that may be an understatement.”
— Dennis Trunk, Editor, Third Millennium Gateway
I highly recommend this book, in fact all of Gina Lake’s books, that I slowly collected over the last several months. This gem serves as a very practical tool out of the ego and into living from Essence, on a daily basis, warning of all the pitfalls that can befall the seeker, and leaving said seeker eventually behind by making him/her obsolete. Essence is all that remains and false perception is corrected.
All of Gina’s books retain the high quality she’s known for and never disappoint. I also had a reading with her that was hugely helpful, and it is rare among today’s many spiritual teachers to find one that stays true to her message throughout and doesn’t deviate. Bravo, dear Gina, once again a fabulous book that helps one stay centered in Present Reality!
–Maren Springsteen, Author
I too have read several of Gina’s books, and I have to say I was more deeply affected by this book than I expected. Many times while reading, I had to just stop for a few minutes and let the truth of her words envelop me. However you want to put it: doorways of conscious opening, limiting beliefs being eliminated, old hurts being cast off, feeling profoundly in the flow of life, awareness of Presence. Quite a gift. I love the format, I can pick it up anytime and choose a subject, or just pick it up and read the essay it opens to. Gina does it again.
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About the Author
Gina Lake is a nondual spiritual teacher who is devoted to helping others awaken and live in the moment through her books, counseling, and intensives. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. She is the author of eight books, including Loving in the Moment, Embracing the Now, Radical Happiness, Living in the Now, Return to Essence, What About Now? Anatomy of Desire, and Getting Free. Her website offers information about her books and consultations and free e-books, book excerpts, a monthly newsletter, a blog, and audio and video recordings: www.radicalhappiness.com.Click here 
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