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    Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere
    Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere
    Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere
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    Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere

    By Nancy O'Hara

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    Weather Life's Storms • Face the World Without Fear or Reservation • Breathe in Peace • Achieve Unshakable Calm

    Too often we spend our days racing to catch up, growing frustrated at delays, and worrying obsessively about the future. Instead, we can choose to shift our attitude, to still our minds, to transform everyday challenges into opportunities for growth, gratitude, and joy.

    In FIND A QUIET CORNER, Nancy O'Hara demonstrated how setting aside a few minutes a day to focus on our breathing could help us create inner peace. Now, she shows us how we can take our quiet corner with us and bring serenity to the rest of our lives. Whether you are driving in rush-hour traffic, stuck in the grocery checkout line, facing looming deadlines, or struggling with relationships, SERENITY IN MOTION can help you learn to meet each moment as it comes. You'll be happy serene, and secure in the knowledge that life is unfolding just the way it should.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNancy O'Hara
    Release dateApr 23, 2012
    ISBN9780984893836
    Serenity in Motion: Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere
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    Nancy O'Hara

    Nancy O'Hara is an author, artist and meditation teacher. She is the author of six books on the subject of mindfulness and meditation, including the bestselling Find a Quiet Corner, and two novels in the Alex Sullivan Zen Mystery series. She lives in upstate New York with her perfectly imperfect husband, trees outside her windows and a view of the Catskill Mountains.

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      Praise for Nancy O’Hara

      PRAISE for FIND A QUIET CORNER and SERENITY IN MOTION:

      "To pause, to breathe, to sense, to be – these gaps in the busy-ness are what give meaning to activity. Find A Quiet Corner is a precious guide and reminder to live from the spaciousness of our inner beings – to live in the joy and peace that are our birth right."

      —Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Guilt Is the Teacher, Love Is the Lesson

      "Find A Quiet Corner is a wise and inspirational book, a beautiful introduction to the art of meditation. The book offers a helping hand along the path towards inner peace and happiness. We will all ultimately walk this path. Why not begin now?"

      —Brian L. Weiss, M.D., P.A., author of Many Lives, Many Masters

      O’Hara helps us find the quiet place inside us where inner peace abounds. In our harried lives, it’s comforting to remember the quiet place can be revisited.

      —Michele Weiner-Davis, M.S.W., author of Fire Your Shrink and Divorce Busting

      With simple, inspiring advice, Nancy O’Hara shows us how to bring awareness to the thousand and one challenges of daily life.

      —Robert Gerzon, author of Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety

      I can't think of a better guide than Nancy O’Hara to help slow our accelerated world and restore balance. Her elegance as a writer is matched by her elegance as a thinker. This is a wise book.

      —Betsy Lerner, author of Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

      "There is breathtaking wisdom and strength to be found in a single moment of silence—and Nancy O’Hara offers a kind invitation to listen. Find a Quiet Corner is a gentle opening; it beckons us into fruitful practice. Here, we harvest the compelling grace that is born only in the quiet of our lives."

      —Wayne Muller, minister and therapist, author of Thursday’s Child: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood

      PRAISE for JUST LISTEN:

      This book is a searchlight illuminating the wisdom and power of inner life. It will help anyone discover serenity and peace.

      —Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words

      "Further guidance for reducing daily anxieties and heeding inner wisdom from the author of Find a Quiet Corner."

      —New Age Journal

      This is a clear, beautiful book that can help everyone. O’Hara’s writing is fine, compassionate, and always has a ring of truth.

      —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones

      Combining Zen practice with a twelve-step philosophy, O’Hara uses gentle essays and exercises to create a book to do rather than to just read.

      —Publishers Weekly

      "Men and women alike will find much wisdom and quiet strength in these pages. Just Listen is an eloquent guide to the inner peace we all desire."

      —John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

      O’Hara’s practical guide to just listening places a gentle woman’s hand on the daily practice of meditation.

      —Perle Besserman, author of Owning It: Zen and the Art of Facing Life

      "Breathe deeply, relax your body, empty your mind, and read Nancy O’Hara’s Just Listen. She gently guides you on the path to experiencing greater serenity and discovering the passionate life you were born to live."

      —Robert Gerzon, author of Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety

      PRAISE for WORK FROM THE INSIDE OUT

      "Nancy O’Hara’s Work From the Inside Out is a subtle and intimate blend of traditional Zen Buddhist practice and practical wisdom. Clearly emerging from her own experience as both an employee and student of meditation, the exercises she outlines in the book are accessible yet deeply grounded in a spiritual tradition that goes back over twenty-five hundred years. O’Hara’s remarkable gift lies in presenting this venerable discipline in an accessible and thoroughly contemporary voice."

      —Perle Besserman, author of Owning It: Zen and the Art of Facing Life

      "Unhappiness at work takes a serious toll on our mental and physical health and is a major risk factor for illness. If we want to live life at its fullest, we cannot afford to separate our work from our spiritual life. Work from the Inside Out shows how to weave these two aspects of our life into a seamless whole."

      —Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine & Healing Words

      "Don’t be fooled by Nancy O’Hara’s simple and elegant advice. Work from the Inside Out explains why we sometimes make ourselves miserable at work—and what we can do to change that."

      —Joanne B. Ciulla, author of The Working Life

      Serenity in Motion

      Inner Peace: Anytime, Anywhere

      Nancy O’Hara

      Copyright

      Copyright © 2012 by Nancy O’Hara

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      ISBN: 978-0-9848938-3-6

      Also by Nancy O’Hara

      Find a Quiet Corner: A Simple Guide to Self-Peace

      Just Listen: A Guide to Finding Your Own True Voice

      Zen by the Brush: A Japanese Painting and Meditation Set (illustrations by Seiko Susan Morningstar)

      3 Bowls: Vegetarian Recipes from an American Zen Buddhist Monastery (with Seppo Ed Farrey)

      Work from the Inside Out: 7 Steps to Loving What You Do

      One Hand Killing (An Alex Sullivan Zen Mystery)

      To Michael

      with all my heart

      thank you for being so brave

      and teaching me that which I most need to learn

      Contents

      Praise

      Introduction

      Belly-Mind

      1. The Practice of Being Still

      Listening

      Standing

      Sitting

      Waiting

      Watching TV

      Being Patient

      2. The Practice of Being in Motion

      Walking

      Talking

      Eating

      Playing

      Tasking

      Driving

      Bathing

      Working

      3. The Practice of Being Challenged

      Ego

      Relationships

      Failure

      Success

      Frustration

      Disappointment

      Ambition

      Opportunity

      Competing and Comparing

      Love

      4. The Practice of Being Present

      Broken Shoelaces

      Chocolate

      The Weather

      Change

      Money

      Sex

      5. The Practice of Letting Go

      Death

      Illness

      Loss

      Birth

      Celebrations

      Vacations

      Job Loss

      6. The Practice of Being Aware

      Pain

      Negativity

      Hope

      Jealousy

      Moods

      Fear

      Joy

      Anger

      Closing Thoughts

      Curiosity

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Introduction

      My first book, Find a Quiet Corner, is an introduction to the practice of mindful breathing. It stresses the importance of setting aside time in your day to concentrate on this practice so that you can gain some peace of mind. There are many suggestions in it regarding how to find the time, where to set up your quiet corner, and what to do once you’re there. If you haven’t yet read it, you might want to take a look at it, but you needn’t have read it to gain something from this book. (And you can wait to read it or choose not to read it at all, though it will add to your understanding if you do.) Serenity in Motion builds on the practices developed in Find a Quiet Corner and brings them into the rest of your life.

      The remedy for all your woes is very simple, but as you may know by now, it truly is not easy to put into practice. Some of you may have established a quiet corner at home to which you retreat at the beginning or end of your day in order to draw on your spiritual energy for guidance or to replenish the energy you’ve spent that day. Some of you who regularly find the time to spend in your quiet corner have reaped the rewards of this experience and live in harmony with the changing circumstances of your life. And some of you no longer resist what happens in your life and have come to welcome the unexpected. Yet you may find that spending time each day sitting quietly alone, focused on your breath, letting your thoughts float by without getting attached to them, doesn’t always guarantee serenity. It can be threatened at any moment and in certain situations throughout the day. Sometimes, even before we are aware of it, we get caught in a whirlwind of actions or feelings that carries us into a storm of confusion. Our day gets upset, we

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