Eight Steps to Me: Finding Wisdom Within

By Pirkko Tavaila

Eight Steps to Me was born in the footsteps of a woman finding her path.

Four years ago, Pirkko Tavaila was a busy woman living in Finland. Like her super-woman peers everywhere, her life was filled with work, family, friends, a list of social activities, and hobbies. In the midst of all the doing and achieving, she kept dreaming of simplicity, peace, and good health. Instead, insomnia, aches, and endless colds had become her way of life. Completely out of energy, she felt like failing in all areas of life.

One day, on a remote beach, she decided to turn her life around. Today she walks her talk as a holistic health coach, helping stressed-out adults live their lives to the fullest.

Eight Steps to Me will assist you too, to find the wisdom within you.

Learn to understand about energy.
Find out how to be supported by body, mind and soul, your three musketeers.
Be courageous and trust. By design, you are perfect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781452585802

Pirkko Tavaila

Pirkko Tavaila, Finnish resident, is an AADP Board Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Graduate of the IIN, Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City. Pirkko’s professional mission is to empower stressed out adults to enjoy healthy eating, feel better and have a more fulfilling life. Aiming for a triple effect her motto is: “Children are our future and in order to help them I need to help the parents.” Pirkko lives in Finland at the moment but with the utilization of modern technology her clients are all over the world. Read more at www.eatbenow.com. Originally, having a Masters Degree in Economics Pirkko started her career in banking but soon found herself in the fields of Marketing and Business Communications that resonated her ambitions more. Today her skills become very handy in the wellness field. She writes her own EatBeNow newsletter and a wellness blog for a Finnish web magazine. In May 2013 her Mothers' Day article was published in the US: http://www.thereporters.org/letter/if-it-happens-to-your-child/ As one highlight of her career (1997-2000) Pirkko was part of the team that designed and built the official label / trade mark for organic food products in Finland. “That’s when I fell in love with healthy food!” After spending a few years building the organic food brand she headed for the field of Adult Education with the Institute of Marketing in Helsinki. For seven years her job was to make sure that professionals were offered the best possible education in marketing, advertising and sales. Before entering the professional world of Holistic Wellness and starting her own business (2011), she also enjoyed working with an interior design and furnishing company in Helsinki as well as with the Direct Marketing Association of Finland.

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Eight Steps

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Finding Wisdom Within

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Balboa Press rev. date: 12/18/2013

Contents

Foreword

Part 1 My story

Loving the Laws of Nature

Hungry for Love

What’s the Matter?

It’s Ancient

Story after Story after Story

The Turning Point: Enough Is Enough!

Guidance Reaching the Couch

The Sacred Aim and Learning to Receive

Divine Home? No Problem

Divine Car? Maybe

Defining Divine Business

Rescue on the Way

Love

Wisdom Within Showing Up

Your Three Musketeers Are Up for the Challenge

Part 2 The Steps

The Eight Steps

A Story of Trust and a Miracle

References

About the Author

This book is not intended to replace recommendations or advice from physicians or other healthcare professionals. No action or inaction should be taken based solely on the contents of this book.

The conclusions, information, opinions and views expressed in this book are believed to be accurate based on the best judgement of the author. The author makes no claims, promises, or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this book.

Foreword

This is what I have learned so far: We are divine masterpieces finding form. All the components are in us already, ready for us to use as we compose ourselves. Oh, how perfect we are! We are our own composers. It’s a huge but empowering responsibility. We have taken on assignments to compose our unique beings, so we arrange our notes, add a few nice arias, and accept some darker themes and pauses to make the peak moments stand out. Any maestro knows the process will hurt at times. A master composer is aware that there are no rules in music and that no one else gets to say how his or her masterpiece should flow.

Our music is still finding its form, but we ourselves are perfect. We possess all the features and ingredients we need to compose our unique masterpieces. Lightness and darkness dwell within us, along with calm and fury and notes of joy and sadness. A coin cannot exist without two sides; there are no exceptions no matter what we’ve done or left undone, no matter where we’ve been or how badly we think we have failed, no matter what anyone else says. So what if our notes need some rearranging? Maybe some features need tuning down, but composing is like that; masterpieces flow in unique ways. We came here to grow as composers and gradually fill all the measures of our masterpiece.

We are perfect. Always were, always will be.

We are all unique pieces of a puzzle, irreplaceable.

Trust and dare to reveal your music.

Trust and dare to bring in your piece of the puzzle.

Trust and expect to be shown the way.

Trust and start walking with the wisdom within you.

PART 1

My story

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Loving the Laws of Nature

If you define yourself as a skeptic, that’s okay; I used to choose skepticism as well. However, I have witnessed so many miracles in other people’s lives and my life that I tend to skip the skeptic state and go for the what ifs and maybes instead, a combination of curiosity and common sense.

When we were children, we took limitlessness for granted. Every child knows there is more to the world than what meets the eye. Little children love fairy tales because in them, trees and rocks and foxes speak and everything is possible. Children are open to What if? and maybe until reality and rationality step into the picture. Children trust; they know in imagination that everything is possible for them. Aren’t we lucky we were children once?

We adults tend to demand solid, three-dimensional proof before believing anything. For instance, we don’t believe we can be happy until some tangible conditions have been met, such as landing the perfect job. We call ourselves human beings but keep running, working hard, and achieving, assuming everything worth having is far from our reach. We have forgotten that with imagination dreams can be true now. We’ve lost trust in the now and in the being; we’ve lost trust in allowing and reserving. At the same time, we use the verb believe without realizing the word suggests we be first and live after. Accordingly, becoming something suggests we be first and come next.

We human beings get who and what we are, not what we wish and want; that’s why we need to relearn to use our imagination with trust. The getting everything and having it all happens first inside us, in the