How brave are you to be happy?

By Terry Guindi

En este libro, todo un éxito en ventas, la autora nos muestra una nueva ruta para ayudarnos a superar los conflictos y enfrentar nuestra realidad cotidiana. Nos pone en contacto con la ley de atracción —tema abordado por decenas de escritores, conferencistas, maestros y gurúes— de manera amena, sencilla y comprensible para cualquier lector. Este li

• Language: English
• Publisher: Editorial Ink
• Release date: Feb 14, 2019

Terry Guindi

Terry Guindi publicó en 1998 su primera novela Así… no se vale. Esta guerrera de la luz rompe el silencio ante el sistema judicial mexicano y es en su segunda novela Por mí… por mi casa… y por lo que me espera… donde comparte de manera amena y sencilla su incansable búsqueda espiritual, misma que la llevó a descubrir que la magia más poderosa del mundo es la que cada uno de nosotros guarda en su interior y nos ayuda a transformar nuestro mundo. Se han vendido más de 50 000 ejemplares de esta novela traducida a varios idiomas. Tras una incesante y profunda preparación con importantes maestros en las principales disciplinas del crecimiento personal y la metafísica, actualmente imparte cursos y conferencias en todo el mundo sobre el despertar y el crecimiento del poder interno. Pertenece a la Alianza de Reiki Europa y es fundadora de la compañía Realízate, mediante la cual, a partir de 2004, imparte conferencias –en México y en el extranjero– sobre la ley de atracción, la palabra mágica y la varita mágica, entre otros temas. Terry Guindi publicó recientemente Los secretos detrás del Secreto en donde nos devela una guía para atraer a nuestra vida abundancia, felicidad, salud y reconocimiento, a lo que somos, dice, merecedores por decreto divino. Conoce más acerca de nuestra autora y visita su página web www.realizate.com

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To my mother, for being brave. She taught me to break the silence in the face of injustice, to take the least traveled path blazing trails, stepping firmly and leaving my personal mark.

Prologue

Terry Guindi has encountered, on her own path toward growth and awareness, secrets and truths that have managed to transform her life and have allowed her to find happiness. Now, in the same way she has done this since she started teaching lessons and giving conferences, she wants to share this experience with her readers.

Currently, Terry attracts enough followers to fill large auditoriums, and she has already published three books. This one is number four; it contains new information and examples of how to apply her teachings to make the law of attraction present in a palpable way in our lives, and to allow us to dare to be happy.

In circles where the most profound knowledge is taught and received, it is said that the teacher appears when the pupil is ready.

But the teacher must also improve his or her own person, step by step, accumulating more wisdom, the keys to more secrets, the answers to more questions. If the teacher continues to advance, it is logical that he or she will acquire new knowledge. And it is also natural that the pupils who are sufficiently prepared should gather around the teacher to continue growing.

The road to internal perfection is infinite, but a single step makes a great difference. You now have this book in your hands because you are ready to continue advancing.

In every page, the author has condensed years and years of study and improvement as a lecturer, but above all, she offers us the experience that she has accumulated throughout her own life.

Most people spend their best years living within the sphere of what they know well. They lack the necessary courage to venture into unknown territories, and they are scared to leave the groups they know well. They wish to fit in, they are afraid to stand out. They dress like everyone else, they think and behave like others, even if doing so they might feel uncomfortable. They are reluctant to listen to the voice of their heart and try new things; they refuse to move far from the edge of safety. They do as everyone else. But by doing that, their souls, which long ago used to shine, begin to lose luminosity. Success lies in being faithful to ourselves and living according to our own norms.

Staying within safety, or the comfort zone, is to continue being a prisoner of your fears. Without leaving the well known beaches behind, it is impossible to discover new oceans.

The law of attraction works. It manifests itself in a forceful manner in all aspects of your existence. But it is possible that you still ignore this. If your life is different from what you would have wished it to be, it is because you are using the law of attraction erroneously and, without knowing, you attract exactly what you should be moving away from. Nonetheless, you will be surprised at how incredibly simple it is to fix this and to put the universe on your side.

This book is for you. Nothing is fortuitous, everything has a cause, and that is why today this information reaches your hands. Observe everything that has had to take place for you to be just here, just now. Contemplate the long road these words have had to travel to materialize in this object. The words it contains are seeds. Upon reading them, you will sow them in your mind, and rest assured, they will sprout, flower, bear fruits, become beautiful harvests with which you will feed yourself and which you will share with your loved ones.

Introduction

On one of many days on board an airplane and about to take off, my gaze wanders out the window. The image is spectacular: a deep red sky traced with great care, the crimson lines projecting from the tender blue that as a backdrop fills my view while the sun is about to hide.

The moment deserves a photo, but if I look for my camera, it will have passed, the way life goes by, or the moments of awe, which pull a tear or draw a smile, always confirming my feeling of the existence of a supreme and magical force that creates all this beauty.

While I appreciate this fleeting gift, the words of my children fill my memory: Mom, you literally live on an airplane! Their complaint distracts me. Many ideas come to my head. Among them the title of the book you are reading, Are you brave enough to be happy?

And I ask myself… How brave are we? But above all, how capable are we of choosing between the beauty that ennobles us and the ugliness that disturbs and limits us?

Courage requires –more than strength and daring– an internal power and a sensibility that dwell in all of us. Force and power are different: force creates resistance, and what you resist, persists; power happens on its own, and it represents balance.

I return to my children’s complaint about the frequency of my travels, and the conferences that are part of my profession. An internal dialogue ensues. The home cuckoo, as some call our inner voice, appears on the scene to ask me questions. Doubts arise, so I decide to take them out for a walk and analyze them during the flight. I think of the odd proverb: Lucky the doubts that travel with me, but… dealing with them is a very demanding confrontation!

My inner dialogue centers on asking whether I have received everything that I have asked for. Would it be easier to give my conferences from home, through the Internet? But, what can replace human contact? The sensation produced by a face in the flesh, the stare, the curiosity and the restlessness surrounding the theme of the law of attraction? What could compare to the pleasure of listening to people, offering them a hand and feeling the enormous satisfaction of showing them my way and sharing my knowledge? A road that, more than a solution to specific problems, is a cosmological and universal vision of life, respectful and attractive, as much mine as of many others, fortunately shared with more and more persons every day.

Just now, instead of rejoicing and looking at the sky through the airplane window, I find myself complaining. I laugh at myself and take a good look at the situation. I definitely have to write another book, the one you are reading, and one of its most important points should be to eliminate complaints.

The airplane has taken off. I turn to look at my circumstantial seat companion, who is nervously reading a newspaper. I try to think of the many things occupying his mind, each one accompanied by its group of complaints and its approach. Maybe, if he had opted to look out the window, he would have marveled at nature’s chromatic scheme, and his perception would have changed, because we must remember that our perception is our reality, and our reality is our perception; it is what creates your biography, and your biology.

Deciding to stop judging, I return my gaze to the sky, to the darkness of the night that is beginning. Should I take a nap, or write the article for the magazine for Monday? I think of the ability to choose and the divine grace of responsibility that is in all of us, and which we can exercise at any moment.

The sun has set, and the starry sky –as if painted– offers me another image, paradoxical as well as majestic. Two sides of the same coin, two phases, light and darkness, both valuable and existing in every one of us… Yin and Yang some call this, others the balance. The truth is that one always appears with the other, as part of a harmonious