Insights into the Invisible

By Dragan Matijevic

What happens in our own minds and hearts is often quite mysterious to us. We don’t know why we feel or think what we do, or even why we make certain decisions. Yet this invisible domain of our inner world is where everything that really matters happens. If we want to change ourselves, or change our lives, we first have to look into the invisible.

Insights into the Invisible is an indispensable atlas for anyone wishing to explore their inner world. Lavishly illustrated with original photographic art, it offers clear and simple explanations of the thoughts, emotions and beliefs that form our inner landscapes and drive our personal weather systems.

Here are some of the main questions we answer in this book:

* What is belief? How do our beliefs affect our thoughts, emotions and actions?
* What are emotions and how do we heal our emotional wounds?
* How do we avoid repeating the same old mistakes?
* Why do we identify with our thoughts and even our possessions?
* What is awareness and what does it have to do with our personality?
* What is motivation and how do we clarify what we really want?
* How do we align our beliefs with our action?

Insights into the Invisible helps people navigate their once uncharted waters. It stimulates self-reflection and builds up our picture of the pure and constant awareness that lies behind every thought or belief we have ever entertained. The final chapters offer practical meditation exercises to help develop the inner skills that we so badly need in today's fast-changing world.

Once we can navigate our inner world, our journey through the material world will be infinitely more successful, because our actions will become fully aligned with our deepest beliefs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dragan Matijevic
• Release date: Mar 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463299654

Dragan Matijevic

Pendragan'Pendragan' is the pen-name for children's fiction-writing duo Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic. They also write independantly as Penny Williams and Dragan Matijevic (adult fiction, self-help and cookery books).They launched Pendragan Publishing as an independent, international publishing platform for storytellers around the world. If you would like news about forthcoming publications, or books in the works, or if you have questions about any of the characters, please let us know.Dragan MatijevicDragan started writing during the war that broke up Yugoslavia in the early '90s. Living in England with his one-year old son at the time, Dragan wondered how he could help his people in Croatia. The solution turned out to be magic! Dragan founded a theatre charity called Rise Phoenix, wrote his first puppet play for children, created his own puppets, and together with a bunch of troubadours, jesters and jugglers, drove a truck down to the war zone. In 1993, "Peppe the Magician" began to appear in refugee camps throughout Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Small puppets and theatre plays gave way to giant puppets and theatre spectacles. Children who had lost everything rediscovered the ability to laugh. Adults slowly joined in. One Croatian soldier shouted from the audience, "Croatia needs puppets, not guns!" Quentin Blake agreed and gave permission for Rise Phoenix to take his Big Friendly Giant to the war zone. Dragan went on to write and perform in many other children's plays, quite a few of which are now stories and novels. When not writing, Dragan teaches at The Artisan Bakery School, and continues to perform as the magician Sol Ray.Penny WilliamsAs a child, Penny would row ashore to school from the sailing boat she grew up on with her family. This gave her a quirky view on life, encouraged by the stories she heard from blue-water sailors arriving in Falmouth Harbour. Penny grew up with a hunger for distant horizons and foreign shores. Her explorations took her to Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and even Antarctica. But her biggest adventure, which was falling in love with a Croatian magician (Dragan), happened right on her own front door step in England! So far, their story includes building their own woodfired oven for The Artisan Bakery School, moving to a crazy old cottage in Devon, taking an Invisible Man to Singapore, working with children in Sri Lanka and India and kayaking round the islands of Dalmatia. Penny also runs a professional copywriting, editing and translation business. She and Dragan write together to celebrate the magic that happens in real life.*** Connect With Us ***[e-mail]

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Insights into the Invisible

Dragan Matijevic

with Penny Williams

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Table of Contents

Insights into the Invisible

How we see the invisible

The mind

Mind matters

Our servant or our master?

The mind and awareness

The healthy mind

The unhealthy mind

Thoughts

Thought functions

Thought power

Appearances and interpretations

Our obsession with thought

Positive discrimination

Oxygen

Beliefs

Thoughts of conviction

How beliefs function

Inherent and entrenched beliefs

Core beliefs

Be careful what you believe

Integrity

Is believing the same as knowing?

Confronting our beliefs

Directing our attention

Emotions

Feeling with our body

To feel or not to feel?

Charting our emotions

Coloured reflections

Thoughts and emotions

Suppressing versus feeling

Emotions as the signposts to beliefs

No right or wrong

Fact or fiction; it's all the same story

Being triggered

Guts and gut feelings

Time does not heal

Healing our invisible wounds

Identity

Who identifies with what?

Form and formlessness

False identity

Me and mine

Ways we identify

Trap stories

Thinking is a skill

Personality

Personality is a construct

Are we one or many?

Invisible guardians

How conscious are we?

Personality is just memory-deep

How the light gets in

Ideal Self

Creating ourselves

Punishing ourselves

Me as a wish list?

Invisible divisions

Highs and lows

Shadow self

Conscious and unconscious mind

How we cast our own shadow

Becoming aware

The shadow dump

How vulnerable are we, really?

Knowing what to change

Embracing the shadow

Awareness

The sense of Being is constant

Ignoring ourselves

Two worlds

Awareness and mind

An eye cannot see itself

Silence

Imaginary selves

The vitality of awareness

Division is an illusion

Turning away from ourselves

No one can find themselves

Self respect

Relationship with ourselves

Whispers in our heads

Self-assessment

Turning on ourselves

What others believe

Winners and losers

Diving deep

Inflating or deflating our self-image

Forgiving ourselves

Self improvement

Becoming and Being

Skills or identity?

Building and keeping house

Life

Searching in wrong places?

Being alive

Resistance

Thinking and feeling

Mysterious charm

Leaving the past in the past

Intelligence

Intelligent point of view

Dysfunctional beliefs

Our inherent intelligence

Wise or foolish?

Action

Inner path of action

Effectiveness

One thing at a time

Motivation

Fear or love?

Inner alignment

Our actions point to our beliefs

When congruence goes missing

The foundations of action

Just for fun

Being and doing

Inner skills

Outward and inward orientation

Contemplation and meditation

Om

Open eye meditation

Sitting meditation

Who am I?

A lifelong interest

Authors

Other books by Dragan and Penny - Know Yourself

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This book could have been a painting or a piece of music, a movie or a sandcastle on the beach. After a lifetime of meditation and a thousand conversations, it is simply one humble and personal way of expressing fascination with the biggest questions: who are