8 Weeks to Enlightenment: Igniting Your Passion

By H. Richard McKnight

If you follow the exercises outlined in this book, you will come to an understanding of who you are. You will awaken your spiritual self and expand the feeling of aliveness. It will help you to deal with fear, anger, and other emotions that show us that we are stuck. You will start to welcome these emotions as signposts. It will increase the passion with which you are able to live your life. You will be able to experience joy every day. Peace will be yours. You will feel a greater connection to others. Your life will have purpose. Your confidence will increase. You will experience a rebirth. Sound too good to be true? Read onits as close as your very breath. You will be left wondering, How did I miss this.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: May 27, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504349765

H. Richard McKnight

The author spent most of his life pursuing spiritual activities—meditation, yoga, joining spiritual communities, and trying various religions only to find that if you do not think of yourself as enlightened, then you are not. This book is a condensation of the author’s journey on the spiritual path and the discovery that unless emotional issues are dealt with you can only go so far toward being your true self. Doing this work allows for deep, inner and lasting change. Through this he has become intuitive, spontaneous, energized, peaceful, and happy.

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Balboa Press rev. date:  05/27/2016

Contents

Foreword

What is Enlightenment

Chapter 1:  How it all began

What this book is about

Who it’s for

Outcomes

Assessment

The meaning of spirituality

What is our relationship to spirit?

What is the meaning of life?

What is the purpose of life?

The qualities of spirit

Spiritual Exercise

Chapter 2:  Who is Responsible?

Locus of Control Assessment

Why most people have difficulty changing

Exercise

Chapter 3:  The Incredible Power of Forgiveness

Create a forgiveness list

Forgiveness Exercise

Follow Up Steps

When Forgiveness is Difficult

Repeat the Forgiveness Exercise for Yourself

Things that I have done that need forgiveness:

Chapter 4:  Acceptance of All That Is

Acceptance exercise

Exercise

Chakras

Chapter 5:  Spiritual Growth-Who are You?

Exercise

Pain Exercise

When Further Assistance is Needed

Chapter 6:  Love and Fear

Preparation for Dealing with Negative Emotions

What to do about the ultimate fear?

How about Phobias

What to do when there is no more fear?

Chapter 7:  Increasing your Light

Increasing your light exercise

Money Exercise

Chapter 8:  Living Your Life

Connect with LIFE every day

Give Gratitude Every Day

Help others

Relationships

The Job

Finding your life purpose

How do we determine what that is?

Bringing the truth to others

Spirituality groups

In the Silence Between the Moments

A book that you could leverage to change your life.

Give you purpose. Challenge your assumptions

and help rediscover who you are.

Foreword

What is the big question in life? What is the question that most people want to know but very few have the answer to? How about:

The reason these questions are asked on a continual basis are multitude. People start to question their existence when they find monotony in everyday existence. We are a civilization that has a great deal of external stimulation. We go about our daily activities and do not look for more because of all of this input-all on a superficial level. As a society we do not often address the deep issues of life.

Many people are not truly happy these days. It may seem at times that we are just going through the motions. It may feel like something is missing from life.

There are many clues that there is more and many people have stated it in a variety of ways, and there are many paradigms that indicate that there is something more than working, raising a family and dying:

Search for the Holy Grail

Search for the fountain of youth

Search for your twin flame

Alchemy of turning lead