The Spiritual Teen: Awakening to the Real You: Awakening to the Real You

By Angela Jamal

Spiritual seeking for teens? Some say that you are not ready for it, but I say that you are! Seeking the most loving, peaceful, and calm part of you is a spiritual quest.

Would you like to learn mindful habits for better living?

Read how teens like yourself are coping with their own ideas in todays world through an awakening of spirit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 19, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504349024

Angela Jamal

The author has a B.S. in health and physical education with an M.Ed. in health science; a master's degree in Chinese medicine/acupuncture; a meditation practice for over thirty years; and a Hatha yoga practice since the age of fifteen. She's currently a licensed Boston public school teacher of health and wellness with over twenty-five years of experience.She has also been married for thirty years and has five adult children.

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The

Spiritual

Teen:

Awakening to the Real You

Angela Jamal

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Copyright © 2016 Angela Jamal.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-4900-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4901-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-4902-4 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016900466

Balboa Press rev. date: 07/15/2016

CONTENTS

Foreword: A Spiritual Crisis

Preface: The Beginning

Introduction: Spiritual Seeking for Teens: Are you Ready?

Chapter 1: The Spiritual Teen: Awakening to the Real You

Chapter 2: Discovery of the Spirit

Chapter 3: Questions and Answers on Spirituality for and by Teens

Chapter 4: Mindful Practices for Better Living

1.   Benefits of a Mindful Practice

2.   Journal Writing for Self-Reflection/Thoughtful Affirmations

3.   Diet/Nutrition Suggestions Made Easy

Chapter 5: How to Achieve Harmony and Balance during Your Teen Years

Chapter 6: Life Questions and Answers

To the children who came to and through me:

Zarifa (my daughter from another mother), Kareemah, Muhammad, Rabia, Kabir, and Omar.

Thank you for allowing me to love other people’s children.

I love you.

FOREWORD

A Spiritual Crisis

Too many young people – of all colors and walks of life – are growing up today unable to handle life in hard places, without hope, without adequate attention, and without steady internal compasses to navigate the morally polluted seas they must face on the journey to adulthood.

—Marian Wright-Edelman

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

Teenagers face great challenges in today’s world. We know what they are because we see the issues in our homes, communities, or even in the daily news and on social media. Angela Jamal and I often collaborated in public school settings, helping teens with their problems. In my line of work, some of these may have included stress or more complicated issues with violence at home or neighborhoods, divorces or parental dysfunctions, early pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases, along with drugs and alcohol abuse, depression/ anxiety, mental illness, isolation, and lack of adult involvement.

It is the responsibility of every adult—especially parents, educators, and religious leaders—to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over again that we love them and that they are not alone.

—Wright-Edelman

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