Sleeping Dreams

By Alan Gelband

Alan Gelband was once extremely lonely and unfulfilled when he met a brilliant person who told him the key to happiness is balance. Based on those life-changing conversations, Alan wrote Sleeping Dreams. This is a journey that begins by admitting our deepest desire for an ideal mate. The journey continues by questioning reality in general and moves toward breaking the very barriers that stop love from happening: our negative emotions.

Through poems, we meet our negative emotions and give them names and discover methods to deal with them. The first blocking emotion is anxiety. Anxiety about the future moves into fear about the future. The paralytic force of fear brings jealousy, in which self-pity occurs. This creates anger, which poisons our love and leads to guilt, and that feeling of guilt is the high-water point of negative self-indulgence.

However, after understanding negative emotions, we are free to realize that present moment consciousness, affirmative action, and conscious love move us into the wide-open spaces of spiritual, physical, and emotional freedom. In this part of the journey, we float on a peaceful raft, balanced by our positive physical actions while working on our relationships, assertive business activities, and a growing spiritual awareness. It is on the raft and not on the shore that we create our ultimate connection and find our ideal mate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781532033094

Alan Gelband

Alan Gelband is President and CEO of Alan Gelband & Co., an independent investment banking firm through which he has closed over one hundred transactions. Born and raised in Queens, life took him to Michigan, Chicago, and LA, where he spent time as owner of a gas station, president of a carpet company, founder of an all-women’s Brokerage firm, film producer, manager of a rock band, and Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Bachelor of the Month, amongst other adventures. Along the way, he traveled the world collecting great stories and even better friends, before meeting the love of his life, Denise, and settling back in New York to start the family of which he is so deeply proud. Alan is an alumnus of University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and served as President of the Association for Corporate Growth, International. He and Denise live between New York and East Hampton. Michelle Miller left her job at JP Morgan in 2013 to write. Her debut novel, The Underwriting, was subsequently published in sixteen languages and adapted into a television series for Fox. She’s since published two best-selling short story collections, dabbled in essay writing and developed a television series for Amazon. She holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University, and splits her time between London and Asheville, North Carolina, where she was born and raised.

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