Joan Borysenko: Finding Your Inner Compass

How do you get past the chatter in your mind to find the wisdom that comes from a deeper place, your truest inner guidance? Is there a way to filter out the false sense of knowing that comes only from the ego? In this beautiful and inspiring conversation, Joan Borysenko sheds light on the mystery of finding connection with your highest truth. She takes you back to the basic principles of ancient spiritual teachings, but with a light and gentle touch, and includes practical tools you can use that will help you find your own guidance-today. "Ultimately," she says, "when we talk about guidance, there is a spiritual DNA within each one of us that will lead us to our best self. How do we follow that strand of guidance, and evolve that compassionate overflow of love and joy in what we do?" When we've all been inundated with schemes for visualizing our way to having everything we want, there's a breath of fresh air in Dr. Borysenko's reminder that things like nonattachment, no-thingness, and agape will bring us closer to our path than any "secret" ever could.

Joan Borysenko is an internationally known speaker on spirituality, integrative medicine and the mind/body connection. She has a doctorate in medical sciences from Harvard Medical School, is a licensed clinical psychologist, is the cofounder of the Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry and Director of its Interspiritual Mentor Training Program. She is the author of many books including Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (Da Capo Lifelong Books, revised 2007), Inner Peace for Busy Women: Balancing Work, Family, and Your Inner Life (Hay House 2003), A Woman's Book of Life: The Biology, Psychology, and Spirituality of the Feminine Life Cycle (Riverhead 1998), Fire in the Soul (Grand Central Publishing 1994), and with her husband Gordon F. Dveirin authored Saying Yes to Change (Hay House 2005), and Your Soul's Compass: What Is Spiritual Guidance? (Hay House 2007). To learn more about the work of Joan Borysenko go to www.joanborysenko.com or www.claritasinstitute.com

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