Thank you all so much for all the love on the last post. Am happy it resonated with so many of you. I had shared the importance of the stories you tell yourself and how you need to change these stories to change your life. In case you haven’t read that one, you can read it here.
As I promised, here is a small part of my treasure chest. Some powerful books and talks that inspired me on my journey. Am sharing these gems. Hoping they will ignite the fire within you too.
Books :
1) Molecules of emotion – By Candace B. Pert PHd. She started off doing research on the Brain to discover the seat of emotion and her intense path breaking research led her to discover the supreme intelligence of the human body and she discovered emotion is not present just in the brain but in every single cell and the amazing connection between the mind, the thoughts the emotion and the body.
2) Psycho-cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. It’s a really old book but quite path breaking. Its written by a plastic surgeon who realises that even by making desired cosmetic changes to the body, his patients were not able to change the way they felt about themselves before they opted for surgery. He speaks about the impact of the mind on the body and how we can harness that power to make the changes we seek to our personality and life
3) The calling, License to Live & The perfect world – by Priya Kumar. I love her books and her style of writing. When I read her books I feel positive inspired and happy. These are easy reads too.
4) You can heal your life – by Lousie Hay
5) Your erroneous zones – By Wayne Dyer
6) Pulling your own strings – By Wayne Dyer
7) Code of the extraordinary mind – Vishen Lakhiani
8) The supreme Yoga – Yoga Vasistha
9) Siddhartha – By Herman Hesse
10) Coaching – the art of Developing leaders – By Santhosh babu
11) Thinking, fast and slow – Daniel Kahneman
Talks/Videos
1) TED talks
a. The power of vulnerability – Brene Brown
b. How to stop screwing yourself over – Mel robbins
c. Your body language shapes who you are – Amy Cuddy
2) Tony Robbins talks on Youtube
3) Company - Mindvalley.com – This is a company I have come to admire greatly. They have put together some path-breaking content on personal transformation. I did their Consciousness Engineering program and loved it. I follow their content and attend their master classes etc.
Some of their talks that are available on youtube, that I highly recommend are:
a. Vishen Lakhiani - The 3 most important questions
b. Kamal Ravikant - Love & Entrepreneurship
c. Lisa Nicholas - Step into your purpose
d. Marissa Peer - The biggest disease affecting humanity - i am not enough!
Workshops
1) A life-transforming Coaching Certification Program I attended, facilitated by Master Coach, Peter Reding and Santhosh Babu, MD ODA & Author of ‘Coaching- the Art of Developing Leaders’. This was a very intense immersion for me. Peter is a Master Coach; he has a saint-like presence and he is able to create a space, for each coach he trains, that is immensely safe and accepting. All the walls I’d built around myself just came crumbling down. And I just had to come face to face again with my authentic self. It was such a beautiful journey. Very grateful to him and Santhosh. Those 4 days were just the start and I did an immense amount of follow up work on that journey and continue to do so.
2) A 3-day event, a talk, Unveiling Infinity, that I attended with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Mumbai, strengthened my subtle being and kind of emptied my mind out of all perceptions & judgements. He taught us 50 odd Meditation techniques to go deep into ourselves and gave us amazing insights on the science of consciousness. Can you imagine how powerful that would have been? It was mind-blowing…literally.. I will write a separate blogpost about that sometime.
I hope these will give you some reading and self-growth goals.
Any one of these had the power to change your life.
Bottom line - If you want an extraordinary life, you have to invest in yourself. Excuses like “I don’t have time” “Im too Busy” or Maybe later when I'm 60 years and retired etc etc have no place in life.
Growth has to have centre stage in your life
Do let me know which books and videos you enjoyed
Love and Respect ,
Alpa
To book your own coaching session you can reach out on:
Website- www.ignitethespark.in
Email- alpa@ignitethespark.in
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Coming up next - The habits – physical and emotional habits that I changed !!
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ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Parinda. You are welcome to borrow from my physical treasure box - my library, as well.:)
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