The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living [Paperback]

Mark Linden O'Meara (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2005

The Feeling Soul provides you with a personal and well researched approach to increasing your ability to respond to difficulties and improve your emotional self-health. This breakthrough book helps you get to the heart of the matter and to better understand, heal, and manage yourself. The Feeling Soul helps you take a step back, think, feel, and take appropriate healing action! The Feeling Soul will help you: - Identify and challenge your personal emotional issues and work through them. - Develop a happier, healthier relationship with yourself and others. - Discover and affirm your emotions and develop healthy emotional attitudes. - Understand the dynamics and benefits of letting go through tears, laughter and self-expression. - Learn to resolve unfinished business and lessen its impact on health and relationships. - Break through to new insight, understanding and action. - Rediscover your sense of self, joy and creativity. - Learn to create compassion, joy and a calm approach to life. Reading this book will open your heart to an abundance of healing wisdom! Breakthrough healing is possible and this book shows you how! - Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

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About the Author

Mark Linden O’Meara is an insightful, compassionate yet dynamic author who inspires others through his journey of openness and healing. He has been featured in print, on radio and TV, and presents at numerous conferences and seminars, warming his audiences with personal stories, anecdotes and wit. Mark is openly able to relate the challenges he felt from his childhood such as health problems, low self-esteem, a strict religious upbringing, as well as experiencing bullying to the point of changing schools. Having learned to hide his pain away at an early age, he developed numerous health and personal problems associated with emotional repression. Having made a commitment to himself to heal and get better, Mark began to search for a better way of dealing with life. Through the recollection of painful childhood memories and the use of self-expression, emotional catharsis, and challenging his beliefs about himself and others, Mark learned to release and resolve his emotional pain and began to experience a reconnection with joy and a deepening of his friendships. Mark is the author of The Feeling Soul, Spiritual Prayers for Spiritual People and Healing The Ghosts of Christmas Past, a powerful and moving story that has appeared in numerous publications. He is also a professor at a local university college in Vancouver.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Soul Care Publishing (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968045928
• ISBN-13: 978-0968045923
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,859,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unique Contribution, January 24, 2006

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David Schoon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living (Paperback)

This unique book is a compassionate, penetrating, practical resource for both the layperson and therapeutic community. It is a thinking and a doing book, demonstrating that a new life can be learned. It integrates thinking, feeling and new behaviors and illustrates the dynamic relationships between all three in a comprehensive model of personal development and who we are as person. The book flows well, but does not need to be read sequentially..

The book is divided into 5 major sections;
Learning; discovering what emotions are, attitude development, connections, self responsibility, support systems, emotional role models, emotional maturity, the role of stress, and a broad spectrum of innovative healing techniques.
Insight; understanding our past and culture and why we are hurting, depression, masks, loss, rejection, shame, jealousy, guilt, boundaries, abuse and memories.
Growth; challenging our beliefs and past emotional and mental patterns, triggers, self talk, belief changes, personal purpose.
Healing; letting go and releasing emotions and beliefs, awareness techniques, base-lining, breathing techniques, anger, dependency, productive grieving, forgiveness, catharsis, visualization and various other religious and cultural healing practices.
Teaching; forgiving, empathy, gratitude, healthy living, balanced life, positive expectation.

The book includes an extensive bibliography and further resources at www.healingresources.org. An ancient Chinese proverb says "Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I will understand". Mark O'Meara's new book does all of this and more, a unique contribution.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific self-help book!, January 14, 2006

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Cathy (Naples, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living (Paperback)

Mark's writings teach people that we can really learn how to live free from past pain and to create new possibilities. The Feeling Soul helps the world to know that it can be done and how to do it!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read!, January 12, 2006

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Theresa (Ottawa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Feeling Soul: A Roadmap to Healing and Living (Paperback)

Mr. O'Meara brings insightfulness to his latest work. Through his personal experience in dealing with numerous life challenges he provides a clear, heartfelt understanding of how to make changes to create a more centred self. A great book to get unstuck ! Waiting for him to write more books.