Showing Up! An Action Plan for Personal Growth and Following Your Bliss [Paperback]

Stratton Horres (Author), Michala Perreault (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 2001

Showing Up is the Be Here Now of the twenty-first century, an original, powerful and more practical program for living each day to the utmost and achieving a state of absolute presence in every moment. A synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern practice, Showing Up provides a specific three step plan for:

1. Conquering our lower self, the "I" of self-absorption and unfulfillable need
2. Embracing the true self, our inner soul of heart and emotion
3. Uniting with the higher self, our divine nature

Showing Up introduces an approach to personal transformation, which reflects the unusual skills and broad spiritual knowledge of its authors: a trial attorney with years of experience in corporate litigation, and a holistic healer who coaches executives in the high tech industry.

Stratton Horres and Michala Perreault have studied and applied an extensive range of spiritual practice, traveled around the world to seek out wise teachers and experience holy places, then constructed their own original method for Showing Up, for engaging in every moment of our every day life at home or at work with spiritual power and integrity.

The book is filled with original exercises, affirmations and meditations that the authors have developed in their extensive trainings and workshops. Their Showing Up Deposition, and Tree of Life exercise, their original application of ancient models like the Egyptian temples, the Inca Medicine Wheel, and the Four Noble Truths of Tibet - all contribute to a highly useful and ultimately inspiring approach to spiritual renewal in our sense of our selves, our relationships and our productive participation in the real world.

Showing Up takes every reader on a revealing process of self-discovery. It's both an introduction to profound lessons from ancient cultures and a very contemporary call to action. It confronts the specific issues of alienation and dissatisfaction -- the basic existential malaise of modern life - in a manner which is uplifting and proactive, kindly but firmly teaching each of us to take responsibility for our lives and know joy in the fulfillment of its moment-to-moment experience.

Editorial Reviews

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"Showing Up! is the Be Here Now of the new millennium." -- Alan Rinzler, editor of Shirley MacLaine's Out on a Limb and other best selling books

"Showing Up! provides the tools-to crack through our external facade until we reach that most precious jewel: our soul." -- Dr. Robert Schoch, author, Voices of the Rocks and featured investigator in the Emmy award winning documentary Message of the Sphinx

About the Author

In August, 1999, two souls, Stratton Horres and Michala Perreault, collided at a conference on Egyptology in Virginia Beach and Showing Up! was born.

Stratton Horres is a prominent civil trial attorney in Dallas, Texas, with over twenty years' experience and manages the Dallas office of a major international law firm. Originally from Charleston, South Carolina, he attended the University of South Carolina Law school where he was an editor of the Law Review. He has published numerous legal articles and is a frequent speaker on legal topics at seminars and conferences around the world. Eight years' ago, Stratton embarked on a spiritual quest when he discovered that he had placed his "ladder against the wrong wall." He used his legal training and experience in a unique manner to get to the bottom of his unhappiness and discover his bliss. Many of the tools he used and developed are in Showing Up! to help others find their own bliss in life.

Michala Perreault is an ordained minister, naturopathic healer and therapist who practics in Arlington, Texas. For 17 years prior to starting her healing practice, Michala was a computer consultant and corporate trainer. Her love of ancient wisdom and the less tangible aspects of our world began in her childhood and continued as she pursued degrees in archaeology, ancient history, theology and several ancient languages. Her unique blend of ancient techniques and modern therapies in her healing practice helps her clients heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She has trained with a Hawaiian kahuna and has trained in and taught many of the techniques that appear in Showing Up! She is also an accomplished and sought after speaker on metaphysical subjects, she leads tours to sacred places.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Showing Up (November 3, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971200106
• ISBN-13: 978-0971200104
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #829,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Review - Showing Up!, December 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Showing Up! An Action Plan for Personal Growth and Following Your Bliss (Paperback)

This is a wonderful book with an understandable plan for knowing yourself and improving your life as a result. Very interesting, including references to various ancient religions and cultures, extracting ancient wisdom for modern use. A very quick and worthwhile read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reading! Thoroughly recommended!, April 8, 2002

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"richard_fuller" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Showing Up! An Action Plan for Personal Growth and Following Your Bliss (Paperback)

"Showing up is the metaphysical key that unlocks the portal to our higher selves and allows our soul to soar to heaven's door while still present in the here and now", write authors and seekers Stratton Horres and Michala Perreault. Their new book, Showing Up, enables the reader to reveal their true self and manifest their origin.

Showing Up shows us how to conquer our lower and outer self; how to embrace our inner soul of heart and emotion; and how to unite with our higher self, our divine nature. If you've ever been caught up in a life where success was called money or trappings; if you've ever felt an emptiness in your life from a lack of higher purpose; and if you've never been able to unite with your spirituality, here is a book you must read.

Authors Horres and Perreault have traveled the same road, from emptiness to enlightenment. Curiously, even though they lived but thirty miles apart, and studied many of the same sources of wisdom (Joseph Campbell, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, Judaism and Christianity), they did not know each other until they met at a conference on Egyptology in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Using their respective backgrounds and strengths, he a successful trial attorney, she an ordained minister, naturopathic healer and therapist, they have authored a book that is both empowering and illuminating. Showing Up is filled with practical guides to growth, and direct and empowering question and answer sections for the reader to truly see within.

Showing Up is about vision that "...resonates with your core truths, feels true for now so you can see it serving as a guiding force into your future." Indeed, ask about the companion audio (same title), with the actual meditations described in the book! Thank you Stratton Horres and Michala Perreault for this most fascinating and dynamic work!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ..this book delivers......, January 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Showing Up! An Action Plan for Personal Growth and Following Your Bliss (Paperback)

Two successful people from very different backgrounds write a compelling story in which they each share their personal life histories. In an easy to read manner we are given a glimpse into their joys, pain, and even childhood memories along with the revelation that neither of them had ever felt completly fulfilled or truly happy. Relationships, wealth, family, religion, work - nothing had ever delivered whatever it was that would fill the void. So, as the reader we go with them around the world as they search for the key to happiness and living life in a state of unconditional love. They teach us how to find meaning in who we are, in our own history, in how we love ourselves, our families and our friends and what sets this book apart from others is how they offer these answers through simple guidance and encouragement. Before you know it, you are the one on the journey. The path they set before you is seemingly easy to follow, almost like a good mystery, a page turner whereby you want to know the ending. So like a good detective you follow the clues only this time the ending is clearly up to you, the reader. I found Showing Up! to be life changing and mind expanding. You know you have found a good book when it leaves you wanting more, sends you in search of more knowledge and with a feeling that something good has come your way.