What are the 9 most intense experiences—the transformative steps that can improve your life starting now? How do these experiences generate happiness, health, and success in every aspect of your life? Why have people throughout the centuries valued them and why do so few people today realize their power? With this book, you can become the person you were meant to be and experience the life you’ve always dreamed of.
The 9 intense experiences are core to the teachings of the world's great spiritual and healing traditions. Prominent artists and leaders throughout history have understood their unparalleled importance. Now the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields is verifying how essential they are. In The 9 Intense Experiences, internationally acclaimed life coach and speaker Brian Vaszily shows you how to take the ultimate journey within yourself that will engage your body, mind, heart, and spirit, knock down the barriers that have built up inside you, and put you back in touch with the real you.
After decades of professional and personal exploration, Brian Vaszily -- founder of one of the world’s most popular and unique personal growth websites and a rising star among today’s top positive growth visionaries – helps you achieve your 9 intense experiences. With Vaszily’s gentle and inspiring guidance, you’ll learn how to abandon your stress and frustration and rediscover the wonder and possibilities in life. In The 9 Intense Experiences, you will learn how to:
Enjoy your life more than ever before
Achieve peak energy and success
Ignite your, and others’, brilliance
Laugh off negative emotions
Create deeply trusting relationships
Discover your spiritual center
The experiences you’ll discover in this life-expanding guide are truly intense, but getting there is more enjoyable and deeply satisfying than you can imagine. Each intense experience is broken down into a series of easy exercises that will rapidly enable you to receive the transformative power of each experience.
If you’d rather ride the wave than be stuck in the same-old same-old, here is your chance. Read The 9 Intense Experiences and find out how great the real you really is. Expect to think and feel in very different ways and get ready to be transformed.
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“A book that guides you into conversations with the dead, running around your house in your underwear while banging pots and pans, experiencing unusual foods, films, music, and much more? Based on the great spiritual traditions, the arts, scientific research, and the author’s own remarkable work, The 9 Intense Experiences is a beautiful, unique, and powerful guide, a must read for anyone who truly wants to achieve his or her goals and dreams.” — Marci Shimoff, New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, and teacher featured in The Secret
“Brian Vaszily’s unique work has positively changed the lives of thousands. The 9 Intense Experiences is a masterwork that will positively change the lives of millions. It is a pure joy to read, sharing many practical yet astounding things to do now to achieve your greatest potential.” — Janet Bray Attwood, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Passion Test
“The 9 Intense Experiences made me happy with every page. It gave me practical things to do in real life right now and it sent my soul soaring with dazzling possibilities. I love this book. I hope a zillion people read it.” —Victoria Moran, author of Creating a Charmed Life
“An insightful guide that will help you to rediscover wonder, awe, and enchantment in your life, The 9 Intense Experiences will remind you how to play and have fun while creating a life of meaning and fulfillment.” —Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret
“This invigorating, big-hearted book is packed with ideas and exercises that will help you expand your horizons, reorder your priorities, and transform your life.” —Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business
“Going way beyond the usual self-help book, The 9 Intense Experiences is an exhilarating and highly effective guidebook on how to live the biggest, most beautiful life that should be yours.” —Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, author of Fly Solo
“The 9 Intense Experiences is filled with unique, enjoyable, and highly effective exercises that will have a positive and permanent impact on the lives of everyone who reads it. Highly recommended." —Manny Goldman, Founder and CEO, Real Growth Worldwide
“If you truly want to live the life of your dreams, this original, enlightened, and powerful book will provide you some of the most important guidance you will ever receive.” —Peggy McColl, New York Times bestselling author of Your Destiny Switch
“Brian Vaszily is a unique and remarkable man, and with this book he has given the world a unique and remarkable gift that can shift the lives of everyone who experiences it in wonderful ways.” —Hale Dwoskin, New York Times bestselling author of The Sedona Method
"If you have ever felt that you are not living the life you know you are meant to live, it's time to read The 9 Intense Experiences. It will take you out of your rut to step into who you really are." —Chris Attwood, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Passion Test
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What are the 9 most intense experiences—the transformative steps that can improve your life starting now? How do these experiences generate happiness, health, and success in every aspect of your life? Why have people throughout the centuries valued them and why do so few people today realize their power? With this book, you can become the person you were meant to be and experience the life you've always dreamed of.
The 9 intense experiences are core to the teachings of the world's great spiritual and healing traditions. Prominent artists and leaders throughout history have understood their unparalleled importance. Now the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields is verifying how essential they are. In The 9 Intense Experiences, internationally acclaimed life coach and speaker Brian Vaszily shows you how to take the ultimate journey within yourself that will engage your body, mind, heart, and spirit, knock down the barriers that have built up inside you, and put you back in touch with the real you.
After decades of professional and personal exploration, Brian Vaszily—founder of one of the world's most popular and unique personal growth websites and a rising star among today's top positive growth visionaries—helps you achieve your 9 intense experiences. With Vaszily's gentle and inspiring guidance, you'll learn how to abandon your stress and frustration and rediscover the wonder and possibilities in life.
In The 9 Intense Experiences, you will learn how to:
Enjoy your life more than ever before
Achieve peak energy and success
Ignite your, and others', brilliance
Laugh off negative emotions
Create deeply trusting relationships
Discover your spiritual center
The experiences you'll discover in this life-expanding guide are truly intense, but getting there is more enjoyable and deeply satisfying than you can imagine. Each intense experience is broken down into a series of easy exercises that will rapidly enable you to receive the transformative power of each experience.
If you'd rather ride the wave than be stuck in the same-old same-old, here is your chance. Read The 9 Intense Experiences and find out how great the real you really is. Expect to think and feel in very different ways and get ready to be transformed.
Brian Vaszily's dedication to discovering and teaching the most positively transformative experiences available to humankind, sparked by a series of his own experiences and revelations including a conversation with his dead father in a parking lot in 2002, has earned him acclaim and a rapidly growing following worldwide. His unique work draws from the great spiritual and holistic traditions, research in neuroscience, nature, psychology, nutrition, and other sciences, the arts such as music, film, and painting, his own work as a business and life coach, and a series of revelations stemming from his unusual and often very challenging personal life.
Brian grew up in a rough Chicago neighborhood where he lost friends to gangs and drugs. His father was a brilliant and fascinating man who spoke seven languages fluently and had been in secret intelligence in Germany and elsewhere in Europe for the U.S. Army during World War II, but he was also severely alcoholic for a time and severely abusive for most of Brian's formative years. His father spent ten years dying, including the final six months of his life in hospitals suffering excessively and unnecessarily due to an incompetent healthcare system.
While there were many challenges in Brian's youth, there were also many gifts, particularly Brian's mother, whose wisdom, love, and resolve saved his life. Some other remarkable gifts came in small packages. For example, in the 4th grade, Brian won an Illinois short story contest for youths where the poet Gwendolyn Brooks personally congratulated him and told him, "You've really got a knack for this young man, keep working at it." In the 7th grade, Brian wrote a long paper on the accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, and the most influential schoolteacher of his life, Ms. Lillian McCabe, returned it to him with a top grade and a note on a card that read, "We expect great things of you, too, Brian" - a card he still has and cherishes today.
The same day his father finally died, when Brian was 20, Brian had to attend a job interview as a mail clerk at a law firm because weeks before, he and his girlfriend had learned she was pregnant, and he needed an income to support them. Brian broke down crying in the interview and tried to explain the situation; the lawyer responded that Brian was "clearly not fit for the job" and asked him to leave.
On August 9, 1990, Brian's father died. On December 1, 1990, Brian and his girlfriend married. On January 30, 1991, Brian turned 21. On February 28, 1991, their son was born. By the autumn of 1991, Brian and his wife were attending college full-time, Brian was also working several minimum wage jobs nearly full-time while she worked part-time, and they were raising their son. They also lived off of excessive student loans, food stamps, and for a time, welfare.
They both graduated college in 1994, and divorced three years later. Several years later, though still too young, Brian married again, and he and his second wife would stay married seven years while co-raising each of their children from previous marriages. During this time Brian and his wife experienced many gifts but also more challenges, including bankruptcy and the deaths of several too-young family members, but Brian also worked his way up in the corporate and then dotcom business worlds, becoming highly respected in certain niches for guiding Internet businesses to massive success. As for so many people, the events of 9/11 had a profound impact on Brian, and he authored a short novel, Beyond Stone and Steel: A Memorial to the September 11, 2001 Victims, that, though published by a very small press, was received with wide critical acclaim for being a uniquely uplifting work related to the tragedy.
In the early 2000s, Brian first experienced a range of profound experiences that led to big questions, extensive research and hands-on work, and revelations, which he would in turn create into the Intense Experiences program, website, and brand. These profound experiences include the 2002 conversation with his dead father in a parking lot that is chronicled at the start of his "magnum opus," The 9 Intense Experiences: An Action Plan to Change Your Life Forever, a book that provides readers the nine most powerfully and positively transformative experiences of all.
In the seven-plus years since its inception, Brian Vaszily's website, IntenseExperiences.com, has become one of the most popular and respected websites in the world for personal transformation. Brian is also the founder of the new 1World1Book.com, the online book club bringing readers together worldwide to discuss one great new book every two months and help charities in the process.
Brian Vaszily is still based where he was born and raised, Chicago, IL. He provides workshops, lectures, and coaching to people and organizations throughout the world, creates new articles and more for the weekly free newsletter at IntenseExperiences.com, and is beginning work on a theatrical production of The 9 Intense Experiences.
He is very close to his friends and family, including his 92-year-old grandmother, sister, mother, and his son, who is now 20 years old and a college student. True to his work, on any given day Brian may be found dancing, meditating, building a sandcastle or snow fort, exploring some new natural area or cafe or cemetery, drumming, getting lost intentionally, playing board games, doing bad karaoke (but good at songs by The Stray Cats and Kenny Rogers), playing tennis or volleyball or basketball, visiting out-of-the-way museums and galleries, stretching, watching everything from unknown documentaries to baseball to Modern Family, doing nothing under a tree, attending some live musical or comedy act, eating olives, pressing elevator buttons, praying in sacred places, reading everything from scholarly journals and spiritual texts to Cormac McCarthy novels and the comics, pondering, or running around at home in his underwear banging pots and pans which, as you will discover in The 9 Intense Experiences, is -- no matter who you are or how you feel about it now -- one of the healthiest and most mentally, emotionally, and spiritually transformative things you can do.
This is one of the best books I've read in a long time, and it's quickly made my "Top 5 Books Of All Time." That's saying a lot given what it has to compete with... and given the times we live in, there isn't a better time for this book to be published.
It has brilliant, fun, engaging activities to help you transform your life in ways that make it easy to love your life more. Brian didn't always have it easy though, and in addition to sharing his profound wisdom and wonderful exercises, he shares about how he overcame a traumatically abusive childhood and the times (multiple) when he lived in total poverty.
At first I was skeptical of the title, "Intense Experiences." I figured it would be all about how the toughest, most brutal experiences (like many that Brian has had) are able to transform us. That's not at all what it's about though, and I'm grateful it isn't. :)
This book is about getting to the heart of each and every one of us... through the path of positive experiences that are intensely transformative. The 9 Intense experiences is also entertaining and you'll get several laughs, as well as great recommendations for other books and movies to read that will also help you transform your life.
As long as you do even a few of the delightful life-enriching exercises (and especially if you do them all), this book will absolutely help you transform your life for the better. And because of who you'll become, you'll also immediately transform other peoples lives and bring them more joy, peace, abundance, and laughter.
I was totally absorbed from the very first paragraph. I felt I got to know the real Brian immediately. I quickly sensed that he had come to terms with what life had challenged him with and was able to rise above his early set backs. His lessons are so clear and easy to follow and they do make a difference. Some may have taken me out my comfort zone in the beginning but, believe me, once you get into them, they will lift your spirits and take you to a new place. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to embark on a journey of self development.
This book is great for shaking up your life and rekindling a sense of excitement about being alive. A wonder-ful guide to various opportunities and exercises to move us out of our mundane routines so that we can feel and be truly aware of the joy of living an inspired life.
