Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water (Paperback)

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Redefining stress as a disconnection from our divine source, an expert on stress management demonstrates how to utilize stress to promote spiritual growth, explaining how to develop inner resources of faith, compassion, courage, humor, patience, humility, and humor. Original. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Luke Seaward is a contributor for the following Health Communications, Inc. Title: Stand Like Mountain Flow Like Water(Refer to ISBN0757305474)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 211 pages
• Publisher: HCI; Softcover Ed edition (April 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558744622
• ISBN-13: 978-1558744622
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #871,301 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Crisis Scale on "tilt" ? READ THIS BOOK!, February 8, 1998

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Get cruelly betrayed by some you love, that you though loved you. Loose something precious to you. Be cruisified for speaking the truth. And think that nothing makes sence. Then, pick up "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water". As I read about Andrew, the paralized student that wanted to be admitted in an already filled college class on "Humor", I remembered that there are still things to laugh about and how good it feels to laugh. I read about a woman locked up in a Chinese prison and someone in Chicago who's child was taken away to a foreign country. Then I remembered how thankful I was for my own daughters and all that their lives bring to me. I read about Larry's message to his mother Carolyn and remembered that "holy moments" like that still happen. I felt the grace and peace and strenght that come from using "muscles of the soul" and knew that love is what makes this "flow like water". We are all - for the most part - "wonderful people with horrific life experiences' like Dr. Seaward has come to know and share with us through this incredible book. And, with flexing our soul muscles, we too can come back to the awareness that we can "Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water". So, when your "muscles of the soul" feel a little flabby, and you think you need a personal trainer to get back in shape, I highly recommend that you put this book in one hand, a nice cup of tea in the other and go SHAPE UP! :-)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, Someone got it right!, January 18, 2001

By	Lance (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

For someone who is spiritual, but not religious in the sense that there is ONLY one way, I highly recommend this book to anyone who is going through one (or many,as the case may be) life crises. This book is written in a simple manner on a very profound topic that meets you where you are and brings you up a few levels. Balance is the key to life, and I now have the key!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water, March 28, 2002

By	Cassandra Barnes "Cassandra" (California) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Psychophysiologist Brian Luke Seaward advocates finding balance in life as a way of overcoming stress. The title of his book, Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water: Reflections on Stress and Human Spirituality, is based on a t'ai chi saying. Seaward says "to stand like a mountain suggests a sense of stability, resistant to the winds of change. To move like water implies the ability to go with the flow, rather than trying to change things we have no control over."
He says that balance can be learned, but doing so requires becoming aware of, and using, our inner resources. Inner resources include humor, creativity, courage, intuition, and faith, among others. Inner resources "can and should be employed every day," not just during times of crisis.
Study after study has documented the harmful effects of stress on the human body. Seward says many people feel stress because they have betrayed their spiritual nature by not living the lives they know they should be living. He compares life to climbing up a mountain, with each of us picking out the one path that is best for us. He says "not only are there numerous paths, but we each move at a pace conducive to our soul's growth process." He adds that "it is impossible to get lost on the spiritual path. We can only be immobilized by our own fears." Confronting stressors overcomes those fears and brings balance to our lives.
Seward drew from many disciplines, including psychology, theology, quantum physics, philosophy, sociology, and mythology, as well as from his experience as a therapist, to write Stand Like Mountain, Flow Like Water. He says that "it is my sole wish that the collective wisdom found among these pages serve as a reminder of what we already know, because the guidance we seek is really within us."