Dr. Ali Tahiri Featured in New Book
Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live
Rotarian and Pine View School parent Dr. Ali Tahiri, President of Naturali Pro and recipient of the Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine's 2007 Humanitarian Award, is one of the featured contributors in Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live, the newly released book from Jennifer Read Hawthorne, co-author of the #1 bestseller Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul.
Dr. Tahiri was selected to be featured in the book because his life exemplifies one of the book’s “7 essential ingredients for finding balance and serenity.” In a chapter called Holding Hands, Building Bridges, Dr. Tahiri’s story “Don’t Take No for an Answer” is used to illustrate the life lesson “Let Love Lead.” The story typifies Dr. Tahiri’s commitment to humanity, but more especially transmits to the reader the depth of spirit that manifests when the human connection is strong and authentic.
For more information about Dr. Tahiri's relief work with Global Foundation for Integrative Medicine, click here. To visit his business website: http://naturalipro.com/npenglish.htm.
Read on for a closer look at Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live.
Is it possible to be happy all the time?
For most of us, happiness comes and goes. Life may bring pleasure one day and pain the next.
But what if you could love your life no matter what the circumstances? This is what the latest Chicken Soup for the Soul book offers in Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live, just released and now available on-line and in your local bookstore.
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What makes it different
While most self-help books promote a constant search for things to do, have or be that will make us happy and change our circumstances for the better, in contrast, Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live catalyzes breakthrough shifts in the reader’s consciousness. Each of the 36 life lessons offers thought-provoking ideas about the lesson, followed by a powerful or moving story to illustrate the lesson. Readers are then invited to “pause and reflect” on one or two simple ideas to help integrate the lesson more fully into their lives and learn more about themselves.
Evoking the “ah-hah” moment
Each three-part lesson is formulated to evoke the “ah-hah!” experience—those moments of insight when we break free of the past and suddenly have a clean slate for new imprinting, new learning, new creativity, and new behavior.
In the time-stopping moment of this shift, the heart and mind can rest easily, beyond the polarity of daily swings between pleasure and pain, approach and avoidance, enduring and overcoming. The result is reduced stress, a deep sense of ease, and openness to new possibilities—a way to love life no matter what it brings.
Exploring universal themes
The “lessons” in Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live are presented through seven major universal themes, what the book’s sub-title refers to as the 7 Essential Ingredients for Finding Balance and Serenity. They include:
- Finding the Place Where You Belong—how to be comfortable in the world
- Filling Your Own Cup—how to be responsible for your own well-being
- Becoming Fearless—how to garner courage in times of stress and fear
- Holding Hands, Building Bridges—your potential for influence in the world, and how to find your own lifelines when needed
- To Thine Own Self Be True—transforming your life through unconditional honesty
- Getting Beyond Right and Wrong—how to move beyond duality and inner conflict to peace
- Faith, Grace & Miracles—re-enlivening gratitude and wonder, essentials of loving the way you live
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The source of inspiration for this book
Jennifer Read Hawthorne is the creative force behind Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live, co-authored with Chicken Soup creators Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Jennifer is a keynote speaker and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul. She explained how the book’s title came about this way:
“I sat down one day to reflect on my life. There have been times when I experienced such fullness I thought I would burst—moments when I thought If I died today, it would be okay, because greater happiness than this could not be possible. On this particular day, however, I was aware of a faint feeling of grief still hanging on after a painful divorce; fear and a sense of powerlessness over free-falling world markets playing havoc with my income; and frustration over my inability to heal skin cancer after a years-long struggle.
“Then why do I feel so good? I asked myself. For underneath the ups and downs of my life was a quality of richness and deep satisfaction. Searching for the source of that feeling, I realized that while I don’t always like the circumstances of my life, I love the way I live it.
“I see every problem as a portal, every challenge as a doorway into greater self-discovery, understanding, healing, and peace. My quest for peace began back in 1971 when, walking to work one morning in Washington, D.C., the thought arose, There must be something more to life than this. That thought thrust me into a lifelong search for that ‘something more,’ and the discovery that true peace is a state beyond life’s polarities of good and bad, right and wrong, pleasure and pain. This is the place I live from now, and a place I believe is accessible to anyone who desires it.”
This is the message of Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live.
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What readers are saying
- This book will change the way you think, act, respond, feel and ultimately, how you live. I thought it would be a trite collection of feel-good stories; it is not. It's thought provoking and yet, very accessible. I read the book cover to cover in one day because I could not put it down! I kept thinking, 'Just one more chapter...' And when I was all done, I still wanted more!—Staci Richmond, teacher & single parent, Fairfield, Iowa
- …the best Chicken soup book ever!!!!!! I usually don't read them… but this one reads you! You are definitely into something different.—Ali Najafi, Kauai, Hawaii
- It has so much to offer people - hope, inspiration, possibility, motivation, vision. Thank you for bringing it into the world at this time when it is so needed.—RW, Garrison, New York
- I can’t wait to send it to the special women in my life—Elinor Hall, St. George, Utah
- …definitely a page-turner.—JS, Santa Barbara, California
- I have just finished your book…I LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!! It came just at the right time, as everything does. I know this will be life changing for me, and I hope all that read this can feel as inspired as I do. I have to make some major changes in my life that I have been denying, which have been affecting my health. So thank you for giving me the courage to be honest…from your written word.—Phylis Stuart, Cincinnati, Ohio
- I was in a funk today and was feeling unsure of what to undertake next, so instead went to work out. When I read about your experience w/skin cancer and then Ginny's story I was overcome with emotion, while riding a bike in the gym. :)
I recently had surgery to remove an ovarian tumor. It's been a real wake-up call that things need to change for me in order to move forward. I am "working" at peace, but again - I resonated with what your therapist said to you - it's more of an item on the "to-do" list rather than a way of living. I am open to finding that way…Thank you so much! It was exactly what I needed today!—Heather Strang, Portland, Oregon - I want and long for all the good things within myself and for myself...this book has allowed me to laugh out loud and sob like a baby...which may be the purging I need.--Brenda Prudhomme Miller, New Orleans, Louisiana
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