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Difficult People
Difficult People
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This book serves as an alarm clock. It’s not that you’re running late, it’s just time to wake up, because you’ve been asleep long enough.
“Difficult people (DPs)—those easily agitated, overreacting, chronic complainers—can test our patience. Larkins (Calling on Extraterrestrials), an authority on encounters with extraterrestrials, makes a radical life change and becomes a caregiver for a woman with Alzheimer's, who is a classic DP. A lifelong practitioner of stilling the noisy mind, Larkins realizes her aggravated reactions to the client's outbursts mirror the offending behavior. Renewing her commitment to achieve full awakening, and with her client as the perfect spiritual teacher, Larkins observes how the DP patterns and mechanics of mental chaos reflect a culturally normalized resistance to ‘what is,’ creating suffering and blocking spiritual growth. Larkin transforms her consciousness—and caregiving—to a nonreactive, ‘chronic state of well-being’ by gradually becoming more aware of the peace and stillness already in the present moment. This evocative book guides serious spiritual seekers toward self-realization, providing context and a process for experiencing the natural state of ‘presence.’” — Publishers Weekly
What if we could use the “difficult people” in our lives to learn how to live in the moment? Difficult people have been for most of us the bane of our existence. They annoy, hassle, and irritate us and provoke various degrees of unhealthy reaction. What few of us have realized is that they also mirror our own dysfunctional mental states and provide an opportunity to heal them. In Difficult People, Lisette Larkins tells how providing care for an Alzheimer’s patient clearly showed her the inherent resistance in the way every mind objects to what is. It’s the root cause of all our anguish and mental suffering. By observing its operation in her “difficult person,” the author clearly saw the same mechanism alive within herself. The result is an intensely personal exploration of how everyday problems and the DP’s in our lives can act as a catalyst for spiritual awakening. For Lisette Larkins, it was by being totally present and non-reactive that she could provide her patient with the needed care. This eventually became for her a “chronic state of well-being,” one which we can all attain by practicing “presence.”
“Difficult people (DPs)—those easily agitated, overreacting, chronic complainers—can test our patience. Larkins (Calling on Extraterrestrials), an authority on encounters with extraterrestrials, makes a radical life change and becomes a caregiver for a woman with Alzheimer's, who is a classic DP. A lifelong practitioner of stilling the noisy mind, Larkins realizes her aggravated reactions to the client's outbursts mirror the offending behavior. Renewing her commitment to achieve full awakening, and with her client as the perfect spiritual teacher, Larkins observes how the DP patterns and mechanics of mental chaos reflect a culturally normalized resistance to ‘what is,’ creating suffering and blocking spiritual growth. Larkin transforms her consciousness—and caregiving—to a nonreactive, ‘chronic state of well-being’ by gradually becoming more aware of the peace and stillness already in the present moment. This evocative book guides serious spiritual seekers toward self-realization, providing context and a process for experiencing the natural state of ‘presence.’” — Publishers Weekly
What if we could use the “difficult people” in our lives to learn how to live in the moment? Difficult people have been for most of us the bane of our existence. They annoy, hassle, and irritate us and provoke various degrees of unhealthy reaction. What few of us have realized is that they also mirror our own dysfunctional mental states and provide an opportunity to heal them. In Difficult People, Lisette Larkins tells how providing care for an Alzheimer’s patient clearly showed her the inherent resistance in the way every mind objects to what is. It’s the root cause of all our anguish and mental suffering. By observing its operation in her “difficult person,” the author clearly saw the same mechanism alive within herself. The result is an intensely personal exploration of how everyday problems and the DP’s in our lives can act as a catalyst for spiritual awakening. For Lisette Larkins, it was by being totally present and non-reactive that she could provide her patient with the needed care. This eventually became for her a “chronic state of well-being,” one which we can all attain by practicing “presence.”
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