Your Inner Gold: Transform Your Life and Discover Your Soul's Purpose

by Nanci Shanderá

Overview

Transform life's challenges into the gold of pure consciousness

Heal your outdated attitudes, habits, and fears. Find purpose in this lifetime. Discover the seven stages of the ancient art of alchemy, and transform your consciousness in positive, life-affirming ways. Overcoming the inner blocks that hold you back from spiritual growth is one of life’s most important tasks. Your Inner Gold is a step-by-step guide to personal evolution, showing you how to:

• Transmute the ego's control
• Reclaim emotion and intuition
• Discover discernment and wisdom
• Open the heart by balancing the inner masculine and feminine
• Integrate your lower and higher levels of consciousness
• Distill and develop the pure essence of your true self
• Release yourself into a new consciousness of wholeness

Providing exercises, stories, and deep compassion, Dr. Nanci Shanderá gives you the tools to purify your consciousness and achieve unconditional self-acceptance.

 

"With wisdom, candor and great self-awareness, Dr. Nanci Shanderá writes beautifully of the importance of complete self-acceptance."
—Robert Schwartz, award-winning author of Your Soul's Plan

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738736761
Publisher:	Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Publication date:	06/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Nanci Shanderá, PhD is the director of EarthSpirit Center, a trans-denominational spiritual teaching center, and holds a PhD in transformational psychology. She previously worked as a religious sciences minister at the Ernest Holmes College School of Ministry, and has taught in public schools and community colleges. She is the author of The Quilt: A Woman’s Journey to Power and has been published in many national publications, including Science of Mind. Dr. Shanderá lives in Nevada City, California. Visit her online at EarthSpiritCenter.com.

Nanci Shanderá, PhD is the director of EarthSpirit Center, a trans-denominational spiritual teaching center, and holds a PhD in transformational psychology. She previously worked as a religious sciences minister at the Ernest Holmes College School of Ministry, and has taught in public schools and community colleges. She is the author of The Quilt: A Woman’s Journey to Power and has been published in many national publications, including Science of Mind. Dr. Shanderá lives in Nevada City, California. Visit her online at EarthSpiritCenter.com.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

 

1          Title Page

2          Dedication

3          Table of Contents

6          Foreword by Dennis William Hauck

10        Acknowledgments & Disclaimer

12        Intuit Song

13        Introduction

23        Chapter 1: Calcination: Incinerating the Ego’s Control

• 23 Calcination Meditation #1
• 25 Who Am I? Meditation
• 29 Calcination Meditation #2
• 33 Belief Awareness Exercise
• 35 Clearing the Past Exercise
• 39 Multiple Aspects Exercise

42        Chapter 2: Dreams: How They Guide Us Through Transformation

• 48 Alchemical Themes in Dreams
• 52 Dream Characters as Parts of Ourselves Exercise

58        Chapter 3: Dissolution: Freeing Emotion and Intuition

• 60 The Magical Lake Meditation
• 64 Repressing Emotions Exercise
• 65 Dissolution Meditation

68        Chapter 4: From Fear to Fortitude: Dissolving The Root of Pain and Suffering

• 69 Resolving Fear Exercise
• 73 Disempowering Fear—Empowering Yourself Exercise

86        Chapter 5: Separation: How Our Perceptions Create Our Reality

• 88 Releasing Ritual
• 90 Separation Meditation
• 95 5 Exercises to Free Old Habits

99        Chapter 6: Choosing Our Realities: Discovering the True Self

• 105 Soul Choices Meditation

114      Chapter 7: Conjunction: The Sacred Marriage

• 116 Conjunction Meditation

126      Chapter 8: The Gift in Adversity: You Have More Power Than You Think

• 129 Self-Acceptance Exercise

136      Chapter 9: Putrefaction-Fermentation: Assisting Limiting Beliefs to Die

• 139 Putrefaction-Fermentation Meditation

148      Chapter 10: The Shadow Knows: The Healing Power of Light and Dark

• 153 Discovering Your Shadow Exercise

159      Chapter 11: Distillation: Refining the True Self

• 162 Distillation Meditation #1: The Silver Tower
• 163 Distillation Meditation #2: Integrating Past and Future with the Present
• 164 Distillation Meditation #3: Changing Your Perceptions of Yesterday
• 165 Distillation Meditation #4: There is No Future—There is Only Now
• 166 Distillation Meditation #5: Remodeling the Past, Embodying the Present Moment

170      Chapter 12: Living the Distilled Life: The Soul as Our Guide

• 172 The Sphere Meditation

178      Chapter 13: Coagulation: Wholeness and Happiness

• 184 Sacrifice and Soul Exercise
• 187 Coagulation Meditation: The Golden Tower

192      Chapter 14: Actualized Alchemy: The Transformed Ego-Bound Consciousness

208      Appendix A: The Gold Within You Process: The Way to the Philosopher’s Stone

223      Appendix B: Writing a New Job Description for Your Ego-Protector

231      Appendix C: Alchemical Art Projects