Doing the Work: Healing Our Body, Mind & Spirit by Getting to Know the Self

Perfect for anyone ready to explore their deepest self, this book helps us understand why it can be so tricky to do this work of self-healing. Written in plain English, including real-life examples by Jill Loree and Scott Wisler, Doing the Work arms spiritual seekers with the tools needed to take on this task, which is arguably the most satisfying thing a person can do with their life.

From Chapter 12: "…But "doing the work" does not mean "being all better". It means being able to be with what's actually here right now. It means not acting out our negativity on other people. Rather, we work to understand what drives us, and then slowly and gently turn our ship around.

To do this, we are going to need to start feeling what we feel. We will need to start watching ourselves in action, and this may be uncomfortable. That's one reason we so often disconnect from ourselves—there's stuff going on in us we don't want to know about…

This is what makes this particular path such a tough one. We must start to feel and see what we have not been willing or able to feel or see until now. For there's nothing we can avoid if we want to transform our Lower Self and learn to live from our divine essence.

We must come to know how we are blocking our own light. We must realize that no one else is doing anything to us—we are doing it to ourselves. Also, we must come to realize we are the only ones who can free ourselves from our self-made prisons…

Our work is to use every crappy thing that raises an Emotional Reaction up from our depths as fertilizer for great growth and healing. Every crappy thing."

CONTENTS
Step, Together, Step | THE PROCESS
Living in a 100-Story House | THE SETUP
Building Castles in the Sky | REALITY
I'm Totally Fine, I Feel Nothing | NUMBNESS
Would I Rather be Right or Happy? | DUALITY
Praying for a Toehold | TRUTH
So You're the Rubber and I'm the Glue? | OUR WORK
My Favorite F-Word | FREEZING, FIGHTING OR FLEEING
Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are | HIDING
I Spy with My Little Eye | LITTLE-L LOWER SELF
What are we Fighting For? | BIG-L LOWER SELF
Taking the Long Way Home | DOING THE WORK
It's Time for a Break | CRISIS
There's a Hole in my Bucket | TRUST
Emptying Out the Well | TEARS
Making Space for Not Knowing | UNITY

Truth be told, no one gets out of planet Earth alive. But we can come out ahead by learning to make the best use of our time here. And that starts the day we begin doing the work. So let's get at it.