Howard Cushnir

This book presents valuable insights.

The author reveals that it is possible to experience bliss in one’s everyday life even in the midst of grief and hardship. He knows, as he has done so and continues to do so. Experiencing this bliss does not change the conditions of one’s life, however. It doesn’t help you to become abundant, get a job or otherwise achieve success.

The secret to achieving bliss has to do with becoming aware of whether we’re contracting or expanding. When we experience something we don’t like, we automatically resist the experience and thus contract our bodies. What we need to do is learn to accept: we go into our feelings, accept them all, no matter what, whereafter expansion will occur. If we continue to work with this process, we will eventually experience bliss.

Cushnir states – “all that is needed is to bring our resistance into awareness”.

He presents us with a simple process: we ask the questions “What is happening right now?” followed by “Can I be with it?” If we answer yes to the second question, we “unclench”, thus allowing the resistance to dissipate and the contraction to release.

We are given examples of how various persons tackled their various problems by using the process. We read how these people answer the questions they pose, and follow them in their process.

I have learnt much from this book. I have throughout my life repressed my negative emotions, not realizing that I had any such emotions. But these emotions have come to light when I have followed Cushnir’s process. I am grateful to him for revealing this valuable process. I have not experienced bliss, but then the work with the process will take time, especially for one such as me, who has suppressed her emotions.

Even without the prospect of achieving bliss, the mere fact that I have been able to uncover, and subsequently release, negative emotions I never realized I had, reveals this to be an extremely valuable process.

It is a matter of “living the questions”, as the author terms it, thus being in the moment and achieving acceptance. “Bliss is the result, but never the goal.”

I highly recommend that you read this book if you want to discover and release your negative emotions. You may even eventually achieve bliss!If this author proves to have written any other books, I will be sure to read them.… (más)