Full Glass Living
28 Days to Dump Limiting Beliefs
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INTRODUCTION How to Use This Book To get the most out of your reading, I suggest you take your time. Let the concepts melt into your mind for a while before moving to the subsequent chapters or sections. You may also want to read the book while watching the free Full Glass Living Companion Course found at fullglassliving.com. Or, you may want to review the concepts and watch the course after reading the entire book the first time. In Part I, we will set foundations for Full Glass Living, by examining several perspectives as well as the metaphors of The Glass, The Water, and The Pitcher. Finally, in Parts II-VIII, we will look at common limiting beliefs in various aspects of our life, then dump them for beliefs that support our wellbeing. We’ll practice day-to-day activities to craft a life built on the Full Glass Perspective and the continual clearing of error thinking. I suggest that you read the entire book first, then jump around and review the most pressing topics of concern in your life. Remain f luid and open to the ideas and concepts presented here. If you do, you will find a new way of looking at your life and can curate one that will move you forward towards your goals. I am so honored to be your guide in this process and enthusiastic about what you are about to read! I welcome you to share your insights, comments, and the changes you see in your life with me. So, let me be clear. Even as a certified stress management coach and an academic mastering various aspects of complementary therapies that support our life, I may not have all the answers to life’s biggest questions. What I can say is that in my life, I struggled with limiting beliefs about my being since I was a little girl. With fear and doubt. And now, as an adult approaching my late forties, I find a little less of a struggle. I’m more enlightened than that little girl. My intent for this book is to offer a guide for those who are especially emotionally sensitive or anyone who has ever felt the grip of limiting beliefs and emotions get in the way of the successes they truly would like to see in their life. This guide is as important for me as it is for the person reading it. I’m honored that you’re going to read the pages I’ll share with you. I’m going to help you explore. Also, I’m going to share tools that have helped me in times of trouble and that have supported a balance in my wellness. I can’t say that I always have it all together—I certainly don’t. What I can say is that I’m a human being living in this human existence, and there is a better way. The inspiration for Full Glass Living came to me a few months after having major surgery. Just two days after the Christmas holiday of 2013, I felt like I was having a heart attack. My mother helped me seek medical attention. What we eventually found out was I had an enlarged thymus gland. My surgeon explained that though this is a rare case, there were two options for surgery; one option would be a robotic surgical procedure, by a small incision in my chest, to pull the darn thing out, and the other option was equivalent to open-heart surgery, a sternotomy. They would have to cut my sternum and open me up. After a call from my surgeon a few days later, he confirmed that I was not a candidate for the less invasive option. On March 18, 2014, I had a thymectomy via sternotomy. When I first got diagnosed with the hyperplasia of my thymus gland, I petitioned to God. What have I done? Please take this away. Why is this happening to me? You see, for a couple of years before, I felt like something was wrong. I was divorced. I was working on raising my son, but physically, I didn’t feel right. I tried all sorts of things to get my physical health together, from exercising to eating right, but it was always a struggle. I was also feeling strange sensations within my body and in my mind. At the time, I was involved in a relationship that seemed so beautiful, but one I didn’t need to be in. My emotional and spiritual health was wrecked. However, as I lay getting ready for surgery, and by the time I had to take that surgery, I felt great. My house was in order. I was ready to die. I was ready to meet God. I was okay. So, here I am writing a self-help book. Maybe it should be called a self-coaching book because the idea for Full Glass Living is about how you can use tools to empower yourself and work on your limiting thoughts that askew the view of your life. Having a coach walk you through this would be an amazing thing. There is nothing like having someone to help you unpack the stuff that you’re trying to sort out for your life’s goals. This book would be the next best thing.
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Is the glass half-empty or half-full? This book takes an expanded look at the proverbial question and challenges the traditional approach that the answer must be one or the other. In thinking that the glass is half-empty, we accept the pessimistic perspective that there isn’t enough “stuff,” that maybe this is all there is. This is a disempowering way to look at life and creates a vicious cycle of limiting beliefs of doubt, worry, disappointment, and fear. Conversely, if we look at the glass as half-full, we take an optimistic perspective that we've got something good going, life is grand. Yet, there is that lingering sense that something may still be missing. What is presented in this book is something different. How about looking at the glass as always full? In Full Glass Living, the author shares her life journey through emotional sensitivity and a mood disorder to adopt an enlightened perception of both the water and space being vitally important to sustain life. Full Glass Living: 28 Days to Dump Limiting Beliefs is about how we can use tools to influence and empower ourselves. The thing is we don’t do it all alone.
About the Author
Akita Brooks is a Certified Stress Management Coach, Teacher, and Wellness Advocate. She’s also an Emotional Freedom Technique/Thought Field Therapy Master Practitioner, and holds additional certifications in the studies of Professional Aromatherapy and Therapeutic Art Life Coaching. She earned a Master of Science degree in Leadership, specialized in Leadership Development, and blends the study of human influence and development to further teachings in self-leadership, emotional empowerment, and spiritual expression. Akita is a member of the Complementary Therapists Accredited Association and Board Certified with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.