How to master change in your life: sixty-seven ways to handle life`s toughest moments/ Joan Klemp

1. From Panic to Power
Begin to See Order and Beauty within Change
Toward a New Way of Being • Changing Basic Beliefs
about Change • Change Your Focus, Change Your Life
• First Step: Ask for Help • Guidance • Opportunity
Knocks • Victim of Change? Exercise: To Stop Being
a Victim • Four Stages of Mastering Change • Stage
One: Face the Change and Investigate It • Stage Two:
Accept the Change • Stage Three: See the Big Picture,
and Take Action • Stage Four: Integrate the Change •
Why We Fear Change Exercise: To Dream Your Dream
• V^y Are They So Lucky? • Change for Change's Sake
Exercise: What Would You Change If You Could? •
Do It Despitp the Fear Ask Yourself: How Do You Feel
about Change?
2. Creating Successful Changes
Become a Creative Force in Your Own Life
Who Are You Really? ^ Exercise: Who Are You Really?
• Creative Forces in Your Life Exercise: Write a Life
Proposal • Spiritually Successful Change M Exercise:
A Dialogue with Change • Getting Unstuck • Work as
Creativity • Synchronicity • How Does the Change Fit
You? • On-the-Job Learning • Embracing the Turning
Point • Pursue Your Passion J® Exercise: What Is
Spiritually Successful Change? • Define What You Want
^ Exercise: Facing the Change • Turning Points Ex
ercise ^ Exercise: Turning Points J® Ask Yourself:
What's the Real Problem?
3. Creative Change, Creative People
Learn to Move with Life's Natural Rhythm
The Rhythm of Life • Learning How to Slow Down
Exercise: To Recognize Benefits in a Change • How
Successful Are You with Change? • Creative People,
Creative Challenges • Pushing the Envelope • Tech
nique to Distract the Mind • Removing the Obstacle of
Fear ' Exercise: The Fear Room • Benefits of Less
Fear • Present Moment, Wonderful Moment • Benefits
of Living in the Moment Exercise: On Dissipating
Worrv • Teaching Stories Exercise: Finding Your
Life Themes • Life Theme: Learning Grace Exercise:
Gratitude and Trust • Life Theme: Opening the Heart
• Life Theme: Options to Anger /?■> Ask Yourself: How
Would You Like to Move Forward in. Your Life?
4. Change Your Relationship with Change
Adding to the Toolbox
First Tool: The Power of Dreams • Mapping Your Dreams
• Spiritual Confirmation in Dreams • How to Decode
Your Dreams Exercise: Decoding Your Dream
Exercise: Charting Your Dream Patterns • Second Tool:
Daily Spiritual Exercises • Anyone Can Do a Spiritual
Exercise • Immediate Benefits • Types of Spiritual
Exercises z? " Exercise: Hearing God Call Your Name
Exercise: To Regain Your Balance * What Can You Expect
from a Spiritual Exercise? • Daily Problem Solver z'^)
Exercise: Asking God a Question • Clearing Out Limi
tations • Singing a Sacred Word • Third Tool: Spiritual
Journal z"^ Exercise: To Get to the Story behind the Story
Ask Yourself: What's in My Toolbox?
5. Awakening the Listening Heart
Mastering Change in Your Life
Why Listen? • Decision Making Exercise: To Get
Answers While You Sleep • Testing Your Inner Guidance
Exercise: To Strengthen Your Guidance " To Let Go
of the Past • How to Begin Listening • Self-Defeating
Behaviors • Clearing the Chatter Exercise: To Quiet
the Heart • How Guidance Heals Us z^^J Exercise: Going
to a Spiritual Spa • Help When We Need It Most • Your
Special Relationship • Guidance through Symbols Ax
Exercise: Choose a Symbol of Your Turning Pomt' Spiri
tual Setups • Exact Timing of God's Plan • V^en All
Else Fails, Listen Ask Yourself: How Does Life Speak
to You?
6. How Life Works with You
If You Work with It
Goal Setting for Successful Change
Exercise: Your Change Skills Inventory • Turning Goals
into Gold • Goals Set for the Greater Good • Desires
versus Preferences • Your Current Skills Exercise:
What Can You Control? • What Do You Really Want?
Exercise: To Envision the Qualities of Life You Want •
The Gift of Receiving • What Is an Action Plan?
Exercise: Making a Qualities Collage • Work Backward
from the Future Exercise: Working Backward from
the Future * Wliat Do You Really Want? Exercise:
What Do You Really Want? • Crisis and Opportunity •
My Dream, Home • My Dream Comes True • When We
Move from" Panic to Power Ask Yourself: How Do You
Set Goals?
7. Life's Greatest Challenges
Learning via Difficult Turning Points
The Courage to Live Your Life Exercise: Finding Your
Dream • Finding Your Own Path Exercise: Dialogue
with a Dream • Difficult Crossroads Exercise. Ex
ploring a Difficult Turning Point • Dream Answer •
Paying Back the Debt of Failure • Seeing a Bigger
Picture Exercise: On Forgiving Yourself* Embracing
New Ways /•-. Ask Yourself: What Do You Learn from
Tough Changes?
8. When Big Changes Bring Big Gains
Facing the Fear of Death
First Comes Crisis, Then Comes Opportunity • When
I Learned I Had Cancer • Death and Rebirth • Healing
through Emptiness • Illness as a Teacher • Learning
to Trust • Death of a Loved One • Comfort to the Heart
• Choosing Love over Fear Exercise: To Combat Fear
with Love * Endings and Beginnings Exercise: To
Overcome Fear ofDeath Ask Yourself: What Blessings
Come from Great Changes?
9. The Journey and the Teacher
Those Who Teach You about Change
How Life Brings Its Teachers • Been There, Done That
^ Exercise: Have You Been Here Before? • Everyday
Sacredness z'" Exercise: Who Have Your Teachers Been?
• Learning from All Life • Exercise: Learning by
Observation • Resource for Self-Discovery ^ Exercise:
Writing « Thank-You Letter • Giving and Receiving
Wisdom r Exercise: What Are Your Roots^ • A New
Way of Learning • Unexpected Gifts of Love • Love
Softens Rough Edges • Responsibility—The Greatest
Teacher • Can Suffering Be a Teacher? • Finding the
Blessings in Painful Lessons • Spiidtual Trainers
Exercise: Meeting Your Spiritual Trainer • Love Is the
Simplest Lesson of All Ask Yourself: Who Are the
Teachers in Your Lifel
10. Crises of Faith
Spiritual Lessons from the Dark Night of Soul
Child in the Wilderness • Entering the Dark Night of
Soul • Custom-Designed Lesson • Letting Go • Asking
for Help to Let Go Exercise: Laying Out • When
We're Ready for a Change . Exercise: Playing the
Sound of Change • How to Keep Getting Assistance •
Places for Spiritual Healing -? Exercise: Going to the
Emerald City • Hope Exercise: A List of Fears and
Blessings • "The Garden of the Heart Exercise: Watch
ing the Sunrise • Color Returning to Life • Ways Life
Teaches Us • Spiritual Transformation A Ask Yourself:
What, Are Your Dark Nights of Soul?
11. Past Lives and Present Turning Points
Lessons from Past Times Bring You Changes
Today
Hidden Influences of the Past • Parent Lake • Past to
Present —Both Turning Points Exercise: To Imagine
the Past • Discovering the Story Exercise: Writing
Your Own Story • Treasure Hunt • A Trip Back to
Medieval France Exercise: Letting Go of Past Fear
• Time as a Teacher • The Past Solves a Mystery •
Journey of Three Thousand Years • What Did You Learn?
• How to Remember Your Own Past Lives Ay Exercise:
Time Travel ^ Ask Yourself: Have I Lived Before?
12. Our Song within the Great Song.
Blending Spirituality and Everyday Changes
Embracing Change • Perfect Timing • Your Bigger Story
• Unexpected Protection • Our Lives as Works of Art
C: Exercise: What's the Highest in Your Life? • A View
from Love Exercise: Connecting Diamonds • Small
Miracles • Walking in Rhythm • The Disciplines of
Change Exercise: Mapping Your Own Steps to Change
• Take Time to Smell the Flowers • Lessons of Love •
We Can't Do It without Grace • What Is Your North
Star? ^ Exercise: Writing Your Contract with Yourself
about a Change ® A New Road Ask Yourself: How Can
I Bring More Meaning into My Everyday Changes'?