Soul Quilt: What is Your Story?
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Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are? Have you longed to know more about yourself and what makes you do what you do? With the Soul Quilt, you can unlock your inner self and release the true you. The soul quilt takes you on twenty one day inward journey to help you find your soul’s purpose. You will work in combination with the mind, the body and the soul. This programme is designed to help you navigate the intricacies of your true self from birth to present. The use of the chakras will help you unlock and understand the mind in relation to the body and how they work insync with one another. It will help you demystify your life and bring you to the present moment with much knowledge, clarity and purpose.
Akashni Maharaj
Dr Akashni Maharaj is a psychologist who lives and practices in Durban, South Africa. She is a graduate of the University of Kwazulu-Natal and the university of Zululand. Her PhD took her on a journey towards the metaphysical aspect of life and now presently in her practice; she works holistically by focusing on the interplay between the mind, body and the spirit. She facilitates a process of self-discovery within the individual towards finding their soul purpose.
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Soul Quilt - Akashni Maharaj
THE SOUL QUILT
So! What’s your Story?
by
Akashni Maharaj Ph.D
Published by
Kima Global Publishers
50, Clovelly Road,
Clovelly
7975
South Africa
ISBN: 978-1-920535-78-0
Copyright Akashni Maharaj, Ph.D 2015
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World rights Kima Global Publishers. With the exception of small passages quoted for review purposes, this edition may not be reproduced, translated, adapted, copied, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or through any means including mechanical, electronic, photocopying or otherwise without the permission of the publisher.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Your Journey Towards Authenticity Begins here
Chapter 2: A Defined Purpose
Where have we Come From?
How it All Began: A Journey of Two Souls
Kira’s Story
Part One: The Mind
Chapter 3: The Mind
Beginning Your Soul Quilt
Days 1 and 2: Relationships
Day 3: Your Challenges
Day 4: Guilt / Shame
Day 5: Emotional Pain
Day 6: Accomplishments and Achievements
Day 7: Development Mapping Age development
Chapter 4: Understanding Your Demons
Part Two: The Body
Chapter 5: The External Meets Internal
What are Chakras / Energy Centres?
Day 8 and9: Root Chakra One
Day 10 and 11: Sacral Chakra
Day 12 and 13: Solar Plexus Chakra
Day 14 and 15: Heart Chakra
Day 16 and 17: Throat Chakra
Day 18 and 19: Brow Chakra (Third Eye)
Day 20 and 21: Crown Chakra
Part Three: My Soul, My Choice, My Home and My Peace
Self Healing Hand Positions
Bibliography
About the Author
Introduction
"It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do"
Jane Austen in Sense and Sensibility,
As a child growing up, I knew only what was taught to me by people in my immediate environment and those were my parents and school. My world, if I could put it in a pie chart was only 10% of what was out there. I, like every other child looked to my parents for guidance as to how I should be, how I should behave and how to grow up. They learnt from their parents and so on and so on. With not much scope to expand the brain, I knew only 10% and as time went by that 10% grew to become greater and greater as I read widely and interacted with more than just my immediate environment.
I was once asked by a cousin of mine, what I would like to do with my life and my response was I want to stay here at home, I am happy and content and cannot bear to leave. She looked at me wearily and replied Is that it, you have no ambition and no dreams; I want to travel the world and see new things, wouldn’t you like the same?
I looked at her with a sad look in my eyes as she continued; I want more for my life, I want to get out of this country and live in a cosmopolitan city
. I stood there with my limited ambition and pitiful existence because I didn’t even know what the word cosmopolitan meant, I felt small and insignificant by the time she was done talking.
Those words played like a song in my head throughout my formative years and I knew that the first thing I had to do was get a dictionary to look up the word cosmopolitan and then direct my way toward a life of possibilities, develop ambition and create some dreams.
Okay. Simple I think!, but was it really? The bigger picture here was that, she was right. I knew only what I was taught by my parents with their limited knowledge. I was a sheltered child and every one in my family felt the need to protect me from the big bad world. I started to yearn for a world that was greater than my 10% pie chart.
The only thing though, when you start to yearn, you start to become restless and when you are restless, you tend to do things that shake up your once comfortable world and you tend to do things that are reckless, you push the boundaries and sometimes you push the envelope so far that you hurt yourself and in some cases others’ as well.
Reality check for me was that my small world was suddenly becoming really big and was I ready to play in it? I learnt that lessons are not only to be acquired from a classroom, but from life itself. Truth be known reality is a messed up version of the truth because you get knocked down, kicked, stumbled on and yet you still rise. It’s the words, actions and emotions that people in our world mete out to us that shape us, define us and mould us to be what we are today.
Sadly though that through adversity can one truly really find one’s self. Without adversity we do not stretch our imagination, thinking and behaviour as far as it can go. We cannot truly know the limitations of our hearts and minds before we are hurt and thrown into the deep depths of despair.
This book for me is a true bare bones reflection of what life is all about. Those people that challenged your mind, heart and faith, those are the real teachers of life. It is with those lessons we come to learn about the term authenticity. How many of us are living a truly authentic life? Living within our comfort zones, is clearly not why we were put on earth for. So let’s shed the shackles of society that has held us all captives for so long. It’s time to break out and embrace who you really are.
Chapter One
Your Journey toward Authenticity Begins here
"A journey of a thousand Miles begins with a single step"
Lao Tzu
This book is divided into three sections. Section 1 focuses on the mind. Section two takes care of the body and section three shows you how to nurture the soul.
The chapters follow the Mind-Body-Soul trinity.
According to the different religions of the world, the number three has significance:
The Christian Holy Trinity
The Hindu Trimurti
The Three Jewels of Buddhism
The Three Pure Ones of Taoism
The Triple Goddess of Wicca
Its significance is that it is a time identifier as it represents Past, Present and Future. Each of the three sections are further divided into days.
Part one and part two make up the 21 day programme.
Part three focuses on the continued healing that needs to take place to ensure the soul is sufficiently nurtured.
The Soul Quilt programme takes twenty one days to complete and it is said that if you do anything diligently for twenty one days it becomes a habit and can be integrated into ones daily thought/ behaviour.
Part One: The Mind
The mind can be as healthy as the experiences you have, but when there is a lack the mind tends to follow a path of destruction by allowing negativity to set up residence and build a castle with all the negative thoughts, emotions and behaviours. In order to understand why a person is the way they are, the way they think, act and behave, you have to first understand what are the things that keep the mind active and engaged.
The Soul Quilt Programme was born from the concept that our lives are like quilts, we take a little/ less/ more/ too much from those we come in contact with throughout our developmental life and we make up a beautiful quilt which we call The Story of Our Life
, which is rich and colourful.
These pieces or developmental markers which make up the quilt come from the people we meet to the things we do, to the positive and negative events of our lives. Sometimes within all of these markers we tend to forget which belong to us and which we have adopted from others’.
Chapter one looks at what our mind has housed over the years, what we have accumulated, assimilated and integrated.
Part Two ¬ The Body
Our body is made up of matter and energy but it is also a store house for our memories. Our body has the ability to store memories of events, sounds, smells , taste, experiences (good/bad), sensations and other core aspects of someone’s identity. This chapter looks at how experiences that form part of one’s life story have made its presence felt within the cells of our body. In order to understand the connection between the mind and body we make use of the energy centres/meridians within the body called the Chakras to identify where the problem has lodged itself and how it has affected an individual throughout the developmental lifespan.
Part Three ¬ The Soul
The Soul is neither the I or the Ego. It is the immortal essence of a living thing. A soul is said to exist through many lifetimes and is the driving force of the physical vessel we call the body. Without a soul the body is lifeless, lacks lustre and empty. Each of our souls has a special purpose and if one believes that their purpose is to live a life that is authentic, genuine and in line with trueness, it is one’s soul that is guiding them towards its destination. If we are constantly listening and paying attention to other souls, our souls voice is lost, therefore the final part of your journey is to identify how to take care of your soul, what is it that you have been put on earth for and what type of life you should be living. This chapter gives you 21 ways to nurture your soul.