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    Being Remarkable: In Every Area of Your Life!
    Being Remarkable: In Every Area of Your Life!
    Being Remarkable: In Every Area of Your Life!
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    Being Remarkable: In Every Area of Your Life!

    By William Michael Rowe

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    The teachings contained within Being Remarkable provide an alternative to suffering, unhappiness & discontent in life. All forms of suffering are addressed even the more subtle types of suffering that we have assumed up until now, are simply a part of everyday life.

    By clearing away the suffering we discover a tremendous power source that is readily available. This is not a quality for some, but actually is inherent in all human beings. This content is time tested and amazingly simple because these qualities are already a part of each reader & there is really nothing new to learn. In fact it may be more accurate to say that it is a self-exploration into you that will leave each one of you forever different & more powerful-in almost a mystical way.

    As a result-the reader is left knowing exactly how to find their life purpose, transcend limitations and tap into an enormous source of peace & wisdom. They now go out into the world radiating this source of power & being of the greatest benefit to themselves and the world around them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMay 24, 2004
    ISBN9780595764785
    Being Remarkable: In Every Area of Your Life!
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    William Michael Rowe

    William Rowe brings you 25 years of research & experiences that span the areas self-help, mental health training, physical fitness, new age teachings, martial arts, nutrition, religious science, business and technology. He has spoken & lectured on self help topics for many years & now offers people of all faiths powerful strategies, insights & guidelines to tap into an extraordinary power that lies beyond their minds. Currently he resides just outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his wife of twelve years and their three children.

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      Being Remarkable - William Michael Rowe

      Contents

      Introduction

      1

      To All the Dreamers

      2

      Story Time

      3

      Me, Myself & I

      4

      Creating Your Own Egometer

      5

      There is no place like home.

      6

      Surrendering to Win

      7

      Being a Sage

      8

      How do you get to Symphony Hall? Practice.

      9

      Life Second to None

      10

      Looking for Love in all the Wrong Places

      11

      The Games People Play

      12

      Not Knowing as a Way of Knowing

      13

      Your Remarkable Playground

      14

      Transformation of the Body

      15

      Life Outside the Wall—Transforming the World

      16

      Being Truly Multidimensional

      17

      Questions Arising

      Author Info

      To my very precious wife, Elizabeth, and three loving children, Tavish, Will & Tommy—I love you all deeply. I am very grateful for your contributions in the many moments that we so lovingly label as our lives.

      Introduction

      This book is entitled Being Remarkable, but it is really about discovering our soul and allowing this discovery to flow in into every area of our life & being. It is impossible to not be remarkable when we are being soulful. What is ironic about our true self is that it has always wanted this for us, but most of us have unconsciously done everything in our power to dismiss or compromise this state of being in the world.

      In this book you will find a new freedom, truth & joy that will allow you to get unstuck from the chains that bind you. It is about finally awakening & using the awareness of your inner body, combined with the simultaneous surrender to what ever is happening in your life now—to cause a total & dramatic transformation of reality for you. Ultimately, no matter where you find yourself today, you will find new freedom. Twenty-five years ago I had just stopped drinking in my own life, was a high school dropout & walked around imprisoned by internal mental chatter & feelings of isolation. This led to my own almost constant searching for the next 25 years to try to figure it all out. I was driven by a discontent, fear & confusion about life that had begun early on for me. What was so unbelievable to me was the fact that I would find myself years later with a college degree, trophies, good salary and a loving family—still experiencing a lot of these same negative feelings, in spite of the outer world having changed so much for me.

      My own madness got its roots in growing up in an alcoholic home. At a time when developmentally I was still supposed to be somewhat naïve I was already experiencing a lot of distrust & fear of the world.

      The thoughts that had become ingrained in my mind through my early environment went something like, life was very unfair—people could be enjoyed, but never trusted—life was only good to good people, but that wasn’t me or I was not good enough. This type of thinking led to an almost continuous inner state of fear, sadness and anxiety. What started out as a fairly normal childhood with a house in the suburbs & two parents that cared—had dissolved into violence, turbulence and bizarre events. By the age of seven it was normal to have the neighbors peering in as they walked by or slowing down to see what craziness was going on at the Rowe house. Extremely overgrown grass, father passed out in only his underwear on the front lawn, the not having electricity, constant arguing & physical fighting at all hours by my parents had made suburbia feel like a war zone. All the while knowing that something was really wrong at my house, but not being able to put any of it into words.

      These daily drunken stupors led to my father’s early death. He choked at the dinner table when I was about 10 years old—leaving my mother with her own drinking problem, four kids and very little financial resources. Not much was said to us about my father’s death afterwards. The focus seemed to be on my mother and how she would survive. I remember how difficult it was to accept that I would never see him again & I always felt this was made worse by the idea he never really spent much time with us to begin with. So life went on with my mother drinking heavily, four of us soon to be headed into the teenage years and now beginning to experiment with substances ourselves. Was this fate or social conditioning I am not sure, but I do know drinking, popping pills & smoking marijuana seem to come so naturally for me. It seemed to be the key to life for me providing the peace, confidence & good feelings that were otherwise impossible for me to feel.

      Like any addiction this new lifestyle habit that promised to deliver me from hell, rapidly became the warden of a new prison. It was the only thing I could count on for relief in my crazy world & I was becoming increasingly dependent. I was being seduced just like my own mother & father, although at a much younger age. After about five years of suffering from my own addiction to substances I would become ready to search for something better. This was a huge turning point where I became willing to seek and accept help. That big bad outside world would have to be faced, even if just was this once. I had tried to change in the past and deeply wanted to now, but had never been able to up until this point. For the first time in my life I was introduced to the idea of surrendering to win. This decision to seek treatment for addiction began a spiritual search that never lost its hunger. With the participation in a twelve-step program and the unselfish sharing of many, many people—I was being allowed to break the chains that had plagued my family for multi-generations.

      Now came the rebuilding years as I did all those things that had been previously impossible to me. Initially this was just eating better, exercise & general personal hygiene but then it progressed to completing college & trying to fulfill my life purpose. After all, I felt like there had been some divine intervention to have gotten me this far—so naturally I assumed more would be revealed as time went on. This led me to the first of many careers as a mental health professional. I now know looking back this was more than a career choice, it was actually an important first step in a life-long search for who I was. During the next almost 10 years where I worked in every facet of this profession I also continued my own self exploration via reading every self-help book available, attendance at new age teachings, the studying of many different religious and spiritual philosophies. Between my career & pursuit of knowledge I have conducted personal in depth interviews with many, many people from all walks of life—from the homeless to the most wealthy & successful. Sometimes these were formal interviews in professional settings & at other times they were just simple, honest in-depth discussions.

      After more than a decade of knowledge seeking—I felt I had had enough & just stopped. Maybe my critics had been right & that what you saw in life, was what you got. I felt all the roads to the promised land seemed to provide only temporary relief from discontentment & suffering—mainly in the form of hope. I assumed that many of the various self-help literature & teachings that were available were either beyond my grasp or maybe they really could not deliver what they had implied. What the past had shown me was that no matter what avenues I went down or what kind of life strategies I adopted, I would always find myself stuck again. Full of the same fear, anxiety & negative thinking that had become such a normal state for me by now. One lesson that had stuck with me though was that some promise & relief from life could be found in striving and achieving things.

      Given the dismal success of my own searching I adapted a new life coping mechanism of doing & achievement. Still being largely unconscious and uncertain of my own true identity—it had become a perfect fit in my life. With each achievement I was able to accomplish, came the hope that at least some piece of the puzzle to peace, contentment & happiness was being obtained. I viewed each life success as

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