The Lost Art of Being: Secrets to a Calm, Happy, Easy Life

274 Pages·2018·1.45 MB·English

by  Jacqui Macdonald

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I wrote this book for you.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you to all my teachers, in particular Christine Arylo, Kristine Carlson, Eckhart
Tolle, Marianne Williamson, Rupert Spira and my beloved Mooji. Thank you to my
family, my babies, my fur babies, my PB and all my friends – you too have taught me
more than you will ever know. Thank you to my beautiful students who have embraced
and embodied the teachings to make powerful discoveries for themselves. Thank you to
the trees for inspiring me every day and showing me how to be. And thank you to the
Universe for… well, everything really.
CONTENTS
A Brief Note

Prelude
How Human Beings Became Human Doings

Part One

Part Two
Questions & Answers

Part Three
How To Reprise The Lost Art Of Being
Lifestyle Guide
A BRIEF NOTE
Dearest Fabulous Reader,

I’m excited to be sharing this centuries-old wisdom about the art of being.
What you hold in your hands is a little book about slowing down, screwing the rules,
following your heart and allowing the Universe to take care of your entire life. It is the
long-lost secret to effortless happiness and tremendous inner peace.
I cannot claim to have written this book because, in truth, it wrote itself.
I was meant to go shopping that day.
As I was gathering my bag and purse, I became aware of words and phrases swirling
impatiently within me, wanting to be written down. Thinking they would be nothing
more than a few sentences, I pulled out my iPad and began typing on the Notes page.
Eight hours later, I was still there.
I then spent the entire weekend at my laptop… and the book came to life on the
screen.
Over the following fortnight I dipped in and out – adding and editing whenever
inspiration prompted.
And, whoops… I wrote a book.
Without.
Even.
Trying.
This book emerged from me without any effort, other than my time spent at the
keyboard. There was no forward planning. No strategising. No agenda. No end goal in
mind.
This is the perfect illustration of the lost art of being and will hopefully dispel any
fears you might have that doing less results in under-achieving.
Quite the opposite.
Doing less enables you to become more.
I had been trying to write a book for over twenty years. I attended workshops and
read books about how to write books. I followed all the advice and stuck to all the rules.
And I worked really hard. But somehow it never quite happened.
But having learned over recent years how to slow down, do less, give up goals and
listen to my heart… I simply allowed this book to be written.
This is the beauty of the art of being. It is a natural, effortless way to live and is the
polar opposite to how convention dictates we should achieve our potential.
It is time to question convention.
AKA… screw the rules.
Because the rules are obscuring the truth.
The Universe flows through each of us in mystical, unfathomable, powerful ways –
when we allow it.
The sacred secrets that you will find within the following pages will reveal everything
the Universe wants you to know about how to give up the struggle and enjoy a calm,
happy, easy life.
You will be encouraged to drop a belief system that prescribes hard work and effort. It
will be exposed as nothing more than a set of thoughts that you have unwittingly bought
in to. Fake rules that you are unconsciously following.
It is time to be liberated from such warped thinking and phony rules.
Because we all want an easy life, don’t we?
Likewise, we all want happiness.
Granted, calm is not an aspiration for the young but as we mature we appreciate it,
and long for it more and more.
Calm is your birth right.
As is happiness and ease.
Life should not be a struggle.
It’s time to shatter the myth that the key to success is to do more.
What a topsy-turvy philosophy that is.
My hope is that this book will turn your world upside down and in doing so will
return it to its rightful position.
The truth is simple: The less you do, the more you become.
That’s because you allow the Universe to make it happen rather than trying to do
everything yourself. After all, a Universe that keeps planets spinning and tides turning
is surely more intelligent and powerful than we humans are?
And yet we cut ourselves off from that power.
What muppets we can be.
The reality is you don’t have to struggle, drive or push to make your best life happen.
Isn’t it a relief just to know that?
Your life is already programmed to be magnificent.
It’s just that you can’t see that right now because you’re letting your human
perspective over-rule your being. Your human is highly conditioned by society and is
locked into belief systems and invisible rules that you never think to question, meaning
you don’t even know that you don’t know.
You have become all human, no being - and this is the root of all your problems. The
moment you realise this, you set yourself free and access your unlimited potential.
The being is the part of you that’s full of the and magic and power.
You will soon come to experience this truth for yourself.
So relax.
Everything is about to change without you having to do a thing.
Other than to read this book, of course.
But that’s all you have to do.
Just take the next step. Turn the next page.
No over-thinking, no planning, no rules or regimes. You do less, and yet you become
so much more.
May your discovery of this truth be thrilling.
My being is tingling for your being.
See you on the other side.

Much love.
Jacqui