Llewellyn Worldwide - Sail Into Your Dreams: Excerpt

Dream Big — Live Authentically — Have Abundance

School. Work. Family. Move fast. Do. This is the way most people live their lives. And at some time most of them have the same question: Is this all there is?

This was the question that faced Karen Mehringer. She had a fast-paced life in Seattle, but all that business left her unsatisfied. So she and her husband dropped everything and went sailing, ending up going to Australia, Indonesia, and Fiji. On the way, something happened: they changed.

Sail into Your Dreams is her story of travel and personal evolution. It includes her journal entries and realizations about what makes life meaningful and of true value. The result is expressed in eight easy steps that will help you:

Simplify your life and end clutter
Connect better with others
Nurture yourself for increased joy and health
Eliminate toxic relationships
Overcome emotional trauma
Get rid of credit card debt

Sail into Your Dreams is filled with wonderful personal stories from her trip and real life stories from people she met on the way. They exemplify the concepts she shares in the book. You never have to leave land to use the spiritual wisdom and psychological self-help principles that are blended here.

One of the advantages of this book is the beautiful meditations that are included in each chapter. Meditations are proven to help you manifest your goals, and these, combined with the exercises in this book, will inspire you to tap into your life force energy — the source of infinite possibilities.

The Eight Steps
The eight steps in this book are designed to give you the spiritual insights and psychological know-how to live authentically, simply and joyfully. You may want to go through them in order or pick and choose what you need. Following them, however, will bring you closer to living a truly purposeful life.

Step One: Plot your own course. Here you will learn how to hear your own voice.
Step Two:Navigate the sea of change. How to let go of the old.
Step Three:Up-anchor and raise the sails. Finally take control of your life.
Step Four: Sail away from the safe harbor. In this step you’ll learn to take chances.
Step Five: Swim with the dolphins. Experience how to really belong with others.
Step Six: Connect intimately with all life. Slow down and experience sacredness.
Step Seven: Look for the lighthouse in the storm. Transform adversity to success.
Step Eight: Sail downwind, surfing the waves. Learn to relax and go with the flow.

Each one of these steps will move you closer to satisfaction in life, joy, bliss and happiness. They are explained with stories, examples and advice, and the meditations will direct you so you can experience them yourself.

A Life You Can Live
Not everyone has the ability to chuck everything and go away for six months. But Karen Mehringer has done that for you. The insights and experiences she had can now be used by you to achieve the goals you want and the life you want to live. The exercises and meditations take this beyond the usual self-help book into a new level of awareness and possibility. This is not a book of just theory and philosophy; it’s a practical, how-to book that you can use.

If you are tired of the way things are, if you are looking for something better, Sail into Your Dreams is the compass and sextant that will direct you on a new path to inner peace and worldly prosperity.