The Presence Process: A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness [B1671]

2010 PB in excellent condition. South African-born Michael Brown lived a blissfully unconscious life as a music journalist until impacted by an acutely painful neurological condition. His only choice was either to alter the quality of his experience, or live in continual suffering. Through a nine-year odyssey which led to the integration of his painful condition, Michael rediscovered how to become responsible for the quality of his personal experience. This journey birthed The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness - to make it possible for anyone to experience Presence and present moment awareness without having to take the long, challenging path most of us usually take.

Why is it so difficult to simply be present? The reason is that our deeply suppressed emotional imprints from childhood-which Eckhart Tolle calls "the pain-body"- distract us from an awareness of the present moment. Until this "emotional charge" from our past is integrated, all our attempts to quiet our thoughts and access the peace, joy, and love that are bedrock to our beingness are of only limited success. We all long to be free of our discomfort and experience inner peace. However, the attempt to get rid of our discomfort is misguided. We're not broken and don't need to be "healed." Rather, our discomfort needs to be integrated. Because Presence is universal, it has the miraculous ability to manifest in our daily experience the exact circumstances required for us to integrate the dysfunction that keeps us from experiencing the radiance of present moment awareness. The Presence Process is a journey that guides us into taking responsibility for our emotional integration. It's a way to consciously "grow up." We are each responsible for determining the quality of our personal experience. The Presence Process teaches us how to exercise authentic personal responsibility in a practical manner. It reveals the mechanics that shape the way we feel about our life. It offers a simple, practical approach to accomplishing and maintaining personal peace in the midst of globally accelerating change, discomfort, conflict, and chaos.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is a very special book. You can tell the author was deeply inspired. Every sentence every chapter has a subtle impact as you read it. Your awareness grows. I've noticed that others around me who are reading it are also shifting in positive ways."; "I just finished this book and am immediately re-starting it again. It's beyond just a good book, the words in this book felt life-changing and strangely powerful. You may have to read it to know what I mean. I feel privileged to benefit from the author's many years of exploration into the nature of presence. The words in this book felt precise, grounded, and for me, truly transformational."; "Weird, but can't deny it works."; "This is a book that came to me when I needed it most. If it hadn't been a gift, I wouldn't have even known it existed. I read it thoroughly, and the impact was incredible. It's become one of the books I'll never part with."