Guide to Personal Freedom

Savitri MacCuish & Anita Goswami  - Nine key principles for inner transformation

This book is a treasure trove of practical advice, techniques and wisdom; a guide to your personal freedom. Savitri and Anita share nine important principles and techniques to re-create and nurture you, to redirect your life, to make it an expression of an inner revolution that is necessary to meet the new challenges in life.

In A Guide to Personal Freedom, Savitri and Anita remind us that peace is a moment to moment process. As C.S. Lewis once said, 'You cannot talk about peace with war in your heart.'

Savitri MacCuish and Anita Goswami have been teaching these time honoured techniques for personal development and inner peace for more than a decade, both in places that are politically stable as well as in places where there is great unrest. They are true examples of what they teach - living proof that their techniques work. They both live and work in the Netherlands and are responsible for directing the work of the Life Foundation International, in Europe.

 - Poignant stories to inspire and instruct
 - Sharing and reflections to contemplate and absorb
 - Quotes and seed thoughts to transform and uplift
 - Age old wisdom with relevance for modern living
 - Dru Yoga and meditation techniques

‘Wonderful examples are given on every page: a story to instruct and uplift, a message conveyed, an age-old wisdom observed –all leading to the practice of meditation, stillness and Dru Yoga…. These challenging passages are complete in themselves and, if followed as directed, can change one’s whole perspective on life.’ - Lady Lillian Carpenter

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A Guide to Personal Freedom - Savitri MacCuish and Anita Goswami

Introduction

The Guide to Personal Freedom, by Savitri MacCuish and Anita Goswami, aims to show us all that each one of us can be a peacemaker. When we incorporate the nine stages outlined in this book into our lives, we can be as powering our effect as Mahatma Gandhi, Peace Pilgrim, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela or Mansukh Patel. Savitri and Anita believe that anyone has this power, and that even if your personal goals don’t encompass the grandeur of these great men and women, you will still find this book gives you tools to empower every aspect of your life.

The nine stages of the book have the power to bring out the very best and highest in us. According to Savitri MacCuish and Anita Goswami, peacemaking does not involve running out there to change something. Rather, it is a way of life. Their experience is that when you share this journey with a few friends along the way, your own journey receives a turbo boost!

Experts tell us that there is now just enough time to save the Earth and her resources –if we act now. It is not too late, but there has never been a greater need for unity than at this very moment. Anita and Savitri’s aim in producing this book is to show us all how we can easily make a significant contribution to this cause, simply by starting with the way we live our own lives. Savitri and Anita will tell you throughout the book that it’s fun –and together we can do it!

Nine principles

Anita Goswami and Savitri MacCuish have distilled the nine principles outlined in A Guide to Personal Freedom after decades of applying them across the world, and finding them equally effective in societies ripped apart by war or poverty, or dulled by the complacency of comfort.

These principles have the ability to build an unshakeable foundation of immense inner strength and stability. Savitri and Anita assert that after everything else has fallen away and crumbled under the test of time, these principles will still be standing tall, erect and changeless, giving you the strength to overcome any challenge.

They encourage you to spend a week on each of the nine chapters, reflecting on their insights and stories while practicing their practical techniques. Anita and Savitri’s personal, friendly and empowering style will become a friend who effectively walks beside you as you encounter this journey of transformation.

They have only one further piece of advice –take things slowly! The results of Anita and Savitri’s nine stages will certainly propel you into ways of thinking or acting. They encourage you to move slowly so you have time to easily integrate your new-found strengths and motivations into the fabric of your everyday life.

Groups

As you work with Anita and Savitri’s chapters, you will often find that you’d gain even more by sharing your journey with others. Peacemaking and personal transformation both work most effectively when done with others. Our way forward lies in our togetherness! Summarising their years of experience empowering groups to be more effective, Anita and Savitri have included a special chapter entitled Groups - Bridging the Gap

Listening and Speaking

These two principles, in the view of Anita Goswami and Savitri MacCuish, are the foundation stones for all personal and group transformation. You’ll gain from their ‘Listening to Life’meditation, their insights born out of their war-zone work, and their daily practice tools for developing effective communication

Service and Remembrance

Savitri and Anita describe an old Chinese proverb: If you want happiness: for an hour –take a nap, for a day –go fishing, for a month –get married, for a year –inherit a fortune, for a lifetime –help someone else.
These chapters are filled with practical techniques for extending your ability to help others, as well as to remember your goals, your strengths and your capacity to make each moment an opportunity.

Prayer, Integrity and Respect

Savitri MacCuish and Anita Goswami make a bold approach in these chapters, reminding us that prayer is one of the most misunderstood and underestimated tools for bringing peace to your life and to the world. They draw from a number of traditions to empower your prayer. The two give a practical breathing technique to create the integration of the whole individual –which forms the basis of real integrity, and also give a wide variety of processes for creating an ‘abundance mentality’, the basis of respect.

Surrendership and Friendship

In these two closely related topics, Anita and Savitri describe how to relax your grip on your own preferences while remaining empowered and empowering to others. Offering a variety of visualisation, meditation and movement sequences to help you empower this characteristic, they also give you deeply moving stories to inspire your efforts.

Anita Goswami and Savitri MacCuish have created a remarkable compendium of empowerment strategies in A Guide to Personal Freedom. As Lady Lillian Carpenter says in her introduction to the work of Savitri and Anita, 'Every page has a nugget of gold embedded in it.'