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Greg speaking on hope, October 24, at the Cancer Support Community (CSC).
Greg was given a warm welcome by both presentation attendees and CSC Program Director, Renata Sledge, MSW, LCSW. Here are a few of the solid program reviews:
“Very much enjoyed the material and look forward to reading the book [Journey Beyond Hardship]! Thank you so much for your insight and deep caring.” Julia Germanese-Clark
“I thought it was wonderful that you were able to give such clear responses to questions.” Ruth Ann Edwards
“Triple A [exercise] seems practical and doable. This is all like a Rumi quote! I almost get it, but I need to think it through again and again.” Tess Pardini*
CSC is an international not-for-profit that provides free, high-quality support for cancer patients and their loved ones. The St. Louis CSC is a beautiful facility located off Manchester and 270, with several large, lush group therapy rooms, and larger spaces for yoga, Tai Chi, and presentations. It includes a fully functioning kitchen for special classes on food prep for cancer patients.
CSC runs weekly psychotherapy groups for cancer patients led by licensed counselors extensively trained in the CSC model. The organizations also offer similar groups for loved ones of the cancer patients. In addition, counseling groups are provided for survivors of specific kinds of cancer.
CSC was joined a few years back by Gilda’s Clubs, and all services are free, thanks to the hard work and generosity of the local and national boards’ of directors. For more information visit www.cancersupportstl.org or call (314) 238-2000.
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By the way, if you’ve already read Journey Beyond Hardship, please consider writing a review on Amazon.
*All quotes offered with written permission from those quoted.
Amazon readers have given 100% 5-Star Reviews to Greg Pacini’s new book, Journey Beyond Hardship. Here are their powerful and positive reviews:
Two Thumbs Up!
This is a positive, affirming book that helps take you through the ups and downs of life. The easy-to-read format offers clear guidance to take you along your journey. The “rest stops” are great tools to come back to when you need a tune-up. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is struggling to find their way to a peace within themselves.
—Lynne Christman
Profound and Insightful!!!
Greg Pacini has written a book that shares many profound insights with his readers. The book is written as if the reader is on a road trip. This format encourages a way of exploring the journey through the hardships of our lives. The idea of rest stops along the way suggests the reader should stop and reflect on varied ways of self-care that are offered at these junctures in the book. Life can be filled with ups and downs and Pacini’s book offers many ways to work through the hardships presented to many of us in life. I particularly enjoyed the chapter: “Further Destinations: Matters of Spirit.” This book offers compassionate and hopeful insights to all who read it. I would recommend this to all who are seeking a path that gives meaning to the many facets of suffering.
—Mary Francis Hoffman PHD, RSME, RYT
An Insightful and Practical Resource.
This book offered clarity and hope at a difficult time in my life. As I experienced multiple hardships at once my inner world was chaotic and frightening and the journey metaphor offered a practical approach and first steps and is easy to understand. I’m now rereading both this book and Journey Beyond Diagnosis as they are packed with good stuff and have many layers. Still on round two I’m comforted by curling up somewhere cozy with this book.
—Mamamia
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“Greg’s new book, Journey Beyond Hardship, is a book I personally recommend to anyone going through challenging times. 
? This is part of the forward I wrote for the book: ‘Greg offers a loving and effective roadmap for getting through hardship, complete with tools for the trip. Not only that, his book gives all of us insights for a meaningful vital life…’
If you or someone you know could use some extra support right now, please check out this book. Sending you much love,
Anita”
Thank you very much, Anita. And here’s the good news I’ve been waiting to share.
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Hay House, one of the world’s largest publishers, is now carrying Journey Beyond Hardship in their Fall Catalog! Order it by simply clicking this Amazon link: 
https://www.amazon.com/…/obi…/ASIN/1504329104/hayhousecom-20 or through the Hay House catalog here: http://www.hayhouse.com/catalogs/balboa-press-catalog.
Larry Dossey, MD, and Anita Moorjani, both New York Times bestsellers, endorse the book. And I just discovered three wonderful reviews of the book on Amazon.
As much as I dislike self-promotion, here I go, and let me explain. If the book sells well in the Fall Catalog, it may be included in the Holiday Catalog, which is seen by tens of millions. That means millions of people may learn about a book that can really help them, and that’s why I wrote it. So, consider ordering a copy as a holiday gift.
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Thanks, and much peace,
Greg
- Sleeplessness is often the product of a racing mind.
- If your mind races a lot during the day, it’s not likely to just stop racing when you try to sleep.
- Try to slow your mind down during the day, as a way to ready it for the same thing at bedtime.*
- Your mind slows down and you get drowsy at night on the highway because the signs and posts along the road create a step-down effect on your racing mind, whereby your attention on the road and passing markers give the mind something to train on besides your thoughts.
- Use a simple thought or process when you’re trying to fall asleep to create the step-down effect on your mind that highway signs do.
- As a mental step-down exercise, consider saying the word “love” on every inhale and the word “trust” on every exhale as you fall asleep.
- A racing mind, at any time, is a fear-based response that produces a cascade of hormones in the body whose purpose is to move us to action.
- Action is the last thing we need when trying to sleep.
- Shallow breathing often accompanies fear-based responses.
- Begin any exercise to help you sleep with deep, full breaths.
- Deep, full breaths tell the body, “It’s OK, we don’t need to take action.”
- When the body feels no need to take action, it stops releasing hormones designed to get us moving.
- When hormones intended to get us moving stop coursing through our bodies, we naturally begin to feel heavy in the bed and soon drift into sleep.
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Here’s one of the scripts offered in Journey Beyond Hardship to help you fall asleep.
If you like, after you’ve slowed your breathing as suggested above, read the following paragraph to yourself, or have someone read it to you, or record it and play it back when you’re ready to sleep. Remember to be kind with your mind if it wants to race as you read or listen:
My mind is racing to support me, but at this point I’d like to settle down and fall asleep. To help me fall asleep, I am taking deep, full breaths. And as my mind and my breath slow down, I am occupying my mind with this image: I see my electromagnetic field like a large soap bubble attached to the top of my head. With each slow inhale, I see the bubble shrinking, as if my inhale is drawing air into my body from inside the bubble.
As this air from inside the bubble is drawn down through the top of my head, it is converted into a beautiful gold light, like honey. And as I continue to breathe, this honey-like light begins to make its way into every cell of my body, bringing calm and quiet.
First, the honey-like light slowly fills my head, my neck, and my shoulders. As it fills these areas, I feel them relax. Next, the honey drains into my upper arms, then my lower arms and now my hands. And as the light reaches these areas, they relax as if each and every cell is filling with pure love.
Now the honey-like light makes its way into the cells of my upper back and chest, and as it does, I actually feel the muscles there relaxing, receiving the love of this light.
As I breathe in deeply, the bubble above my head gets smaller, and the honey-like light now drains into my middle back and my belly. It feels comforting. As this honey-light pours through me, there is a release of tension as each area is filled and relaxed.
With each deep breath, the golden light makes its way farther down my body, now pouring comfortably into my lower back, my hips, and my groin region. I am finding myself more and more quiet inside as I watch the golden light move through me.
Now the light is in my upper legs and then my knees, and the golden light is filling the cells in my legs with calm and love, and I enjoy the relaxation. And the honey-light continues to pour down into my shins and calf muscles. And now I see that the bubble above my head is nearly completely gone, as each inhale has emptied it, and the activity contained there has been converted into a golden light, like honey, now reaching my ankles and, finally, filling me completely. The sensation I’m left with is one of fullness, relaxation, and pure love.
*Journey Beyond Hardship offers several step-by-step techniques for quieting anxiety and the racing mind.
New York Times bestseller, Anita Moorjani, posted the endorsement below on her Facebook page just days before her dear friend and mentor, Dr. Wayne Dyer, died. Dr. Dyer wrote the foreword for Anita’s bestseller, “Dying To Be Me.” She and Dr. Dyer became close colleagues, eventually leading major workshops together around the world. 
Anita, I and her staff began communicating last year. Those early exchanges led to Anita’s willingness to write the foreword for my book, Journey Beyond Hardship. We continue to stay in touch. Anita is a remarkable woman with a remarkable experience that baffles the medical community: complete recovery from terminal cancer following a Near Death Experience.
Many of you know I’ve been working with the chronically and terminally ill for over 25 years. In Journey Beyond Hardship, I address both the topic of The Self, and the topic of spirituality because many dealing with hardship come face-to-face with both subjects: “Who am I, and what’s life really about?”
Those are both questions Anita Moorjani is uniquely qualified to answer, and why her work is included in my book. Here’s a quote from Dying To Be Me: “In truth, I’m not my body, my race, religion or other beliefs, and neither is anyone else. The real self is infinite and much more powerful…During my NDE [near death experience], there was nothing outside of my greater awareness because I was one with the entirety of Universal energy…The infinite self is our essence. It’s who we truly are…”
I read Anita’s book years ago, and have it available for clients in my office. When my book was nearing completion last year the question became, who might be willing to endorse it? Anita was one of the first people who came to mind. Her work had become a poignant reference in my new book. More importantly, her loving presence reflects well the spirit I intend my work to express. I feel fortunate that she graced my book with her involvement.
Anita returned to the public eye this week for the first time since Dr. Dyer’s death and reports feeling his presence and support. Look for Anita Moorjani’s new book next Spring.
Welcome. My name is Greg Pacini, author of Journey Beyond Hardship. Nice to have you as a visitor to this blog about my new book. I’m honored to have the chance to communicate with you through this forum. It’s here I’ll be interacting with you about Journey Beyond Hardship, and expanding on related topics. Before you continue, please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page. It contains important information I need to share with you and for you to understand.*
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