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Awaken delivers a contemporary and accessible guide to how each of us can experience a life of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment in a world that is rife with anxiety, depression, and addiction. Drawing on the distinguished author's lifetime of accumulated insights and experience, Awaken guides readers on a journey to achieve complete alignment between who they are, what they say, what they do, and how they relate to others.
People are traumatized and polarized the world over. By healing our traumas, uniting the polarities in our lives, and connecting to our deepest purpose, we can attain personal power and amplify our positive impact on the world. Most people have chosen not to deal with their trauma; they conceal it, numb it, and relive it. Through the prism of the author's life journey, Awaken shows us how to mine the ups and downs of our lives to experience "post-traumatic growth."
Written for anyone with even a passing interest in improving their inner life and making a difference in the world, Awaken provides proven tools and practical advice that allow readers to know themselves, love themselves, be themselves, and express themselves. Readers will learn how to grow their personal power by building self-trust, cultivating presence, drawing healthy boundaries, leaning into necessary conflict, and challenging orthodoxies. Awaken will help readers see their lives differently in order to transform their experience of living.
RAJ SISODIA is Co-founder and former Chairman of Conscious Capitalism Inc. He is the bestselling author of Conscious Capitalism, The Healing Organization, Firms of Endearment, Everybody Matters, Shakti Leadership and several other impactful books. Raj is FEMSA Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise and Chairman of the Conscious Enterprise Center at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico.
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1: ROOTS
Life Without Papa
From Kesur to Canada
Sidebar: The Rajputs
Papa Returns
Reflections
CHAPTER 2: CHANGING OF THE GUARD 21
A Whole New World
Bewildered in Barbados
Serenity in Salinas
Confused in Canada
CHAPTER 3: RETURN OF THE NATIVE
The Ratlam “Suar” System
Sidebar: The Caste System
Objects of Curiosity
Hard Landing
School of Horrors
Innocence Lost
Home Base Indore
CHAPTER 4: RETURN TO KESUR
The Darker Side of Kesur
Trickle-Down Tyranny
CHAPTER 5: NO TIME TO DREAM
My Luck Runs Out
Survivor
Political Awakening
Bombay Bound
Back to the Future
CHAPTER 6: NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Marketing Mecca—or Mayhem?
Ivy League Ivory Tower
An Accidental Academic
Indian Interlude
Dissertation Dilemma
Escape From New York
CHAPTER 7: BOSTON BLUES
Out of Africa
An Unblessed Marriage
Nightmare on Commonwealth Avenue
CHAPTER 8: A NEW BEGINNING
The Wayward Son Returns
A Mentor at Last
Standing Up for Myself
A Growing Family
Awakening My Creative Side
CHAPTER 9: BACK TO BOSTON
New Millennium, New Challenges
The Winter of My Discontent
Good Thing, Bad Thing, Who Knows?
Following My Heartbreak
The Shame of Marketing?
CHAPTER 10: FINDING PURPOSE IN THE POCONOS
My Purpose Finds Me
Renegotiating a Relationship
Doubling Down
Sliding Doors
Birthing a Movement
Growing the Movement
CHAPTER 11: SEARCHING FOR INNER PEACE
Seeking Spiritual Solace
Happiness
Growing . . . and Sinking
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CHAPTER 12: CONSCIOUS AWAKENING
The Wise Women
Twin Bombshells
No More Denial
CHAPTER 13: HEALING THE FATHER WOUND
The Father Wound
My Arc with My Father
The Truth of My Father
Innocence Lost—and Reclaimed
Grief or Relief?
A Two-Time Destroyer of Families?
Healing My Children’s Father Wound
Last Words
CHAPTER 14: HONORING MY MOTHER
Who Was Usha?
Portrait of a Marriage
Passages
Bringing My Mother to My Father
CHAPTER 15: DISCOVERIES
Stay True to Yourself
Be the Artist of Your Life
Be Your Own Boss
Challenge Orthodoxies
Choose Your Life
Acknowledge and Heal Your Traumas
Integrate Polarities
Be a Peaceful Warrior for Truth and Love
In Closing
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
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