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    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg
    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg
    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg
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    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg

    By Iyanla Vanzant

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    “The most powerful spiritual healer, fixer, teacher on the planet.” —Oprah Winfrey

    From the host of the OWN TV show, Iyanla: Fix My Life, the companion workbook to Iyanla Vanzant’s #1 New York Times bestseller In the Meantime provides an easy, step-by-step program to help you begin the healing process after facing adversity.

    Are you in the Meantime?

    Are you confused, angry, disappointed, frustrated, anxious, apprehensive, sorry for yourself, or generally wiped out? If so, my friend, you are in the meantime.

    Are you ready to put the pieces of your life together? Are you ready to begin the process of healing? Are you ready to give and receive love in all of your experiences?

    In Living Through the Meantime, bestselling author Iyanla Vanzant will lead you, step-by-step, to a greater understanding of your own past, your motivations, and your desires. Once you have completed this program of meditation, self-care, and self-examination, you will be able to move beyond your meantime experience and into the love that is your true essence.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAtria Books
    Release dateMar 17, 2002
    ISBN9780743229784
    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg
    Author

    Iyanla Vanzant

    Iyanla Vanzant is one of the country’s most celebrated writers and public speakers, and she’s among the most influential, socially engaged, and acclaimed spiritual life coaches of our time. She is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of seventeen books which have been translated into twenty-three languages, and the host and executive producer of the award-winning breakout hit Iyanla: Fix My Life, the #1 reality show on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network. As Founder of Inner Visions World Wide, Iyanla is actively engaged in personal development courses and on-going training programs for spiritual life coaches, and ordained ministers at Inner Visions Institute for Spiritual Development.  

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    Living Through the Meantime: Learning to Break the Patterns of the Past and Beg, by Iyanla Vanzant. Atria.

    YOU’VE GOT TO CLEAN THE HOUSE BEFORE YOU CAN LIVE IN IT!

    welcome! Chances are, if you have put forth the effort and energy to find this book, you are in the meantime. I welcome you because I know something wonderful is about to happen—in your life and for you.

    You probably think your life or some part of it is falling apart. The truth of the matter is everything is about to come together just the way you have always wanted it to!

    The objective of this meantime workbook is to help you put the pieces of your life together—the missing pieces, the broken pieces, the confusing pieces, and the lost pieces. We are going to go through every inch of your emotional and spiritual house and clean up the mess, clear out the debris, fix the leaks, stop the squeaks, and reveal and repair any damage we can find. This workbook is designed to support you while you do the work required to build a solid structure that is grounded in love. Let me warn you right now, it may not be easy! But then, you knew that, didn’t you?

    ARE YOU READY TO WORK?

    The meantime is a working time. It is the 9-5 of your life to which you bring all that you have studied, learned, been told, understand, and recognize about yourself and life. The meantime is a time of strengthening that knowledge so that it can work through you and for you. The meantime is where you land when you saw it coming, did not know what to do about it, ran around frantically for a while, and finally said, Okay! Okay! I don’t like it, but I am willing to deal with it! Willingness is the key that transforms a character-developing experience into a soul-enhancing one. At the core of your soul is the essence of love.

    In the meantime, you get to deal with all the pieces of your experience that you do not like, but are at least willing to understand. Understanding is the ticket through the meantime. Every step or misstep you have ever taken has led to this moment. You are exactly where you need to be, doing exactly what you need to be doing in order to move into a higher consciousness. This is the place you had to come to in order to bump your life up to the next level. The meantime is about pumping up the volume—the volume of love you are willing to give and receive.

    In the midst of the meantime, it may appear that you are standing on shaky ground. The truth is you are standing on Holy Ground. Oh by the way, did I mention that the meantime is grounded in truth? The truth of who you are, the truth about what you do, the truth about what you want, the truth about what you see, the truth about what you know, and the truth about what you do not know. Furthermore, in the midst of the meantime experience, there is the truth about your ability to recognize each of these, and it is this truth that ultimately determines how you make it through whatever you are going through.

    In the meantime, you are engaged in a Holy Healing process which your soul signed up for because, at the deepest level of your soul, you know that love is the only way to get what you really want. In the meantime, you will have to work through your stuff.

    WHERE IS THE MESS?

    A feeling is the energy that moves you in one direction or another. If you get stuck in a feeling, you won’t move in any direction at all. What you art feeling determines the kind of work you must do to make it through the meantime. The following is a basic guideline you can use to figure out where you live.

    you are doing basement work if you are feeling disappointed, betrayed, rejected, and/or like where you are is someone’s fault. You’ve got a problem, but you don’t know it.

    you are doing first-floor work if you are feeling angry, frightened, confused, unhappy, and/or apprehensive, or believe your life is falling apart. You’ve got a problem, but you don’t know what it is.

    you are doing second-floor work if you are ending a relationship that you don’t want to end, leaving employment that you didn’t have the courage to leave, going back to school, moving to a new location just to get away from the old one, opening a business because you got kicked out of your job, and/or facing a serious health challenge because of lack of self-care. You’ve got a problem, you know what it is, but you don’t know what to do about it.

    you are stuck between the second and third floors if you are asking Why me??? Why now??? Why should I??? How come??? How can I??? When will it end??? When will it begin??? What the heck is going on??? You’ve got a problem, you know what it is, you know what to do about it, but you are afraid to do it.

    you are doing third-floor work if you are seeking closure to dysfunctional relationships, ready to forgive people you’ve been in relationships with, ready to forgive yourself for staying in relationships and situations you knew you had no business being in, and/or you are ready to assume full responsibility for every aspect of your life. You don’t have problems. You have challenges, and you feel perfectly equipped to handle them.

    you are doing attic work if you are feeling or saying I am grateful! I am hopeful! I am ready! I am open!

    MAKE SURE YOU’RE IN THE RIGHT HOUSE!!!

    Just to be on the safe side, let’s take a quick inventory to make sure that this is the book you need.

    You are in the meantime if:

    ♥ You are confused, angry, disappointed, frustrated about something that has happened in your life.

    ♥ You have just been fired, left, divorced, had surgery, or been released from prison.

    ♥ You feel anxious, apprehensive, beat up, beat down, sorry for yourself, unhappy with yourself, numb, or generally wiped out.

    If, however, you are in rage, depression, seeking vengeance or revenge; if you are seeing red, black, or green at the thought of a particular person or situation, you are not in the

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