"By the time you finish this book, there will be nothing holding you back."—from the Introduction
Most people have a vision for their lives that they're not pursuing, half-heartedly pursuing, or pursuing with all their might yet somehow falling short. This vision can be modest or grand. It may involve breaking free of a destructive habit or finding a truly healthy relationship. It might have to do with making a real difference in the world or helping to lead a company to extraordinary success. In The One Thing Holding You Back, Raphael Cushnir, a leading voice in the world of personal and professional development, reveals that whenever people aren't living their dreams it's because they're not yet willing and able to feel specific emotions related to those dreams. Once we access and understand these emotions, our dreams can and will come true.
Cushnir asserts that mere emotional awareness, commonly referred to as emotional intelligence, is not enough. For maximum benefit we must directly and consistently connect with our emotions. In particular, we need to connect with the emotions we routinely avoid, resist, or attempt to dismiss. It's these emotions that possess the key to our greatest goals. And learning to connect with them is another rarely taught but essential skill.
The One Thing Holding You Back provides real solutions that can be implemented immediately and without external support and includes true stories of people who have put Cushnir's process to work and transformed their lives. Delivering a step-by-step program in accessible language, this landmark book will turn the obstacles in front of us into tremendous opportunities for achieving the life we always wanted.

The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cushnir, Raphael

Mental Health

HarperOne

One Thing Holding You Back, The

HarperCollins, Publishers

A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout:\nSetting Your Heart on Fire is a wake-up call from your own heart, and a roadmap to the kind of love that most of us have rarely tasted. This is a love of awesome power - a dynamic, primal force that holds the key to your deepest and most lasting fulfilment.\n\nRaphael Cushnir's own experiences have taught him that life's challenges, losses and disappointments can shut us down and leave us feeling empty and alone. In Setting Your Heart on Fire he offers an invigorating way to reawaken both your heart and your spirit. Here, through seven inspiring and easy-to-grasp Invitations, each one a building block to a new future, he reveals how you can:\n\n* courageously and confidently reassess your choices \n* let go of harmful habits, behaviours and beliefs \n* heal deeply rooted emotional wounds \n* revolutionize your approach to stress and adversity \n* struggle less and achieve more \n* open yourself to love's creativity and wisdom \n* infuse everyday experiences with a breathtaking sense of joy and wonder\n\nAccepting the Seven Invitations will enable you to blaze through any obstacle you may face and unlock the door to a fearless, authentic life. Your relationships - with family, friends, colleagues and romantic partners - will become a vehicle for profound and thrilling change. For when your heart is on fire, its light transforms the whole world.

Setting Your Heart on Fire

Self-Help

BANTAM PAPERBACKS (T

“To live in accord with love is to set your heart on fire. In the crucible of such an inferno all convention burns away. What’s left is an entirely new kind of existence, one full of passion, presence, and infinite possibility.” This book is a wake-up call from your own heart. It is a roadmap to love--notthe romantic, familial or platonic kind, but a love that most of us have rarely tasted. This love exists prior to and apart from any specific type of expression. It is a dynamic, primal force that connects us with the surrounding universe, and provides the key to our deepest and most lasting fulfillment if we can learn to tap into its awesome power. Raphael Cushnir’s own experience has taught him that we often close ourselves to love—that life’s challenges, losses, and disappointments can shut us down emotionally and physically, leaving us stagnant in our work and relationships, and feeling empty and alone. Setting Your Heart on Fire presents his invigorating, step-by-step process for reopening and reawakening your heart and spirit, and for learning to use this ever-present love to blaze through any obstacle you may face. The Seven Invitations in this book will guide you through a courageous assessment of your choices, emotions, behaviors, and beliefs, revolutionizing your approach to stress and adversity, and revealing a brand new way of thinking and being. In accepting the Invitations, you will learn how to let go of harmful thoughts and heal deeply rooted emotional wounds. You will begin to open yourself to love’s creativity and wisdom, struggling less yet achieving more. You will discover how to infuse everyday experiences with a breathtaking sense of joy and wonder. And your relationships - with family, friends, co-workers and romantic partners - will become a vehicle for profound and thrilling change. Each Invitation provides practical, easy-to-grasp examples that allow you to put its teachings immediately into practice. Over time, you will learn to access love in even the most difficult situations, unlocking the door to a fearless, authentic life. When your heart is on fire, the whole world is transformed by its light.

Setting Your Heart on Fire: Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life

Broadway

“To live in accord with love is to set your heart on fire. In the crucible of such an inferno all convention burns away. What’s left is an entirely new kind of existence, one full of passion, presence, and infinite possibility.” This book is a wake-up call from your own heart. It is a roadmap to love--notthe romantic, familial or platonic kind, but a love that most of us have rarely tasted. This love exists prior to and apart from any specific type of expression. It is a dynamic, primal force that connects us with the surrounding universe, and provides the key to our deepest and most lasting fulfillment if we can learn to tap into its awesome power. Raphael Cushnir’s own experience has taught him that we often close ourselves to love–that life’s challenges, losses, and disappointments can shut us down emotionally and physically, leaving us stagnant in our work and relationships, and feeling empty and alone. Setting Your Heart on Fire presents his invigorating, step-by-step process for reopening and reawakening your heart and spirit, and for learning to use this ever-present love to blaze through any obstacle you may face. The Seven Invitations in this book will guide you through a courageous assessment of your choices, emotions, behaviors, and beliefs, revolutionizing your approach to stress and adversity, and revealing a brand new way of thinking and being. In accepting the Invitations, you will learn how to let go of harmful thoughts and heal deeply rooted emotional wounds. You will begin to open yourself to love’s creativity and wisdom, struggling less yet achieving more. You will discover how to infuse everyday experiences with a breathtaking sense of joy and wonder. And your relationships - with family, friends, co-workers and romantic partners - will become a vehicle for profound and thrilling change. Each Invitation provides practical, easy-to-grasp examples that allow you to put its teachings immediately into practice. Over time, you will learn to access love in even the most difficult situations, unlocking the door to a fearless, authentic life. When your heart is on fire, the whole world is transformed by its light.

Religion & Spirituality

Harmony/Rodale/Convergent

Drawn from Raphael Cushnir's best-selling book, How Now, the 50 questions and practices in this deck are designed to help maximize one's understanding of how to let go of stress and unburden one's life from unwanted pressures and harmful emotions. Both hopeful and illuminating, it provides a variety of simple and lasting solutions to the conundrum ofbusy, modern living.

How Now: 50 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment

Chronicle Books+

In this eminently readable evocatively photographed volume best-selling author Raphael Cushnir provides a simple and holistic path to achieving lasting peace of mind and body. Through a series of short deceptively approachable essays Cushnir details the day-to-day practices that comprise the foundation of a stress-free life. Cushnir's signature mix of personal anecdote and approachable metaphor ensures that each of his 18 lessons rings home. In the spirit of Cushnir's popular How Now: 100 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment Surfing Your Inner Sea is a guidebook a resource and a wellspring of practical inspiration.

Surfing Your Inner Sea: Essential Lessons for Lasting Serenity

Alternative Medicine

Every great couple knows that a lasting relationship doesn't just happen by chance—it takes work, honesty, and courage. But in the heat of the moment and the stress of our day-to-day lives, where does one begin? Back to Us is designed to take couples on a journey that will lead them to a more fulfilling relationship, whether they have been together for five years or fifty. In this elegant and easy-to-use journal, best-selling author and wellness expert Raphael Cushnir brings his signature perspective to a variety of quizzes and introspective journaling prompts. As simple as it is engaging, the process will help couples avoid common relationship pitfalls and provide new ways to explore the great mysteries and truths that are the foundation of any loving relationship.

back-to-us

Relationships

When Raphael Cushnir's marriage fell apart, he decided to stop running away from the pain and embrace it. 
This led to an unintended explosion of "Kundalini" energy, as well as a spiritual awakening. Yet his awakening was anything but typical. At first it was chaotic, terrifying, and even sometimes demonic. 
With his life in danger, struggling to distinguish between madness and legitimate energetic attack, Cushnir chanced upon a seasoned guide who helped him restore his spiritual and literal safety. But even afterward, he still found himself sharing the space of his body and consciousness with a force that wasn't part of his previous identity, and which had an overpowering will of its own.

Surviving the Divine: A Memoir of Rude Awakening

New Age & Spirituality

BookBaby

Most great teachers love to tell stories from their past. These stories help demonstrate how we all can overcome our flaws and foibles. In the online interview series, Teaching What We Need To Learn, I asked more than forty leaders in personal growth and spirituality to go much further.  Together, we explored what was alive and unresolved for ourselves in the present. As a result, listeners got to know some of their favorite teachers like never before. Plus, they experienced a deep resonance with teachers they encountered for the first time.  In this three volume set of transcripts from the series, readers have the same opportunity to experience radical transparency as a whole new way of teaching - and being - for the 21st century.   In fact, all of us are teachers. Our everyday lives are offerings to all the people with whom we come in contact. So let’s all teach what we need to learn…and learn what we need to teach…starting now.  Teaching What We Need to Learn: Volume 1 includes transcripts from dialogues conducted by Raphael Cushnir with the following:  Buddhist Teachers: Reggie Ray, Tara Brach, James Baraz, Bikkhuni Pannavati, Susan Kaiser Greenland, Lama Surya Das, Larry Yang.  Integral Teachers: Terry Patten, Diane Musho Hamilton, Thomas Hubl, Sally Kempton, Saniel Bonder, Linda Groves Bonder

Teaching What We Need To Learn: Volume 1 - Buddhist and Integral Teachers

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Cushnir, Raphael. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Cushnir, Raphael

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Cushnir, Raphael. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

The One Thing Holding You Back: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Connection

One Thing Holding You Back, The

Setting Your Heart on Fire

Setting Your Heart on Fire: Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life

Setting Your Heart on Fire: Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life

How Now: 50 Ways to Celebrate the Present Moment

Surfing Your Inner Sea: Essential Lessons for Lasting Serenity

back-to-us

Surviving the Divine: A Memoir of Rude Awakening

Teaching What We Need To Learn: Volume 1 - Buddhist and Integral Teachers