LIVING IN THE LIGHT BOOK SUMMARY AND LESSONS

 

Summary:

"Living in the light" book is about creative visualization, meditation, personal growth, and development. From this book, we will learn about creative visualization & how we can apply creative visualization techniques to our life. This book was first time published in 1986 and more than 7 million copies of this book sold out also many revised versions of this book have been published.

The author of this book is Shakti Gawain. She was born in New Jersey which is one of the states in America and belongs to one educated family. According to the author, she always had a burning desire to know the answers to these questions. what is Universe? What is life? Meaning and Purpose of life?

According to the Author, she had written this book to teach creative visualization to people. We can learn creative visualization by implementing these all steps that she has taught us. Firstly, we have to relax our bodies, then think about the goals in our life that we want to achieve in our life. Think the same as what we want to do in real. She had used this technique many times and find helpful for everyone. Most of the time happened with her as same as she thought. This technique had impressed her a lot so she thought that she must teach this technique to other people free of cost. She also helped a lot of people in career counseling and at last, she wrote this book.

Most of us focus on external things or you can say we are materialistic means we want money, things, relationships, work & food. But if our focus shifts from external things to internal things then we can create a new type of real life for ourselves. She also answered the question of why we have become materialistic. The answer is Hundreds of millions of years ago we only want physical survival meant to save our life. But nowadays we don’t need physical survival due to the army, police, and courts. Now we don’t need physical protection therefore we have an opportunity to find a new purpose in our life. But it's not an easy task. She also gave an example here of a child. When a child starts to walk then he falls many times and he doesn’t lose his confidence. If he loses his confidence then he can’t able to walk. Similarly, we are in this world like that child. You should try again and again so far you are not successful in our goal. So, you should start with meditation, sit in a silent room, relax your body, and try to solve your tensions and confusion one by one. 

After solving your problems imagine you don’t have problems and think you have a new life now.  After this, you have to think that there is a higher power in this universe that is running this word means God exists. Different religions call God by different names like God, Khuda, Allah, etc. and every religion has its book in which you find out God is one. In western civilization, we only reached Allah by using our minds. Although we know that we brain and five senses only worked till at a limited boundary. All senses have limited power. How we can find out God by using limited powers? Although we can’t find a complete explanation of our emotions and feelings.

These emotions & feelings tell us that there is higher power exists who control this universe. 

According to the author don’t listen to anyone only listen to your heart's voice and do what you want to do. Choose your own goal although it's difficult. In this way, you will get peace, happiness, and calmness in your life.

Shakti Gawain also had focused on Khodi like Allama Iqbal. Find yourself in yourself, not materialistic things. We have found happiness in people, not in our inner self that’s why we remain upset primarily due to people. 

For example: If you love anyone, you feel happy by talking or meeting him/her. But real happiness is hidden in you not him/ her because when he/ she may deceive you then you will be disappointed in your life.

When you are successful to find out yourself then you realize the real happiness is to love yourself first. But When you connect yourself to materialistic things you can’t get peace, therefore, you have to find yourself according to yourself, not by anyone’s commands. 

It's not a one-day task you have to try again and again then you will be successful to get spiritual word. 

The author says that we should not go on with only one spiritual word and physical word. We should go on with both our bodies and soul. Sometimes we feel we are intelligent, wise people, and the next moment we feel angry or stupid. The reason behind this is we don’t work with our both body and soul.

Understand this from an example.

For example, when we make a timetable for achieving our goal, then we can’t act upon it 100%. When we make a timetable then we are working with only our soul and we didn’t involve our body. So that is why we can’t act openly. If we want to do better, we should learn how to balance our life with other things.

Similarly, we have divided our society into males and females. Females are more intelligent and wiser because they think mostly and listen to their heart voice and work better. But men work mostly through their bodies. So, when they mix up then body and soul mix up. In this way, they work better 

Similarly, we had divided our word into western and eastern. They also act like body and soul because one is getting progress day and day and making advanced technologies. But the other one is not. One is good in physical words while the other is good in spiritual words.

In our childhood, we heard that always deciding your life through your mind means always listening to your mind. But it's not good. We should also take the design by listening to our hearts, emotion, and feelings.

Peoples have also two categories. One is always working while the other one only spares their time in useless activities. We should balance our life with work and other different activities. 

We make relationships for happiness but when the other person does not act as you imagine then you feel frustrated. So, the solution is that you first write about that what qualities you want in your partner. So, in this way make relationships not only by heart but also by the mind.

If you give respect to yourself then people also give you respect. If you are treating well with yourself. Then you will find real happiness. 

Similarly, we people also want to do something big. But most people can’t do that the reason behind this is that we make goals not knowing ourselves. We make goals to see other people so that way we mostly fail in our life. First, know yourself then make your goals.

Lessons:

These are the lessons that I have gotten from this book.

1.       Be fair with yourself.

2.       Don’t listen to others' commands.

3.       Be responsible.

4.       Do all your life’s decisions yourself.

5.       Make your life goal and start working on that.

6.       Do balance your life with everything.

7.       Spend time with those peoples those has value in your life. 

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