WISDOM 2.0 — ANCIENT SECRETS FOR THE CREATIVE AND
CONSTANTLY CONNECTED by Soren Gordhamer. HarperOne, 2008
INTRODUCTION (1-10)
[1] Your profile — Checking to see if we have a secure connection since it will only take a few minutes! (1-4)
[2] The something that is missing — Connected. Signal — Very good! (4-10)
PART 1 — THE POWER SOURCE — CONSCIOUSNESS (11-44)
1) Know what's connected — Staying charged (13-20)
2) See choice — You mean, I have a choice? (21-25)
3) Consciously change channels — Incoming message. . . (26-30)
4) See connection as a perception — the Ultimate Wi-Fi (31-37)
DAILY PRACTICE = the Breath (38-42)
PART 2 — THE HELP CENTER — REDUCE STRESS (43-113)
5) Make space — Stress well (45-50)
6) Counter with the positive — a Dalai Lama Teaching (51-57)
7) Change through awareness — Look where the light is not good (58-64)
8) Just do — You must be logged in to do that (65-72)
9) Align actions with what matters — the Life alignment (73-78)
DAILY PRACTICE = Eat to eat (79-83)
10) Welcome stops — the Pause (84-89)
11) Draw a longer line — the Only user we can control (90-95)
12) Expand in transitions — the Squeeze (96-99)
13) Resist emergency pilot — Emergency pilot (100-104)
14) Know what not to say — the True price of our two cents (105-109)
DAILY PRACTICE = Softening (110-113)
PART 3 — THE BROWSER — CREATIVE MIND (115-232)
A third aspect of Wisdom 2.0 is to focus not on activity for activity's sake, but on inspired or creative activity. It is quality time or creative mind, a place of both focus and ease where you can see the right action in a given moment. (115)
15) Access with presence — Better than trying (117-123)
16) Try softer — Hard vs. soft effort (124-129)
17) Befriend silence — Slow the train (130-133)
18) Trust body wisdom — the Creative body (134-137)
19) To get unstuck, be stuck! (138-143)
DAILY PRACTICE = Real breaks (144-145)
20) Plant seeds now for the future — the Future that is now (149-153)
21) Make the past history — Clear personal history (154-159)
22) Be creative-prone — Chance favors a prepared mind (160-164)
23) Live, don't look creative — If you meet the creative on the road, kill it! (165-170)
24) Practice non-doing — Don't just do something, sit there! (171-176)
25) Get by letting go (177-181)
DAILY PRACTICE = Arrive (182-184)
PART 4 — THE SEARCH ENGINE — GO FOR TRUTH (185-232)
26) Notice negative frames — Life's search engine (187-193)
27) Go for truth — Better than going well (194-187)
28) See beyond me — the Danger of me (198-204)
DAILY PRACTICE — Begin and end well (205-209)
29) Trust not knowing — What even search engines don't know (210-215)
30) Trust the moment's answer — the Moment knows (216-222)
30) Let go of the need to be right — Be right and wrong (223-228)
DAILY PRACTICE = Conscious communication (229-232)
AFTERWARD (233-234)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (235-236)
NOTES (237-241)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR (243)
ABOUT WISDOM 2.net (245)
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