Calm: Inspiration for a Possible Life - Softcover

John, Jaiya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998780200 ISBN 13: 9780998780207

Publisher: Soul Water Rising, 2017

Synopsis

Jaiya John’s Calm: Inspiration for a Possible Life, follows his books Fresh Peace, and Sincerity of Sunlight, as tonic for our modern epidemic of anxiety. Calm is written in Jaiya’s customary light, colorful, dreamy language. Use these petite reflections and stories as daily affirmations, mantras, reminders, practice projects, or prompts for meditation. Open the book to any page and drink its healing water. See how you can move through life with unconditional peace and clarity, literally a living Grace. Calmness is a Loving act, an intentional kindness, a soul savings account. Refresh yourself in this medicine book. Let Calm be your testimony of a possible life.

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About the Author

Dr. Jaiya John was orphan-born on Ancient Puebloan lands in the desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, author, and poet. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission that has donated thousands of Jaiya's books in support of social healing, and offers scholarships to displaced and vulnerable youth. He is the author of numerous books, including Daughter Drink This Water, and, Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of Freedom Project, a global initiative reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya is a former National Science Foundation fellow, and holds doctorate and master's degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace.

Edition details

• Publisher: Soul Water Rising
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0998780200
• ISBN 13: 9780998780207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186