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Finding Quiet Strength
Emotional intelligence, embodied awarenessNow also available as an ebook£24.00
Finding Quiet Strength by Judith Kleinman will be your personal life survival kit. The ideas in this book can help on this journey of finding a quiet, flexible strength, which gives us a greater capacity to choose how we want to be in the world. If this intrigues you, then this book is for you.
‘I learned a lot from working with Judith Kleinman. She was able to locate in me a stillness and equilibrium I didn’t know I had…’ Nick Hornby
Description
Finding Quiet Strength is a practical philosophy that connects to both ancient wisdom and modern neuroscience. Judith Kleinman enables a calm, confident, and coordinated approach to life, helping us to be centred, grounded and therefore to develop a sense of poise and equilibrium.
At some point, most of us need help with the challenges of life. Finding Quiet Strength (FQS) is a practice of being present in a way that develops our emotional intelligence and embodied awareness that enables us to navigate the many ups and downs of being human. The work helps us to develop a deep and gentle self-acceptance. Through this self-acceptance, FQS helps us work on an embodied resilience and become more aware of what we can let go of and change.
A core element of this work is inspired by F.M. Alexander’s principles of inhibition and direction, stopping, thinking and connecting. With practice, we can take a moment to pause and consider how we might be limiting ourselves and begin to notice the interconnection of our mindset with our bodies.
Often the patterns of worrying and anxiety that we embody can be below our conscious radar and can start to limit the joy, peace and ease which we find when we feel in charge of ourselves. Finding Quiet Strength integrates Alexander’s discoveries with Chi Kung and Tai Chi. These ancient traditions help us recognise the signals of threat that trigger old patterns of defence and fear and restore us to a sense of being centred and to regain conscious control. FQS works on the relationship between thinking in stillness and thinking in activity to find a sense of wholeness in whatever we do so we can feel at home with ourselves in all situations and our lives can become more joyful.
I learned a lot from working with Judith Kleinman. She was able to locate in me a stillness and equilibrium I didn’t know I had, and that has stood me in good stead for all the vicissitudes of work and domestic life.
Nick Hornby – Author
I love Judith’s work. The drawings, words and thoughts are just lovely – their message is as calming as it is bursting with positive ideas. Easy to dip into yet rewarding to read, there are some great tools for life in this book.
Arabella Weir – Actor Comedian and Writer
Her natural facility and fluid figurative lines express movement in the body but also the feelings inside. Some drawings feature unusual and unexpected balancing acts absorbed by quiet strength. Sometimes funny and at times autobiographical but always positive with a message of well-being.
Michelle Franklin – Artist
Additional information
| ISBN | 978-1-912480-73-9 |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Judith Kleinman |
| Format | hardback |
| Size | 256 × 186 mm |
| Publication Date | 30 June 2022 |
| Illustrations | original illustrations by the author |
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