Mastering Life's Energies: Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play

Everyone has had luminous moments ― those instances when we experience the beauty and grace of life, whether we’re looking into the eyes of a newborn or watching the sun set over the ocean. But those moments are usually brief and difficult to consciously create. Many of us have been successful in attaining personal and professional goals, but we’re too exhausted to enjoy what we’ve accomplished. Or we might walk around in a fog, feeling vaguely frustrated, resigned, or cynical and asking all the wrong questions about how to make our lives better. In either case, we miss the purpose of being alive: to wake up and fully become ourselves, to allow others to contribute to us and, in turn, to contribute our gifts to the world ― fully savoring the journey along the way. This fascinating new book gives us specific methods for bringing luminosity into our lives on a consistent basis, allowing us to view the world with much younger, more vibrant eyes. Mastering Life’s Energies shows us how to use all the energies of our lives ― physical vitality, creativity, time, money, enjoyment, and relationship ― to realize our goals and dreams and, even more important, live a luminous life, filled with possibility and promise.

Maria Nemeth, Ph.D., MCC, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Master Certified Coach, is an international inspirational speaker, author, seminar leader and coach. She is the Founder of the Academy for Coaching Excellence. For more than 20 years, Dr. Nemeth has trained professional coaches, ministers, clinicians, executives, teachers and private individuals using the coaching methods and skills that she has designed. Her courses and workshops have been taken by thousands of people from around the world who report significant, even miraculous, changes in their lives as a result of her teachings. Maria is the author of The Energy of Money; A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment, published by Ballantine-Wellspring in 1999, which is available in five languages. Her nine-hour audio-cassette series The Energy of Money, won the 1999 Audie Award for best Personal Development Series. She has made numerous radio and television appearances. Maria and her Energy of Money book were featured on the Oprah show. A former Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, California State University Dominguez Hills and an Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, California State University Davis School of Medicine, she has thirty years experience in design and delivery of transformational training programs for personal, professional and organizational development. After eighteen years of teaching people how to be successful coaches, Maria founded the Academy for Coaching Excellence, an International Coach Federation accredited training program. Today, she and the faculty of the Academy work with individuals who seek to become professional coaches, and with healthcare, spiritual communities, and other for-profit and non-profit organizations seeking cultural transformation. Maria lives in Sacramento, California. At least she thinks she does. She’s been traveling around so much lately she’s not really sure.