Life-changing practices and everyday mysticism accessible to all
Your Royal Nature: Spiritual Essays to Find Your Way Home was written for readers who want to grow spiritually and experience the liberation that is their true royal nature. Those who lead busy and complicated lives will find the short chapters offer a meditative reading experience with guidance, support, and spiritual sustenance.
Alice McDowell draws from spiritual wisdom traditions and personal experiences to take you beyond everyday challenges and give you a larger perspective on life as you cultivate your essential nature.
Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, the essays in this book will help you:
• Find life purpose and journey towards harmony
• Break negative habits and heal the mind-body
• Cope with world crises and seek refuge from storms
• Open your heart and find deep abiding love
• Engage wisdom in daily life
“Exceptionally well written and thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation, Your Royal Nature: Inspiring Essays to Find Your Way Home by Alice McDowell is a truly original, impressively exceptional, and inspirationally motivational read from start to finish. Potentially life changing, life enhancing, and life celebrating.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Drawing on her decades of contemplative practice, Alice McDowell’s spiritual guide Your Royal Nature focuses on peeling back the layers of ego, habit, and fear that stand between the self and its truest expression, revealing a deeper, more authentic way of experiencing life. . .the book carries a conversational and intimate tone and handles sensitive topics with care and directness.”
—Foreward Clarion Review
“In age when we drift further and further away from ourselves and our humanity, this book shows the possibility of love and home, understood as peace with the self, communion with the divine, and positive influence. . .This book provides tools and the wisdom required to discover our “royal nature,” the one that is often overshadowed by trauma, ego, and conditioning. . .
The book is filled with insights and powerful thoughts to live by.”
—Readers’ Favorite, 5-star rating
Additional Praise for You Royal Nature
“If you are looking for a book to take you into your deeper, wiser, calmer self, you have found it.”
—Meghan Don, Award-winning author of Dying Into Love: A Sacred Journey for the Body and Soul
“This is a book to be savored, chock-full of spiritual practices and suggestions to return to, and chapters to revisit again and again.”
—Maureen O’Brien, author of What Was Lost: Seeking Refuge in the Psalms
“Anyone who is pursuing a journey of inner awakening will find these essays, as well as the accompanying spiritual exercises, illuminative and powerfully transformative. Your Royal Nature is a genuine treasure.”
—G. William Barnard, professor of religious studies, SMU, author of Exploring Worlds and Living Consciousness
“Alice McDowell is a light in this world.”
—Pir Zia Inayat Khan, scholar and teacher of Sufism and president of the Inayatiyya Sufi Order
“Nourishing and hearty, Alice McDowell’s new book reflects the rich harvest of a life lived with depth, integrity and wisdom.”
—Jalaja Bonheim, PhD, author of The Magic of Circlework
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