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Life Happens To Us: A True Story Kindle Edition

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In this heartbreaking, extremely personal memoir of a life touched by profound tragedy, author Ashta-deb invites readers into her world in the hopes that they might benefit from the discovered remedies that at last elevated her above it. Here is a soul who had suffered abuse at the hands of both parents, abandonment by her mother, and the tragic death of her thirteen-year-old sister by the time she was just nine years old. As she struggles to emerge from this devastation over the next long stretch of her life, her past is relentless in its haunting. It takes many years before doctors diagnose her with PTSD, and many more for her to find the right combination of Western medicine and Eastern wisdom to heal her. Her medication with cannabis, experimentation with Ayahuasca in Peru and finally a breakthrough healing with psilocybin offers a diverse look at mental healing. In the background of it all is her dedicated cultivation of yogic and psychic abilities. At last, Life Happens to Us endorses the importance of embracing unresolved childhood experiences. It is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand their true potential as a human being.

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Suffering pushes you in places you would never expect. It pushes you to self-realization in a way that is often necessary. It takes you to a feeling of renewed creativity, wholesomeness and integration. It takes you right where you need to be, in a state of self-love.

My most life changing moment is the realization that the suffering I was avoiding was the very suffering I needed to liberate me.

I had been a prisoner within my own body for two long. It was time to close the door on this chapter of my life.

Liberating myself was a moment of awareness. I realized, I was fighting for Life to take me where I wanted to be and not where the Life wanted me to be, which is, the realization; I am a being of love. Not love as an emotion, but I am love. I am the "One" I was searching for.

Letting go of the Known hurts more than stepping into the Unknown. Nobody likes to leave what they perceive they Know behind.

When I realized I could apply Newton's law and Einstein E=mc2 to my life, all logic crumbled. Letting go became easier and easier. The emptiness filled with emptiness within and without is a purity and grace that is a gift for all mankind, not just a selected few.

On my journey the contrast of self-discipline and enforced discipline was clear. One took me to where I wanted to be and one made me rebel.

The late Father De Mello said there are only two states in man "Love and Fear." Not hatred as many believe, but fear. The opposite you don't understand is what you fear.

Understanding the opposite and integrating it with its opposing partner made me the see the "One." Duality only exists when we cease to see that the "One" is who sees the Two, but it is our responsibility to ensure the Two sees the One: E=mc2. That is an Enlightened state to of Being.

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Since the publication of "Life Happens to Us" Ashta has seen many indescribable changes in her life. Her expanded awareness is mysterious and the vision to open a healing center persists. This is a updated bio which is more present to the moment than the previous.

Ashta-deb has the ability to apply our widely accepted science formulas to Mental Health Awareness:

·Albert Einstein: E=mc2: "Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared".
·Newton's Law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction."
·Nikola Tesla: "If you wish to understand the universe, think of energy, frequency and vibration?"

Ashta uses these formulas as a road map to Mental Health Healing.

Ashta-deb founded and developed Ashta Chaitanya after needing a fresh start from Ashta Ashram and writing her book. She continues to follow this intuitive guidance to help those in who are tormented by mental agony.

Ashta-deb is a Registered Hypnotherapist and an Intuitive Empath Healer. She is accredited by the National Guild of Hypnotists and is a long-standing member.

Ashta-deb's extensive travels took her to India where she learned firsthand from her Guru the art of Kriya Yoga and Meditation.

The combination of Hypnosis, Kriya Yoga & Meditation and Ashta's Empath skills are truly unique. Her ability to apply these science formulas to Mental Health Awareness is a gift.

Ashta has the ability to alleviate mental health suffering through subconscious awareness. She combines all her teachings bringing the best from each. The result being a true transformational experience.

Visit us at our new website: AshtaChaitanya.com

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B079MS1SGD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ FriesenPress; 1st edition (February 6, 2018)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 6, 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 877 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 288 pages

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Ashta Chaitanya created by Ashta-deb is dedicated to ongoing learning and teaching of Mental Health Awareness. Emphasis is placed on Ancient Yogic Teachings. A practical and simplified approach.

Ashta-deb’s is often heard to say “Simplicity is my mantra.”

Her observation of the world is, “we have moved from simple to complex.”

Mental Health Awareness is a journey of self-exploration. Its premise is - why do you react to the world the way you do? not why isn’t the world reacting to me the way I want it to?

Ashta-deb has been teaching Mental Health Awareness for over 16 years. She is a Registered Hypnotherapist, proficient in Kriya yoga and an Intuitive Empath Healer. She is accredited by the National Guild of Hypnotists and continues to be a long-standing member. In her early years as an Empath Healer, she cultivated her Reiki skills becoming a Reiki Master in 2006.

Her extensive travels took her to India where she learned first hand from her Guru the art of Kriya Yoga and Meditation. She continues to experiment with different yogic techniques and with the curiosity and adventurous soul of a child, her wisdom continues to evolve.

Ashta-deb’s wisdom and teachings are unique and feel personalized, even in a group or audience setting.

Her ability to apply science formulas, Newton’s law of “Action and Reaction,” as well as Einstein’s equation E =mc², to Mental Health Awareness is astounding. Ashta-deb has created, implemented and taught varied techniques by which you can explore your inner-most thoughts.

Some of these techniques are, but not limited to:

• Visualizations

• Meditation

• Yoga Asana specific to Mental Health

• Conscious journaling

• Writing Meditation for the Soul – journal series

• Exploring “I” journal series

Ashta has the ability to alleviate mental health suffering through subconscious awareness. She brings the best from her combined teachings. The result being a true and lasting transformational experience.

Her spiritual wisdom of Vedanta and mystical yogic abilities are invaluable combinations for those who seek personal guidance.

Ashta-deb has penned her memoirs in “Life Happens To Us, A True Story.” A book Kirkus Reviewers described as “An emotional, well-written, but often disturbing narrative.” Reader reviews echo that they are inspired by her and captivated by her life journey.

She has shared her wisdom and experiences through numerous print and online publications including: Female First, Amaze Magazine and 420 Magazine. Ashta-deb was a featured guest on Conscious Talk Radio in Seattle, Washington.

Ashta-deb is a caring and loving person. Her ability to touch the core of suffering is temporarily disconcerting yet ultimately freeing.

Note: Ashta's techniques are not meant to replace traditional mental health therapy, instead, they are a valuable asset to any healing process.

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Shanta Narinesingh

For those who are on a quest for self-realization and spiritual growth

Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2018

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As a person of a similar background , that is - born in the Caribbean, Hindu, of East Indian descent and an understanding of what it was like to move to Canada for a better life and the impact felt in a family setting - I must say that this book struck a lot within me. At times, I could see everything very clearly as it played out and the ensuing emotions evoked.

I truly enjoyed the book and although at times it seemed a bit jarring , it shows that it does not matter what the journey is at the end of the day to get to knowing yourself and Spirit , all that matters is that you are willing to take all the pain, discomfort and hurt to get to self and God-realization. And that you have to keep at it !

It also shows that it does not matter what we have done in our lives , and by this I mean all of the things that we perceive as bad , because at the end of the day it does not matter if it is a search until you finally find yourself beneath all the layers of hurt, anger, pain and self-loathing that we all cloak ourselves within. GOd does not judge us as you will realise after reading this journey of Asta-deb . it is WE who are our biggest critics. It is very easy to get caught up with all of the labels we give ourselves in this life - this is good, this is bad etc - but Ashta-Deb shows us none of that matters ! it is pure nonsense and the faster we realise that , better for us !

Despite going through the full spectrum of human emotion and all of the things we perceive as bad , Ashta-DEb shows that we can rise above it all and discover our true selves as walking Masters of our own destinies with the power to help others along the way.

I definitely recommend this book to those who are on a spiritual quest and have doubts on whether they are worthy of love, honour , respect and God in their lives.

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Lolly

Cultural, Grief, Loss, Family Dysfunction, Spiritual Journey

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018

We could not face each other, could not help each other, and could not love each other. The fog of grief and hurt was too thick to see through. It was every man for himself from this moment.

I have read many memoirs that leave me aching for the author, Debbie’s story left a lump in my throat. The death of her beloved older sister Neelam buried on October 9, 1972 at the tender age of 13 was just the beginning of the PTSD that made cause so much emotional destruction throughout her entire life. This is a journey that takes Debbie full circle, putting her sister at rest, and maybe freeing her own soul. It’s the in-between and the before that is so heart-breaking.

With parents that wanted to make more of themselves by being the first in their family to leave Guyana for Canada, Debbie and her sister Neelam and Priya learned quickly how different they were from their light-skinned Canadian peers. Dreams of starting school as she is a curious child and making many friends dies when Debbie hears the ugly taunts hurled at her sisters and then herself, the racism of the 60’s openly hostile toward anyone foreign. While her mother and father enjoyed the envy and pride that greeted them when the family vacationed in Guyana, the reality of their ‘worldly life’ was a far cry from the wealth and privilege their relatives believed they were leading. Her parents marriage is crumbling, her mother is more attuned to the many male admirers that she seems to leave in her wake than in being a loving, nurturing mother to her attention starved daughters. Cruelties slip easily from her mouth, when she isn’t emasculating her husband she is pointing out her three girls many flaws, like their skin color, or their weight. Never wanting to be called Mom, as she is far too beautiful and young in appearance to be one, she tends to demand Debbie lie and pretend she isn’t her child, better to manipulate whichever man is her current lover. Family members that come to stay aren’t much help with their own jealousies and deceit. Her father grows enraged with his wife’s philandering and takes his fury out on his daughters, one who can’t survive life under his rule. Debbie is conflicted, far too young to be accountable for witnessing her two sisters beatings, for being daddy’s helper, it takes a toll on her self-esteem. It will take a lifetime to come to terms with the things that she lived through.

Being shuffled between loyalties, homes, family, and countries until she is completely homeless and at the mercy of strangers, Debbie longs to be nothing like her mother and father when she has her own children.Sadly, we tend to choose what’s familiar, and the bitter toxins of our abuse are patterns we repeat. Debbie finds herself failing as a mother, being too hard on her own children, easily pushed over the edge when she isn’t trying to be the perfect mother and wife. Carrying spouses who once seemed like the perfect love for her, she struggles with her own fidelity issues, stomachs abusive partners mirroring the chaos of her own parent’s disastrous marriage. Her mother and father continue to be unstable forces in her life, going from absentee, to volatile or insulting. Her father isn’t innocent either, degrading and shaming his girls by accusing them of being ‘whores’ like their mother, starting over with a new family, even possibly committing a crime in Canada that forced him to disappear one night. Debbie’s mother doesn’t have a nurturing bone in her body, always siding against her daughter, even when Debbie works hard to be the provider for her family and support her husbands and their dreams.

Debbie sinks into a dark depression, and it is through her spiritual journey that she learns what it means that ‘life happens to us’. We tend to think we are all steering this life we come into, but the reality is there are more things out of our control than under it. For Debbie, it isn’t just the tragic suicide of her sister Neelam, but the loss of Priya too whom, though alive, is unable to be close to her remaining little sister. It is also that she has parents whose own lives have spun so far out of control that all they know how to do is lash out and destroy others, and each other. They are never a family again, not really. She had a few loving family members, like her grandfather whom she shares a sort of psychic gift with, known as he is to be a sort of magic man. But in her youth, this untapped gift isn’t of much use, where the hope for each day is simply survival and maybe some food for her belly. Debbie will never find what she needs outside of herself, and certainly not through the adults nor any man she may love along the way. Love is transitory in her life, just like her living arrangements seem to be. It is through Western medicine and Eastern Wisdom that she has a chance to heal the wounds in her mind and her soul.

She isn’t always likable, becoming more like her own cold mother at times, and that is how the sad cycle continues. It’s easy to gain spirituality for a day, be it through a retreat, a new love, or mantras, it’s keeping that spirituality intact when life comes at you full force that is the real journey. One thing is true, she has to confront the past in order to be able to shed the pain and rage that lurks within her own being. She has to treat her PTSD and allow herself the grieving that was denied her.

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Jessica

A powerful personal history of facing the past to become whole in the present

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2018

I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

What happens when you hold on to the traumas of your past? You start projecting them on the people around you. The things that happened to you that you have not fully accepted, whether good or bad, continue to stay with you until you accept them and let them be. No matter how painful it is to work through these things, until you do, you will see them in everything and everyone around you. Such is the lesson I learned from Debbie.

This was truly one of these most powerful books I have read in a long time. It opened my eyes to a lot of my own behaviors and feelings, which was not the intention when I picked it up.

Debbie had a really sad life growing up and was pretty much rejected by her parents the majority of her life and then her remaining sister after their sister committed suicide. Later she endured a series of failed relationships and ended up in an abusive marriage with a passive aggressive husband. For decades she projected the grief of losing her sister onto others. The rejection of her parents turned into angry outbursts and the abuse and mistreatment of her partners made her turn on herself, always wondering what was wrong with her.

In the end, she reached out for spiritual enlightenment that caused her to reach deep within herself. She was told by pundits that her marriage was her lesson to learn. And finally she underwent psilocybin treatment to finally find closure to her sister’s suicide decades before. What helped her wasn’t running from her feelings but turning toward them and diving in. She had to fully embrace all the emotions, go through the pain again, and come to an acceptance within herself.

Debbie shows us all how truly brave we can be and how powerful past experiences can still be decades later. She faced her past to come out strong enough to put her foot down in her present. She is a truly remarkable woman and I have a lot of respect for her. Her book has made me think a lot about myself and things I may need to face to have a fulfilling life.

5 stars - more if I could.

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Neal De Florio

Great Memoir!

Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2024

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Great memoir! well written. Felt as if you could hear the author's voice telling her story!

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life happens

Reviewed in Canada on August 10, 2018

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amazing story , very sad well written , you will never be sorry that you have read this book . she had a very long road to travel but she did it
A must read

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