The Power and Art of Living
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Many lives are limited by lack of intellectual or vocational training. But even more lives are limited by the inability to properly relate to choices from the past: our likes and dislikes; talents and inclinations; yearnings and strengths; and especially, personal and professional relationships. Too often the underlying positive aspects in our lives, many of which began during our school years, have been overlooked or are exchanged for less qualitative choices and activities in adulthood.
We often find activities that have proven beneficial in our past being supplanted through the years by less enjoyable and often less beneficial alternatives. Some of our good first choices in life have also been usurped by more recent bad. Smoking, drinking, casual sex, and other dangerous pastimes or vices can catch us nearly unaware. Suddenly we’re traveling down a road that has little or no value to our overall growth and in fact will lead to destruction in one way or another; for ourselves or those that we love most.
Remember, our feelings about a given situation can change with a moment’s contemplation and redirection. How often do you push the button on the TV or home entertainment remote to change the channel or mode, alternating from sports to news, history to mystery, audio to video? Well, it’s just that easy with emotions. That short trip from conscious to subconscious can find us enlivening happiness, joy and patience instead of negativity because all those right feelings are also there just beneath the surface.
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About the Book
Theodore (Teddy) Smith is no stranger to extraordinary experiences. As a teacher, educator, trainer, on-air personality, and martial arts black belt, he’s learned plenty of lessons over the years—many of them difficult and soul-wrenching. Yet each one has helped him navigate life’s tough road and has given him the knowledge to turn life’s everyday experiences into profound insight.
Part autobiography and part self-help guide, The Power and Art of Living shares Smith’s inspiring journey through past and present creating a blueprint of how to successfully live your life. Through reflection, meditation, proper physical activity, mental stimulus, and spiritual outreach, reaching a place of enlightenment is not only possible, but essential to discovering the keys to inner growth, strength and maturity.
If you embrace self-reflection and have an open mind, Smith believes you will find the ability to learn from your own daily experiences and be able to awaken previously overlooked ideas and attitudes. Along with like-minded friends, Smith encourages you to question preconceived values, beliefs, and goals and then use the answers to help reshape the quality of your life.
The Power and Art of Living combines principles from the East and the West to help you create a road map to living a successful, fulfilling life!
About the Author
TEDDY SMITH has been a martial arts practitioner and on-air radio personality since his high school years. He received a BA in Communications and Psychology from Hampshire College, a BS in Interdisciplinary Studies from Empire State College, and a MA in Education from Goddard College. Smith currently resides in New York City.