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    What Your Soul Already Knows
    What Your Soul Already Knows
    What Your Soul Already Knows
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    What Your Soul Already Knows

    By Salma Farook

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    We live life like automatons, moving with reckless inattentiveness through the preset motions. We have lost touch with our inner selves, the self that has all the answers, that is imbued with the natural balance of joy and productivity. What have we forgotten? What have we lost to this mechanical lifestyle?

    The secrets to joy, aren’t secrets at all. They aren’t being whispered. You are just not listening loudly enough to the wisdom of your inner voice.

    This book is a reminder to listen.

    It is a detailed exploration of elements such as personal qualities, interpersonal skills and healthy habits that make up the path to intuitive happiness and productivity.

    Early-Reader Reviews:

    What your soul already knows is a extraordinarily well-written book. It's a call to to pay attention to the intuitive wisdom that lies within us. A refreshing read, it had me nodding in complete agreement so often. Salma has boldly taken topics that may seem ordinary and familiar and worked to present it in a whole new light. It's not everyday you come across an author who can write in a way that directly speaks to you like an old friend. We don't need new information, new techniques to understand the wisdom around around you. Like the book title implies, your soul already knows this stuff. You just need a simple, beautifully written reminder like WYSAK every now and then. Thank you for writing this!
    - Priyadharshini

    Art of living explained in 26 simple but powerful thoughts. As the author quoted, "The secrets to joy, aren't secret at all", this books is a good reminder. Lucky enough to get an early copy which I thoroughly enjoyed reading.
    - Azar

    Absolutely loved this book! An A to Z guide to finding and nurturing that inner happiness and peace that you’ve always wanted. Amazing life lessons that we can incorporate into our day to day lives. A must read for everyone!
    - Fathima

    The best! I never thought I would complete a philosophy or self help book cover to cover, but once I started reading the early copy of this book, it was definitely a page turner. Short stories, inspiring little words, not too long or complicated to pause and come back again. Great work by the author. Loved it.
    - Jeeva

    It is always inspiring and refreshing when you come across motivational books that discusses human relationships! This is one such book. Each chapter describes one key idea and how it can be used to achieve your goals. A 117 page guide to help us look into ourselves and change our perspectives. Thank you Dr. Salma Farook for the lovely read!..
    - Farin

    This book I got to read as an early copy and needless to say it was great reading it..we over the period of our life forget such small things and happiness that would have moulded us better..Help us understand relationships,Our surroundings and above all Our own self..
    " A great introspect of life, which many overlook in due course of life"...
    - Lavanya

    An amazing book to read! The ideas were truly life changing. A very practical advice to take that next step in your life ! A push to transform yourself to the best version of yourself! A must read I must say. Thank you for such a wonderful book.
    - Ruwaidha

    Sweet with a subtle environmental message. This is a story that glows. I'm opportuned to an early copy of the book before it's release date. This is definitely a book that had an impact on me as a reader. It held so much meaning and depth. It is an avenue to learn more about life. No matter who and where you are in your life,you will find yourself in this book and it may just be a start of a new journey for you. I totally enjoyed reading it and will recommend it for everyone! A job well done @Salma Farook
    - Fatima

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSalma Farook
    Release dateMay 27, 2018
    ISBN9780463533741
    What Your Soul Already Knows
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    Salma Farook

    Salma Farook is a Seychelloise doctor, writer and poet. A mental health and positive-thinking advocate, she strongly believes in the role of interfaith harmony and the power of words in making a positive impact on the world. She was born in Seychelles to two ‘very Indian’ parents. She grew up on the islands and went on to complete Med-school in India. She believes the scenic beauty of the Seychelles and the cultural impact of one of the world’s oldest civilisations gave her the best of both worlds. Although adept at observing tiny quirks in people and fascinated with the mechanics of human relationships, she regularly pushes doors that very clearly say PULL. She currently lives on Mahé with her husband. She loves, loves to hear from her readers so reach out to [email protected]

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      What Your Soul Already Knows - Salma Farook

      ATTITUDE

      A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude.

      - Willa Cather

      The worst thing we can do is lose our inner child.

      In his heart-breaking book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne tells the story of a nine-year-old Bruno, growing up in Berlin during the second world war, next to a Nazi camp that his father is commandant of. Through the spaces in a fence erected by a cruel world, a sweet friendship develops between Bruno and Shmuel, a Jewish boy. Naively unaware of the brutal facts of his world, Bruno sneaks his friend food and tries to cheer him up. One day, he changes into camp uniform and sneaks into the camp to help Shmuel find his ‘missing’ father. They are marched into a windowless room. Bruno apologises to Shmuel for not being able to find his father and tells him that he is his best friend for life, as the gas chamber is closed, and darkness falls…

      This is a soul-stirringly poignant example of how far we can fall when we lose the innocent spirit of childhood.

      Whenever I observe children play, I am blessed with a sense of tranquillity. In them, I see solutions for most of what is wrong with today’s world. Children of every race laugh and cry together, without the colour of their skin ever being a hindrance. They show sympathy for scrapes and bruises, not caring whether the blood spilt is Hindu or Muslim or Christian. They say what they mean and stand by it. World peace would be more than just a possibility if we were all to suddenly become children again; it would be the most likely probability.

      Perhaps it is time to turn the classrooms around so we may learn from them. Maybe when we are learned enough in the illiteracy of childhood, we can finally pacify the world.

      The next time you are about to be judgemental, remember that you too were once a child in a playground, where prejudice and bias had no place. Remember, that it was magnificent...

      Wisdom is a trait that can easily be misconceived to be in the territory of the old. However, you do not have to be grey-haired to be wise. We are endowed with it way before that, along with the purity of childhood. Somewhere along the way, we lose it, only to make a harried search for it later!

      How many times have you seen a child jump with elation at the sight of an aeroplane? In contrast, we have stopped taking joy in the small things.

      Finding happiness in the everyday matters is one of the most blissful and comprehensive ways of living. More often than not, we are so focused on everything that is wrong or unsatisfactory that we forget to list all the tiny things that are perfect. It is good to concentrate on the bigger picture, but it is better, to do so while taking joy in the pixels that make it up.

      It is truly ironic that a four-hundred tonne aluminium monster floats so effortlessly through the sky, and only the five-year-old thinks to say, Wow!

      I am on an expedition, to rediscover my inner child, and I hope you join me too. May we too, like them, have the courage to run as fast as we can, even when balance seems precarious, even when the likelihood that we fall is insurmountable.

      When we do fall, may we get up, wobble a bit, maybe, and run again.

      As if we have never fallen before.

      BAFFLEMENT

      Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

      - Henry David Thoreau

      One of the truly hardest things in life is feeling like a ship without a compass; floating mindlessly, lost at sea. You are haunted by questions; Why am I alive? What difference am I making in this world? What do I do with my life?

      If the two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why... then what do we do with the days in between?

      What an intimidating question!

      Maya Angelou was a poet that I admire deeply. At the tender age of eight, she was sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. The man was imprisoned, then killed soon after, presumably by her uncles. In the aftermath of these horrifying events, the child who would one day become one of the most eloquent and inspiring poets of the world, became mute for five long years. She was lost and terrified. However, it is said that it was in this dark period that she developed her incredible insight into

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