Awakening Soulforce - Mansukh Patel

A 24 day programme to cultivate your soul force

This is the story of how 45 people whose lives had been devastated by war, catalysed an awakening - the awakening of soulforce.

It shows you how their example can catalyse a similar awakening within your life.

It came about through their sincere desire to rebuild their lives and to affect the future of their nation. This book is an invitation to express yourself and your life in a totally different way - one that uses Soul Power.

Built around Dru's famous Golden Eagle Salutation Sequence, this book offers a 24 day programme that has the power to catalyse the same awakening in YOU. It promises to stir your heart and excite the part of you that is longing for freedom.

Hardback - ISBN 1873606184 - 80 pages

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Awakening Soulforce - Mansukh Patel

In Awakening Soulforce, Mansukh Patel offers the reader a 24-step process to awaken their innermost potential.

Mansukh wrote the book after working with a group of people who live in a war zone. Engaged in intensive detraumatisation programmes in their country, they included child psychologists, social workers, refugee leaders, students and community workers. All shared a common vision – to heal the extraordinary emotional wounds left after years of war and violence. Mansukh Patel and colleagues from the Dru team, Savitri MacCuish and Andrew Wells, had travelled to be with these people in an adjoining country, to train them in a wide variety of self-help techniques for healing emotional pain.

In Mansukh’s words, ‘The pulse that surges through this book is the reawakening of hope and faith inspired by the plight of people who are living in a war zone. The material in Awakening Soulforce has arisen from the personal experiences of forty-five aid workers – people who have dedicated their lives to helping their countrymen and women resurrect some kind of hope and stability amidst the turmoil of invasion and the devastation of war.’

Mansukh Patel and Savitri MacCuish had three and a half days in this particular training (it was one of a series) to work with these people; Andrew Wells and a group of other trainers would then continue afterwards to anchor that training. During that time Mansukh and Savitri were able to pass on some of Dru’s most effective techniques for healing emotional pain, and the aid workers responded with extraordinary heroism.

Traumatised themselves – most had lost at least one loved-one in the war – the aid workers used the technique outlined in Awakening Soulforce to achieve a remarkable transformation. Mansukh Patel describes how in their presence he felt the urgency of their situation; what it was like to live in a nation that felt completely lost and forgotten by the world. Yet the transformation they accomplished was so complete that it left everyone participating completely aware of their strengths and ability to change even the most desperate situations.

What was even more poignant for Mansukh, Andrew and Savitri was that the experience of these brave aid workers highlighted the dilemma of every human being. Few people do not at some stage feel lost and alone, and all of us can experience moments of insecurity or disconnection with our inner strengths. As Awakening Soulforce shows, we as individuals also can replicate the transformation experienced by these brave aid workers.

At the core of Awakening Soulforce is one of Dru’s best-loved techniques, the Golden Eagle Sequence. Mansukh Patel describes how he has taught this sequence all over the world, in many different circumstances, and always known it to be a tool of immense power. But these people brought it alive in a way he had never seen before. What was the difference? Mansukh believes that they were each one hundred percent present, giving themselves to the process at every level – physically, mentally and emotionally with full faith. He describes how he has seen people’s lives changed before, but in all his years of experience, he had never before witnessed such an immediate transformation. Mansukh felt it could only have been because of the power of their intention and their intense faith and trust that they could change the future of their country.

Awakening Soulforce

Mansukh Patel thought deeply about how these people could make a significant difference to their country. What would Gandhi have done? Mansukh recalled how the Mahatma had always said that the power of one person’s soulforce is enough to change the world. He called this power ‘Satyagraha’, and instigated movements based on it which were so far-reaching that Time Magazine voted him Man of the Century.

Mansukh realised that nothing less than the power of soulforce was going to work for these psychologists and counsellors.

Gandhi had his own methods and approaches to implementing soulforce in society. His power came from his spiritual practice of silence, meditation and reading the Bhagavad Gita. Mansukh Patel’s parents, who were Gandhians all their lives, were also custodians of their own indigenous tradition – that of Dru Yoga. Having had this knowledge imparted to him, Mansukh searched the wisdom of that tradition to create a model that would work for these people.

Twenty Four steps

Most readers of Awakening Soulforce do not live in a society shattered by war. However, what can we do to bring us out of comfort to the pitch of readiness experienced by these aid workers when they began to use the Golden Eagle Sequence?

Within hours after returning from the training, Mansukh Patel began devising a process that would enable us all to benefit in the same way.

In Awakening Soulforce, Mansukh offers us a twenty-four day process that uses the Golden Eagle Sequence to sequentially take our awareness to a more and more profound and effective level. The goal – awakening the power of your own soulforce. Mansukh Patel has created a carefully crafted sequence of intentions and visualisations to use with the Golden Eagle Sequence, as well as a powerful set of methods to help you clarify and empower your personal aspirations and goals.

Mansukh encourages you primarily to employ this sequence for someone else, since the nature of soulforce is intrinsically self-less. If you can discover the benefits your most cherished goals would bring to the people around you, according to Mansukh Patel, you are already well on the way to unleasing the power of soulforce in your life.