The Secrets of the Bulletproof Spirit: How to Bounce Back from Life’s Hardest Hits

The authors reveal the 30 essential keys to emotional and spiritual resiliency.

by Azim Khamisa and Jillian Quinn

When life deals you a particularly difficult blow or a staggering loss, how do you handle it? If you’re like most, you struggle to find your way or lash out at those around you.

But there are a select few who seem emotionally hardier, who are able to face life’s physical, emotional and financial hits undeterred and forge ahead, empowered in the face of adversity. These people aren’t more deserving or luckier, they simply think differently.

They are connected with their steady inner self and find strength where others might see meaninglessness; they make life-affirming choices instead of defeatist ones. In short, they are spiritually bulletproof. And you can be one of them.

The authors reveal the 30 essential keys to emotional and spiritual resiliency. Based upon their own experiences with heart-wrenching loss, the strategies they present may seem simple, but their advice can open up a whole new way of thinking.

They will help you discover that your thoughts help create your reality, and that you can use them to take control of your life; the potentially damaging mental routines you’re running on autopilot; the vital connections between your upbringing and your “resiliency quotient” and will give you thoughts that may help you make more empowering choices.

With their help, you will be more confident and secure in a volatile and uncertain world. When you learn to identify most strongly with that invincible core — your bulletproof spirit — you tap into the truest source of security available to you. While there’s no foolproof way to stay out of the proverbial line of fire, the information, inspiration and tools in this book will provide you with an emotional bulletproof vest, a way to take the hits and come out on top.

$25 hardcover — Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.

Reprinted from AzNetNews, Volume 28, Number 4, August/September 2009.