Thank you for joining us for episode 452 of Live Happy Now.

Throughout the month of January, we've been sharing practices that can help you create habits to increase your well-being.

And now, it's time for an adventure.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Steve Taylor, a best-selling author

and senior lecturer at Leeds Beckett University in England. Steve has devoted his life to

investigating spiritual awakenings, both for himself and for others. In his new book, The Adventure,

Steve provides a roadmap to walk us all through the practices he's found most useful for helping us embark on our own awakening journey.

Let's have a listen.

Well, Steve, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Hi, Paula. Great to be with you.

I'm so excited to talk with you.

You know, all throughout the month of January, we've been talking about new practices, things that people can do to really start the new year off with change.

Not, you know, we make resolutions, but those may or may not mean anything in February and after that.

So what we're really talking about is practices that we can adopt and adapt into our lives. And so your book, boy, when you talk about

an awakening, that is just so incredible. Tell us a little bit about what you mean when you talk

about a spiritual awakening. Awakening means really expansion. It's like an expansion of awareness,

an expansion of potential, an expansion of potential, an expansion

of our inner being. And it's also about connection. It's about connecting more deeply to ourselves,

connecting more deeply to other people, and connecting more deeply to the world,

yeah, the world in general. Yeah. And what kind of change does it make when we connect

more deeply with ourselves? How does that connect us then with other people? It brings a sense

of well-being because most of the time we live at the surface of our minds, we live at the level

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