Blake Bauer – Unconditional Self Love
Blake Bauer: You Were Not Born to Suffer
Blake Bauer is an internationally recognized author, counselor, and alternative medicine practitioner. His bestselling book You Were Not Born to Suffer and pioneering work center on loving yourself unconditionally as the key to healing yourself, fulfilling your life’s purpose, and realizing your full potential both personally and professionally.
Based on his training with spiritual teachers, healers, and masters from all over the world, Blake Bauer teaches various forms of meditation, qi gong, qi gong energy medicine, and Dao Yin (a health and longevity yoga). Blake’s formal education includes traditional Chinese medicine, five-element Chinese medicine, nutritional medicine, herbal healing, psychology, past life regression therapy-hypnosis, and various other forms of traditional healing and alternative medicine.
Bringing together what he has found to be the most effective spiritual practices and holistic approaches to health and well-being, Blake’s work, and teachings have successfully guided thousands of people internationally toward greater psychological, emotional, physical, financial, and spiritual freedom.
Originally from Chicago, Illinois in the USA, Blake Bauer now shares his time between the US, the UK, and Australia.
OMTIMES: Your book You Were Not Born to Suffer, has sold very successfully in Australia where you have been living and working for many years until recently. What is the book about?
Blake Bauer: You Were Not Born To Suffer logically outlines how most depression and disease is the result of our never learning how to love, value or express ourselves as children. Even in cases where children struggle with a mental or physical illness that appears out of their control, this work non-judgmentally asserts a perspective that says, beyond environmental and dietary toxins, even early childhood and often unexplained illnesses are connected to the suffering and underlying lack of self-love within the parents at the time of conception and while in utero. With this in mind, You Were Not Born To Suffer demonstrates how our suffering in all manifestations is a cry from our soul or subconscious asking that we care for, be kind toward, and honor ourselves NOW as the most effective way to heal and move forward. It clarifies how the self-destructive relationship most of us developed to ourselves in our hearts and minds creates the pain, stress, and drama we experience. It bluntly awakens the reader to their aggressive, critical and unhealthy habits of allowing fear-based thoughts and reactions to stop them from speaking and acting based on what they genuinely think, feel, want and need. The goal is to empower the reader to transform that self-betrayal and resulting victim-hood into self-respect, peace and authenticity, which can only be done by taking one hundred percent responsibility, forgiving oneself for allowing themselves to be hurt or for hurting themselves, and thus releasing all blame. It then actually guides the reader on how to relate to themselves with unconditional love, kindness, acceptance, and forgiveness practically and in the present moment, so they stop self-destructively seeking love, acceptance, approval, value, and recognition externally. In turn, this directly heals past pain currently stored subconsciously in our heart and body, opens us up to enjoying life in the present, and prevents us from creating additional suffering in the future. You Were Not Born To Suffer also helps the reader identify and understand their life’s purpose, and then challenges them not to settle for less than its embodied realization.
