Blake Bauer – Unconditional Self Love
OMTIMES: Why do you think your book is resonating with people in Australia?
Blake Bauer: Primarily, because I was living there and teaching often.
OMTIMES: Why do you think your book is resonating so deeply with people?
Blake Bauer: It is founded on my own intense suffering and healing, as well as my practical professional work with thousands of people. I wrote it from my heart, based on a knowing that it was a large part of the reason I came to this planet. On my own path of awakening and healing, I desperately searched for freedom from the intense mental torture, emotional pain, confusion, insecurity, and fear I experienced. I needed to clarify my life’s purpose. I was lucky enough to find the answers and solutions I was looking for after attending five different universities, training extensively with a wide variety of teachers and masters, and after years of personal practice and healing. When I sat down to write You Were Not Born To Suffer, I sat with a pure intention to share simply and practically what had helped me with as many people as I could, knowing that underneath our differing beliefs, backgrounds or external appearances, we were all looking for and desperately struggling with the exact same things. Once I realized that throughout my entire educational, healing and spiritual journey, I was simply looking for love, learning to love myself and that I was, in fact, the love I had been seeking my whole life, I felt it was my contract with the Universe and Life to outline the very practical, logical and useful path I had walked to find this inner freedom, clarity and peace. We are all just looking for love, but in this quest to love ourselves, to love our work, to love the people in our lives, to respect the person we see in the mirror and to feel respected by others, we constantly and self-destructively betray and hurt ourselves seeking this love externally, which I found to be the root cause for most of the suffering we experience, attract and create. Knowing this, and knowing how painful this dynamic was in myself, as well as in the thousands of people I’d had the honor to work with professionally, I had to share this message with as many people as I could.
