Jackson-Buckley - The gift of crisis: how I used meditation to go from financial failure to a life of purpose

The Gift

of
Crisis

PRAISE FOR
THE GIFT OF CRISIS

Bridgittes writing comes directly from the heart, and will help you unblock your connection to your inner guidance.

Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of Omega Institute

In a clear and compassionate style, Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley shows us the gift of both crisis and meditationto lead us into our deepest wisdom and highest self. An evolved, insightful and genuinely helpful read!

Nancy Colier, psychotherapist, interfaith minister, author of The Power of Off: The Mindful Way to Stay Sane in a Virtual World

What Bridgitte reminds us is that it is so important to continue the work that is ours to do, to push on, to be relentless, to be unfailingly loyal to ourselves and our higher being. She teaches that following our way requires persistence, repetition, and devotion. That being inspired and being fired by the passion within us is what is required to consistently apply the tools that we have, to gain our own level of enlightenment, our own bliss. Often self-help books try to tell us that we can do the work in a very easy way and get results instantly. What Bridgitte shows us is that it is not necessarily that the way itself that is difficult, but that we must be persistent in our practices, and this is what requires effortongoing and repeated effort.

B. Jean Lein, CPA, ALSP, Certified Energy Codes Facilitator and Licensed Practitioner

Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley has written an engaging story about how she integrated her spiritual self with her worldly personality to shift what I often call the inner blueprintthat pattern of thought and energy that gives rise to physical reality. She used many creative perceptual methods to recreate her life to include more flow, supply, support, opportunity, and synchronicity. She demonstrates clearly how anyone can do it! Its a simple matter of changing your perception and frequencyreally!

Penney Peirce, author of Transparency, Leap of Perception, and Frequency

Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley has the gift of observing the little details that make her story come to life, and make her spiritual journey meaningful. In her quest for a better way to live, she made discoveries of deep principles that will enrich your understanding of how the universe works. With careful attention to the step-by-step process she went through to get in touch with her inner guidance system, she provides a clear roadmap for clarifying your own thinking about your life, your potential, and your destiny.

Chris Vogler, screenwriter, author of The Writers Journey

I had the pleasure of meeting Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley last year. During our conversation, we agreed that hard times can provide great opportunities to recapitulate what you have done, right or wrong, and where change is needed. With the wisdom and experience of someone who has done it in her own life, in The Gift of Crisis , Bridgitte offers amazing information to put movement toward change.

Sergio Magaa Hidalgo, author of Caves of Power: Ancient Energy Techniques for Healing, Rejuvenation and Manifestation

There is nothing more beautiful than a human story of awakening. To hear the direct experience of others, told with candor and heart, is a great teacher for us all. This is a touching, well-written and captivating account of one womans life and if you read it you will get a sense of how one can be guided by some form of higher intelligence, if one starts to listen. However, dues must be paid. Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley paid them, and now lives from a deeply connected place in service to life.

Megan McFeely, producer and director of As She Is

In The Gift of Crisis , Bridgitte reveals very personal struggles and shares how she resolved them with guidance from her Higher Mind. In a detailed, well-written account, the author shares how meditation practice shed new light and perspective on reoccurring challenges. The reader is encouraged to try this at home.

Catherine Yunt, MC

This book reminds us of the grace in the crisis, and the opportunity to transform and accept it as catalyst to live into our highest vision of our authentic life.

Sande Hart, Director of the Charter for Compassion International Women and Girls

The Gift

of
Crisis

How I Used Meditation to Go from
Financial Failure to a Life of Purpose

Bridgitte Jackson- Buckley

Mango Publishing
Coral Gables

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The Gift of Crisis: How I Used Meditation to Go from Financial Failure to a Life of Purpose

Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: 978-1-63353-794-1
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018952304
BISAC category code: BUS046000BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Motivational

Printed in the United States of America

To my loves:
Dennis, Greyson, Mckenna & Gavin
It is all always for you.

To my parents:
Matthew & Bobbie
For unconditional love that let me find my own way.

And to you, dear reader:
Be with your heart.

Table of Contents

Sometimes a book title is all you need. The words on the cover grab you by the heart and wont let you go. The Gift of Crisis is such a title.

Crisis? Oh yeah, thats me. And its you, too. Its everyone. Show me the person who hasnt been swept into the riptide of crisis. But its the word Gift that made me open this book and, I must tell you, I opened it with a smile. I know this gift. I carry an armload of these gifts. Like Bridgitte Jackson-Buckley, I have faced a crisis or two or three. And each one, awful as it was at the time, handed me a gift to treasure for the rest of my life.

When you look at me, do you see an author? Radio host? How about a prayer artist or field guide in the mystic? I may be all those things, but look again, because when you look at me, you are looking at a poster child for the gifts of crisis. None of these lovely roles would ever have happened if I hadnt first lived through, and learned from, one life-shattering trauma after another. I am who I am because crisis came calling.

On page one, heres the most important thing I can tell you: Its not a crisis. Its a crossroads.

You can continue to walk the well-trod path of anger and blame. You know that road. You know that road all too well. You know how it feels and you know where it leads. Or you can turn your face directly into the wind and start walking down the unknown path, the one with no clear destination in sight.

If you do turn into the wind, heres what will happen. You will discover that the answers you so desperately seek are not outside youand never were. They are the only place they can beinside. And your broken heart is the perfect crack through which you can begin to draw them out. Youll start asking big, new questionsquestions youve never considered. And youll start listening. At first, the voice will seem small and you may not know exactly what youre hearing or whos speaking to whom. But you if you persist, you and your loving wise voice will build a relationship that overflows with trust and love. Then one day, the strangest thing will happen. You will find yourself once more on your knees, but this time you will have fallen to the ground with tears of gratitude for the crisis that taught you how to live.