Lisa Garr - Becoming Aware: How to Repattern Your Brain and Revitalize Your Life

Praise for Becoming Aware

Ive always known Lisa Garr was a special person, but I had no ideauntil reading her bookof all the things shed lived through to become the bright light she is today. There is something very wise and embracing about Lisawhen she showers you with that profound kindness of hers, it changes you. Now everybody who reads Becoming Aware can have that experience, and well all be better off for it. Ive been hoping Lisa would take her great talents and express them in the words of a book, and Im delighted to help tell all the world that its here. This book is like taking a marvelous journey with a wonderful new friend, and what she reveals on your adventure will stay with you forever.

Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love

Becoming Aware will give you the tools for and inspire you to visualize your ideal future. Lisa will take you from where you are to where you need to be. I strongly encourage you to get a copy of this book.

Jack Canfield, originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series

Ive known Lisa for many, many years and everything she does is in the light. Becoming Aware is her story and much more. She shares how a tragedy helped her to open her heart and her clairvoyance, and to become aware.

Doreen Virtue, founder of Angel Therapy and author of over 50 books

Transformation is the birth of something new within ourselves; it all starts with awareness and Lisa Garr shows us the way. Ive known Lisa for years; she is the master of awareness, and everybody can benefit from what she has to offer.

Dr. John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the number one best-selling nonfiction book of all time

I encourage you to read Becoming Aware . It will take you to that place in your mind, and bring you back to that place in your heart, where you really feel and live your most authentic life.

Sonia Choquette, internationally acclaimed intuitive, spiritual teacher, and author who holds a doctorate in metaphysics

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Copyright 2015 by Lisa Garr

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse.com Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: Hay House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast Books: www.raincoast.com Published in India by: Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Cover design: Nita Ybarra Interior design: Riann Bender
Interior photos: Courtesy of the author

The stories in this book are true; however, some names and identifying details have been changed to preserve confidentiality.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviewswithout prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Garr, Lisa.

Becoming aware : how to repattern your brain and revitalize your life / Lisa Garr.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-4019-4726-2 (hardback)

1. Change (Psychology) 2. Self-realization. 3. Awareness. 4. Conduct of life. 5. Spiritual life. I. Title.

BF637.C4G375 2015

158dc23

2014043476

Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-4726-2

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
1st edition, May 2015

Printed in the United States of America

Becoming Aware is dedicated to my husband, Jon Davis, and our amazing daughter, Kayla Davis; and to my loving parents, Edward and Danielle Garr.

Contents

I am truly overjoyed to comment briefly on Lisa Garrs magnificent book, which you now hold in your hands. It has been several decades now that I have known and admired this remarkable woman. During these years I have persistently encouraged Lisa to go public with her exceptional personal story, and by doing so offer a bright ray of hope for many people who have lived through traumatizing events similar to her own. After a near-death accident while engaged in competitive mountain-bike racing, Lisa undertook the seemingly insurmountable task of retraining her brain so that she could regain all of her physical and mental capacities. She successfully undertook this mission with the same ardor and enthusiasm that is evident on every page of this remarkable book.

I first met Lisa as a guest on her groundbreaking radio show in Los Angeles called The Aware Show. The story of this show personifies the story of Lisas life.

As a young doctoral student, I was blessed to come into contact with the teachings of the late Dr. Abraham Maslow, who dedicated his life to the nurturing of an approach to living called self-actualization. I was enthralled by his radical idea that there are people among us who reach exalted states of awareness and live exciting lives impacting the world they live in and the people around them. I made it my lifes purpose to not only learn as much as I could about Maslows ideas, but to incorporate them into my own life as well. Maslow described and taught about the inner calling of these kinds of people to become everything that they are capable of becoming, and how difficult to impossible it is for them to stifle this drive. They become restless and discontented unless they are doing what they are fitted for. The need for self-actualization, Maslow says, can be summed up as: What a man