How Yoga helps a trial lawyer make friends and connect to spirit
In Finding the Midline, successful trial lawyer Dorigan gives you a roadmap to the life you may only imagine — a life filled with relationships and meaning. Sometimes with humor, sometimes with gut-wrenching sadness, but always with passion and sincerity, Dorigan shares how he uses the lessons from yoga to create a life rich with friends and purpose, a life of success. Whether you practice yoga or not, Finding the Midline is a special gift, illuminating the lessons of yoga and modern behavioral psychology as they apply to everyday life.
Praise for Finding the Midline--
"Finding the Midline is a bright gateway for learning yoga philosophy through real life situations. His fascinating stories and anecdotes give us a vivid experience of what is most precious and essential in our everyday relationships. As this book clears your mind, it will let you feel deeply who you and others really are. What better foundation can there be for a real yoga practice?"
— Richard Freeman, Yoga Instructor and author of The Mirror of Yoga
"Bill Dorigan has written a wonderfully accessible guide to non-dual tantric philosophy. Based on his years of practice, and illuminated by a wealth of anecdotes and experiential examples, this book not only offers some profound teachings, it is also a pleasure to read. I recommend it highly."
— Sally Kempton, author of Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti
"Full of rich stories that make the mysteries of esoteric yoga into a highly accessible teaching. This book covers all the basics of yoga philosophy, taking them out of the realm of abstraction and applying them to everyday life—which is exactly where they belong. Everyone should be able to relate to this book and use this information to improve their life and their practice and understanding of yoga."
— Anodea Judith, author of Eastern Body, Western Mind and The Global Heart Awakens
A Manual for wellbeing: using yoga to enrich your life
Many of us, regardless of our achievements, eventually hear a nagging voice inside that tells us something is missing in our lives. Over time, and with greater frequency, that voice insists this is an important something. Try as we might to ignore it, not sure what that “something more” might be, we start to react. All too often our reactions—such as quitting our job, moving to a new town, or even leaving a relationship—do nothing to satisfy that inner voice.
In a Manual for Wellbeing, former trial attorney Bill Dorigan reveals what that “something more” is and how we no longer need to blindly react to that inner voice. One of our most fundamental urges as human beings is to discover and grow our full potential and meaningfully express that potential regularly in our lives. Dorigan shares this conclusion—derived from decades of research in the field of behavioral psychology, as well as centuries of wisdom from various yoga traditions—and then lays out a means to achieve it. A true “manual,” a “how to” guide, Part 1 provides a thorough yet eminently understandable and useful discussion of how to fashion a life of true wellbeing, a life in which we regularly recognize and manifest the best version of ourselves through behavior that nurtures not just ourselves but others. Then, in Part 2, building on his previous book, Finding the Midline, Dorigan describes how yoga practices and philosophy are the ideal template for incorporating the lessons in the Manual through increased awareness, focus, and the ability to create, deepen, and sustain warm, nurturing relationships.
Whether you are an experienced yoga practitioner, or have never considered beginning a yoga practice, this down-to-earth book will be an essential tool as you listen to and answer your own inner voice.
In a Manual for Wellbeing, former trial attorney Bill Dorigan reveals what that “something more” is and how we no longer need to blindly react to that inner voice. One of our most fundamental urges as human beings is to discover and grow our full potential and meaningfully express that potential regularly in our lives. Dorigan shares this conclusion—derived from decades of research in the field of behavioral psychology, as well as centuries of wisdom from various yoga traditions—and then lays out a means to achieve it. A true “manual,” a “how to” guide, Part 1 provides a thorough yet eminently understandable and useful discussion of how to fashion a life of true wellbeing, a life in which we regularly recognize and manifest the best version of ourselves through behavior that nurtures not just ourselves but others. Then, in Part 2, building on his previous book, Finding the Midline, Dorigan describes how yoga practices and philosophy are the ideal template for incorporating the lessons in the Manual through increased awareness, focus, and the ability to create, deepen, and sustain warm, nurturing relationships.
Whether you are an experienced yoga practitioner, or have never considered beginning a yoga practice, this down-to-earth book will be an essential tool as you listen to and answer your own inner voice.
Praise for A Manual For Wellbeing--
“My teacher used to say we are not obliged to live more interesting lives than we do but should nonetheless make the effort to tell our story in interesting ways. We all want a good story and we all have one. But do we have the courage to tell it? When we’re serious about telling our stories we’re likely more self-critical than self-congratulatory—and perhaps too tough on ourselves Honesty is like love, it implicates us in discomfort, it means we have agreed to grieve because it will surely come to that. But when we’re serious about our wellbeing and honest about our vulnerabilities we stand a chance at arriving at a deeper sense of self. Bill Dorigan has the right idea, again and again. He knows a good story, he has a great one, and he knows how to tell it. This is a wonderfully candid and personal book but it is, above all, a story of a life and about life that can help all of us understand our own lives more deeply. Bill has a worldly wisdom that draws upon his depth of character and insight that invites us all in. Life is surely more than the stories we tell but it is nothing more without them. Bill Dorigan has been blessed with his share and has the courage to share—straight from the heart.”
--Dr. Douglas Brooks, Professor of Religion, University of Rochester, New York
“Bill has provided in this book another straight forward, insightful, and accessible tool for anyone who seeks to deepen their understanding and engagement with life. Whether you are a guide, teacher, student, or not even into yoga, this book remains a roadmap toward a robust self and satisfying relationships.”
—Joe Soma, MA, MS, CHT, LPC, Boulder, Colorado
“Beginning in the very first chapter, we discover a forgotten potential and the secrets to a truly transformative life. We are reminded of the nature of our humanity when it is valued and expressed above the discord of daily struggle and stress that often conceals us. Bill’s voice is like the whisper of deep wisdom calling us to an immediately accessible, engaging realization of deeper knowing, health and happiness and tuning us into the prevailing beauty that resides all around us.”
--Madhuri Martin, EYRT-500. Instructor Anusara Yoga CATT, Boulder, Colorado
“A Manual for Wellbeing matters. It can lead one to finding that elusive “something missing” that adds to life’s quality and meaning.”
--Thomas Storer, PhD, Director, Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Men’s Health, Aging, and Metabolism,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts