Book Nook: The Art of Becoming Unstuck

 Imagine life as a hot air balloon ride. You constantly aspire to go to higher altitudes for smooth, happy sailing. Yet each time you try, your sandbags pull you down to bumpy lower altitudes, where you face challenging situations, difficult people, and negative thoughts. You feel stuck, lost, and confused.

As a former finance executive, Arda Ozdemir found himself feeling exactly like that. After years of suffering from chronic health issues, depression, and anxiety, he decided to take matters into his own hands and found relief in unique meditation and self-awareness tools. Based on his journey of awakening, Arda developed his Rise 2 Realize POWER Method, a practical five-step process to guide people out of suffering and emotional pain toward achieving a higher personal and professional potential. From this practice, Arda put all the tools he developed in his new book, The Art of Becoming Unstuck: Your Personalized Journey Through Consciousness in Search of Ultimate Happiness, a guidebook for everyone to create the life they want. 

I had a chance to review his book The Art of Becoming Unstuck. Throughout the book, readers are coached through recognizing triggers and patterns of behavior. They will learn out to identify and understand what is holding them down, in order to be able to release them and rise above negative habits and thoughts.

“During my journey towards a happy and fulfilled life I realized that making major changes was scary.  I knew I had to leave my comfort zone and challenge the security I’d built over years,” Arda explains.  “This book was born from the personal transformation journey I was guided to take, and now I invite you to embark on your own incredibly rewarding self-discovery journey.”

The book is divide into chapters that bring the readers on a journey from identifying the causes of feeling stuck, noticing emotions and thoughts, rising above triggers, and finally the "new you."

“The Art of Becoming Unstuck is intended to be a guide to self-realization. I hope all the wisdom, the teachings, and the guidance passed on to me will become a source of empowerment for you and propel you toward your Truth. If you decide to embark on this incredible journey, many rewards and gifts await you, including the discovery of your Real Self and the higher life you are meant to live. As in all guidebooks, this is a starting point, not the end of the journey.”

 Arda Ozdemir is a former finance executive based in Silicon Valley, California who found his calling in Reiki, Qigong and Wellness Coaching, after curing himself from chronic sinus infections, bronchitis and pneumonia using unique meditation and self-awareness tools.  Since leaving the corporate world behind, he first studied Qigong, an ancient martial art discipline, a foundation to Chinese Medicine, with Master Zhao, then, learned Reiki, a Japanese healing art, from Jessica Miller, and then became a monk and studied the mindfulness meditation techniques with Mikkyo Zen Buddhists, and finally, practiced the principles of Yoga Nidra with Dr. Richard Miller.  

Arda’s teachings of self-empowerment carry a powerful combination of selected techniques from these ancient and contemporary schools of spirituality, philosophy and psychology.  With practicality and applicability in mind, he created the P.O.W.E.R. method through perfecting his work with over 2,000 clients in the last 10 years. He offers this profoundly transformative method in fun, step-by-step workshops, mentorship programs, as well as in one-on-one sessions to individuals and couples. 

Arda published his first book, The Seeker’s Manual, in 2014, in which he described in detail the distinctive seven phases of a typical personal transformation journey. Find out more at www.rise2realize.com.