Cultivate Contentment:  Ancient Wisdom for Today’s World by Johanna Maheshvari Mosca

About the Book
Cultivate Contentment offers the opportunity for you to use ten life-enhancing principles — combined with the Law of Attraction and the Power of Intention — to upgrade the quality of your daily life. This is your chance to review your life in a unique blame-free process, let go of what you would like to release and enrich your present circumstances. Now is the time to clear out the old, set new standards to live by and design the life you want.

This book is a concrete step-by-step guide to help you look at your life through the lens of each principle, ask yourself specific questions, gain insights into what is most rewarding and set intentions from now on.

Johanna introduces the Four D's for transforming difficulties and enlightens you about the nature of your Monkey Mind. Easy-to-read and an eye-opening, rewarding journey.  Send for the book now. You can order it online at www.yogalife.net/yogalife_store.html We will announce the audio CD book shortly.

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Author's Preface --Johanna Maheshvari Mosca

I have been writing to you for years it seems. But maybe I have just been writing to me.  They say that the book writes the author. It’s been about eight years in the writing and re-writing, to be exact. The message is so important to me that I wanted to get the words clear enough for them to mean to you. And perhaps I needed

Yes, I have made all of the mistakes that people can make, and then some! They were good lessons disguised as mistakes.  While I have taken every growth course I could find, it feels as if I have still lived my life by trial and error.  Sometimes it feels as if I am starring in my own soap opera – “As I Live and Learn.” 

It’s a bold step for me to launch a book called “Cultivate Contentment,” as I am not a “Sally Sunshine” type of person. I am rather intense with a sun in Sagittarius, Aries rising and a moon in Virgo, which gives me a fiery personality and a dose of perfectionism to orchestrate. I always see what needs to be made better and strive for excellence. Yet, over the years, I have learned to consciously cultivate contentment as I ride through life’s challenges and become less resistant to the bumps and pot holes.

In these times of current economic uncertainty, we are all experiencing more stress and anxiety. It is as if America is like the phoenix rising from the ashes.  First, we had that feeling of safety ripped out from under us by the terrorism of 9/11. Then we had the comfort of our never-ending credit and earning power threatened by economic uncertainty.

If there ever was a time, THIS IS THE TIME to focus on steadying ourselves from within and maintaining our own individual sense of core strength.  While we are all aiming to practice the law of attraction, we need the foundation of a set of core values to accomplish our goals. We need to have our integrity intact to manifest what we want.

I have a solid core of values that guide me like a lighthouse through the dark or challenging moments. It is these values, gleaned from the wisdom of ancient yoga sages, that I feel it is my legacy to share with you.  Whenever I tell someone what I am writing about, the response is always an “ah-ha” of agreement that we do need a return to values. 

The principles I am highlighting in this book are not at all new. It is the way that I am presenting them that is unique. I am offering them to you as a way to review your life up to this point in time, clear out the past with compassionate forgiveness, and start living these principles newly to cultivate greater contentment in your life moment by moment, day by day.

I am publishing this book because I am so sure that it will help people thrive.  In some workshops I have attended in India, the teacher would start with a prayer that the content be nourishing and that peace prevail.  Thus, I turn these words over to you with a prayer that you will find them nourishing and they will contribute to greater peace in your life.-1

Read on, my friends, and let me know how much you enjoy cultivating contentment.

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Foreword by Terry Cole-Whittaker

When I wrote What You Think of Me is None of My Business, my intent was to encourage readers to let go of the need for approval from others and focus on the wealth within. I feel as if this book might be called—What I Think of Me is All of My Business.  In this age of quantum physics, it’s becoming common knowledge that we manifest what we think, so our most important business is to mind our thoughts as well as our actions.

In bringing you this ancient wisdom, Johanna is opening the opportunity for you to look at your life vis-à-vis following ten important principles.  She compassionately guides you to use tools for centering yourself, letting go of the past and designing what you want.

I have spent several years studying the ancient truths in the Vedic scriptures of India and know, personally, the strength of embracing this timeless knowledge. While many current texts contain the author’s own opinions of what will make you happy, Johanna’s book is revealing irrefutable, time-tested truths handed down by ancient sages.

As we are faced with the challenges of a troubled economy and mounting feelings of insecurity in the aftermath of 9/11, we need, more than ever, to rely on our core inner strength and spiritual development. We must remember to abide by the core values of compassion and truthfulness. We need to consciously practice non-stealing, moderation and non-hoarding and limit what we consume.

We have to study ourselves and have the discipline to clean up our lives and develop daily contentment. We must surrender our ego’s attachments, let go of trying to control the way life happens and set up a system of “quality control” for our own behavior such as Johanna recommends in this book. Lastly, and primarily, we need to explore inner silence and dwell on our soul’s connection to the Divine Source of energy that pervades all beings.

I am writing this foreword because I believe in Johanna and the way she has chosen to present this most important work. I believe that people need what she has to offer. And I look forward to the benefits that ripple out from this book as more and more readers practice this ancient wisdom to uplift today’s world.

Imagine what a wonderful world it would be, how good we would all feel, if everyone practiced these principles.  As you delve into the content of Cultivate Contentment, you will undoubtedly begin refining your life so as to become the best possible YOU. Actually, isn’t that all we want—to be our best selves and be happy? My students know that whenever I see something wonderful in the world or in other people, I am fond of saying—“That’s for me!”  Well, all I can say about the prospect of having a world in which more of us practice these core values is a hearty-- “That’s for me!”

Terry Cole-Whittaker
Adventures in Enlightenment Life Coach
Author of Dare to be Great and
What You Think of Me is None of My Business