Based on a miraculous healing journey against all odds, Heart Knowing shares astounding new perspectives on who we are, as humans, and what we are capable of. By defying current mainstream standards of what we believe is possible, Laura Celesti takes us with her as she travels to find a way out of her predicament, using her heart as a compass, her trusted “Know-er”, and truth.
In this autobiographical journey, Laura recounts her personal road of recovery from traumatic brain injury. When Laura, a single mother, felt compelled to start dating again, she accepted a fateful invitation, and blind date, that ended in a car accident. The small sports car was stopped by a tree at a high rate of speed. In the 1990's, little medical consideration was given to brain injury. The hospital Emergency Room put her broken arm in a cast and asked if she had hit her head. Because she said "no", that was that. She was in shock and had no memory of anything that happened. In the months and years that followed, she finally received testing, as was told thatshe had lost her executive function in the frontal lobe. “Big picture thinking” was lost, as well as organizing functions, situational perspectives, and the ability to logically weigh one choice over another..How to manuever forward, given this massive change, are her credentials for writing this book.t This is the journey itself, and the revelations she made as an introspective soul, determined not to accept defeat.
Set during the years which were her turning point, Laura shares personal revelations and fascinations as a brain injury survivor, and as a poetic heart. This books offers healing and encouragement on topics of self-love, self-support, allowing "what is", feeling patient in "not knowing", embracing circumstances, emotional caution, and becoming one with the trust found within both her body, its cues, and sensations, which communicated to her like radar. She perfected her heart’s subtle “yes, safe, feels ok and good” vs. feelings of “no, unsure, maybe wait, get more information” as the center of her decision making, integrity, and personal evolution.
This book opens us to an awareness of the deep peace found in trusting heart-centered body wisdom, and, how its inability to lie to us, is the beginning of a whole new relationship within ourselves. These pages hold life preserving value and a resilience for life that is coupled with gentleness. The heart can assist us to discern what is true, for us, as an individual. The power of authenticity that comes from such a place lifts us, and presents us with a solid, deep version of ourselves, in alignment with the truthof our essence. We can employ Heart Knowing and feel resonant and 'in sync' with who are, and who we aspire to be.
