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Awake and Ready

How to Work with Energy and Motivate Anyone

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Narrator Susan Usha Dermond

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Length 3 hours 10 minutes
Language English
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Eight keys to working with energy and motivating others


Parents and teachers often act as though offering a “reasonable explanation” to a child about staying calm and focused will resolve a problem or situation. However, reason or logic is not usually helpful for a child’s learning or ability to achieve a calm state, as you will see in this book. What does work is techniques to change the flow of energy. The first step is to recognize the flow of energy that makes us happy, and that is engagement in something meaningful, not as often thought, excitement.


Awake and Ready is based on yogic principles, taught by Paramhansa Yogananda, on energy and form, but most importantly, how to apply those principles practically. This is a book with real-life experiences that illustrate different keys to working with energy. You will find suggestions that ease tensions, improve your relationships, and create a happier environment whether in your home, workplace, and/or classroom.


The unabridged audiobook of Awake and Ready is read by the author Susan Usha Dermond.

SUSAN USHA DERMOND, BA, MA, MLS, has a varied background in education, most of it in the Education for Life system. She began her career as an English teacher in public high schools and most recently taught high school English in the Ananda Online High School. She founded the third Living Wisdom School in Portland, Oregon, where she was the director for fifteen years. Prior to that, Susan taught fourth through ninth grades at the first Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village in northern California, where she currently lives. She developed the first online Education for Life classes and is the author of a handbook for teachers and parents, Calm and Compassionate Children (Random House).

Susan Usha Dermond, BA, MA, MLS, has a varied background in education, most of it in the Education for Life system. She began her career as an English teacher in public high schools and most recently taught high school English in the Ananda Online High School. She founded the third Living Wisdom School in Portland, Oregon, where she was the director for fifteen years, and prior to that, taught fourth through through ninth grades at the first Living Wisdom School at Ananda Village in northern California, where she currently lives.

Awake and Ready, published in 2023: This audiobook is an unabridged reading by the author, Susan Usha Dermond.

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