Answers From Within

This is a helpful guide for finding answers to the issues that plague many of us about our work and its place in our lives. It goes beyond the usual surface answers to a deeper place—our spiritual identity. It shares that the key to resolving many of these issues is knowing the true nature of GEFS (God, Energy, Force, Spirit) and knowing who we truly are relative to GEFS.

The book is provocative because it challenges many traditional beliefs that have led many to believe that it is okay to suffer through work to make a living. Expanding on and, in some cases, departing from her religious upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness, Catholic, and conservative fundamentalist Christian, Olivia raises probing questions and invites the reader to be introspective enough to find his or her own answers.

Looking at work from the inside out, she challenges readers to know we are so much more than we have been led to believe and that if we connect to the Divine already within us, we can find our gifts, talents, skills, and abilities, and find joy, Love, peace, and fulfillment in our work.

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Inspiration

The author drew inspiration for this book from what she describes as a very interesting Petri dish of experiences. That included her culture, family history, religious upbringing, and life experience. All of her experiences gave the author much to consider and eventually led to the writing of Answers From Within.
 

Understanding

As we look around the world and see the turbulence in the world of work, we often wonder where the solutions will come from. With this book, she takes a look at some things we have kept in the dark for some time because of fear and shines a light on them. This undoing can create a new platform for our understanding of work, and the role it plays in our lives.

The Message

The book has a message for virtually everyone. If you are facing challenges finding the right job or work; if you are in transition with your job or work; if you are a woman facing the traditional challenges with work; if you are a man trying to find your place in the new work paradigm; if you are a parent; if you are homosexual; if you have a different gender expression; if you are a human of a discriminated or suppressed group; if you are a mature adult, there is a present in it for you.
 

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After moving through a number of issues, we get to the understanding of work as a tool for self-actualization, and therefore a key to life on the Planet. This is true despite all of the beliefs, rules, and divisions we have created to make it appear differently.

Change is the Only Constant and we are not Going Backwards!

The book serves as a helpful guide because, when we examine the world of work, we can see one thing clearly: constant change. Work is so essential to our lives that understanding its changes is key to our survival. After examining several issues, we come to the understanding that work is a tool for self-actualization and, therefore, a key to life on the planet. This is true despite all the beliefs, rules, and divisions we have created to make it appear differently.

Despite its title, the book does not provide the reader with the ultimate answers. Instead, the author discusses her process and what she found for herself to help others do the same. The book asks many questions and encourages the reader to take the time to contemplate and find their own answers.

The questions are also intended to liberate our thinking. Today’s world offers endless possibilities for everything. It is important to be willing to accept this. If we are not prepared to think differently, how can we be ready to live in a world without limits?

Some of us are discouraged from even thinking about things differently, as though the act of thinking is in and of itself wrong or dangerous. Thinking about things differently is just liberating, we ultimately decide what to do with our thoughts.

Olivia Benson, Attorney & Author discusses personal empowerment & her book “Answers From Within”
Olivia speaks about Answers From Within at Miami Book Fair
Twelve Nuggets

This is a selection of thoughts from each Chapter to consider as you read them.

Chapter One: Work is not a parenthesis in life for which we interrupt an otherwise pleasant experience.

Chapter Two: Life is mostly lived at work, and if we are not in “in joy” we are burning minutes on the clock of our lives.

Chapter Three: Everything that happens to us is the Universe providing a de facto education.

Chapter Four: We don’t have a concept or name for some of the work a child born today may be doing 20 years from now.

Chapter Five: The world doesn’t need and can’t support an unlimited number of system maintainers, it needs more innovators and creators.

Chapter Six: In human history, women have had no significant role in deciding when we go to war, even when in the majority, and even though they bear most of the responsibility for producing soldiers.

Chapter Seven: The Universe is consistent, and “creates” everything in spectrums and progressions.

Chapter Eight: When we talk about the loss of human potential, it is not just an abstract concept.

Chapter Nine: A woman can only Love a man more when he recognizes her right to exist fully; imposes no obstacles to her full self-expression, and supports her in her right to be all that she “came” to be.

Chapter Ten: Only humans are idea machines!

Chapter Eleven: If the Soul is timeless, then the Code it gets is timeless also.

Chapter Twelve: It is virtually impossible to be a full expression of what we are intended to be by being comfortable in sameness.

Answers From Within- The Poem

Dedicated to my son Errick 

Am I simply the son or daughter
of a sperm and an egg?

Or am I a variation of the Universe
playing with Itself?

All different colors, shapes, and sizes,
each time surprising Itself!

Am I just my body? And what is that
music playing in my chest?

Where do I get the knowledge to
see what’s happening in my world?

I feel I am on a journey of discovery
from some unknown place in the
Universe to planet earth.

Heart, will you tell me what it is
I need to know?

Well my dear child, follow me, and I will
unlock for your own pleasure
the treasures held deep within.