Unconditional. Based in the true story of a metanoia
Maitri May
Author Bio
May studied Teacher Training in a catholic university in Alcalá (Madrid) and also got training as Leader and Director of Free Time Activities.
Worked as a volunteer teaching children for the Catholic Holy First Communion, as well as in Caritas, in the Boy-Scouts of Spain and Venezuela, in a Catholic Mission in Mexico, for a NGO for Street Children in Oaxaca-Mexico, a NGO for Indigenous People in Ayutla-Mexico and with Mother Theresa in Calcutta-India.
She worked in a Farm School in Alcalá, as Leader, Director and Administrator for the summer school of an International School, and in different schools as school teacher and with very small children in a Crèche in London. Teaching later for adults in Japan and England.
She learnt different massages in Thailand, India, Japan, England and Spain, and lived basically in India for 12 years attending philosophy and spiritual teachings and seminars, doing spiritual retreats in India and Nepal, at the same time that learnt and shared with shamans in those countries and in Latin-America and Philippines. She learnt Tibetan Medicine with a teacher of Ment-See-Khan in Dharamsala, Reiki in Nepal, Tarot Card Reading in Guatemala, ESP Development (Extra Sensory Perception) with Jaime Licauco in the Philippines and Intuition with teachers from different countries.
She gave lectures and seminars in different themes like Energy Work, Aura Reading, Healing (Crystal, Energy, Past lives, Tibetan), Intuition and Shamanism, in Barcelona (Spain), and gave a talk in the radio.
Currently she is working in Germany giving massages and as Lebensberater, Psychologischer Berater (TMI), Hypnotiseurin (TMI), and does tarot cards readings and clairvoyance.
Description
Spanish researcher Santiago Ramón y Cajal said that the brain is a malleable, transformable and improved body. We must escape the routine to provide new stimuli to the brain so that it faces different challenges to develop those aspects that may be more dormant.
Neuroplasticity is learning new, complex, difficult tasks because that is what forces us to exercise mental muscles.
Not everyone should drop everything and go to the Himalayas, but do something different and incorporate other practices to our lives. Ramón y Cajal, Nobel Prize in medicine, argued that traveling to a new city is great for neuroplasticity because you have to focus on other life to adapt and said a century ago that anyone “can become the sculptor of his own brain.”
And so, the main character wants to prove that in order to change her life, she has to train her brain by changing activities and learning new tasks, so her brain becomes more resilient and able to re-educate it.
When we give inputs to a child, no matter positive or negative, and we tell for many years it gets incorporated and becomes a part of the identity of the person. And it is then very hard to erase those concepts from our identity and to have our own opinions.
Martha didn´t like her life and decided to follow her heart, instead of what everybody told her to. She learnt through hard lessons that she can become and do in her life what she wants to, opposing what it was supposed to be for her. She had a friend who advised her and helped her to go on and face all the obstacles she might find in her way, making her stronger in each step in life she gave. Her friend always insisted that whatever psychic power might show up in ourselves is not something that belongs to only one person but to everybody, because it is a part of our nature. The only difference is how much we believe in them and our self-confidence
And she started the great adventure of her travels, first to the countries nearby her, but then to Mexico and India, where she really started to learn how to deal with situations she would not encounter just sitting in a couch.
Book excerpt
The story in divided in three parts:
The first one, “Matthew”, are 17 chapter. It goes from her early childhood till the family moves out of Spain, to Venezuela, when she becomes 15 years old.
The second part, “Thrust”, are 10 chapters. It goes from that time in Venezuela, till she leaves her house.
The third part, “Freedom”, are 6 chapters, and is her time in a catholic mission in Mexico, hitchhiking in Central America and ending up in India helping Mother Theresa and starting a new very different life.