Tal Ben-Shahar
by the Seven Stages
of Water Path
“You don’t have to wait for a shock in life to begin changing your life.”
Juliann Liu · Empower Your Self Like Water
When life changes, tensions rise or you feel stuck, water offers a different way to move forward: with clarity, kindness and Inner Force.
Discover the bookThe foreword · A special contribution
A few words from
Tal Ben-Shahar
“This book has changed my life. It will change yours too.”
Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar
New York Times bestselling author and co-founder of the Happiness Studies Academy, he taught two of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history.
Author of the foreword to Empower Your Self Like Water.
A Conversation
with Juliann
Discover Your Inner Force.
Learn to Flow Like Water.
A book to read.
And to live.
You have learned to move forward, respond and keep going. Perhaps now you feel the need to slow down, look within and reconnect with what truly matters.
Following water’s journey from source to ocean, Juliann Liu brings together stories, questions and practices to explore the relationship between what happens to us and what happens within us.
Her invitation is to observe, experiment and discover for yourself what helps you find your own way.
Let me read you
a few passages from this book.
An inner journey.
Seven phases.
Seven phases, seven chapters — following water’s journey from source to ocean. Read at your own pace, with exercises and space for reflection along the way.
Explore the three forces Juliann describes: Clarity, Kindness and Willpower. Reconnect with what matters deeply to you.
What they feel and think
about the book.
A space for readers to share what touched them, what they questioned and what they felt invited to explore.
A reader’s perspective
A reader’s perspective
A reader’s perspective
A bridge between
Ancient and Modern
East and West.
Wisdom is like water:
It flows, it adapts, it evolves, it clarifies.
Water can flow only through a Path.
A Path towards wisdom is
Your Path towards Your Goal paved by Your Practice.
With time, Knowledge may be outdated.
With time, Wisdom may be illuminated.
This book is a bridge of the ancient wisdom into today’s everyday life practice.
It is a bridge of Eastern philosophy with Western world.
Juliann Liu, originally from Chengdu, Sichuan in China, lived and worked in the East and West for the past 22 years. Her roots, her practice and her openness towards different cultures, philosophies and spirituality brought her a wholistic and inclusive comprehension of the Eastern and Western world.
She invites you to travel, contemplate on the mountains of treasures of the ancient wisdom, which is powerful like water.
She invites you to meditate for your own life, and practice to flow in your life, towards Inner Force and Inner Freedom.
「上善若水。
水善利萬物而不爭。」“The highest goodness is like water. It benefits all beings without competing with them.”
Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching“Be formless, shapeless, like water. […] Be water, my friend.”Bruce Lee
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”Viktor Frankl · Man’s Search for Meaning
From the wisdom of water to the way we live.
The book.
To keep by your side.
A book to remind you to pause. Breathe.
Be with your Self.
Then Be in the Flow.
For you
A Conversation
with Juliann
For your team
Bring the exploration of Inner Force into a shared experience of presence, relationships and cooperation within your team.
Explore team experiences ↗From reading
to living.
What can I actually do with this book?
Start with a situation from your own life: a tense conversation, a repeating reaction or a moment when you feel stuck. The book invites you to distinguish what happened from what happens within you, make space for a pause and explore how you want to respond.
Are there practical exercises?
Yes. The book includes invitations to observe, breathe, reflect and experiment with what you read. It also introduces the S.O.T.F. practice: Stop, Observation, Transformation, Flow. You can try a practice, notice its effect in your own experience and return to it at your own pace.
How can I meet Juliann or join a workshop?
You can contact Juliann to share your interest in the book and ask about opportunities to meet her, take part in a workshop or explore a retreat. Formats, locations and upcoming dates can be discussed directly with her.
Can I explore this through individual coaching?
You may want to bring a personal situation, a question or a practice from the book into a conversation with Juliann. Get in touch to discuss individual coaching and see whether her approach fits what you are looking for.
Can we explore this approach as a team?
The book can open a shared conversation about presence, reactions and relationships at work. Juliann also facilitates team experiences that explore how individual awareness can support cooperation and collective strength.
Take the book with you.
Empower Your Self Like Water
7 chapters · 306 pages · Foreword by Tal Ben-Shahar