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I do things that make me hate myself; one of which was buy and read this book. Everything about this title annoys me, but I’m still giving it a three and a half star review.
It’s taken 36 years and many past lives for me to own these beliefs fully. And today I can say with full conviction that my certainty is the greatest blessing I have ever received. Now, I am much more confident within myself and these cards are truly inspirational and life-changing for me. Before I started reading this book my mind felt like a dried up sponge, and after reading it my mind has absorbed all the water that it can to the point where it's leaking into a puddle on the ground.
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What I love to use these in as well is my coaching sessions, I feel one card per session gives them a goal to think about. The book talks about how to move from feeling like I needed to anticipate, predict and plan for every future outcome— something that had occupied so much of my life for so long— being full of self-judgment for “bad decisions”, being full of anxiety about making the “wrong” decision in the present (and thus avoiding them in some cases), into being more open to possibilities I can’t foresee, more trusting that when I jump, a net will appear (or whatever the metaphor is), instead of my approach which is to thoroughly research the various ways successful jumpers had jumped, make a detailed jumping plan with jump metric targets and review dates to reassess how to and when to jump. The author comes of as VERY shallow and with a huge ego, all the while trying to sound deep and humble. On and on she goes on how she helped, saved, explained, wowed, taught, liberated this and that person, much of the time also assuming and taking credit for what she didn’t do, like telling me what I now know and have learned from this book, and so on (which I either already knew/learned elsewhere, or maybe disagree with). I feel like finding this book was divine intervention. I will use the tools that were laid out in her book, and continue to seek out the light.
Are you ok with mantras (in english and sanskrit)? there’s a lot of them in this book. If these annoy you, find another book. I can’t get into words how much they have changed my life and how having one positive affirmation a day has changed my outlook and positivity.So for that realisation, and for making me ready to let the reins fall a little bit and enjoy what is right now in my life, it’s earned 3.5 stars out of five. Four overall for her reading of the audiobook. And yes, it did this with examples that made me clench my fists and need to take rant breaks (the story about having a meltdown during yoga class? Really?) and listing examples I just couldn’t see as real turmoil (not being invited to an acquaintance’s – who she spends some time trashing- birthday. Gee, her life is hard). I really did not like how the author inferred pretty much stated that bad things happen to people because they aren't positive enough, because they aren't open to the universe and the author's shallow way of thinking. Bull. Sometimes bad things happen to good people and it's not anyone's fault. Oh and fear? It's not a bad thing. Sure maybe sometimes it's not the most helpful emotion, but it has its purpose. Humans have a natural fight or flight response. Fear is part of that. It helps us to make decisions. We also need those other emotions this author likes to lump in with fear - sadness, frustration, anger, fear. It's part of being human. So yes, try to be happy. Empathize with others. Do some meditation (there are studies out there that indicate it is helpful) if it helps you. But all that doesn't mean the non-happy, non positive feelings are something to be dismissed. Sometimes the best path through a rough situation is to let yourself feel all of it.
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