Your Year for Change
Posted on February 10, 2015 Leave a Comment
This book by Bronnie Ware is a wonderful presentation of writings, each one to be savored. I love the concept of embracing one a week (since there are 52)…but they are so enjoyable that I couldn’t wait that long! After appreciating them in their entirety, I now look forward to enjoying them again in a slower, more evolutionary manner.
There’s no wrong way to read this book. The author’s thoughts on living an authentic life, colored by stories of her work with the dying and based on her experiences of living, is inspirational. The tender insights you gain are warm reflections of your soul. (No wonder I read it straight through!)
Anyone who enjoys collections of essays, inspirational writings, or spirituality and self-improvement will enjoy reading this. In addition, those who appreciate reflection and authenticity will not want to miss this book.
I was not financially compensated for this review, simply given the book in exchange for my opinion of it. Participating in the gift economy. 😉
You’re Getting Closer
Posted on February 2, 2015 Leave a Comment
You’re Getting Closer: One Year of Finding God and a Few Good Friends is Mollie Player’s journalistic view of her quest to both learn to “pray without ceasing” and to make true friends. She carries on a conversation with her readers throughout her experiment, and in so discovers her own inner dialogue–which is rich in wisdom for the reader as well.
Although the book is a diary, it reads like an unfolding story. The author weaves external events and internal understanding in a beautiful pattern of growth as a confidante and not a clinician. Reading it is as if she were your new acquaintance stopping over for a periodic lovely visit.
Focusing on the two main goals of ceaseless prayer and cultivating real friendship, the author chronicles her year of overcoming depression through internal and spiritual evolution. This is a wonderful and seemingly unpredicted connection to the original two-pronged plan, which is embraced and appreciated while retaining focus on the main intent. As a result, readers are free to accidentally explore their own subtle nuances while following the safety of the author’s defined goal. Anyone interested in personal growth, regardless of the form, will enjoy this book.
In bravely sharing her journey, we see the author’s personal progression and growth. And, dare we admit, we just might glimpse our own selves reflected somewhere along the way.
I received this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion of it. You can learn more about her and her other works at her blog. Her book is available for purchase on Amazon.
The Top 10 Things Dead People Want to Tell You
Posted on January 21, 2015 Leave a Comment
The Top 10 Things Dead People Want to Tell You is Mike Dooley’s guide to living an intended life.
Each chapter is an expansion on different nuggets of wisdom as seen from a perspective of objective and loving understanding. They are to be directly applied to our existence, now. In doing so, we will experience the love, the connection, and the Divine. There’s no need to wait to begin tapping into this, and there’s no need to die in order to do so, either!!
There is unending encouragement, hope, support, success, love, creation, happiness for each of us–right where we are. This book helps readers tap into that source.
After enjoying Conversations With History by Susan Lander, I searched both in the book and online for Mike Dooley’s mediumship credentials. Or at least a reference to communicating with dead people, as the title suggests. There’s no such reference of any kind, anywhere.
Ya know what? It matters not! This book’s message is so transcendent that external authentication is not important. Think about it–even if the author completely dreamed this stuff up, it still is life-changing and life-celebrating. So there. 🙂 Enjoy fully.
Readers who are drawn to the Law of Attraction will appreciate the similarities here. Anyone who enjoys reading encouraging and empowering subjects needs a copy of this in their hands. Anyone wondering about loved ones who have passed on will be reassured when reading this book.
I was not financially compensated for this review, I received the book from Hay House in exchange for my thoughts about it. A fine deal, if you ask me.
The Motivation Manifesto
Posted on December 28, 2014 2 Comments
This book by Brendon Burchard is a handbook for achieving personal power. Powerfully inspiring, it is written in a Revolutionary and declarative style. It’s empowering, supportive, and encouraging–as if you’re remembering all over again who you really are, yet you know you’ve never left yourself.
The book opens with a declaration of personal power, providing clarity to desired outcomes. Next are explorations of the human natures of freedom, fear, and motivation. Finally, 9 Declarations are experienced–some examples of which are meeting life with full presence and power, advancing with abandon, amplifying love, inspiring greatness, and others.
This book is unapologetic in its descriptions and concepts, courageous in its conviction. It is also inspirational in its grace toward people and attitudes who would oppose our direction, reminding me of a description my Mom taught me: “Go in peace, but go.” It is all about individual freedom to choose–and this book is a guide to choosing higher, if a reader is interested. Without allowing oneself to be swayed by the naysayers, the fearful, and the threatened.
Anyone who could use a shot of inspiration will benefit from reading this book. Anyone who feels pretty on top of things in their life will gain a surprising second wind, a bouying seventh wave. You have every reason to read this book, and no reason not to.
I was not financially compensated for this review–I received a copy in exchange for my opinion of it, in accordance with Hay House’s Book Nook blogger program. The author himself is giving away free copies on his website, take a look.
When Nothing Works, Try Doing Nothing
Posted on December 14, 2014 2 Comments
In Dr. Frank Kinslow’s latest book about being and becoming, When Nothing Works Try Doing Nothing, readers are encouraged to slow down in order to leap forward. 
Although initially sounding counterproductive, the Divine does indeed operate in paradoxes (Caroline Myss).
This book is a good reminder that as we act, we are also to allow.
The concept is a good one, and it has also been described variously as a spiritual process point of gestation, incubation, gathering, and/or re-energizing. This book focuses on “How Learning to Let Go Will Get You Where You Want To Go.”
There is support and encouragement for understanding that you are complete just as you are, and for knowing that you have everything you need already inside of you. What we learn about ourselves truly does not come from outside, and this book intends to help readers tap into themselves.
Dr. Kinslow takes universal spiritual journey concepts and renames them according to a system that he has created and calls The Kinslow System. Although self-described as in opposition to what he calls the “scientifically baseless” positive thinking and Law of Attraction “movements”, I actually see his approach as seamless with these very philosophies that he opposes. They are all aspects of universal spiritual dynamics, and I disagree with the author: they are not mutually exclusive.
As this book’s core supports spiritual growth and wisdom, anyone could benefit from reading it. Those who are looking for a specifically prescribed program with uniquely system-named steps will especially appreciate this book. Those who are not may still find something interesting here.
The author sent me this book in exchange for my honest opinion of it; I was not financially compensated for writing this review.
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