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Summary: The Best Self Help Book
Review: All I can say is that I had tried to read The Power of Positve Thinking several times but never was able to get into it. However after getting out of the Hospital having received a Stem Cell bone marrow transplant, I found myself in desparate need of a mental pick me up. I was simply not able to think positively about life or my health and I was also very weak physically. I found this little paperback on the shelf and took it into the bathroom. Each day I would read a couple of sentences or more. With the type of illness I had, it was very important that I develop and maintain a positive mental outlook in order to harness the "placebo effect" (being healthy because I think I am healthy would be an example). When I started my regimen of reading a little bit each day, I would say I was almost a zero in mental strength. Gradually, I started to get little pieces out of the examples of the book and I started practicing those pieces. I found that just these little steps yielded visible results. Eventually, I finished the book. Then I read it again in the same way. I have made a check list of things to do each day in order to maintain the mental strength I have acquired from reading the book. I am reading it for a 3rd time now. Recently I recommended to a friend to read it and found myself volunteering my original copy of this 1959 little paperback which sold for 60 cents at the time. ... I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: The Best Self Help Book
Review: All I can say is that I had tried to read The Power of Positve Thinking several times but never was able to get into it. However after getting out of the Hospital having received a Stem Cell bone marrow transplant, I found myself in desparate need of a mental pick me up. I was simply not able to think positively about life or my health and I was also very weak physically. I found this little paperback on the shelf and took it into the bathroom. Each day I would read a couple of sentences or more. With the type of illness I had, it was very important that I develop and maintain a positive mental outlook in order to harness the "placebo effect" (being healthy because I think I am healthy would be an example). When I started my regimen of reading a little bit each day, I would say I was almost a zero in mental strength. Gradually, I started to get little pieces out of the examples of the book and I started practicing those pieces. I found that just these little steps yielded visible results. Eventually, I finished the book. Then I read it again in the same way. I have made a check list of things to do each day in order to maintain the mental strength I have acquired from reading the book. I am reading it for a 3rd time now. Recently I recommended to a friend to read it and found myself volunteering my original copy of this 1959 little paperback which sold for 60 cents at the time. ... I recommend this book to everyone.
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Summary: Powerful and Inspiring
Review: Dr. Peale has always been a master communicator. He is one of my favorite authors. He makes the application of spiritual principles so real and so exciting to do. This classic is filled with his usual stories of people from myriad backgrounds who bear testimony to the fact that what he teaches works.Chapter 13 is a slight deviation from the main topic of the book, but it loosely ties in. It is about the spiritual forces around us, the mysterious powers we do not fully understand, but occasionally catch glimpses of. This chapter puts some issues on the table to be probed later. The only reason I didn't give this book a 5 rating is because in one place he tries to tie in religions other than Christianity. Jesus is the way, the truth, the life. He isn't an option.
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Summary: Real People With Real Results!
Review: Here is a book that shows the reader through testimonials what positive thinking can do. If you enjoyed Dr. Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking", you will really love this one. When you turn the pages and read what affirmative thought and belief in God has done for others you can't help but get charged-up yourself. Stories of famous as well as everyday people fill the pages of this inspiring book. Even more important is the practicality of Dr. Peale's writing-completely devoid of pseudo-intellectual and hard to grasp etheric concepts. This is a book to be read and used, not just to sit on a shelf collecting dust. I only wish there had been even more inspiring stories in its pages. This book will challenge as well as comfort you and will be an invaluable addition to your library that you will return to often.
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Summary: Real People With Real Results!
Review: Here is a book that shows the reader through testimonials what positive thinking can do. If you enjoyed Dr. Peale's "Power of Positive Thinking", you will really love this one. When you turn the pages and read what affirmative thought and belief in God has done for others you can't help but get charged-up yourself. Stories of famous as well as everyday people fill the pages of this inspiring book. Even more important is the practicality of Dr. Peale's writing-completely devoid of pseudo-intellectual and hard to grasp etheric concepts. This is a book to be read and used, not just to sit on a shelf collecting dust. I only wish there had been even more inspiring stories in its pages. This book will challenge as well as comfort you and will be an invaluable addition to your library that you will return to often.
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