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Summary: Recharging your batteries
Review: I bought this book at a seminar after I heard Dr. Orloff give a 30 minute introduction. I was rather skeptical at first, but read Chapter 9 on energy vampires. After finishing that chapter, I realized that the depression and exhaustion at work was a result of an energy drain and not regularly replenishing my own energy. The exercises in the book are helpful. You start seeing the world and the people who populate yours in a much different manner. I gained some perspective on the types of people and situations that drag me down and have made some changes in the week following my first read. Dr.Orloff is one of increasing numbers of healers and visionaries who view the human body as an energy system. We badly need a new paradigm about fatigue and health with the increasing stress in our lives. I highly recommend this book for anyone wishing to live a more positive life.
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Summary: A psychiatrist with the soul of an artist!
Review: I grew up in a medical family but never met an M.D. remotely like Judith Orloff.
She is intuitive, open-minded and has the courage to take psychiatry in a bold new direction. She has the soul of a pioneering artist combined with the intellect of a first rate scientist. No exaggeration, Dr. Orloff is a 21st century Carl Jung.
In POSITIVE ENERGY, she shows us all how to reduce the negativity in our lives and to replace our fears with hope and unconditional love. There is no greater gift anyone could give us. Everyone should read this book!
Peter Edwards
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Summary: Great Expectations
Review: I had great expectations for this book as her previous work really touched my heart, but as I began eagerly reading (having pre-ordered it in anticipation), I kept waiting for it to grab me, to feel that "ahah!" moment. It never happened. Yes, there's alot of wonderful ideas here--but
nothing really new, nothing that would make me want to
read it again and again, as I did her last book. Perhaps I'm not
as receptive--I may try again at another time--but for now, I'm still searching...
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Summary: Inspired
Review: I had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in a workshop with Dr. Orloff last month and was intrigued and inspired by her exuberance and passion for life. The book is a lovely extension of this and so much more. The information is not dense, but easily read and digested as she weaves personal stores and real life examples into rich nuggets of sustanance for living life. She is funny, passionate, truthful, tender, and hopeful in her writing. Sometimes we make things so difficult, more complex and "heavy" than need be and "Positive Energy", in it's simplicity, glows with brilliance and light. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Breakthrough now!
Review: I hardly dared hope for such a breakthrough as this book. Dr. Judith Orloff, a psychiatrist, is pioneering the integration of intuition with psychiatry. The day has dawned when even doctors will use intuition for diagnosis and treatment. In the meantime, Dr. Judith Orloff gives us these 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for problems of energy, heart, and soul.
Dr. Judith Orloff teaches psychiatry at UCLA, maintains a private practice, lectures, and conducts seminars all over the country. She is also the author of Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing and Second Sight.
In Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love, Dr. Orloff offers us specific, practical prescriptions to enable us to:
- Protect ourselves from energy vampires
- Design an energy-aware approach to diet, fitness and health (including how to stop energy-defensive eating)
- Develop a heart-centered sexuality
- Awaken intuition and rejuvenate ourselves
- Find a nurturing spiritual path
- Generate positive energy to counter negativity
- Open to the flow of inspiration and creativity
- Celebrate the sacredness of laughter, pampering, and replenishment of retreat
- Attract positive people and situations
- Create abundance
The energetic approach of this book is what makes it so practical. Dr. Judith Orloff posits intuition as a normal part of life for everyone. With this in place, and working from a viewpoint of energy, problems become clear. The Prescriptions are easy to follow. This book can teach us to respect what energizes us and to avoid what drains us. It sounds so simple, but stop and think. Dr. Judith Orloff points out that we know what we want to eat for its taste, and asks whether we have noticed what it does for our energy level? No wonder we're tired - we've been eating delicious but tiring food! How simple it is to switch to delicious and energizing food.
The same applies to people - we link up with energy vampires people who drain our energy. Dr. Judith Orloff explains in detail how to get away from these energy vampires in almost any situation.
The word Prescriptions in the title is apt. I should point out that they prescribe things to do, not chemicals to swallow. These are very specific, practical, and easy things to implement in our lives. The difference they make could be tremendous.
The writing is up-beat and friendly. Each chapter varies its pace with a Prescription and an interview with people such as Quincy Jones, Amy Gross, Naomi Judd, Iyanla Vanzant, Eve Ensler, Shirley MacLaine, Wavy Gravy, Larry King, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Rosa Parks.
Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love offers practical improvements for life today. It also holds hope for the future - not only for each of us personally, but also for intuitively attuned energy in medicine and in every aspect of life.
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Summary: Positive Energy Audio CD
Review: I have listened to several audio books that Dr. Judith Orloff has written. This book is loaded with all kinds of in depth material that you will enjoy learning about as you listen. You may even realize that you will use it in your day to day life. It took me many years to figure out that I too, am an empathic person. Didn't realize that there was a name for the kind of gifts that I possessed. After picking up a couple of her books and especially after listening to this audio cd, Positive Energy I began to work with my gifts. Her research on energy vampires and what to do is the most concise material I have read to date on such a topic. Now I can spot them out in any given party etc. I have skills as to how to what to do so people dont continue to drain my energy field. Her methods do work. This book cleared up so many issues and helped me to realize that I had been right about people and what I was feeling around them. Just didnt have the jargon to really explain what was actually happening. She cleared it all up for me concerning energy vampires.
For many people who need clear concise information as of what to do with energy issues, this audio cd will be of great use. She is very clear about what to do in given certain situations. Dr Judith Orloff talks about being empathic and how to protect yourself. There is just a lot of great information one can use in their daily life. Also included are simple meditations to quiet the mind, and some hands on practicing learning how to feel energy fields. I hope that you will enjoy the audio cd as much as I did!
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Summary: A "must read" for all parents!
Review: I have recommend "Positive Energy" to all parents! As we nurture our children, our jobs, and perhaps our aging parents our well runs dry. Judith Orloff gives us the ways to replenish our minds, bodies, and spirits in this wonderfully accessible book. Just try 1 tip and notice the shift in your energy! Your life will be better and in turn the lives of those you love will be touched.
I've suggested every one of my 50,000 newsletter subscribers pick up a copy. Mimi Doe www.SpiritualParenting.com
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Summary: The missing link
Review: I haven't read the book from cover to cover but what I have read has already helped me regain my energy and help my heart to open during this trying period of my life.
Dr. Orloff gives important information about how to shift our personal energy crisis and actually have more life force to make changes, love, let go, and recreate ourselves into the wonderful beings we are meant to be. What she says about intuitive empaths has truly helped me. I realized I been overwhelmed with processing the negative energies that I take on from other people and the environment . As a result I didn't have the energy for self-healing or creativity.
She is insightful, clear and compassate. She gives simple and effective ways to be a positive energetic being.
I'm not one to sit down and read a book from cover to cover but when I read it I feel a lot of encouragement and hope. So I read a little at a time and let it soak in and let the positive energy help me make conscious changes in my life. Having positive energy is helpful if you are a parent of toddlers or children who like to test boundaries!
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Summary: Everyone and Anyone Can Benefit from this Book
Review: I highly recommend Dr. Judith Orloff's latest book, "Positive Energy." Her voice is wise, friendly, and evolved. The information given in this book is extremely useful for anyone, especially sensitive, empathic types. The exercises are practical and simple, yet profound in how they teach us to ground, center, deflect negativity, and create/radiate positivity. Dr. Orloff's words were immensely helpful to me in achieving a better understanding of how I "take on" other people's energy and can become sick or depleted as a result, and how to prevent this from happening. This book is also a great manifesto on self-care from an energetic standpoint, which is essential to anyone interested in total well-being and authentic living. Plus, the life-affirming, strong, uplifting thread throughout the book is truly inspiring. Dr. Orloff also manages to be spiritually open and very down to earth as well--an essential combination. Read this book if you want to understand how others influence you energetically, and vice versa. Also read this if you want to stoke your energy and bring greater joy, healing, connection, love, and wisdom into your life.
--Jessica Viscomi, Artist and Writer in the holistic medicine field
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Summary: Finally at 59 years Young....I have a name!!
Review: I knew I was intuitive. I knew a little about my being Empathic.
After reading Dr.Orloff's books, I feel like I have gone a lifetime without a name and somebody just *named me!!* smile!
The medical field would be able to keep patients rather then chase them away toward alternative therapies if Dr. Orloff's work would be taught in medical schools of today. I feel her work is very Progressive and more in tune with the Progressive Society we have become. And God gave us Dr. Orloff, Blessed are we who know of her!! Elizabeth Kidwiler, Author and Intuitive Empath!!
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