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Summary: Bravo!!
Review: Attention self help addicts! When you read this book by Debbie Ford you will come to a point where you will lay the book in your lap & say to yourself, "I think I'm finally getting it." I have read so many self help books that took me so far but lacked the substance that this book gives graciously. "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" will give you insight on the whole(ness) picture of human nature/cause & effect in a clear and inspiring way. Want to get to know yourself & learn specifically what it is that you need? All you have to do is learn how to read yourself; the answers have been there all along. Before spending hundreds of dollars on therapy or counselling, open your heart & read this phenominal, life changing book.
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Summary: One Excellent Book
Review: I thought I had finished writing my own book. I believed I had said all I have learned. Then I picked up Debbie Ford's book The Dark Side of the Light Chasers. Oh boy, did I have more healing to do.
I discovered this when I completed one of the exercises in this book. It directed me to connect with that part within which contains the highest self truths, my "sacred self," and ask: "What [do] you need to do to open your heart and let go of any emotional toxicity you have been carrying around?"With pen and journal in hand, I began writing.
We have to experience understanding ourselves in order to heal ourselves. With the help of this wonderful book, I was able to do just that.
I am deeply grateful to Debbie Ford for sharing herself and her healing process so that I was able to continue mine. Thank you.
I hope you can see the true power in giving and sharing. They are not simply esoteric concepts reserved for the few. They are the connection we all share, the connection that transforms each of us individually and thus transforms all of humanity when we give ourselves permission to simply be ourselves.
As a self-help, spiritual author, I salute Debbie Ford for her courage to open up, share, and make a difference. This book will certainly help you embrace and transform whatever you may unconsciously view as "wrong" with you, just as it did with me.
From my heart, Barbara Rose, author if 'Individual Power: Reclaiming Your Core, Your Truth, and Your Life' and 'If God Was Like Man'
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Summary: Darkness Comes to Light
Review: This book has genuinely helped me continue to bring out my greatest attributes from within, as well as learn to honor all aspects of myself. Ironically, I discovered this book from the Afterword of another book 'Individual Power' where the author shared how much this book helped her. What a wonderful gift this brought to me!
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers helped me learn how to embrace those aspects within that I did not 'own' but viewed as 'wrong.' Through this wonderful book, I was able to discover the good behind the so-called 'bad'. I was able to free myself of false limiting beliefs, and I am deeply grateful for the contribution this book has had on my life.
I highly recommend this book as another wonderful and powerful tool if you want to own and embrace all aspects of yourself so you can soar in your life.
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Summary: MY FAVORITE BOOK!
Review: I've read a lot of self-help books and this is by far the best I've ever read. It's not a book for everyone. Many people are not ready to look at themselves with total honesty. But, as the author explains, "What you can't be with, won't let you be." The things you deny about yourself will keep popping-up in your life, until you finally understand and accept them. As the author say so well "Because when we judge ourselves we automatically judge others. And what we do to others, we also do to ourselves. The world is a mirror of our internal selves. When we can accept ourselves, we automatically accept and forgive others." The fascinating thing is, usually people that we dislike, are actually mirroring a quality that we are denying about ourselves. We have nearly every positive and negative quality there is, but through painful experiences, we come to deny certain parts of ourselves. We are unaware of how greatly this affects our life, and our interaction with other people. We are also unaware of how wonderful life can be when we free ourselves. As she says "What you don't own, owns you." and "What you resist, persists." I can't do this book justice in this short review, but if you are ready to look at yourself with total honesty, and really change your life for the better, buy this book!
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Summary: An Uplifting Look at the Dark Side
Review: In Debbie Ford's book THE DARK SIDE OF THE LIGHT CHASERS: RECLAIMING YOUR POWER, CREATIVITY, BRILLIANCE, AND DREAMS, the author explores what she calls the "shadow" or the "dark side": all of the things people have repressed and judged as bad or wrong in themselves. This "dark side" essentially limits and belittles us and is the source of pain in people's lives. Ford explains her Shadow work by examining all of the ways we can reveal these hidden qualities. This involves turning around our judgments of others (positive and negative) and applying them to ourselves, looking at how we resist the way we are and realizing how each of us is a mirror of everyone around us. There are also exercises at the end of each chapter that allow the reader to experience what they just read about. Ford shares her experience of how uncovering her "shadow" allowed her to take her attention off herself, be healed and be available for other people. I really enjoyed how she made what she was talking about real through discussing her own experiences and by painting pictures of other people's experiences of finding healing, love and freedom through her work. If you enjoyed this book, I highly recommend WORKING ON YOURSELF DOESN'T WORK by Ariel and Shya Kane. This book is about transformation, a shift from mechanical ways of living to having a magical, satisfying life. The difference is that Debbie Ford's approach involves exercises and revisiting the past, whereas the Kanes' approach is instantaneous and only requires being aware of your behaviors without judging them or trying to fix yourself, as their book title suggests.
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Summary: Just a brilliant, brilliant book!
Review: I thought I was happy, I thought I was mature. I was looking for another challenge in life, so I picked up this book to see if there was anything useful. Whoa! This book made me realize that I have a whole other side to myself that I was not aware of. It made me understand what really being whole as a person is all about. I cannot say enough about this book! Thanks to this book, I feel I can really see the positive and negative sides of myself. I am using it to figure out how to get rid of the clutter in my life and embrace the simple beauty of it all. Another book that is really helping me now is "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. It is another one of these terrific books that looks at these things with a focus on our relationships with other people. Both of these books are highly, highly recommended!!! Good luck to you all!!!
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Summary: Do you know who you are?
Review: This book will tell you -- you are everything! You are much more than you ever imagined! If you want to be happy, read this book -- not because it will give you a temporary feeling of relief from your suffering like alcohol, sex, or a good dessert, but because it will help you reclaim your authentic self. This book will change your life.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Highly recommendable to all. Very helpful, inspiring, & life changing.
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Summary: Bravo!!
Review: Attention self help addicts! When you read this book by Debbie Ford you will come to a point where you will lay the book in your lap & say to yourself, "I think I'm finally getting it." I have read so many self help books that took me so far but lacked the substance that this book gives graciously. "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" will give you insight on the whole(ness) picture of human nature/cause & effect in a clear and inspiring way. Want to get to know yourself & learn specifically what it is that you need? All you have to do is learn how to read yourself; the answers have been there all along. Before spending hundreds of dollars on therapy or counselling, open your heart & read this phenominal, life changing book.
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Summary: Picks up where Shakti Gawain left off
Review: Picks up off where Shakti Gawain left of in Living in the Light --- written 15 years ago! Both books are artfully written to lead the reader on a journey to embrace the self -- the parts of the self that most of us don't even want to acknowledge we have. When we begin to acknowledge the parts, the whole can begin to come into being, and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts! I highly recommend this book.
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