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Summary: An invitation to be a Whole Human Being!
Review: The message here is clear. Reclaim your power and creativity by actively embracing the sides of yourself you deny or dislike. Rather than waste time and energy condemning others, look at yourself for possible faults you may be finding in those around you. In this context, being a whole person is more important than being a "good" person. Being "spiritual" means being fully human, warts and all!Many examples are given throughout of how judging others negatively is in fact a mirror for one's own perceived negative personality traits. Positive qualities are also often projected onto others and we can reclaim these too. By accepting the whole truth about ourselves we can move forward with a greater sense of self-worth and more love to give to others. "Do you really want inner peace?" asks Debbie Ford, "If you do its yours. Surrender. Stop fighting. Stop defending. Stop pretending. Stop denying. Stop lying to yourself". Overall this is a powerful read in the territory of the "Conversations With God" books by Neale Donald Walsch who contributes an introduction here. As with many books of this nature, the challenge is to consistently LIVE these ideas!
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Summary: Some good thoughts and excercises, but lacks credibility
Review: Actually 3 stars is generous. 2 to 2 and half is about all it deserves. The exercises are ok. The overall message that we need to embrace all sides of ourselves and learn from every part of us, good and bad is fine, but Ford's anecdotes,such as the one about "Jennifer" and her stalker, just don't ring true. If a total stranger followed me for months on end including to Hawaii half-way around the world, there is no way in holy hell I would be content with merely acknowledging my own capacity for evil and saying "hello" to the stalker to get rid of him or her. If anything, some stalkers would be ENCOURAGED by the one they stalk saying "hello." And if all my so-called friend could offer in the way of advice and support is "just own your own evil" - I think i'd soon drop that person as a friend. Likewise with the Morgan story - she admitted how much she hated her mother and all her stomach cancer magically disappeared. Are we as readers given any evidence whatsoever that any of these things ever happened ? NO!!! could they have been cnojured up by a self-styled self-help guru just to sell books ? YES!!!!!!
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Summary: Lifechanging
Review: This is the most significant book I ever read. Changed my life completely. Even though I was no beginner at searching the answers in my life..reading and working with: The Dark Side of The Light Chasers put it all into place. I went alone on a vacation to a small Greek Island and came back changed. The best gift I could ever give myself.
Thank you for being you...Debbie Ford
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Summary: Lasting Changes
Review: The philosophies shared in this book are significant. Unlike many of the theories written in other self-helps, Debbie provides the reader with tools that seem to make true lasting changes. I took the time to do the exercises and I believe I find myself on a brighter path of consciousness and contentment. I also highly recommend "Open Your Mind, Open Your Life" by Taro Gold. Excellent.
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Summary: On My Own
Review: Since I am a Christian who believes in the healing power of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I think that one must have a strong spiritual anchor in order to digest the material, do the work,know what is okay and what is not, be okay, and still understand that this book does not contain absolute truth. In fact, many Christians would not even pick it up because it calls one to believe that he/she can basically go it alone. The author places emphasis on the Universe and mentions God a few time but I am not sure of which God she speaks. I read the book knowing that there is nothing new under the sun that things as generations and ages pass are just said in a different manner, in different words. If one were to read the Holy Bible, one could see that part of Ms. Fords book is a very abbreviated version of some verses of Psalm 139 and other Scripture. In all our getting, we must get an understanding.
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Summary: The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
Review: This is "the best book" written that helps you dig down deep and uncover all of the negative personality traits that you've hidden from yourself. It assisted me in embracing my dark sides (the ones I didn't even know I had) and bring them to the light and Debbie shows how to "blend" your light with your dark to make it all light! This is EXCELLENT and I use it often to coach others in embracing their "gifts". Even the exercises are easy to understand and as a Spiritual & Empowerment Coach working with others to help them see beyond the veil--this book with the Parable of the Mansion with hundreds of rooms (which are our personality traits) is priceless! It gives new meaning to all those Nancy Drew books I read when I was growing up! YIPPEEE!!!! Loved it to the max! Thanks guys for writing it!
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Summary: Helpful, but not to dimensional
Review: This author has one big weakness, real people live in a real world and most of us can see unsupported claims quite easily. The book is way to much unsupported theory and not to realistic an approach, most readers like myself need to be convinced by real life example and fact. The excercises are helpful to many, and the spiritual guidance is for those very new to those seeking enlightenment, that is why I gave this one 5 stars. The reasons for giving a book review is to recommend buying or not, I recommend this book to new seekers.
I strongly recommend a book for all that uses much more support and real world sense in an adventurous story filled with enlightenment, SB 1 or God by Karl Mark Maddox.
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Summary: One More California Guru...One More Psychological Diet...
Review: When are we average people going to stop letting self-help gurus like this author cheat us out of our hard-earned money? I read the book with somewhat low expectations, and I was not disappointed!
Maybe I'm completely out of touch with the rest of the world (i.e. California), but I hear one more Self-help Guru telling me that if I follow her psychological diet of nutritious nuggets I will shed the cumbersome load of stagnant mental sludge. She has some nice ideas but they are neither original or practical. I hear a hundred other psychoanalytical prophets speaking through her words. Just another psychological diet book for us mentally unfit savages!
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Summary: Trapped in the Circle, Chasing Your Own Tail
Review: Author quotes Carl Jung quite freely but ignores his motto, "Bidden or unbidden, God is present." The author invites the naive and low-functioning in the reading public to ignore the necessary central focus on God, not self, for growth, acceptance, and love. How often have we all been misled by simplistic systems like the author promotes, that are hollow by nature? Reader, God has plans for you, plans to build you, not tear you down, plans to give you life, and a future. Turn back from the circular path of chasing your own tail. Seek peace, not as the world gives peace, but as God gives peace; the peace that passes all understanding. I wish you luck and eventual joy in your search.
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Summary: The Real Deal
Review: I'm not a self help junkie. I've never been in therapy. I'm just an average guy who had always felt like there was something missing. This book has CHANGED MY LIFE! For the first time in my life I can actually say I have found my path. Debbie has helped me to find hope & purpose within all the negative self talk we all experience. If your looking to find the truth about yourself, seeking insite into your own being or are curious about what it could be like to have the life of your dreams, this book is a must read. Open your mind to the possibilities.......
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