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Summary: Wholeness in you, wholeness in universe
Review: Wow, how this book changed my perception of the universe other people and myself. I used to look at the universe as cruel and violent and feeling despair in its darkness. I look at myself that way too, when I get angery and impatient. The universe is not violent. The universe helps and brings us parts of us need to be intergrated, parts of us need to be listened to and recieve gifts from. That's what this book is about, letting you see the universe is doing that constantly-- helping you to own all parts of yourself and start to be whole. When you are whole, you have no inner conflict. All parts of yourself is devine, they do not create conflict, only when you try to disown one or another. If I don't have this book, I probably won't know how to own those parts of myself I tried so much to hide and disown. Owning your anger means heal your anger and listern to it. When you do, you find a unique gift it provides as evrey parts of yourself. When you truely look at yourself honestly, you create your life as you wish. Nothing owns you, nothing to be run away from. Nobody to judge. You become whole and powerful. The best book I ever read on this subject. Thank you for bring light to me and I become brighter because of you.
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Summary: she misses the point a bit
Review: This book is trying to make you more compassionate to all human beings by realizing that each and every one of us has within us the same elements. Some of our characteristics lie dormant while others manifest themselves in our lives. Debbie Ford is trying to tell us that if we find someone obnoxious, that we are in fact the obnoxious one. This is the part I don't agree with. I may have the ability to be obnoxious, but just because I notice it in someone else doesn't mean I'm simply avoiding that characteristic within myself. People can be compassionate and understanding of others without consistently telling themselves that they are all of these bad things too. She also contradicts herself by saying that not having desires signifies that we don't have high self-worth (don't think we're worth enough to deserve anything). This goes directly against the Buddhist philosophy that to be desireless is a good thing. If you are desireless, you are content. When Debbie finds someone who is desireless, she creates a desire within that person. For instance, there was one woman mentioned in the book who told Debbie she didn't have any desires and was pretty content. She also told Debbie that she didn't really feel much anger and was having a hard time tapping into it. Well Debbie didn't think that was good enough so she said to the woman, "Well what about that extra weight you're carrying around? Doesn't that make you mad? Why don't you try hitting a pillow and pretend it's the fat." That is absolutely atrocious behaviour in my opinion. Debbie's the one with a weight issue and she projected her issue onto this poor woman who was actually pretty content. Overall, Debbie's got some good points and some not so good points. She herself has some issues she needs to work through (like weight issues) before she goes and gives all of us advice.
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Summary: This Book Will Change Your Life
Review: Dark Side of the Light Chasers will change your life. Your interactions with others will suddenly become understandable when you master the tools she provides. No psychojargon here, just straightforward directions on how to embrace both the divine and the diabolical in each of us. Once you can tolerate these parts of yourself, the will become teachers and guides to enhancing the overall quality of your life.
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Summary: ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS YOU WILL READ!
Review: This book has the ability to transform your life. The principles and the way the information is presented is powerful stuff! So many of us suffer and hide out from ourselves by blaming others and giving our power away to obstacles and other people but this book gives you the formula to take your power back and live a fantastic life. I plan on purchasing this book for several important people in my life because I love them and want them to have a fabulous life.
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Summary: Weaving light through coils
Review: You are an artist; your life is the portrait. Paint a picture of your world based on life experiences, dynamic beliefs and perceptions. Is your world stormy with dark clouds or full of all the colors of the rainbow? How porous are the winds on your canvas? Do they blow off you like leaves, trickle down you like water, or etch into you like sand? Do you stand under a beam of sun, or in canyon where sand accumulates and settles forming layer upon layer? When you respond to an experience adversely you could be over a shadow belief. The depth to which you respond is proportional to how long you have nurtured this belief. This can be a bitter dose of your own medicine because essentially you are hurting you. Or it can be an opportunity for inner growth by letting go. The element in which you drown in darkness, is your transforming, your going forth, your coming home. The concepts in this book are a gift for anyone to read.
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Summary: Welcoming our "Bad" Side
Review: Here's an unpleasant thought, for those of us who try so hard to be nice, spiritual, kind -- we have a dark side, too. Holding on to (hiding) our dark side is what keeps us from moving forward and making significant changes in our lives. Can't: get rid of the excess weight, stop ruining good relationships, getting into bad ones? You just might want to take a look at this book, find that dark side and use it to set you free. One way to spot the dark side, according to Debbie Ford, in her excellent book, is to pay attention to our over-reactions. If you find yourself getting all worked up when someone accuses you of being something you just KNOW you're not, Ford tells us that that reaction means you're right on top of some important information. You could go into psychotherapy to try and work it out. Or you could just get this book, and start embracing the darker side. You won't fall apart -- read it, do the exercises. This is a book you can read and follow alone, but it's also an excellent book to work on, or discuss, with a good friend or two. Don't pass this one by, unless you're perfect!
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Summary: Good Work
Review: There is a story in Native American history of an Indian chief who one night talking to his tribe tells them there are two dogs inside his mind. One a white dog who is good and courageous, the other a black dog who is vengeful and spiteful.He tells the tribe the dogs are fighting to the death. A brave, not able to wait for the end of the story asks "Which one of them will win." The chief responds "The one I feed." This book tells us how to feed the white dog. I loved the book. I would also highly recommend the book An Encounter With A Prophet.
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Summary: Yes, We All Have a Dark Side...
Review: Our shadow side and its projection onto others has been poorly understood, and all but ignored, by current self-help writers, especially those with a New Age 'white-light' slant. It's easy to find fault with others, it's not so easy to find our own. All that stuff we gripe about in others - it's in us too. We all have our petty, small-minded, nasty, and sometimes downright loathsome, aspects. We may admit to a few foibles, but then we draw a line and say something like, "oh, I could never be like that," or, "at least I'm not as bad as so-and-so." We deny we're capable of being anything other than nice. (Ironically, we're disappointed if people can't find anything to say about us except that we're nice.) If this made us merely hypocritical it wouldn't be a problem, but it makes us feel and behave like victims. It's not a concept that's easy to grasp, because we do such a thorough job of hiding the ugly bits. Debbie Ford explains it all in a systematic fashion, and the book provides exercises and meditations, but it does require a great deal of honesty. The first step is to find how the qualities we so easily recognize and hate in others manifest in ourselves. The next step is to find the ways these qualities may have unconsciously served us in the past, and then to use them consciously and positively in the future. Our natures do not contain only the blandly cheerful. The aspects we consider dark give us power and can be made to serve us if we claim them as ours. This is not an in-depth book on the subject, and the concepts can be difficult to apply in all situations, but it will give you a basic understanding, and help you to be less judgmental toward others, and yourself. If you've found most of the New Age books relentlessly sweet and nauseating, you'll like this one.
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Summary: Life Changing
Review: Buy this book,read it, give it to a friend and know that it will change your life forever. When you finish reading it, take Debbie's seminar at the Chopra Center for Well Being in California. Debbie doesn't change your life, she gives you the tools to empower yourself to change it and she gives you all the credit. Have the courage to take responsibility and power for your life. You'll never be the same again.
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Summary: I owe this woman a good review
Review: This book should be mandatory reading for everyone. It teaches you that people are composed of both good and bad qualities, something very difficult for many (including myself, at one point) to accept. I still get tired of hearing people complain about EVERYONE ELSE'S mistakes, talking as if they have never done anything wrong in their life. I'd love to just hand them a copy of the book.
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