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Summary: A book that can give you the key for personal transformation
Review: This is a startlingly insightful book into the nature of personal growth and transformation. Many of us who frequent the self-help shelves know that changing for the better is a difficult task. No matter what an author advises, the change is seldom lasting; after a few days, weeks or months, the old habits return.This book focuses on allowing us to uncover the unconscious motivations that underline "bad" habits, through a process called Core Transformation. Its origins are in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), but don't let that make you shy away from it. Through this process, which you can do to yourself by a self-dialogue while in a meditative state (although doing it with a partner is probably more effective), you can begin to understand why you do the things you do. The author describes the steps carefully, starting them with transcripts of the sessions she has had with those undergoing the process. One of the key points in this book is that to achie! ve personal growth, one must look to those "undesirable" aspects of oneself. Only by understanding, acknowledging and integrating these aspects can one can achieve the transformation. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. For all my adult life, I have liked staying up late, often going to bed near midnight, even if I knew that I would be groggy when I woke up for work the next morning. My first try at this process, admittedly an imperfect attempt, uncovered a convoluted -- but very logical -- reasoning in my unconscious about this habit. I now find myself actually getting sleepy by 10 pm! Coincidence? Just my imagination? On the other hand, if it is real, what can lie ahead if I can do this process more adeptly? I recommend this book highly.
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