Emotional Options: How to Use the Option Method

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Summary: A 'MUST HAVE' book!
Review: Emotional Options is a concise, useful, practical tool for understanding yourself and the beliefs that get in the way of your happiness in the present. I have owned and used this book for over a decade and still find it helpful. It's better than all those other 'self-help' books with a million promises and a thousand pages. Mandy Evans writes with simplicity and wisdom making Emotional Options a book that is not only effective but real.

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Summary: Emotional Options
Review: Emotional Options is like an old friend who knows just what to say when you're feeling unhappy or confused. Mandy Evans gives a clear guide to tackling your fears in a safe nonconfrontational way.
Old patterns can be dissolved by using a series of questions and the result is the creation of a fresh approach to life. The questions are simple but go deep to the source of our negative feelings--our belief structures that have probably been in place all of our lives.
Don't be fooled by the small size of the book. Each sentence is full and rich with wisdom that has changed my life on a personal and professional level. This is a book that can definitely make you happy.

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Summary: Emotional Options
Review: Emotional Options is like an old friend who knows just what to say when you're feeling unhappy or confused. Mandy Evans gives a clear guide to tackling your fears in a safe nonconfrontational way.
Old patterns can be dissolved by using a series of questions and the result is the creation of a fresh approach to life. The questions are simple but go deep to the source of our negative feelings--our belief structures that have probably been in place all of our lives.
Don't be fooled by the small size of the book. Each sentence is full and rich with wisdom that has changed my life on a personal and professional level. This is a book that can definitely make you happy.

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Summary: If I Had to Choose One Book
Review: If I had to choose one book to help me through a hard time, to boost my self-esteem, to give me the tools I need to move forward on any project or in any aspect of my life - this would be that book. Yes, it means that much to me. My copy is bookmarked, earmarked and hi-lightered. And my life, indeed, changed for the better.
As an on-the-edge, well-educated, new-age girl I'm exposed to most of what's 'out there'. Mandys book and techniques cut to the chase and deliver. I've found it to cover - mostly without meaning to - the best of 12-step work, Landmark Education, and Living In Process work. I would also choose working with the Option Method over about any therapist I know - no offense to them. A good therapist is hard to find and mine has Mandys book and uses it.
Mandys book presented to me the most workable tools for happiness and getting what I want in this simple, fun format - I admit I am tired of just reading self-help books and appreciate how brief, how easy this almost workbook-style book is for me to read and use.
Ok. Did I say I loved it? I am buying copies for all my friends and recommending it across the board.


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Summary: A 'MUST HAVE' book!
Review: Many Evans' book is a wonderful introduction to the Option Method. It's simple, friendly, and easy to follow. I often give a copy to my clients after their first Option Method dialogue with me, so they can continue to use this wonderful self-help tool on their own. Mandy's book helps you discard those beliefs which no longer serve you, opening the door to dicovery of your own personal joys.

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Summary: Emotional Options : How to Use the Option Method
Review: Many Evans' book is a wonderful introduction to the Option Method. It's simple, friendly, and easy to follow. I often give a copy to my clients after their first Option Method dialogue with me, so they can continue to use this wonderful self-help tool on their own. Mandy's book helps you discard those beliefs which no longer serve you, opening the door to dicovery of your own personal joys.

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Summary: Concise, to-the-point guide to happiness.
Review: The Option Method deserves a great deal of exposure. I have proof that it works effectively. This book can surely add greater happiness to everyone's life and should be highly recommended and widely read. Besides that, the author truly lives what she writes and is a great inspiration.

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Summary: Skimpy, but possibly useful
Review: This book is inexpensive, for a reason. The 53 pages have wide margins too. I was somewhat disappointed that it consists mainly of lists of questions to ask people, some description of how people react to the questions, and not much else. I do think some of the ideas are useful, but this is not the book to lead you carefully along the way. The most useful idea is that whenever conditions will be the same whether you're happy about them or not, there's no reason to be unhappy. The book doesn't tell you how to transform your reaction --which is actually one of the things I was hoping to learn from it --but I know it can be done, sometimes more easily than others.