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Summary: Healing the Unconscious
Review: I got the book as a reference from one of Keating's book. It is fantastic!! I recommend that all who face any disturbing addiction to read this book and indeed if you think you don't, read it and you will be surprised what you are addicted to. May shows the neurological aspect of addictions and very important he discusses the travials that occur during recovery. How your body adapts and readapts to habits and substances. He says the root of the problem is in the psycho-toxins in our sub-conscious and recommends grace and contemplative prayer as a remedy. Where we let go of trying to solve it ourselves and allow God to heal us, to heal from the root. Here is where keating's book is useful for keating then expoundes on Mays recommended contemplative prayer namely, the prayer of silence of letting go. The healing takes time and if you are looking for a quick fix, then forget this but if you want a root solution then pick this up. May says the beginning of a solution is when you say "I have a problem, I need help", God the healer, awaits to help you. May shows how to make an appointment, keating shows how to have a session and take the anti-bodies.
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Summary: A Life Changing Discourse
Review: I purchased this book in order to better understand my brother in law's and my father's addictions which lead both almost to death. I have read it over and over many times because this book most closely expresses my own spiritual beliefs and clarifies many of the seeming dichotomies which exist in human daily life. It's a primer for life as much as it is a guide to understanding addictions. Peace, Love and Warm Biscuits in the Morning!
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Summary: Breakthrough insights and a real help to recovery
Review: I read this book (skipping the chapter on the biology of addiction and the brain) and was blown away. What simple, profound, essential insights May offers here. With the help of God's grace, using what May teaches, I was gifted with six straight days free of my food addiction for the first time in years - just eating like a normal person, eating what I wanted most when I felt physically hungry and stopping when I was full. It was a beautiful time of freedom and I want more. I know with the help of His grace many more such days are ahead of me. Thanks again and again, Dr. May - and thank you Lord for such a gift.
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Summary: Breakthrough insights and a real help to recovery
Review: I read this book (skipping the chapter on the biology of addiction and the brain) and was blown away. What simple, profound, essential insights May offers here. With the help of God's grace, using what May teaches, I was gifted with six straight days free of my food addiction for the first time in years - just eating like a normal person, eating what I wanted most when I felt physically hungry and stopping when I was full. It was a beautiful time of freedom and I want more. I know with the help of His grace many more such days are ahead of me. Thanks again and again, Dr. May - and thank you Lord for such a gift.
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Summary: The best blend of psychology and religion
Review: May has accomplished what many serious analysts of contemporary culture have been unable to pull off satisfactorily. He presents a brilliant exposition of the causes and process of inordinate attachment and then proceeds to reveal its cure which is an essentially spiritual process. His exposition of the necessary relationship between psychology and religion, while explaining the limits and possibilities of both, is a triumph. The writing, though dense, is clear and poetic. His book is a handbook for the serious human person.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: May, a psychiatrist and spiritual director, relates the current biological understanding of addiction to christian spirituality. May argues that our "attachments," which prevent us from freely responding to God's grace, gain their power over our lives through the same biological mechanism as addictions to alcohol, narcotics, and nicotine. May underscores the importance of good habits or virtues (and the devastating effect of bad habits or vices) on our spiritual lives. Thought provoking and well-argued.
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Summary: The Biology of Christian Spirituality
Review: May, a psychiatrist and spiritual director, relates the current biological understanding of addiction to christian spirituality. May argues that our "attachments," which prevent us from freely responding to God's grace, gain their power over our lives through the same biological mechanism as addictions to alcohol, narcotics, and nicotine. May underscores the importance of good habits or virtues (and the devastating effect of bad habits or vices) on our spiritual lives. Thought provoking and well-argued.
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Summary: A very Helpful book
Review: Probably THE best book on addiction I have ever read!! I recommend it highly.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: Simply put, this is the very best book on addiction and it's spiritual resolution that one can read. This author is simply brilliant, yet so readable. If addiction has you by the throat, this book will remind you of the way out.
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Summary: A great book on understanding addictions.
Review: The chapters on mind and body are informative, but very scientic. The later chapters on spirt were great, and a real help in breaking addiction. Addiction is only broken with God. I could see how I need to progress in breaking addictions in a practical way. The end of the book states that we should just QUIT IT. Jesus said it best "Go and sin no more."
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