Calling in the One: 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life [Paperback]

This book is wonderful! If you are ready to take responsibility for your life, face up to your limiting beliefs, emotional wounds and grow massively in all that is good, noble, true and decent and in the process give more love and receive more love then GET IT!! The power in this book is in doing the exercises, daily for seven weeks. That is a commitment but this will be nothing but an amazing challenge for those who mean business. I did all 49 exercises one each day (I would read the chapter before going to sleep, then wake early in the morning read it again, take notes and do the exercise, I couldn't wait for each chapter. I had no problem seeing this through) and have set my intention, (you'll understand when you get to the relevant chapter)and feel very proud of myself, commitment does indeed bring it's own reward. I have already grown so much, and I'm fulfilled right now. As the Holy Scriptures teach every action we take is a seed. So in line with the universal principle of sowing and reaping we get to eventually harvest that which we have been thinking, feeling and doing each day. I particularly loved the exercise on gratitude for that exercise I wrote nine pages and was astonished at what I learnt. Some things that resonated with me from the book,

- I must be willing to grow myself beyond the person I am today
- we do not need to be with a partner in order to begin expanding our ability to give and receive love
- compassion, generosity and kindness transcend gender, title or the form of a relationship
- Importance of letting go of toxic or 'less than' relationships even if it means the risk of being alone
- whatever we think of and emotionally resonate with most is that which comes to us
- we do not necessarily get what we want in life - we do however get what we give our attention to
- The only way to resist the magnetism of unconscious patterns is to become fully conscious and thus activate the power of choice
- The first task of childhood is to develop a strong capacity to trust
- giving up our fantasy that our prince charming is coming to rescue us from our misery is a true initiation and a necessary passage to becoming an adult who is ready to give and recieve love
- Regardless of what is or not happening around us, love is something that we generate from within ourselves
- Good relationships require a tremendous amount of generosity, kindness, compassion and self-awareness
- We cannot expect in others qualities that we are not prepared to develop in ourselves

I heard about this book through reading about it on a review of a different book on Amazon.com. I read the reviews and decided to get it. The book is a real labour of love and provides the tools for doing relationship with your soulmate, but I would add any relationship would benefit. Plus you get to find out about Katherine's journey to meeting her own life partner.

I was doing this book while doing a juice fast for greater focus.

After the fast my sister said to me you have changed, you are more loving, sweeter, full of joy...

And I have been meeting some lovely men. I continue to sow my seeds, my harvest is waiting!

I decided to write my first Amazon review because this has had a huge impact on me (plus there are no reviews on the .co.uk site but loads on the .com site. Finding this book was a beautiful synchronicity as over the last 18 months I've been consciously looking at my values, what it means to be purposeful (Read Life on Purpose by Brad Swift)and also studying what marriage is really about. I decided I needed to find out if I wanted to be in a committed relationship and not let ambivalence make the decision for me, and if yes what tools did I need to be sucessful.

This is what Katherine wrote at the end of the book:

"In my work over the years I have come to see that people are divided into two categories. Those who want love in their lives and will faithfully do the work to actualise love; and those who want love in their lives but won't. Those who will do the work understand love as a creative action that they are free to choose in any given moment. Those who won't do the work tend to see love as a thing to get or as a place to hide out. I pray with all my heart that I have enticed you toward the former. For that is the fulfilment of my purpose in life - to ever expand my capacity to give and receive love with all those who cross my path, and to help others to do the same. You, dear reader, are the fulfilment of love for me. And now I beseech you to please pass it forward".

I'm 2 weeks (of 7) into the book so far, and have found the exercises really revealing. Some things I knew already, but somehow doing the exercises brought more clarity and Aha's. I would recommend reading this even if you're in a relationship because I am and I'm doing it to release blocks to love and bring more love into my life. What's happened for me is that I'm beginning to love and value myself more, and after about ten days in, I really noticed that my partner's behaviour was already changing in a positive way in response to my inner work with this book. Highly recommended. I would also recommend for anyone who's in a relationship and wonders if it's the 'right' one for them - this will help you get clear.

I think this a workbook that could inspire hope for us single people out there in search of love. I like the fact that chapters are short interesting and concise and contain quality information. Whether this book will be the key to finding the one, I will have to wait and see as I haven't finished it yet. Its not a magic formula to 'romantic love' but it does put the focus on healing yourself in order to make space for love, (if it's around).
Worth a look in my opinion.