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This book could be dangerous to your discontent, 8 Jun 2007
This book is all about how you can deliberately create the life of your dreams. Lynn Grabhorn writes: "If you really think that things come to you by some stroke of good or bad luck, or by accident, or coincidence, or by knocking your brains out against some very unsympathetic stone walls, then get a grip. This book could be dangerous to your discontent."
She points out something that most of us know, but don't acknowledge fully... the fact that when you have negative feelings, they create negative energy and events. Turning that piece of awareness on its head, she shows how to change your negative emotions into positive ones. So now you can attract the corresponding positive energy and events into your life.
Interestingly, from my brain's point of view, the book claims that you don't actually get results from positive thinking. What's important is to turn the thoughts into feelings... it's the positive emotion which will bring your dreams to life.
This is written in a very conversational style which can grate a little at times, but don't let that put you off. It's powerful stuff!
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33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Quirky but It Works!, 28 Aug 2006
After reading untold numbers of self help book for research, reference and personal reasons, I feel I have hit upon a magic little books that has worked for me. I am on my third run of reading it (one gets different things out of it each time you read it...) and spinning my feelings positively, I have made some real major goals happen... amazing!
It won't suit everyone, so if it doesn't work for you...keep looking, you will find one that does. But if you find this book working for you, then KNOW you will have some amazing things happen in your life. I have sent it to my brother and sister who are really needing to refocus their energies right now and waiting to see how their lives are going to change...
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Excuse me, indeed, 17 July 2011
This is the first book in my life I did not finish reading.
During the first chapters I thought "Okay, I will survive the flaky intuitive philosophy and keep reading so I get to the exercises". And I support the general idea that "positive happy thoughts" need more room and do give us an advantage over negative debilitating thoughts.
But this book is entirely about the "Law of Attraction" also know as "The Secret" which is a modern philosophy with no factual base whatsoever.
The book is probably appreciated by "rich" people, using the "Law of Attraction" to justify outright consumerism and capitalism: you can have whatever you want, and having everything will make you happy.
Not education, not working hard, not cooperating, not love, not family, not flow, you just have to feeeel what you want and then you can get it, you wíll get it. The cosmos wants you to.
And the people that "don't have" simply don't feeeel it enough.
(I write "feeeel" because this is how it is written through the whole book, front to back. One of the many annoying things.)
The extreme situations show how absurd this idea is. Think of natural desasters, think of the holocaust, think of rape. She actually writes that rapists are attracted by those who fear rape, a new way of blaming the victim.
And as long as we remember what happened in WW2, similar things will happen again, so I guess she suggests we simply forget about all the dark pages in history.
There are much better and more helpful books outthere, with idea's based on research.
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