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'Engaging, lyrical and courageous, Isabel Losada is an intrepid explorer of human development and spirituality. She dives into weird and fantastic situations like a freefall parachutist and gives us valuable and inspiring insights. Her journey and her honesty will make you laugh and touch your heart. This is rock'n'roll of the soul. I love this book.' William Bloom 'The Battersea Park Road to Paradise is a funny, well written, warm and intelligent book which made this reader smile broadly. Leading us through the labyrinth of new age spirituality, mad-cap Feng Shui consultants, gung-ho American motivation gurus, the wonderful contemporary teacher Mooji, and a brave hallucinogenic excursion to South America, Isabel Losada proves herself a fantastic prose-stylist and the most eloquent of guides. It's a book which grapples with the big questions with the lightest of touches. If there's any justice in the world, it'll give Eat, Pray Love a run for its money because it's a better book in every way.' From Piers Moore Ede (Author of 'All Kinds of Magic' and 'Honey and Dust')
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In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim - 'to be absurdly happy every day'. But a few years down the road, she's stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she'd intended. There's only one way to get out of the hole: throw out the ideas that landed her there and start over. So, using the ancient Chinese tradition of the five elements of life - Metal, Fire, Wood, Water, Earth - Isabel breaks her own life down to its essentials to explore five areas of inner and outer change. She calls in a feng shui consultant to discover that her bedroom decor is 'draining the father' (whatever that means)...takes a motivational workshop to experience the power of 'doing'...turns a silent meditation retreat into an exercise in unrelenting 'being'...sits at the feet of a Brixton guru to examine the nature of mind...and undertakes a shamanic ritual in the Amazon to part company with her own mind completely. As rich as the book is in the particulars of a life hilariously lived, it's also universal: readers can see themselves in Isabel's experience and look at their lives with new eyes.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Isabel Losada's The Battersea Park Road to Paradise opens with a tour of her home following the flow of energy with a range of Feng Shui experts. She invites the reader to join her as she walks across hot coals on the Anthony Robbins weekend, struggles through the 10 day silent Vipassana retreat and journeys through the Amazonian jungle to meet a shaman.
Isabel writes with a good dollop of skepticism before embarking on each experience and she shares the good and bad with her readers. She tells it as it is. If you like your affirmations and are trying to just "be" more in your life, this book will give you a lift, some ideas and definitely some laughs.
There are a few passing mentions to a man Isabel fell in love with and if like me, you hate to finish a good book until you have another one lined up, you can read a true life love story in her book Men! and at the same time pick up some fascinating insights into what men really think. The Battersea Park Road to Paradise
Isabel writes with a good dollop of skepticism before embarking on each experience and she shares the good and bad with her readers. She tells it as it is. If you like your affirmations and are trying to just "be" more in your life, this book will give you a lift, some ideas and definitely some laughs.
There are a few passing mentions to a man Isabel fell in love with and if like me, you hate to finish a good book until you have another one lined up, you can read a true life love story in her book Men! and at the same time pick up some fascinating insights into what men really think. The Battersea Park Road to Paradise
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I came to this book already biased since a previous work "For Tibet, With Love" is one of my all-time favourite inspiring books. While that book will always be special to me for the heartfelt feelings it evoked this is a different kind of book, something I read more for entertainment and fun, yet I still believe both books deserve a five star rating. In particular for me the most interesting parts of the book were the detailed accounts of experiencing an Anthony Robbins seminar and a meditation retreat, both things I have been curious about for a long time. I have listened to several Gil Fronsdal podcasts about retreats and they sound like wonderful growth experiences - but after reading Isabel's account I now know the physical pain involved in sitting so many hours a day would outweigh the benefits for someone as pain-averse as me. The thing I like about all Isabel's writing is her authenticity - you get to read about the real person and their real reactions not a facade created to be more popular or sell more books. There is also an interesting combination of being very open-minded (more than I am - I am very skeptical about feng shui which is covered in the book) yet still not being gullible, of making up her own mind and having interesting opinions. Jim Rohn once said "let your decisions be the product of your own conclusions" and it's interesting to read Isabel's thought processes and reflections after she has completed all the experiences in the book in the final section. I lack the way with words to do this book justice so I will close by fully recommending this book and just suggesting that afterwards you consider "For Tibet, With Love" too. Already I look forward to reading whatever comes next for Isabel - after seeing the Martin Sheen film "The Way" on Friday I had the thought "I wish Isabel did the 800 km Camino de Santiago pilgrimage walk too I would love to hear her opinions about it!". For shy souls like myself who don't undertake too many adventures in life having Isabel do cool things and reading her account of them is the next best thing!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A very funny, interesting, and inspiring read, she's done it again.
After reading 'For Tibet with Love' 6 years ago I quit my job, packed my backpack and went off to volunteer overseas. Six years later, Isabel is still writing books that make me sit up and pay attention to my life and want to better it in some way.
The Battersea Park Road to Paradise isn't a self help book, it's just a book about Isabel's experiences. It just can't help but help you.
Isabel writes with humour and honesty and never fails to throw herself completely into the strangest of situations before taking a step back and being objective and honest about her findings.
After reading 'For Tibet with Love' 6 years ago I quit my job, packed my backpack and went off to volunteer overseas. Six years later, Isabel is still writing books that make me sit up and pay attention to my life and want to better it in some way.
The Battersea Park Road to Paradise isn't a self help book, it's just a book about Isabel's experiences. It just can't help but help you.
Isabel writes with humour and honesty and never fails to throw herself completely into the strangest of situations before taking a step back and being objective and honest about her findings.
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Spiritual Humour At Its Best!
Well, what can I say! I have read all of Losada's books and each have got me thinking in various ways as much as they have got me to laugh out loud as she brings you to reality... Read more
Published 6 days ago by Sudakshina B
Brilliant Read
Not necessary to have read "The Battersea Park Road to Englightenment" to enjoy this book. Like the other book, this was a very funny and informative read. Excellent!!
Published 19 days ago by Vanessa C
I had so much faith this was going to be great but....
As I first started reading this book I loved it...I then got really annoyed with it and found it very similar to eat prey love,it just all seems a bit middle class women trying to... Read more
Published 29 days ago by nic
Entertaining and informative
This is the second of Isabel's books that I have read. I've thoroughly enjoyed them both and I think I've learnt from them too. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jansty
a rambling road that does at least finish the journey
Battersea Park Road to Paradise by isabel losada i admit this is the first of losada's book i had read and read it as i have read others on this totally passe othe peoples relgions... Read more
Published 1 month ago by mark1000
Patchy
The book starts off with a good hook and I found the last chapter to be engrossing, however in between I found the writing patchy and poorly edited. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mumcious
Self Indulgent and reckless
I had previously read and enjoyed "Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment". However I found this book too self indulgent and possibly even unsafe. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Janice
Enlightening, entertaining, occasionally irritating!
This is made up of five separate sections, corresponding to the elements - including Metal and Wood, but no Air, which is a bit of a puzzle. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Archy
Serendipity
A friend of mine posted a picture of this book on top of her pile of holiday reading. I was tickled by the title (I used to live on that road) and added it to a full basket. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Mrs. Dorothy Finlow
Life-changing
This is a truly inspiring book from Isabel! All her adventures are fabulous, thought-povoking and some hillarious! Read more
Published 5 months ago by Katy
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