I love the above books, and I wholeheartedly recommend them. Yes, It's the
Thought that Counts does share some commonalities but I really wrote it for
a different audience....to make these types of teachings accessible to the
`ordinary person', or `the man in the street', as they say.

I made it ultra-simple because I was brought up in a small village in
Central Scotland, in a place where people don't really tend to go on to
higher education. At least, they didn't when I was 16 (I'm 36 now!). I
wrote the book so that my mum, dad, and aunty Jane, could read it, none of
whom have any qualifications, and so that teenagers could read it and
totally get that thoughts heal, they create reality, and that we're all
connected.

This was the main challenge in taking scientific jargon and translating it
into everyday language. But I did pack it full of information so that it
would also provide a source that therapists could use and that even someone
with a PhD would get loads from. It was meant to be short so you could
easily read it in one day.

I also applied it to making the world a better place. For me, and the place
I'm in in my life right now, I needed to know how, together, we could make
the world better for our children, and our children's children. I needed to
know how we can apply this awesome power at our disposal to help everyone.

So the second half of It's the Thought that Counts does just this. I
suggest that we use our power of intention to try to exercise kindness,
compassion, forgiveness, and generosity. This is the root of the final
chapter, "3 Simple Rules." They are 1) Love for Self, 2) Love for Others,
and 3) Love for Nature.

For me, life is about being a consciously loving human being and so I try
to reflect this in my writing. I hope it comes across in It's the Thought
that Counts. Louise Hay (30 million copy best selling author of You can
Heal Your Life) kindly pointed out in the Foreword she wrote for me that it
had. Thanks Louise!