5 comments about The Breakthrough Experience: A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation.

1. Sometimes we are our own captor and the prisoner of our own making. The DeMartini Method is a series of questions that help you access your own best friend - your mind. Asian philosophers call mental chatter the source of much inner hell. It's great to question your limiting belief and release yourself from a problem of your own making.
   
   Here is an case example:
   
   Who is someone that pushes my buttons: Brenda
   
   What is it that pushes my buttons about this person? Their behavior seems hurtful to themself and others.
   
   Who is it that sees me that way with that trait? My best friend Caroline sometimes sees me as a tad too adventurous in a different way. (Keep writing down a list of the people who do until the list is complete and until you can own that trait as much as your own as the person that is pushing your buttons)
   
   How does their behavior serve me? I commit to acting in integrity because I want to demonstrate my love to those who I love through being in integrity and honoring their feelings.
   
   How can you perceive it so it doesn't run your life? The person who pushes my buttons is teaching me how not to destroy love between myself and those who matter alot to me. I am being taught how to nurture love and see all the red flags that help me choose friends who are aligned with my values.
   
   How has me doing that served them? By being in integrity as much as I can (even though I am not perfect)and being love in action, I create emotionally healthy mutually beneficial relationships in the world. That person is part of the world and experiences the world. (This dissolves guilt)
   
   Where does this person have the opposite for that trait? Brenda has a job and is able to support herself. In having a job she is supporting people and helping herself through earning an income. Or Brenda being occupied by her shenanigans helps her learn something while being an example to others. The example is a lesson for others on how to choose better friends in life and thus Brenda is helping others help themselves. (This breaks the label)
   
   At the very moment they were doing that who was doing the opposite? A person who went into a store and robbed the owner.
   
   If they had not been that way what are the drawbacks? I would not appreciate my friends of the jewels they are. And therefore, not be committed to nurturing them the way I do. I realize how precious people I love are to me every moment. I experience what unconditional love is because my friends need not do anything but be to be loved by me.
   
   This breaks the fantasy that any other way than how it was or is would have been a perfect paradise. A negative trait label is the fantasy of the opposite that doesn't exist and didn't serve a positive purpose.
   
   Stop and look at how the positive can be a drawback. Keep looking and dig until you find the answer. Had Brenda not done hurtful things I would not have become better adept at recognizing the warning signs fast enough of people who do not share my values. Although there is no right and wrong, I am aware that I am happier and better off choosing friends who share my values and so are my friends for this. I only attract people who share my values and therefore experience love from these amazing friendships.
   
   Now link this to my values: I link this to my high value of giving and receiving love and respect. Brenda's behavior benefits people who learn to attract happiness by choosing friends who share their values.
   
   But the breakthrrough is much more than that.
   



2. This is an insightful and very thought out book. As you read each chapter you are supprised to find that the pennies just keep dropping as what Dr Demartini has to say about our perseptions with life, love, friendships and relationships of all aspects. Very interesting and I would recommend this book to most people with an open mind.



3. I found nothing new in the book... when i emailed for clairification was sent back info from courses i was told i would need to understand my question... of course the workshop cost much much more than all the books combined.. and there are courses after that one... much like scientology.... much of what wasin book i ran across 40 years ago...



4. This book is truly an amazing piece of work. If you've ever struggled with your life - from feelings to what you should be doing with your life - then this is the book for you. You don't have to be a victim to your feelings and past experiences any longer. You can breakthrough all that and become the person you want to be! And live the life you were meant to have.



5. If you really want to make a difference in your life, get this book. Without a doubt, it's the best one out there. Dr. John DeMartini is brilliant and the book is easy to use.

5 comments about Marriage On The Rocks: Learning to Live with Yourself and an Alcoholic.

1. I understand that it's not easy to leave your spouse-- even when you can't find him anymore under all that alcohol. However, if the environment is entirely sick and you have children involved, how can you justify staying? This book IS helpful if that's your decision, but the truth is, you'd be better off thinking about holding an intervention and help the person. They don't have to hit bottom and you don't have to settle for a life loneliness and sadness and disappointment. Drunks are irrational, illogical, and can be MEAN. If you are in a relationship with someone exhibiting these characteristics secondary to alcohol abuse, why would you stay indefinitely?
   
   There is an answer and that answer is an intervention (yes, I know that some disagree with that concept. I think interventions, though, are useful. But don't send them to the cult of AA afterwards. . . get them into detox and then someplace far away from AA. . . like on a plane to Rational Recovery in California or into some REBT therapy. . )80% of interventions are successful in the sense that they get treatment. But, as the interventionist would say, ALL interventions are successful because even if the addict refuses treatment, you have made boundaries. You have made decisions. You have the opportunity knowing you did all you can do.
   
   Since writing this review, I came across more information regarding this author. So, as an addendum, I want to say that Janet Woititz is a nut. For her dissertation, she did a study that compared Alateen teens to similar teens with alcoholic parents. Her study proved that the teens that weren't affiliated with Alateen had higher self-esteem and were happier people. Wanting to forward her theories, she concluded that the REASON non-Alateen teenagers had higher self-esteem was because they were "in denial". 12-step groups are based on the alcoholism-as-disease-model. There is absolutely no evidence of this. On the contrary, the evidence points to addiction being a choice or a negative BEHAVIOR.
   
   Janet Woititz forwards this crazy pseudo-science. You'd be better off reading Jeffrey Schaler, Stanton Peele, Jack Trimpey, or Albert Ellis. Not only will their scientifically-sound theories enlighten you to the truth, you will be able to make decisions regarding YOUR life based on fact, not feeling, and not the neverending, always-in-"recovery", "i need a meeting" philosophy. Make a decision: get over the addiction and get on with your life. Pretty simple.



2. This book is a good place to start when you realize there need to be changes in your life -- especially when you are married to an alcohol abuser. While not everything in the book was tailored to my situation, I found the information to be helpful and insightful. The style of writing is a bit casual, but I think that is purposeful to keep the reader involved. I plan to purchase the books about adult children of alcoholics by the same author.



3. Besides going to alanon, this is an excellent starting point to validate and identify your problems with an alcoholic. Also buy Jeff Jay's LOVE FIRST--on how to do an intervention. I bought both of these books for myself and my friends so they would understand what I was going through (friends give you all the wrong advice until they really understand)and help me with the intervention--which WORKED!!! Don't be afraid to tell people. You are hurting yourself and your children by keeping secrets. Believe me, my 6 year old knew way more than i could have imagined when I started being honest with her--I was shocked--sometimes it seemed like she understood more than I did). To my shock--My husband went into a 28 day detox/alcohol rehab program after I did the intervention---it MUST be done RIGHT to work! Even the interventionist said he was a really tough case. These 2 books did the trick (I read many other books that did not "speak to me" the way these 2 books did. After 2-3 years of research online and in books--these are the 2 books that worked for me and my husband. After his 28 days treatment he refused a sober house (which was a mistake--it would have been better if he was recovering away from me and my daughter for OUR sake not his). In a sober house, the newly sober alcoholic can still go to work, see family, etc--he just lives in the sober house for support and checks and balances). So, After the 28 days, he has now been in outpatient rehab for 2 months. A very slow, emotional time for the family, but at least he is abstaining from alcohol. They tell me it takes 4-6 months for their heads to clear and really start a true recovery. THUS, I cannot stress enough that AFTER treatment the follow up is almost as tough. You must get your WHOLE family into recovery/treatment--the best thing is to insist that you alcoholic spouse/friend/dad/eic. go to outpatient rehab after inpatient rehab (even better, to a sober house first after inpatient treatment) and then the family and significant other should be in any and all programs available at the out patient tratment. That is when you realize that YOU need to help YOURSELVES and stop worrying about the alcoholic. PLEASE, go to ALANON as well and read these books. Also look at books on co-dependency to help you and your children get a life. The books by Beatty (I forgot her first name)on co-dependent 12 steps are excellent too. ESPECIALLY if you have kids involved.



4. This is an excellent book for anybody who has ever been affected by someone else's drinking problem. Even if it is not your spouse. This book will help you understand the disease, and that nobody is at fault. The alcoholic is NOT to blame for his disease, but IS responsible for his behavior. If you are a wife, a parent, a child, a close friend, or in any way associated with an alcoholic, this book is for you. It is important that you help yourself, before the alcoholic. This book will show you how.



5. We often so need to -- or want to-- stay with the alcoholic, for today.
   We often don't know if we can stand it if we are alone, or if we can go out there in that world again, trying to 'date', or whatever.
   Another book that I also find so extremely helpful is "Getting Them Sober". That book-- both for me and my patients -- has literally saved all our lives, with its hundreds of so very practical and effective daily suggestions that really do make life easier when living under the same roof with an alcoholic. No wonder it has sold over a million copies, and Melody Beattie (author of "Codependent NO More") says "it's the best book for the family of the still-drinking alcoholic".Getting Them Sober: You Can Help! (Getting Them Sober)

5 comments about Wired That Way.

1. I am excited about Wired That Way! It's full of fresh stories and examples that help illustrate the principles. Having all of the information about the different aspects of The Personalities in one place is going to be an awesome tool!



2. As a professional speaker who spends her days empowering others with the skills they need to build better relationships through improved communications, I'm just thrilled that Marita has updated her personality materials into one compelling resource. I've been recommending her books for years, and now "Wired that Way" is sure to become the primary foundational resource I will strongly recommend to everyone who is serious about communicating effectively with others!"
   Christy Largent
   Motivational Speaker, Trainer, Humorist and Member of NSA



3. Marita's new book 'Wired That Way' combines in one place the resources anyone needs to build better relationships and understand oneself. With my business name as 'Word Wardrobe,' I ask the question in my speaking and writing, 'What kind of words do you wear?' Wired That Way provides myriad examples relating how we often hurt people's feelings who have different personalities than our own. Because my emphasis is on words and the response those words bring, I'm excited to share in my Personality Trainings one comprehensive book which meets the needs of everyone. After reading this book, no one will be able to blunder through life slaying people with their words.
   Glenda Schoonmaker, Writer, Speaker, Trainer



4. Katherine Cook Briggs and daughter Isabel Briggs-Myers, shared an intense curiosity about typology and together they co-created what became the "gold standard" for personality profiling, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. In a remarkably similar fashion, Florence, with husband Fred, began research into the four temperaments, which led to her body of work on the Personalities, paving the way for daughter Marita Littauer to add her own research and insights. Together, sharing forty years of study, they are inarguably, the Myers-Briggs for a new generation.
   
   Now Marita Littauer has written the definitive book (with insights from Florence) about the Personalities under the clever title, Wired That Way. Let me say this plainly - you won't find the Myers-Briggs 16 personality types in this book. What you will find is the latest available information on the four basic types - often attributed to Hippocrates - of Sanguine, Phlegmatic, Melancholy, and Choleric.
   
   Ms. Littauer writes in a conversational style that pulls you through the book, as she dives straight into the heart of practical everyday application. Through the use of story and metaphor, she takes us into the familiar daily-ness of life, and along the way, we suddenly realize we can better understand the strange people at work and the - um - "quirky" behavior of certain family members, as well as those curious individuals in our Bible Study group. In other words, wherever you find people, you will find fertile ground for applying these techniques.
   
   I don't think it will be giving anything away to say that Ms. Littauer concludes her book with a caveat: Don't let the preferences of your personality be an excuse for poor performance or behavior. Rather, focus on using your strengths to overcome your weaknesses. Understand that it's your differences that make you a unique child of God. She notes that throughout the Gospels of the New Testament, the personality of Jesus Christ "contained the strength of all four personalities and the weaknesses of none." Marita's powerful, heartfelt call to action is "to live in your strengths - to be more like Christ."
   
   Buy one book for yourself and send another to a friend - you know - that person who really needs to read it.



5. This book has it all! It is an easy read with practical information that can be easily applied to your life. It will help you understand and know how to improve every relationship in your life. It will even help you understand yourself and how you can be a better person. The principles in this book have changed my life for the better, and they can do the same for you.

5 comments about Choices and Illusions: How Did I Get Where I Am, and How Do I Get Where I Want to Be?.

1. Basically this is a re-hash of other people's ideas with an infommercial thrown in. Re-framing, positive thinking, visualization, Love and Fear is all that's real etc. You've heard it all before, you've read it all before. All the "Haye House" stuff.
   
   Lot's of Wayne Dyer thrown in, whom I personally find annoying.
   
   The first story about the chicken yard makes a good point, but then it goes no where from there. In the middle he inserts an interview by his wife from another doctor talking about his own patients(the doctors's) and how they've been healed through subliminal tapes. The author's line of subliminal tapes.
   
   This is just a very frustrating read. Kind of shocking when he leads into pages and pages about his audio programs and you realize that's all there is to the book...there just isn't much substance to it.
   
   A waste of time and money.



2. I was disillusioned about subliminal programming and this book has re-opened a door to self-improvement that I shut many years ago because of the mis/disinformation involving subliminals. I am fascinated by the information in the book about blame and forgiving, and "mommy and I are one" and how these phrases as subliminals can change a person. Thanks Eldon Taylor!



3. This book came so highly recommended from so many individuals whom I respect that I couldn't imagine not reading it. I found the book fascinating. I've been a student of spirituality and science my whole life. I loved how the author made the concepts simple and yet very strongly tied them in with the spiritual viewpoint of life which isn't always as easy to grasp. The essence of the Universe and Universal law is the Law of Attraction and the way it is activated is through our thoughts. Mr. Taylor very clearly explains the process and why it works. And Mr. Taylor has found a way, through his many years of research and experience, to expedite that process. I personally know the power and 'magic' of affirmations. But I also know that it's not easy to keep your mind and attention on the affirmations we've chosen and the path we know we would like to direct ourselves to. Mr. Taylor has a line of tapes that compliment and support the concepts in his book. I believe, approached with an open mind, and a willing heart......that there isn't anything you can't accomplish. I plan to purchase several of the tapes and additional copies of the book for myself and for loved ones.



4. I have read many self-improvement books over the last few years, but until I found Choices and Illusions, I had not found a book that was able to finally give me the information I was looking for on how to reprogram the mind successfully. Dr. Taylor has written a book that is easy to read and hard to put down, packed full of research into how our sub-conscious beliefs cause us to limit ourselves, but unlike other books on the subject, provides answers to the question of "now that I know what's wrong, how do I fix it?" Since reading this book the first time, and I will re-read it, I have ordered a sampling of inner Talk CDs and can't wait to get started with them. Thankyou Eldon Taylor for giving me such a pivotal book and the technology I need to finally be able to make the changes I have so long wanted to make. I will also be buying extra copies of this book for gifting, to friends and family. It is a book that I feel every one should read at least once.



5. Choices and Illusions: How Did I Get Where I Am, and How Do I Get Where I Want to Be?
   By Eldon Taylor
   ISBN 1-40191-853-0 (Hay House, 2007)
   
   Nothing is more vital than questioning our beliefs about how we see the world and our relationship to it. Reading Eldon Taylor's book helped me see through many of my self-limiting beliefs and illusions through a very rational and comprehensive approach. Most people are caught in an endless cycle of self-delusion, which only reinforces itself with time because we seek to reinforce previously held beliefs and filter out the rest as irrelevant. If you feel stuck, this book will help.
   
   Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide magazine

5 comments about How to Handle Bullies, Teasers and Other Meanies: A Book That Takes the Nuisance Out of Name Calling and Other Nonsense.

1. My 8 year old son spent about 40 minutes with this book and the next day he and his best friend were using the book's concepts to invent good resposes to insults. That's what I call practical.



2. No matter if you are working with the bullies or the kids being bullied, this s a great resource!



3. This is a great book that i purchased for my 8 year olf son after a really bad bullying incident at school. With the help of the book and roleplaying situations using the information in this book he is enjoying coming up with new ways to handle meanies.



4. This is a book on How to Deal With Bullies for kids, but I bought it for myself.



5. These strategies are fine for some kids but do not always work. This is a good start but a more comprehensive book currently recommended by school superintendents is Bully-Proofing Children: A Practical, Hands-On Guide to Stop Bullying. An incredible book that has everything a parent or teacher can use to deal with bullies or victims- tips, strategies, scripts, lessons,stories to share with your children and more...highly recommended A+.

5 comments about The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die.

1. The stories are like layers of an onion where each depends on the one before it to exist. The horrors of war are only hinted at by the author's uncle but the reader easily draws parallels between the transitions in life with a fallow field, a fir tree covered with decorations and the emergence of new life and promise from a piece of fallow ground. The book is easily read in an hour and I blinked away tears as I finished. Since the first reading, my front lawn has been returning to Nature, just as the author's did, and every season of watching new life emerge reminds me of the story and that good things are always beginning.



2. I listened to the tape and read the book. If you want to know the true nature of survival - especially in times like these - this is the book for you. Full of hope and evidence of the ability of humans to survive, thrive and love - no matter what. I was sorry the book was over. I am every time I read it.



3. I listened to the tape and read the book. If you want to know the true nature of survival - especially in times like these - this is the book for you. Full of hope and evidence of the ability of humans to survive, thrive and love - no matter what. I was sorry the book was over. I am every time I read it.



4. A beautiful story that reminds us that the changes we fight against the most are the ones that take us where we want to go.



5. As usual, Clarissa Pin Estes writes with tremendous insight. Her use of personal history brings the book's content and (atypically) short length to life. I think it would be wonderful as a gift to share with one's loved-ones.

5 comments about TNT: The Power Within You.

1. I am ever grateful for being introduced to this book and the lessons I learned. Time tested and true - it's what the movie 'The Secret' is based on. My life is ever changed because of TNT!
   
   Janet Legere, Calgary, Canada



2. If you have read The Magic of Believingthen you should also have this marvelous book. Learn how to change your minds beliefs to the best ones. Hurry and get this book today.



3. Read this book years ago and was amazed at the wealth of information. A must for your library of self-help or manifesting.



4. If you need something positive and motivational about the power of your own mind, this book is it. Not much on detailed instruction and it doens't do it for you.



5. If you are interested in the Law of Attraction you don't want to miss this book. It's one of the best in this topic.

3 comments about As a Man Thinketh and Other Writings.

1. This book is must reading for anyone that contemplates the world around them and there role/opportunity in that world. James Allen is an outstanding writer with clear but deep insights into the soul of mankind. Easily read in one sitting, this book is an annual review for me.



2. I constantly read and re read this book every day. This book offers success tips in all areas of your life. A true MUST READ!
   w w w . theexecutiveleadershipcoach . c o m



3. This is a great book for those that are willing to dig a little deeper into the human thought process.

5 comments about Breaking Free from Boomerang Love: Getting Unhooked from Borderline Personality Disorder Relationships.

1. Great book if you are leaving a relationship with a BPD, or if you are or were addicted to someone with BDP - easy to read! ... The humor and the spirituality are just right.



2. Most of the books dealing with borderline personality disorders (BPD) discuss the diagnosis of borderlines and treating the disorder. For the most part, those are for therapists and care-givers, or for those who want to understand what makes someone borderline and what they're going through.
   
   This book, though, is for the boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives of borderlines: How being in an intimate relationship with a borderline makes you feel, what you can expect, what you can do to protect your own emotional health. The book creates the impression of being in a discussion with dozens of people who have lived through the experience, so it provides validation and insights that can't easily be found elsewhere.
   
   The author specializes in helping the significant others of borderlines (rather than borderlines), and has a website providing other support services. Many of her observations and suggestions may give the appearance of indifference to the borderline's suffering, but this is necessary if she is to faithfully serve her readers.
   
   I've read several books on BPD, and this one deserves a place on your shelf!



3. Reading this book was a defining moment in my life! I had struggled for thirty years in a troubled marriage. Always trying to please, understand and fix it! Blaming myself for the failures. Trying to 'make' him love me. It was as though a wall was between us. There was no intimacy. The emotional abuse was insidious. His narcissism grew with each passing year. Yet, I could never quite understand what was happening. He was clever enough to never push me too far. Just when he thought I was giving up on him, he would attempt a loving facade. He would 'hoover me' back in. Push/pull. In the final year, his behavior grew so truly bizarre that I almost had a breakdown.
   
   He lied to a succession of fourteen different therapists, quite successfully too! In an effort to help our relationship, I read many different books. The topics ranging from affairs, emotional affairs, passive aggressive anger, compulsive lying, sexual addictions, narcissism, obsessive compulsive disorder, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and bipolar disorder. Finally, the answer came to me in the form of the book Boomerang Love. This book, as the author so perfectly puts it, gave a name to my pain! As I have heard many others say, the story of my life unfolded in the pages of this book. I was astounded. I felt as though the author had lived with us for the entire marriage. I grabbed a highlighter and no page was left unmarked. I cried. I rejoiced. I had never heard of this personality disorder. Now I had some longed for answers!
   
   Oddly enough, just two months later his psychiatrist diagnosed him as having Borderline Personality Disorder. He denied it and changed doctors immediately. I gave him Boomerang Love and asked him to read it. He did so dutifully and stated, "This woman wants you to leave me". I corrected him. I pointed out that the author quite clearly stated that a person with this disorder can change if strongly motivated. I wanted him to read the book, because I thought he would see himself reflected in the pages and love our family enough to work towards change. Oh, he did see himself but was unwilling or unable to change. He grew worse because he believed that I was about to give up on the marriage. He was right. I struggled with him for two more painful months. I read Boomerang Love a second time. That was it, he was getting worse and so was I. I needed to save myself - as Lynn states in Boomerang Love: "I was the more valuable dog".
   
   When I read this book, it was as though an enormous rock was lifted off of me. At last I knew that I was no longer responsible for fixing this marriage. In fact, it was quite clear to me that it was an impossible task. Such a huge relief. The fact that it was almost impossible for him to ever change or improve strongly influenced my decision to leave him.
   
   I eventually sought out this author, Lynn Melville, and have had life coaching from her for almost a year. She speaks and writes from experience, unlike many of the therapists I previously had. She has lived with this devastating disorder in her life. She wrote about it having had 'on the job training'.
   
   I have been apart from my husband for over a year now. I am struggling to repair the incredible damage he has done to my family. However, my life is in a far better place than it was during my years of confusion and despair. I would recommend Boomerang Love as the most definitive book on Borderline Personality Disorder. It is an invaluable tool for understanding the 'crazymaking' one is enduring from a BPD partner. Check out Lynn Melville's website. www.boomeranglove.com This could change your life. I hope it does. No one deserves to live with this confusion and pain.
   
   GT



4. Each page of this book brings new revelations to those of us who have been involved and even still love a significant other or parent with BPD. It brings mental relief because the author so clearly defines what terror, pain, bewilderment and exhilaration we have been through. She provides guidelines in each chapter of how to be good to ourselves and reach out for spiritual support. The checklists alone are worth the read as you say "yes" outloud to line after line of perplexing BPD behaviour that you have never had detailed before and you thought you were the only person going through it.
   
   God bless all of us who love the BPD, as the author says, "we are the best of the best", the most giving, forgiving, understanding and loving people who have commmitted their hearts to loving these afflicted people. God bless the BPD's as well, whose suffering we cannot understand and who we do not hold entirely responsible for the harm they bring to us. They did not ask for the emotional burden and pain they battle every day. We can get away if we must, but they never can.



5. As a borderline person who spent a year and a half in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, I take great offense when people say that you should run screaming from borderlines, and that relationships with a borderline person are necessarily turbulent, unhappy, and something to be gotten out of. When I found a therapist who said BPD could be managed, even "cured," and that she would stick with me throughout the treatment (as opposed to getting sick of me and firing me as a client because I was too great of a suicide risk), I began to get well. I was able to enter into a healthy relationship with someone who was NOT codependent. I note that another reader said that the only way a borderline could have a relationship was with a codependent, similarly self-loathing person. This just perpetuates the notion that we can't get better, we can't be sane, and we are people who should fundamentally be avoided. The stigma around this disorder causes a lot of people who are genuinely suffering and seeking help to be turned away by therapists and partners over and over again. According to this book and the user comments, it's all about saving yourself from becoming involved in a relationship with a borderline, something to be avoided AT ALL COSTS! Is there a book out there that suggests avoiding any other mentally ill people, shutting them out, getting away from them? No. If you're schizophrenic, bipolar, or have OCD, you're allowed to have relationships, but if you're borderline, you should be treated like a leper. Where is the logic in this? BPD can be very successfully managed. I used to be in and out of the hospital at least once a year, but that hasn't happened in four years now. Why? DBT. Please, please, if you are in a relationship with a borderline, consider suggesting DBT to them, and make sure they know you support and love them. We can be wonderful, vibrant, talented contributors to society. Why not attempt to love us and support us in finding effective treatment, rather than listening to this book and abandoning us? This just perpetuates a cycle that can, in fact, be ended.

5 comments about The Genie Within: Your Subconcious Mind--How It Works and How To Use It.

1. I have a copy of Awakening the Giant Within by Robbins, TNT by Bristol and I bought two different books of NLP. I bought this book recently.
   
   The two books on NLP were so complicated that I just put them aside. Carpenter's book is an easily readable nuts and bolts of the subconscious mind and how to program it, although he left out the "avoid using don't in your scripts. There was one part that I the skeptic do wish he had left out and that was about the pendulum idea of determining a baby's sex, etc. That is a bit hokey but it does demonstrate the power of the mind just like a ouija board. This one I didn't want to put down and I'm sure I'll read it again.



2. This is a great book. Not too long. Easy to read. Reaffirms what I have always heard about the power of our subconcious mind. It's a shame that we waste all this power and ability.



3. If you are struggling to achieve the success that you want, then you need to do three simple and easy things: 1) Buy this book, 2) Read and learn the concepts contained in this book, 3) Apply what you have learned in this book.
   
   The author boils it all down to an easy to learn science on how you can utilize your subconscious mind to achieve anything that you desire. This is key since I've read several books on the subconscious mind. After reading this book, I know now why I didn't succeed using other author's suggestions. This book is almost more like a fun to read manual of how to program your subconscious mind for all the success you want!
   
   My advice to you is to IGNORE all other books on this subject until after you've read this book and applied the techniques. I have and am seeing very successful results after the first day.



4. My 13-year old son has spent the last school year putting into action the suggestions and insight he has gained from this book, and has made such progress (in scholastics, sports, and social arenas) that I have to attribute much of this to the lessons contained in this fantastic book. I also have been awakened and am improving in multiple facets in my life.
   
   I have added about 40 or so similar books to our home library, including all the usual suspects (Napoleon Hill, Troward, Wattles, Vernon Howard, Christian Larson, etc.), but this is such a concise and actionable book that really summarizes the practical applications of the wonderful power in our possession - a power we all have but that we have to be reminded about and not neglect it.
   
   I highly recommended to read this book with an open mind, and you cannot help but be a better person. There is an inexpensive CD that accompanies the book, available at the auther's website that is highly recommended, too. Good Luck, and enjoy reading and learning!



5. If you want to know more about your subc.I heartily recommend these CDs
   
   The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
   The Master Key System
   Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World
   The Science of Getting Rich
   The Science of Mind
   Think and Grow Rich: Original Version