Emotional Equations = Inspiration + Spirit + Psychology
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Buy this book NOW - if you are interested in learning more about your psyche and spirit. EE provides tools to help you understand your mindset and create an authentic and joyful life. Chip is masterful in uniting both the business and spiritual worlds. I treasure the beautiful nuggets of wisdom! Chip is a genius....love PEAK as well.
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This is a profound book that reviews intelligence on so many different levels. It also studies what makes us uniquely human, and that is Spiritual Intelligence. In the words of the author, animals have emotional intelligence, computers have IQ, but only humans have SQ or Spiritual Intelligence.
The author's theme is well supported by creative and insightful diagram such as the Lotus of the Self.
Within this book, you will learn a lot about yourself, others, and humankind. You will also be inspired to reach higher level of spiritual levels than you ever thought possible.
This book also integrates different systems into one coherent whole. Different psychological scales like Myer Briggs, the Enneagram, and others, all get integrated into one meta awareness system.
This is a book to treasure, read, and reread.
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<div id="video-block-R1ZQHQECZH0ZXX" class="a-section a-spacing-small a-spacing-top-mini video-block"></div><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/F1oZrsjdKQS.mp4" class="video-url"><input type="hidden" name="" value="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/01hTniLUf4S.png" class="video-slate-img-url">&nbsp;So, this leading edge book is really about understanding the importance of having a deliberate intent for an end result, while at the same time, tending to the balance of your Energy along the way. But it is much more about awareness of the balance of your Energy than it is about goal-setting or focusing on end results. And it is from this very important distinction that this book, The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent, has come forth.

Your emotions, in every moment, give you an indication of the vibrational relationship between the Non-Physical You and the physical you. Nothing is more important to you than this relationship, and nothing can enhance your physical experience more than an understanding of your emotions.

~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent

Esther and Jerry Hicks. Love em.

This is the third Review Ive written on their work (check out the first two: Ask and It Is Given and Money, and the Law of Attraction for more mojo). Im absolutely in love with them and the clarity with which they express their wisdom.

(I might still be a little freaked out by the whole channeling thing, but O.M.G. They rock. Remarkably lucid and equally transformative! :)

Here are some of the Big Ideas:

1. Life on Planet Earth - Rocks!
2. Desires & Beliefs: - Compatibility?
3. Deliberate Creation - vs. Creating by default.
4. Emotional Guidance - You & YOU.
5. Correcting Course: - The sooner the better.

Ah Are YOU willing to play at the Leading Edge of creation and dance with your creative genius?!?

(More goodness--including PhilosophersNotes on 250+ books at http://www.brianjohnson.me)
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Iris's E-book has some of the most aesthetically inspiring images i have viewed recently. As a Certified Vision Board Teacher of more than 8 years, I honor her ability to transform images and symbols from emotions to deep feelings. I use this technique myself for my marketing coaching for creative entrepreneurs and find it gives them easy access to their emotions and the connection with feelings follows naturally. Images and words combines with Iris's style and expertise are very potent. I highly recommend this book for a free fantasy flight to help you materialize your dreams from yur authentic essence.
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Everyone has problems. It is the nature of life. This book, with its complicated and seemingly contradictory title, explores the concept of controlling and directing feelings related to personal problems. It offers a methodology for self-analysis and problem solving. Everyone harbors memes or mental patterns. These can be simple annoying memes such as a catchy, singing radio advertisement, or complicated blocking memes related to an unsettling marriage or the remembrance of a devastating physical, mental or sociological personal attack. Memes are an automatic, conditioned neurological pattern with an ingrained mental and emotional response. The supposed purpose of self-induced blocking memes is to make us forget about the mental pain, embarrassment, or guilt (real or imagined) associated with the situation.

The problem with blocking memes is they don't work. Instead of helping a person, they only offer short-circuit, direct access to the pain a person is trying to forget. The solution according to the author is to create an option to the self-destructive meme by opening another door to your emotions. This accomplished by exploring the fear, anger, or disappointment. The idea is to flip that painful and negative turtle on its back, study it, and introduce new, reflective, constructive or even humorous associated thoughts  get out of your turtle shell and choose a different perspective on life.

The goal is not to think your way out of the problem, but rather to open the door to the choice of other, different thoughts and emotions related to the problem. Often, you will find that your pain does not originate from the obvious meme source (the attack or disappointment) but rather relates to another issue entirely. The point is that you must begin exploring the meme topic with probing self-questions. Some of these questions will bring out answers that will resonate with your being. At this point, you now have created a choice: you can keep your focus on the ineffective blocking meme or you can chose to continue your explorations into more useful and insightful thoughts. And, most importantly for your mental comfort, these will be less painful or even pleasant thoughts.

Stop running away from the pain, but rather embrace it.  Even hate, when creatively explored can result in feelings of love or at least empathy. When you have opened your mind and heart sufficiently by self-exploration, either alone or with the help of a sympathetic facilitator or partner, the pendulum will swing to emotional equilibrium and your will experience a catharsis  a place of useful self-awareness. You will comfortably choose to ignore the previous annoying meme you created, and you will begin to focus on the new paths of understanding and choice.

HOW CAN MY HATE HELP ME LOVE  is a guide to resolving personal problems. The author provides a cookbook full of approaches from asking questions, to breathing exercises, the fly on the wall, mantras, and body/mind exercises. Its all based on the concept that you can move away from dead-end, repetitive, and negative thoughts and emotions, toward those that are open-ended, unique, useful and positive. It actually takes some effort to self-explore, but the results are worth the effort. Life is a challenge, but thats the fun of it  once your thoughts stop chasing their own tail.

Amazon policy  I am a reviewer and I did receive a review copy of this book.
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An Amazing Book!
A friend recommended this book to me.  We have long been into Self=help books.  Read many beginning in the 80's.  I had, had a very difficult childhood, as have many people, and struggled to deal with the fallout. For many years my favorite song was, I am a rock, by Simon & Garfunkel.  Fortunately, I have always been strong willed with an excellent survival instinct & pushed through whatever came my way including pushing down whatever inconvenient emotions might arise.  Emotion equaled weakness to me. Self-help books helped me to realize the need to look within rather blaming others, past & present, for my uncomfortable life situations.  My point here is, many people want to improve any number of issues in their lives and I know many books/teachers help in that regard but this book is truly unique.  The first half of the book is so personal & awe-inspiring. A true testament to the human spirit's ability to rise above, transform and grow to it's true potential.  This book shows one how to accomplish this through guided self discovery exercises.  They are simple in presentation, easy to follow, and not lengthy.  In the first exercise, Getting to know breath, I was quite surprised that I could actually begin to tune into how my body tries to speak to me. I did not think that would be very easy for me since I tend to ignore bodily complaints.  There's work to be done! Or, I'll deal with that later like Scarlet O'Hara.  What really separates these guided exercises are the follow up questions to ask yourself and advice such as how to know who is speaking to you - the right or left brain.  How to know if the information you are receiving is correct or is it just the ego taking over again - thinking and not intuiting. There is so much information regarding intuition and it's uses in this book.  It opens up a whole new world of personal exploration.
This book is so great for those who want to learn to really get in touch with their bodies, emotions & even spirit.  In this world where there seems to be less and less time for self and people like me that are time obsessed and always running my to - do lists in my mind, this book will show you how with even a little time devoted to going within, you can get in touch your intuition and enrich your life.  I am finding using intuition to avoid an issue as opposed to an after the fact  "I had a feeling something was off - I wished I had paid attention to that!" is a much better way to go. Obviously. that can apply to health, relationships or most any decision, good or not so good.
I included some info about myself because for those who tend to live in their heads and tend to be analytical and think developing personal intuition to a greater degree might be somewhat unattainable, as I did, it is not.  Turns out, it's an exciting adventure!  Thanks! Dr. Rivera
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An inspiring book with good common sense about dealing with emotions.  Interesting and help read.
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I really enjoyed feeling as if I were present in the room as Wayne Dyer and Ekhart Tolle sat and chatted for a spell. I began with the expectation that I would be sitting in on a lecture, with clearly defined bullet points and a list of lessons learned. What I found was that the lessons were gently woven into the context of a friendly conversation between two wise souls. Among other things, Wayne Dyer shared his transformation from a serious diagnosis to vibrant health; Ekhart Tolle shared the importance of staying in the flow of Spirit and avoiding the pitfalls of egoic thinking-- not in a lecturey way; more in a "been there; done that; not going through that again!" sort of way. I will listen to this conversation again. It was an enjoyable way to spend two hours and to experience beautiful spiritual principles as they are masterfully applied in the lives of these highly conscious, heart-centered people.
Through their Book Nook Blogger's Community, Hay House was kind enough to provide me this collection for free in exchange for my honest opinion.
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As I began to read this book, the utter juiciness of Patten's writing and his concise picturing of humanity's current challenges reminded me of what the great guitarist, Eric Clapton, once said: "The first time I heard Stevie Ray Vaughan, I thought, 'Whoever this is, he is going to shake the world'."  Unlike so many heavy books on these subjects, this is an easy book to read, and very inspiring.
I especially appreciate how Terry begins the subtitle of this book with the word, "ethos," .
In my humble opinion, this new book both joins with and extends the ethos of other recent authors who are inspiring mass movements for co-creative reform - both inner and outer - based on the intuitive wisdom of our deepest spiritual roots. Two such works stand out:<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/The-Essentials-of-Theory-U-Core-Principles-and-Applications/dp/1523094400/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">The Essentials of Theory U: Core Principles and Applications</a>&nbsp;by C. Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer; and Revised Edition, and&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Conscious-Evolution-Awakening-the-Power-of-Our-Social-Potential/dp/1608681173/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential</a>&nbsp;revised edition by Barbara Marx Hubbard with a Foreword by Terry Patten and Neale Donald Walsch.
NOTE: It is easy to add your own suggested resources for the movement that Patten is inspiring by logging on to the integral-evolutionary-resources page of Terry Patten's personal website.
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By using the terms ranking and linking instead of power and love, the author was able to avoid spending a large amount of energy defining and unpacking the loaded terms of power and love. Ranking evokes the image of one having power/influence over another while linking represents the feeling of interest, concern and warmth for another. The first exercise in this book is to make two lists of people you know, one with whom you feel good and another not so much. The first identifies those you feel linked with while the other those you are in ranking relationship with. The author uses this theme of ranking and linking as a thread throughout the book weaving it through important areas of self understanding: Attachment theory (those with the avoidant style habitually rank), defense mechanisms (minimizing, blaming, inflating, projecting, overachieving, noncompeting), the vicissitudes of trauma with their triggers and dreams ("Although nightmares are disturbing, they are meant to help you by restoring the link between emotions and consciousness"). The second half of the book teaches ways that can be used to heal the innocent and wounded parts of ourselves (ie: the self that became undervalued due to excessive ranking). "Where ranking was, let linking be." It gives specific examples on how to dialogue with them in an exercise called Active Imagination where you imagine a theatre stage where one by one each of your younger selves say what needs to be said while you honour and form a link with them.  The issue of ranking in the service of linking and vice versa along with their interplay is also covered while an interpretation of Rapunzel is included to illustrate these inner forces. A very fine self help book and to paraphrase Jimi Hendrix, "When the power of love (linking) overcomes the love of power (ranking), I will know inner peace."
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What a fascinating commentary on the concept of motivation and the role of social media in how we consume and satiate the need to be inspired.

In today's fast paced world emotional intelligence is, in my opinion, an increasingly essential component to business success. 'Ignite Inspiration' is a valuable mini-master class in empathy. A thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.
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I applaud the challange, the undeniable effort for this book, being the focus of intentions can go so many ways. To define this technic in a powerful way and a clear way so that one can actually see change instantly is difficult but this book leads the way. Being the author of Pure Positive Energy!, in which, I try my best to show how our emotional realities truly mold the way we create, but understanding how to ignite or attract or change something thru the power of the mind hopefully leads people into a deeper undertanding of who we are as a spirit of love and light, while having an attitude of gratitude! Great book.
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Prior to reading this book, I knew little about the Enneagram system. I'm fascinated by the ways in which we can be typed into different personality groups, so I was happy to delve into this ancient system. The Enneagram is similar to the Myers-Briggs system, with more emphasis on behavioral patterns over thinking patterns.

This book is marketed as "Christian", but a specific religious leaning is not necessary in order to read, enjoy, and learn from the material. While the authors do occasionally talk about their relationship to God, the connection emphasizes spiritual connections more than a specific religion or belief system.

The writing style is conversational and flows well. The authors interject personal anecdotes throughout, giving the intimate feel of a friendly discussion rather than a dry textbook lesson.

I particularly like that the authors don't use The Enneagram to simply label us with a personality type number and a list of traits, but, more importantly, they teach us how to identify our negative behaviors and offer ways to work on correcting them. The authors stress that our personality types don't cast us in concrete. When we're self-aware, we're able to challenge ourselves to grow and become the best version of ourselves.

*I was provided with an ebook copy by the publisher, via NetGalley, in exchange for my honest review.*
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Finally! A book that quantifiably proves the power of positive thinking, in quantifiable, measurable psychological studies.

I really love this book. Wow, What a simple concept. When you're feeling high your invisible bucket is full, when your feeling low--your bucket is empty....and when you interact with others you are either filling your bucket and theirs OR you are emptying your bucket and theirs. Its amazing how simple and true this idea is.

After reading this book, I started rating my interactions with each person I dealt with throughout the day. I put a number on the amount of drops each person gave me (or took away from me) It was an amazing experience. Finally I understood why I felt so down after just saying hello to an extremely negative person. I would go into such a bad mood out of the blue.

Let me give you an example. The other day when working through an issue with someone who was having difficulty with his system; I starting  helping him, but things weren't going fast enough for him, so he started to use all kinds of  swear words because his program wasn't working.

I started to feel uncomfortable and my mind filled up with thoughts of negativity. Why? Because his negative energy! He was emptying my bucket! Yes, swearing is a form of negative energy. And when it's said in anger it very destructive too!

On the other hand, the other day when I met someone on the street whom I did not see in awhile...when she greeted me with a nice big friendly 'hello! How are you?' and began telling me how her day went, her positive energy literally filed my bucket. I felt really happy and motivated after talking to her. She was full of positive energy and her bucket was so overflowing that--she couldn't help but put me in a good mood. (By the way, come to think of it, I never heard her complain about anything--even when things weren't going very well for her. She is one of those extremely positive type of people. She must be filling buckets all day long!)

Another bucket filling example. When I was asked to provide feedback (work performance) on someone people I had to worked with on various projects, I put down some real positive stuff for a guy that really deserved it. He is also one of those happy, great attitude type kind of people. Anyways as a kind gesture I emailed him what I wrote.

A few days later, I met him in the hallway and he told me that he appreciated the kind words I wrote on behalf of him so much that he printed it out and brought it home to show his wife! I was amazed. I thought I was giving him a pat on the back--but he took it as if I was giving him a badge of honor! I felt so good that I went home and told my wife, who was so impressed by me that and she started filling my bucket!

Yes, this book may be short, but don't confuse the amount of pages with value. By applying the principles contained in this book you will dramatically increase the quality of your life. On this book you can say less is more!

Zev Saftlas, author of Motivation That Works and founder of

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This is an extraordinary book with a somewhat disarming title (patterned on Einstein's "General Theory of Relativity"). It is a very well written book setting forth the relation between brain neurology and emotions, and their joint impact on psychotherapy. The title may put some people off. I encourage readers to forge ahead. They won't be sorry.
  It defines the distinctions between the three basic elements of the brain: the brain stem, the limbic system, and the cortex. It describes how the limbic system, which controls emotions and which receives its input in infancy, can be matured and transformed by the interpersonal relationship of psychotherapy.
  The three authors represent three generations of psychiatrists at San Francisco Medical School. They see love, not in its sentimental sense but as mutual emotional resonance, as the core emotion of effective psychotherapy.
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This is an amazing approach to further my understanding of emotion and behavior. It is written with a clarity and thought provoking intensity that motivates the reader to cognitively explore their actions and reactions to everday situations. It provides a magnificent opportunity to identify our unique 'maps of our worlds' and encourages the layperson to challenge the view
I am what I am ?
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I find this book inspirational in its ability to conjure the child fresh perspective of some of the insanity, mysteries and complexities of relationships in our society. There is an emotional quality that resonates without being over described , so that all of the myriad of complex ingredients that make up the relationships of the story are presented in a simplicity. While at times I found aspects that were/are sad, I came away realizing that the fact that the book stirred emotions with me speaks to it being of substance and worth consideration. I am still asking into it. While it may have cynicisms laced through the childhood starting points, I don't see it as a statement that aims to create a villain or even paint a picture of a total failure of cultural revolutionary growth. The fact that the main character  grows while observing so many ingredients relevant to our present day culture and relationships is in itself a courageous look into things that have seemingly, outside of this book and story, been labeled and sealed away in a kind of decade packaging as if they were merely failed fads lacking any value of sincere exploration. Regardless of our own conclusions there is a feeling from the start that seems to be headed in the direction of asking ourselves what is important in our lives. Nice work!