Let Go Now: Embracing Detachment
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I bought the book to see if it would help me to be less sensitive to other people and to worry less about whether I was meeting everyone's expectations of me. It has helped me to accomplish that. It has helped me tremendously by also putting things in the right perspective and is filled with so much good wisdom. I feel that anyone could benefit in some way by reading this book.
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This book is a great resource to showcase how powerful your thoughts are. Negative thoughts can consume you and make you feel as though there is no way out. The author provides worthwhile exercises that you can perform daily to shed those negative thoughts and start experiencing the joys in life. I really enjoyed the Negativity and Resistance lesson. This lesson teaches you how to surrender to the now and reflect on the things occurring in your life. Once you can acknowledge and accept the aspects of your life, the process of reducing negative thoughts and growth are right around the corner. This is definitely a must read.
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This book was very applicable and easy to read. Learning the attachment styles will help you understand yourself and others better and know which styles are more compatible together. This helps you recognize your own faulty thinking and when it's better to walk away from someone.
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This is a fantastic book about letting go of things in our past so that we can find healing. I love that the author doesn't just talk about why we need to let things go, but she also give practical steps to walk us through letting go. This is a book to read over and over, because you will continue to get new life from it each time you go through it. I highly recommend this book!
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This is wonderful book.  So much I did not understand about anger.  I have truly "Let it Go".  Thank you!
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Starting Over brought to my attention  (we all suffer the same pain).  It has helped me to let go of the anger and resentment; let go of the past and stop blocking my blessings.
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The book is well written and laid out in such a way that it was like speaking with and working with someone in person. I felt a sense of belonging, and that I wasn't alone with my own personal struggles. I really got present that this is a daily process and that at any given moment I don't need to be somewhere more than right here and now. I am grateful that this book was written and a friend shared it with me. It is a tool that I will use daily and share with others. The feelings of being alive and truly liking my own company on my journey is remarkable. I recommend this book to anyone who is ready for change and willing to shed the chains that bind you. I will carry this book in my studio and private practice to share with students and clients.

Peace be with, Brent S
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.  This is a valuable tool to show you how to learn to rewire your thinking processes to achieve peace and emotional acceptance of yourself.  The exercises recommended work for me. It is a continual journey of discovery. One I am enjoying and I recommend this book to anyone who feels mired in emotional quicksand.  Wow! Give it a sincere effort and feel the results.
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The suggestion to find a way to handle the smorgasbord of emotions that come from this situation and to find an outlet for the understandable pressure of emotional rage at having your life wrecked are valuable parts of this book.

How to consider your own emotional state, which can become temporarily unreliable when you are in this vulnerable period, so you can take care of yourself is one of the most important things to do during this process.

Understanding that a widow may mourn the loss of a lifelong companion and partner but a woman newly separated does not attract the same depth of sympathy from friends and family will help you not to take how others are behaving personally.

You will get through it is the authors constant encouragement and that you are not alone helps you feel you can go forward.
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One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can't change.
After reading Uninvited, I feel more loved, and willing to let go of some of my walls.
Lysa goes beyond the norm by just adding scriptures to aide in application. She allows us to go with her in her own personal struggles of rejection, and insecurities.
Just when I wanted to run away, Lysa and the Spirit drew me into the Word of Uninvited. I'm so glad they did.
My favorite take away thought:
I can't continue to fully embrace God while rejecting His ways.

The breaking of me will be the making of me. A new me. A stronger me.
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As a sometime professional organizer (got paid), she definitely gives a different slant on "stuff." Though I disagree with her on papers, I found her "does it bring joy" a really unique way to look at things. And truly helped even me get rid of stuff, I had...but frankly, didn't like.

Downsizing for a big reduction in living space, I reread this and realized--it really hits buttons for me on letting go of stuff. Loved in past, but only like now...free to leave me now. Freeing.

In fact we so took to heart letting go things that no longer brought joy, we moved away from in the City of Chicago to Northampton MA!
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Many scriptures tell us to love our enemies, to forgive those who trespass against us but left out is exactly how to do it. Hawkin's book, "Letting Go: The Pathway to Surrender" answers the question. Our enemies are painful memories of guilt, of anger, resentments etc; they dog us continuously.  We would like to forgive ourselves and others but the method of the past is years of mind talk, until we have worn out the emotion.  "Letting Go" is feeling the emotion only without judgements, corrections, or justification until the emotion diminishes or dissolves.  It is extremely effective and almost humorous after successes as you cannot recall just what was so upsetting a few minutes previous.  This book is priceless.  Every page of this book illustrates the pathway of surrender and its benefits.

An excellent companion book is Eckard Tolle's , " A New Earth; Awakening to Your Life's Purpose".  Written after  "The Power of Now" it detailed the differences in the mind, the ego, and a new way to view reality. Learning to feel the life energy in the body or recognize it is probably one of the most valuable lessons in this book.
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The word "quit" often has a negative connoation and is often associated with giving up. In this book, Geri Scazzero does an effective job of how to quit the right things in order to live in freedom. A lot of what she has to say is contrary to the popular belief that DOING is our purpose in life. She brings the reader back to BEING, from which doing can become much more fruitful and restorative. I recommend this book to anyone who feels that they have been sucked into the lies that frenzy and busy-ness have created in our society. Take some time to read this book slowly - the tendency will be to go through it quickly - but if you take each chapter and soak in the concepts, it will do you a mountain of good.
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This is one of the best books of the self-help genre that I have read in a long time.  Living a balanced fulfilled life with a loving and peaceful attitude is possible, but sacred selfishness is required.  Everyone needs time to look at their self and examine their life, passions, plans, etc.  Sacred selfishness is not selfishness with a negative connotation.  It is taking the time to retreat for yourself, taking the time to reclaim balance in your life.

The book is divided into three parts - Breaking the Mold and Seeking a Path, Cultivating Inner Substance, and Cultivating a Life of Substance.  The chapter titles also give a good idea of the direction the book takes.  Some titles include The Call to Transformation, Preparing for Change, Journaling as Inner Exploration, Beginning the Search for Personal Substance, Befriending Our Dreams, Learning to Love Ourselves, and Relationships of Substance.

This is a book of such substance that I found myself reading a section, stopping to think about it, and then reading another section.  For a person who reads a typical book in about an hour it is rare that I find one of such substance that it takes me almost a week to read it carefully so I can be sure to extract all the value out of it I can.  Sacred Selfishness is very highly recommended to anyone seeking balance and fulfillment in their life.
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Letting go is the first step. Learning from the past is the next. Knowing God and loving Him are the goal..
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A dysfunctional family that fosters the ongoing emotional and physical abuse of its children produces complex, lifelong disorders that, without a diligent recovery effort, condemn the victims to a dismal life of unending emotional struggle. If any degree of recovery is to be achieved, they must first wake up to the reality that their past is dictating their future; only they have the power to change it. The choice is simple: commit to recovery and all that that entails, or accept a life of dysfunction that far too often results in greater harm to the victim or serious harm to others.
 In my early thirties, having acknowledged the consequences of my own childhood trauma, I spent the next twenty years recovering from the effects of sexual, physical and emotional abuse that had permeated every aspect of my life. The quest to heal my broken spirit caused me to explore many different methods for healing which, ultimately, demonstrated to me that the more subtle and gentle approaches were by far the most successful in helping to traverse the frightening terrain.
 In Solace, Readings for Transforming Childhood Trauma, the author gently takes the hand of the reader and, without confrontation or expectation, assists them in moving through the various stages of awareness, grief and recovery. Unlike their childhood when victims have rarely been allowed personal choice or control, Dr. Oaks demonstrates respect for the readers boundaries, allowing them the choice to explore their inner world and the healing possibilities at their own individual pace. Reading her heartfelt and beautiful poetry, the reader begins to commiserate with the invisible writer causing the door to their own inner voice to open. Words and feelings that may have gone unspoken or even acknowledged for years come to the surface in a cathartic release. This connection breaks the wall of silent isolation; someone has acknowledged their pain and heard their cry. Throughout the process, Dr. Oaks never abandons the reader in a stagnant quagmire, but instead carefully guides the experience forward from awareness, through release and into inspiration for a better future.
 Unlike many recovery books, as I read Solace I was not forced to endure grueling personal scrutiny, therapeutic analysis and labeling, nor did I need to relive every inch of my painful past. Instead, I felt as though I was taking a quiet stroll with a good friend into a field of truth and awakening. I was not alone and I was safe. Over the horizon, looking toward the future, any good thing was possible.
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I've read different books about being minimalist, getting rid of all your stuff and de- cluttering. This book resonates differently than the others, it really brings in the emotional connection we have with things and provides a very clear way to let go that seems to have a longer term lasting effects. I have relapsed on my cluttering several times and hope applying this method reduces that repeat cycle.