Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living
By Shakti Gawain
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Published by New World Library
Many of us are on a journey of consciousness, seeking more meaning and looking to bring our lives into greater alignment with natural laws and universal principles. This is not an easy journey because we are faced with cultural and personal challenges throughout our lives. Therefore, it is nice when we can have a daily guide to assist us in focusing our thoughts and to get in touch with our essential spiritual wisdom. Best selling author Shakti Gawain has created Awakening: A Daily Guide to Conscious Living to offer inspiring assistance on this journey of consciousness.
This book has 365 entries (one for each day of the year) consisting of a heading, a short message and an affirmation or question. Each entry is thought provoking and designed to inspire and challenge the reader. One may not always agree with each reading, but that in itself helps us to grow as well.
Here is an excerpt from January 6: “We get what we desire. The Universe is designed to give us everything we need and want. It's really our own fears and feelings of unworthiness, shame and doubt that keep us from receiving the incredible abundance and fullness and goodness of life. As I learn to trust the Universe, I am receiving everything that I desire.”
Since our thoughts can create our reality, Awakening inspires us to focus our thoughts more constructively. It also encourages us to recognize and release old thought patterns and beliefs while opening up to new approaches in all areas of life. Having a reading for each day of the year will keep you focused and provide you with a daily dose of Shakti's wisdom to stimulate you to a greater awareness of your own sense of spiritual truth.
Reviewed by Dennis Ehren, DC, director of Ehren Chiropractic & Wellness Center. He can be reached at (216) 221-9990.
Contacting Your Spirit Guide
By Sylvia Browne
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Published by Atria Books
Readers of Masaru Emoto's books are familiar with his stunning pictures of water crystals, including photographs of water crystals that result from water exposed to particular thoughts, words and sounds. For example, thoughts of love and gratitude produce beautiful crystals while words conveying hate and ill will produce ugly, malformed crystals.
In his latest book, The Secret Life of Water, Masaru Emoto discusses how thoughts and words are energy. He shows us how loving thoughts and prayers can change polluted water to clean without any other form of intervention. Since our bodies are 80 percent water, healing thoughts and prayers also can heal the body, while thoughts of anger and hate can hurt us. He also discusses how water can carry information. If we “program” water properly, it can be used as energetic medicine to heal the body in times of illness an idea based in homeopathy.
Readers of this book will find that water either can be our salvation or our downfall. Much of mankind has had little respect for water – dumping all manners of wastes and pollutants into the little fresh water that we have on this planet. Add to this the feelings of hate that fuel our wars. That which we are destroying creates life. With Earth's population exponentially growing, this will become a major problem in the years to come.
Emoto shows us that water is alive and our actions affect the water on the planet, as well as water within us. If enough people read this powerful little book, perhaps it truly can direct us to a better future and peace. Change your thoughts, change your life!
Reviewed by Dennis Ehren, DC, director of Ehren Chiropractic & Wellness Center. He can be reached at (216) 221-9990.
Living without Limits (Audio CD)
Speakers: Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer
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Published by Amber-Allen Audio Publishing
Everyone loves to listen to Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer speak. Imagine the two of them together sharing ideas that can change your thinking and improve your life. That's what you get when you listen to Living Without Limits, a 48-minute CD. On this CD, these provocative thinkers share their wisdom before a live audience as they question and challenge one another on the power of thought.
They discuss how our thoughts affect all of humanity; how our thoughts can not only heal us of fatal diseases, but also can cause us to succumb to disease; how the media affects our thoughts on health; how our beliefs and intentions create our experience in life, and the importance of meditating and quieting our inner dialogue.
Wayne Dyer shares a story of a medical doctor who was treating AIDS patients in the early '80s before anyone had heard of the disease. This doctor, without knowing any different, treated these fellows successfully without any problems. After the media started reporting a new “gay disease” that was always fatal, the outcome of the doctor's treatments changed.
Our thoughts are powerful. A simple thought can have tremendous consequences. A thought can cure a disease or kill us; it can take us to war or produce peace. After listening to this CD, you will have a better understanding on how we can use our thoughts to improve our lives and “live without limits.”
Reviewed by Dennis Ehren, DC, director of Ehren Chiropractic & Wellness Center. He can be reached at (216) 221-9990.
