Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #208641 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-11
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 309 pages

Synopsis
Argues that feelings, rather than positive thinking or intelligence, set the tone for people's lives, and helps listeners find peace and pleasure in life by feeling rather than thinking.

Customer Reviews

Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting
You get what you want out of life, exactly what you want. Why aren't you rich and famous with that special someone hanging on your every word? The answer is so simple that it's maddening. Thought manifests form. In other words, whatever you think about that's what you create in your life.

There's good news and bad news to this life changing discovery. First the bad news. Most of us spend the majority of our day drawing to us exactly what we don't want. I hope that my boss doesn't call me on getting my project done late. I hope my son remembered his homework. I can't pay my bills this month, there's never enough money. My lover is really pissing me off, I wish he'd apologize. In that negative frame of mind, constantly focused on what we want changed, we tend to draw the same events, the same people, and the same unhappiness to ourselves.

The good news is that we can change. We can figure out what we don't want and change our way of thinking to get what we do want. The result is an instant change from a pessimistic outlook to that of unlimited optimism. Life changing indeed. Check it out.

Self-help dressed as pseudoscience
Yet another book based on the premise that 'we create our own reality'. Of course, this is true up to a certain extent but Grabhorn misuses basic scientific principles (that energy vibrates) and uses it as the foundation of her notion that our 'feelings' vibrate and resonate with like-vibrations.

The strength of this book is that it is written in an easy style, and all that she says can be tried. The great weakness of this book, for me, is that the model she espouses is too simplistic, too 'Matrix'-like. Grabhorn encourages people to take responsibility for their lives and their actions (all well and good), but takes it to the extreme by stating that if someone is hit by a drunk-driver, the driver isn't to blame - it's the person who was hit that's at fault! So, following that logic, starving children in famine-hit countries are to blame for their own plight ... hmmm ... nice way to appease the conscience of the rich!

Stick with the 'think positive' message of this book and you'll do fine. Try the rest and when 'reality' does come crashing in on you, it's likely you really won't know what hit you!

Lots of filler, irritating style . . . and yet . . .
I didn't get through this one, largely on account of the writing style, which I found terribly grating. In particular, the author's penchant for spelling "feelings" with five e's and sticking the word in italics each time she used it drove me to distraction. But if idiosyncracies like that, and you find phraseology like "if you're feeling great, pump it" more charming than annoying, then . . . erm . . . go for it, dude.

The chapters tend to repeat themselves to a large extent; I gave up reading midway through as I didn't think there was anything new being said. Positive thinking leads to positive results - okay, I understand; let's have something else please now that we've reached Chaper Six. I was also disappointed at how little of the alleged overwhelming scientific evidence was actually presented.

That said, the book was a considerable help to me, if only because it pointed out how ridiculous it is to continue to think about things which make you feel miserable, and not think about things which make you feel good. Seems silly, perhaps, but it took this book to really force such a simple idea into my head. So, curiously, it was money well spent in my case.

The "30 Days to Breakthrough" section contains a number of helpful axioms which I'd recommend to anyone whose negative feelings have got the better of them. These, for me, are more useful than the rest of the book put together.