Alter Your Life

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A rousing action program for
overcoming adversity and taking charge of life
-- by one of our century's greatest mystics.

For unhappiness, frustration, loneliness, and other afflictions of the spirit, Dr. Emmet Fox prescribes a powerful remedy based on the life and message of Jesus. In Alter Your Life, Fox explains that these "dreary" problems are actually bad habits of mind -- habits from which we can free ourselves.

"There is no necessity for anything but success, good health,prosperity, and an abounding interest and joy in life," Fox writes

Through a series of brief meditations, Fox shows us how to exchange our bad habits of mind for the healthy ones demonstrated by Jesus. Based upon biblical texts, Alter Your Life offers a progressive, life-changing course designed for all readers, whether or not they have read a religious book before.

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Outstanding.......2007-10-10

This was the second book of Dr. Fox's I read. I simply love it. I read it often and it has aided me in understanding God and improving me life. I now own several books and this is one of my favorites.

If you are seeking to improve your spiritual growth, understamd the Law of Attraction as it being marketed these days, or have a general curiousity of metaphysics, you will not be disappointed. I highly recommend these books to all that I know.

Alter Your Life.......2007-03-17

I came across a beatup used hardback copy of this book in a Salvation Army 25 years ago. I am an African American woman with Pentecostal, Baptist, and Muslim background from my childhood. None of these doctrines ever spoke to my inner being the way Emmet Fox did in that little green book. It truly did alter my life and the way I viewed the universe and my place in it. I have since read all of Fox's other books an highly recommend this one for the novice in metaphysics.

AA=Absolutely amazing.......2002-03-27

This book is definitely one of my alltime favorites, as are most of Emmet Fox' books! For anyone who is serious about personal and spiritual growth, this book is a must. Emmet Fox' interpetation af the Scriptures are so profound......if you are a christian, this is a book that will help you to grow into greater understanding of the teachings of Jesus Christ, and if you are not, you will probably evolve into much greater respect of the bible and its teachings. I cannot explain in words how much this book, and others by Emmet Fox, has meant to me. It has completely liberated me in all ways and my life has been so much easier. Needless to say, I highly recommend this book to everyone!!!

Only if you want to grow.......2001-11-25

As usual, Emmet Fox uplifted my spirit and brought me closer to God in a way no religion has ever! A must read for the person that is willing and wanting to grow spiritually.

Busting Your Rut: 33 Practical Lessons to Alter Your Destiny, Transform Your Life and Free Your Spirit

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Themes like I just dont have time and Im exhausted rule our lives today. We are overbooked, overworked and overwhelmed. Just getting done what must be done fills our days. The notion of finding a precious hour or two to learn how to create balance, reduce our stress and discover an intentional life to soothe our aching souls is simply out of the question. Dr. Kathleen Halls new book, Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed?, provides an alternative to the struggle to make time for renewal. In the breakthrough book readers will: Discover how to overcome obstacles preventing you from living the intentional life of your dreams Practice easy stress reduction techniques that deliver immediate results Maximize the simple moments in your life to be the most rewarding Enrich the quality of your life by achieving work-life balance We can discover how to live an intentional life in a manner that requires no doctrine, no memorization of a new vocabulary, no trekking off to distant holy lands. It does not require us to change our jobs, our lifestyle or transplant our personalities. It doesnt even require any additional time. We can develop our own unique personal practices that can help us return home once we realize that we are out of balance. In time these practices will become an effortless and restorative part of living an intentional life of mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? offers tools to help you find your own unique choices that will bring greater balance to your demanding life. These simple effective tools, based on age-old, time-honored medical, psychological and spiritual knowledge and wisdom, will soon become second nature and bring with them a greater sense of ease and fulfillment.

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An uplifting, motivational guide to lifestyle changes that can make each day richer.......2006-02-12

Stress management expert Dr. Kathleen Hall presents Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed?, a no-nonsense self-help guide to finding more time in one's life and balancing responsibilities in a manner that reduces tension, cultivates energy, and primes one for the knock of opportunity. Chapters discuss simple changes and mindfulness that can be incorporated into any routine, from the morning shower, breakfast, and commute to daily exercise, shopping, learning to be a more attentive listener, and even turning routine chores such as washing the dishes into a fulfilling experience. The "Ask, Tell, Give" sections condense extended discussion points into simple sentences and precepts; for example, "Ask yourself 'Why do I, or why don't I have a pet?' 'How can I bring more quality to the time I spend with animals?' 'What can I learn from the animals in my life?' / Tell yourself 'Animals support and guide my journey through life.' / Give yourself 'A bird feeder by your favorite window' 'time each day to relax with your animal' 'sponsorship of a cause that supports animals'." An uplifting, motivational guide to lifestyle changes that can make each day richer.

There Is More..........2006-02-05

So many of us are overwhelmed by the day-to-day demands of our careers, our families, sometimes even our friends. We often feel there is not enough time in our lives to do the things we need to do, let alone to do the things we want to do. And, most importantly, there never seems to be time just for ourselves.

The book, Alter Your Life, discusses many aspect of your life. The book discusses daily tasks that we all do and points out ways we can live intentionally, i.e. by making choices by intention, not by default.

What impressed me about the book is that it is not based only on theory. The author has implemented changes, and has altered her life to one of intentional life vs. life in the fast lane where she felt overwhelmed, overworked and overbooked! She discusses the three components that are the foundation for living an intentional life and they are simpler than you think. Her story is an inspiration for us all. While we may not choose to live the life she chose, you will find ideas and thoughts to alter you life in everyday tasks.

Dr. Kathleen Hall's book is one which made me realize even the simplest of things I was doing every day were being done without intention. When you stop and answer some of the questions the author asks, it makes you realize that there is more. In fact, we do have the choice to change our lives so we do not have to feel so overwhelmed.

I would highly recommend this book.

A Lot of Very Practical Suggestions..........2005-08-31

There is little question, it seems to me, that most Americans living in this new century of ours are suffering from a condition one might refer to as the "stressed-out" syndrome. (And the really unfortunate thing is that this is true of young people as well, some of them barely into their teenage years.) Many of us are working harder, trying to raise families while advancing a career, competing obsessively in the marketplace for that promotion, striving to keep up with the Jones next door, hoping that the pay check will last until the end of the month, and, well, you get the point. Are we simply condemned to this malady by the realities of modern life, or is there a way of successfully meeting this challenge and conquering it? Dr. Kathleen Hall, the author of this book and one of our nation's leading authorities on stress management, thinks there is and she calls it "living an intentional life."

This is a self-help book, to be sure. Many of you probably think as I do: most self-help books are so full of psycho-babble, unrealistic expectations, impractical advice, dogmatic prescriptions, and are so far out of touch with the actual world in which most of us live, that they seem to be written only to make some quick money for the author. I assure you this is not the case with Dr. Hall's book. Believe me, I look hard for incidences of psycho-babble in self-help books (it's one of my pet peeves) and I could not find a single case of it here. In sum, she has outlined a simple, easy-to-read, very practical and, above all, undogmatic, blueprint for living an intentional life.

The "intentional" life, Dr. Hall says, has three simple ingredients: awareness, choice, and energy. These are not sequential; it is simply necessary to "become aware of these three key elements in your life and learn how to navigate them." She emphasizes that we ought to look at our daily experiences, listen to what our body and mind are telling us, and become more conscious of how we are living our lives and how we want to live them. If I could put this general prescription into my own words, I would say she is proposing living a "proactive" life as opposed to a "reactive" life, and most people do seem to mostly "react" to the situations they encounter in life rather than make a proactive choice.

There is absolutely nothing complex about the prescriptions in this book regarding how to live an intentional life. Above all, they are very down-to-earth; very much a matter of applied "common sense." It is simply that so many people, if not the majority in today's hectic world, either "forget" to pay attention to these simple ideas or are stressed out and distracted by the events surrounding them. The author here is really recommending that we all need, now and then, to "stop and smell the roses," so to speak.

But, of course, there is much more than that presented. She gets down to the "nitty-gritty," shall we say, and, chapter by chapter, discusses everything from making your morning shower an event for setting the stage for your day, suggesting gardening (even though you may have to plant a "mini-garden" in your bathroom) as a means of reclaiming your roots to the soil, altering your dinner experience at home so you have "dined well," and, yes, even how to turn dishwashing into a unique and fulfilling experience. To point out the range of "ordinary" daily experiences she discusses, just let me say that Chapter One is entitled "Waking Up" and Chapter Twenty-four is entitled "Sleeping." Between those two points of reference are chapters devoted to most of the other daily activities we perform and encounters we experience (breakfast, commuting, working, leisure, family, etc.). Furthermore, most chapters end with a suggestion as to how to "alter your life" in the area discussed.

What I like most about Dr. Hall's book is that it is sound, pragmatic, and undogmatic. It deals with the simple pleasures we can experience in our lives, if only we would pay attention to them rather than ignore them or get distracted by other things which contribute to our "stressed-out" syndrome. Since I am by education, inclination, and choice, a philosopher in the formal sense (and an Aristotelian realist, at that!), let me conclude with a more philosophical observation.

Aristotle's famous work, the "Nicomachean Ethics," was written to provide us with a blueprint for living "a life worth living." His book is, in my opinion and in the opinion of many others, the only sound, pragmatic, and undogmatic work in moral philosophy within the Western tradition of intellectual thought. I have used those same words (sound, pragmatic, undogmatic) to describe Dr. Hall's "Alter Your Life." I think this is justified. Furthermore, I suspect that Aristotle, if he were living today, would also approve of her work; he was, after all, that most practical and commonsensical of philosophers. His "Ethics" was a manual on how to put together a "good life" through the practice of the virtues; hers is a manual on how to deal with the stresses of this contemporary world or, if you will, how to live a "good life" through the practice of intentional living in spite of the stresses surrounding us. I think Aristotle and Dr. Hall would have gotten along famously.

I recommend this book and my fellow males should not shy away from reading this book. After all, women on the average live longer than we males do, and it may be (at least partially) because they are willing to seek help and guidance rather than face stressful conditions alone. I know men tend to avoid self-help books because they consider them to be "for women." This is unfortunate. Men also need to learn strategies, even the simple ones suggested in this book, in order to live a healthy and meaningful life.

Not Your Average Self-Help Book.......2005-05-27

Alter Your Life is not your regular self-help inspirational book. It is practical, engaging and powerfully life-changing. Unlike other self-help books that focus on the goals you'd like to create for your life, Dr. Hall provides a different angle of everyday activities, so you'd be able to alter your perspectives, which are the key of lifetime joy and happiness.

Divided into 24 chapters, this book talks about ways to give meaning in the simplest and overlooked activities, such as walking, shopping, gardening, listening to music, taking a bath, watching the evening news and, even, washing dishes. The author's easy-to-read conversational tone is an added plus, as most people prefer not reading a preachy book.

Written by a former Wall Street stockbroker who lived joylessly for years, the soul of this book shines throughout the pages, making the reading a breeze. The author has walked the walk and talked the talk, indeed. It is evident from the depth of one's innermost issues covered as she encourages the readers to choose the joy and the enlightened path in their hectic and, oftentimes, boring lives.

Alter Your Life is, indeed, a self-help book of its own class. For once, an enlightened friend has spoken. Thanks, Dr. Hall.[]

A review by Jennie S. Bev of BookReviewClub.com

self-help masterpiece.......2005-05-15

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." (Quote by Anonymous, page 55 Alter Your Life)
The greatest threat to America and its inhabitants has been revealed and experts are naming it, "Stress." As a medical professional, I'd like to add complacency, and lack of knowledge regarding how to break the stress- cycle to the problems facing American's today. Turn a page in any health magazine, flip through your local TV stations and what you will find is: article after article, report after report, linking stress and the fast-paced American lifestyle to: cancer, obesity, heart disease and a myriad of other diseases. Overworked, overweight, undernourished, and suffocating under piles of work, over-using our natural and spiritual resources, we American's are in a heap of trouble. Fortunately, Dr. Kathleen Hall author of Alter Your Life has devised a sound, step-by-step, non-dogmatic approach to changing your life-and your own special corner of the planet-without having to: surrender all of your worldly goods, give up your job, or move to the mountains. Sounds easy, doesn't it?
Hall will hook readers from the first page by appealing to their desire for a better life. Her plan, carefully woven together with the wisdom and appreciation of multiple spiritual traditions, provides a true blueprint for a better life. Learn how to wake up and embrace life without caffeine in chapter one. Follow simple steps to turn your commute in to your chance to commune with your Divine Self in chapter six. Rediscover the joy in life by reclaiming your leisure time on page 127.
Alter Your Life is flawlessly written, well edited, and the information is presented in a format readers can actually apply to their lives. Blissfully devoid of double-speak, cryptic passages, and superior guru-ish talk, Dr. Hall's self-help masterpiece is not your mama's promise-you-the-world, but give- you -zilch- for-useful- information, type book. Anyone willing to live a better life, can easily pick up a copy and apply the simple techniques to achieve a better, more compassionate existence, without abandoning their faith, their family, or making any drastic, overnight life changes.
Review by Kate St.Amour

Emmet Fox Classics volume II (Alter Your Life, Life is Consciousness & 15 Points)

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Illuminating, though slightly flawed

Alter Your Life

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Illuminating, though slightly flawed.......2007-05-19

This book by the great metaphysical teacher deals with the practice of the presence of God and much more besides. It explains the technique of scientific prayer and explores allegorical interpretations of Biblical passages. Amongst the most interesting are those on the four horsemen of the apocalypse, the book of Genesis, the seven days of creation, Adam and Eve, the tower of Babel, and the Zodiac as a great cosmic symbol serving as a diagram for the unfolding of the human soul. The symbolism of the number 12 is also considered here.

Fox focuses exclusively on the esoteric symbolic exegesis, but for the seeker of truth it is important to understand that there are many layers of meaning in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, and that the literal is often equally valid or relevant. In this regard it is always helpful to study the way in which the Hebrew sages approach the text, in both the Talmud and the Zohar.

Other chapters of valuable insight include the Seven Main Aspects of God and the Magic of Tithing. Amongst the best passages are those that warn against false teachers and provide guidelines to discern the false from the true, and the section on the precession of the equinoxes and the long, mostly unknown history of mankind. The most comforting chapter: God The Deliverer, is a discussion of Psalm 18.

This book was first published in 1931. On pages 116 and 117 of this 1950 edition, Fox deals with the great changes to come and their timing. Unfortunately here he has been proved wrong, as he maintained that the most revolutionary and far-reaching upheavals in the circumstances of human life "will be over and done with in from twenty to twenty-five years from now." I am not aware of any major changes of such significance that occurred anytime between 1951 and 1956, unless he meant the coming of Elvis!

That failure in timing aside, Alter Your Life is still a great read on various levels. Besides the first 14 chapters dealing with spirituality and the immanence of God, the last two discuss the American spirit and the historical destiny of the United States. I found these particularly illuminating, especially the author's views on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and his detailed explanation of the symbolism found on the currency and the Great Seal of the United States. This section includes illustrations.

In the last few pages, he sounds a warning that seems to be ignored these days. He perceived that there was only one real danger to the USA - grave division among her people. He maintains that such a danger cannot arise as long as the American people are careful never to allow party spirit to become so embittered that the destruction of political enemies seems more important than the safety of the country.

An orderly democratic state will only endure as long as the people loyally accept the verdict of the majority of their fellow citzens when expressed constitutionally, and loyally support those who are elected to office, whether they like them personally or not. In his own words: "Any other attitude is really to put a faction before the nation, and if this is not disloyalty, what is?" He further warns that any newspaper, politician or group that unduly fan the flames of sectarian or political bitterness is to be distrusted. This is an appropriate warning, more relevant than ever in these uncertain times. Take heed America.

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Not Your Ordinary Self-Help Book
Among the best!

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Not Your Ordinary Self-Help Book.......2005-05-27

Among the best!.......2004-05-08

The best thing about this book is that the author deals in our everyday reality. She knows because she's been there. Life is too busy. Too hectic. No matter how sincere our intentions, we don't have the time to read, philosophize, or meditate--all activities that separate us from our daily responsibilities at home, in the office, with family and friends.

Dr. Hall gives us simple and practical ways to attain small moments of spirituality throughout our busy days--whether we are in the car, at school, in the office, in the kitchen, or even in the shower,. Her abjility to help us squeeze meaningful moments out of our "real life" activities separates Alter Your Life from the faddy, prescriptive, "how to", feel good books.

Here's an author that admits most of us are over-scheduled and over- whelmed. She doesn't ask us to change...rather she encourages us to find spiritual meaning in our "busyness." Something we all can do in the very moment that we are driving, running, walking, sitting, meeting and accomplishing.

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A slightly flawed classic.......2007-06-13

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Change is all around us. Each one of us has something in our personality, our life that we feel needs to be changed for the better. Most of us are even able to make the changes ourselves or with the help of a friend, family member or counselor. However, these changes are most often very temporary. I believe that this book will help you to get the help you need to make these changes permanent. Man (or woman) was not made to go through life alone only depending on themselves. God has a plan for you and that plan does not include feelings of unworthiness, bitterness, sadness, anger, resentment, hatred, guilt, shamefulness or any negative traits that bring about destruction. Do you want to experience joy and true peace that comes from within, no matter what the circumstances are around you? Do you want to have a better understanding of where these feelings come from in the first place? I believe this book will help you to see that there is hope and there is a much better plan for your life. You no longer have to accept where you are - with God's help you can have the life that you truly desire.

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