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Professional Dreamer: 6 Simple Steps That Turn Dreams Into Reality: is an energetic manifesting masterpiece - the book that sets in print the powerful insights that have helped people worldwide experience the remarkable power within; yet, even more importantly, it's the remarkably effective book that teaches, through real-life example and real-world methods, how to connect with and apply this power day-in-and-day-out.
Professional Dreamer is based on a very simple concept- your thoughts, whether positive or negative- influence your life and the events which occur in it. By changing how we think and directing our thought energy towards our desired goals, we can achieve anything we desire.
In Professional Dreamer this process of changing your thoughts and using thought energy is clearly outlined in six steps: One-Pointed Thought, Desire, Trueprint, Visualization, Demonstration, Manifestation. Each step is broken down into two parts, Principles and Method, allowing the reader to understand what each step is, how it works and why, as well as provide clear and practical steps to applying the theory to your day to day life. Interspersed with inspirational poetry and inspiring testimonials, Professional Dreamer is an easy read, beautifully laid out with life changing potential.
If you have ever wanted to change your life, but felt like nothing has worked for you, Professional Dreamer is for you. If you want to lead a healthier, happier life, Professional Dreamer is for you. If you want to surround yourself with daily miracles then Professional Dreamer is for you.
You will be stunned by the beauty and simplicity of this truly amazing book.
Customer Reviews:
The WORST.......2007-09-22
I would say this book was a BIG waste of my money...yes it is well organized and all that BUT it was boring..other books written about the law of attraction are much better...clearer..easier to understand...
oh my god.......2007-05-19
This is such an easy read it is like having a conversation with someone who is telling you things in a straight forward way. The information in this is amazing and with the cd's I bought it has made such an AHA moment on every page.
As simple as it can get.......2007-05-13
Clear, concise, and to the point. Very well organized, and simple to understand. One of the better books on this subject. Definitely a keeper!
Insightful and Timely.......2007-03-20
Professional Dreamer fits pefectly with our new realization of the power of thought. Using Ghalil's six steps, you can learn how to master your thought processes and enjoy the benefits of the law of attraction. this book espouses similar ideas to The Secret and The Law of Attraction, two current bestsellers.
For more information on achieving financial wealth and applying principles from the law of attraction, check out "The 17 Principles of creating Wealth," by Phillip Collinsworth.
Works if You Work It.......2007-03-12
I never tire of books with this message. I long discovered repetition is key to learning and I enjoy the different slants each writer brings to "conscious creation," the "law of attraction or whatever the catch phrase of the day is.
This book makes a treasured addition to my manifestation library.
Those who vibrate to the message of Rhonda Byrne and company's "The Secret"
will also enjoy this book.
Some of the most powerful parts of Professional Dreamer for me were the affirmations that began each chapter. Those alone were life affirming. I enjoyed the typeset used in the book (easy on over-forty something eyes) and the experience of reading it was so precious I dragged it out two weeks because I didn't want it to end. I think of this book as permission to be as powerful and connected as we truly are.
Read, absorb it, and take inspired action.
Namaste.
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One night, after an unsatisfying evening at a party, author Oriah Mountain Dreamer wrote the start of The Invitation. By the light of her streetlight, she began, "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.... I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain...."
Her profound invitation (longer than is written here) became the framework for this wise and inspiring book. Chapter by chapter, the author uses passages from her "Invitation" to welcome readers into a life that is more soul fulfilling and passionate, and has far greater truth and integrity. In a sense, she invites readers to get a life instead of buying into a lifestyle. Each chapter ends with a guided meditation specific to the theme of the chapter, such as "The Joy" and "The Failure."
Despite her suspiciously New Age-sounding name, Oriah Mountain Dreamer is a highly grounded, practical, and honest writer. This fresh and beautifully packaged book is destined for great acclaim in the realm of spiritual inspiration. --Gail Hudson
Book Description
Visionary author Oriah Mountain Dreamer brings to life the wisdom of her beloved Ȯvitation, which has touched hearts everywhere with its fresh and spirited call to live life more deeply, honestly, and well.
Like the inspirations for Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten, Cherie Carter–Scott's If Life Is a Game, These are the Rules, and Margaret Fishback Power's Footprints, the poem that sparked The Invitation has been embraced around the world, passed along by thousands who have discovered and treasured its message. In this lovely gift book the author speaks from the heart, reflecting on everything from desire to betrayal and offering practical – and often surprising – suggestions for how to live the ecstasy of everyday life, learn to recognise true beauty in ourselves and the world around us, and how to find the sustenance that our spirit longs for.
The poem Invitation has been recited and quoted at countless spiritual conferences, and on network radio by Robert Bly, Jack Kornfield, Angeles Arrien, and many other spiritual leaders.
From the Invitation:
ȴ doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive ...'
Customer Reviews:
A life changer.......2007-03-18
My daughter introduced me to this book - her boyfriend had given it to her. I can't help but think that if more people passed it on like this that it would have a very positive effect in the world. Simplistic, maybe, but the book it full of optimistic ideas and thought provoking meditations that could make a big difference one person at a time.
Poor and Confusing.......2007-01-02
I bought this book for a friend based on the write up and the poem. Since he is away, I read through it and I am so glad I did. I am certainly not giving this as a gift, and I am glad to see that I am not the only who didn't like this book. Basically, I couldn't figure out her point. What is she talking about?
I felt mildly depressed after reading it, and found it to be confusing--it seemed just like a string of anecdotes without any substance.
I'm not sure that this is an invitation to, but sorry, Oriah, I don't accept.
The best Gift Ever..........2006-07-07
I received this book as a gift for my birthday from a friend of mine, and had no clue what to expect when I read it. I sat down and read through it in one sitting and couldn't put it down. I then read it aloud to my boyfriend and my daughter and my son... and I sent excerpts of it to several of my online friends telling them they needed to buy this book. It's touching and emotional - but so powerful and beautifully written. I could not recommend this book enough - it's simply the best gift I've ever been given.
A most remarkable book.......2006-06-29
The Invitation helped me understand how I can enhance my own life when I embrace all of life -- as it is -- not as I want it to be. I have sent copies to my friends, children and grandchildren.
Wonderfully thought provoking!.......2006-05-22
This poem has resonated with me for several years now. I appreciated Mountain Dreamer's honest explanation into what inspired this powerful poem. It is not often that we get such insight into what situations inspire such works of art.
This book was very thought provoking for me, and is valuable in it's ability to encourage self examination and living more truthfully. One of the most engaging and inspirational books I've read.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Dreamer's Dictionary.......2007-10-11
I have used the original book until it fell apart and now using this one. It has never failed me in giving good predictions on my dreams.
Ready to Switch.......2007-09-09
I've had this book for about ten years and am ready to switch. I kept it for so long because it is conservative and orderly. But it is completely lacking in certain subjects that are not uncommon. Also, because the authors are Brits, a lot of the vocabulary is very unfamiliar. It is also very dissappointing to look up a dream and be told all other factors in the dream must be looked up, but you get NO explanation at all of the subject of your dream. There are a lot of incomplete explanations as well,and no matter how many other factors you look up, it is impossible to piece these meanings together for a full explanation.Frusterating!
horoscopes.......2007-08-08
If you are into horoscopes, then this book is for you. If you think dreams are more about psychological issues that manifest themselves in dreams and you would like to discover the underlying phenomena of these dreams, then you will find the book inadequate from this perspective.
Not a lot of Meanings.......2007-07-31
This book isn't the best type for me it lacked a lot of basic dreams like sexual and things like that, of course if your not one to dream about vulgar things it also had me running around the book to find meanings, I had a dream of watching some one cheat but it had nothing on that, it had nothing on tornado's, another dream I had involved gun shots and I had to look up fights just to find something, if your not good at coming up with other names to explain something I'd suggest another book.
Favorite Dream Book!.......2007-07-05
I love this dream dictionary! It is amazing how this book helps you decode your dreams. Everyone should keep a dream journal and decode their dreams with this Dreamer's Dictionary.
Customer Reviews:
Finally entered my Dream.......2006-07-18
This very excellent book finally manifested in my reality dream at the most appropriate point in my life, for which I'm grateful.
So many insights offered, especially potential life-changing effects of long term lucid dreaming.
It actually describes what the best use of lucid dreaming can be, other than the usual bland 'overcome your fears etc' mentality...(which still has it's place, of course)
Learning to become the silent witness in both the daytime and nighttime dream is the ultimate liberator...lucid dreaming can help you do that!
Everyone should read this book.......2006-03-06
I would strongly encourage anyone who has even a remote intrest in psychology, biology, biochemistry, asian philosophy, art (of any kind), literature, history, hallucinogens, dreaming (of course)...
Everyone needs to read this book. Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about lucid dreaming. And it's full of great photos and images and diagrams as well.
If you cast your net into the sea of dreams you could write a novel, nearly every night, with the catch you pull in... And once you go lucid you are no longer stuck on the shore, you are adrift on a fantastic galleon, on the sea that is the imagination...
Go get this book today, quit sleeping, it's time to dream!
Dream fuel.......2005-09-24
I love this book. It has so much in it, covering lucid dreaming across many different cultures. It also features some great artwork.
My friend is interested in learning about lucid dreaming so I got him this book as I know it'll get him hooked.
The Sleeper Must Awaken!.......2005-09-19
This book is a treasure. I am totally amazed that it is not THE top rated Lucid Dreaming book here on Amazon! I have read Lebergs work Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and the Tibeta Yogas of Dream and Sleep but THIS book breaks Lucid Dreaming and reality down to such a level that it is simultaneously liberating and frightening to comprehend: You are dreaming your reality wherever you perceive it, and the Dream is dreaming you as well as all that is in the dream! Pick up a cup of water and drink, but then think, not only are you dreaming that cup and the water but the water in the cup and the cup are dreaming you! Cuts your ego-mind to pieces! You are just as insubstantial as all that you perceive so why so serious?
Any system that would have you take it and it's "preachers and teachers" too seriously with conditional joy is control.
This book really has helped my dream recall on the path to Lucidity and the art is essential also because the language of spirit/the unconsciousness is symbol and visual imagery. The pictures in this book help to communicate to your spirit what mere words that do not evoke imagery in your mind cannot.
This book was recommended to me and I am so glad I followed through and got it. If you can remember the freedom and magic you had as a child, and think of all the cases of psychic activity which always occurs around children, and want to work on remembering your birthright GET THIS BOOK and awaken!
Beautiful.......2004-08-20
A wonderful book that covers all areas of the topic from the religious to the scientific "facts." Filled with incredible art, I highly recommend this beautiful book. Many techniques are included to help you experience this phenomenon.
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Psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino claims that 20 percent of children have what she calls the Edison trait: "dazzling intelligence, an active imagination, a free-spirited approach to life, and the ability to drive everyone around them crazy." She named the trait after Thomas Edison, who flunked out of school despite his obvious brilliance. Palladino says that Edison-trait children think divergently, while the routines and structure of schools are more geared toward convergent thinking, or focusing on one idea at a time. The incompatible school environment, she says, usually leads divergent-thinking children to act out, receive poor grades, and often be labeled as strong-willed and disruptive.
These symptoms may sound similar to those of ADD, but Palladino says that's an overused term often mistakenly applied to Edison-trait children. "In most cases," she says, "ADD behavior patterns are comparable to but more extreme than the typical patterns of an Edison-trait child who does not have ADD." A diagnosis of ADD does not take into consideration factors such as "intelligence, perceptiveness, sensitivity, creativity, and wit."
With many references to scientific studies, Palladino helps you decide whether your child is one of the three types of Edison-trait children: dreamer, discoverer, or dynamo. She also gives pointed, practical advice regarding such controversial topics as diet, neurofeedback treatment, and psychological testing. For frustrated parents and educators, Dreamers, Discoverers, and Dynamos will be a rich source of both help and hope.
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Does your imaginative, computer-proficient daughter tune out in the classroom? Does your spirited son become headstrong and aggressive when faced with the simplest decisions? Does your bold, energetic child have trouble focusing on basic tasks?
Millions of children--one in five--have what psychologist Lucy Jo Palladino, Ph.D., calls the Edison trait: dazzling intelligence, an active imagination, a free-spirited approach to life, and the ability to drive everyone around them crazy. Named after Thomas Edison--who flunked out of school only to harness his talents and give the world some of its finest inventions--the Edison trait is on the rise in our younger generation.
The heart of the issue is that they think divergently--they overflow with many ideas--while schools, organized activities, and routines of daily living reward convergent thinking, which focuses on one idea at a time. Drawing on examples from more than two decades of private practice, Dr. Palladino helps us cope with this challenging aspect of our child's intellect and personality, explaining in clear terms:
- The three Edison-trait personality types: dreamers, discoverers, and dynamos
- The eight steps to understanding, reaching, and teaching your Edison-trait child
- The connection between the Edison trait and A.D.D.
Customer Reviews:
"D" for disappointed.......2007-09-27
While the basic premise is good, the book feels thin--as if it should have been a magazine article. Too general and it seems as her examples are not well supported. Better to read a Mel Levine book or Driven to Distraction
Finally positive news .......2007-05-08
This is a wonderful book. After hearing about all the things my son wouldn't be able to do, and how he'll never fit in etc. Here's a book that takes those "bad" traits and shows me how he can be sucessful with them. This book gave me hope for my son who was diagnosed very late (age 9) with Aspergers Autism. I now have a powerful ally to take to my family and his school that is based on hope and not on negitivity. It's changed my life and is changing the life of my son. How cool is that!!!
Interesting book!.......2006-08-08
This book first lists traits that may or may not fit your child, but are considered to be part of "The Edison Trait". Then, they give ideas on how to deal with children who think differently than many other children.
This book was formerly titled _The Edison Trait_.......2005-01-28
We have been searching for _The Edison Trait_ online today since the copy we are using is due back at the library. We found it online at around $50 a copy to buy it used! Fortunately we discovered that it has been retitled and is now sold as _Dreamers, Discoverers and Dynamos : How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School_.
My wife has kept the library copy until it is overdue and has a hold on it. This is the most excited I have seen her about a book since we were married. She has found some very practical tools to help us with our children.
Good reference but not a cure-all.......2004-04-12
Despite the lofty praise heaped on Dreamers, Discoverers, and Dynamos, this book is neither a cure-all or all-in-once resource. On the other hand, Dr. Pallandino has rounded up plenty of good information and strategies for motivating children to complete tasks, pay attention in school, and essentially get their heads out of the clouds.
Part of the problem here is that this book essentially categorizes children as either having an Edison-trait---that is being very smart, imaginative, and free-spirited---or not. While I think most parents would like to associate their children with Edison, the roles of self-discipline, focus, and, extra effort in improving learning and performance are downplayed. And most parents already know that those ingredients have to be part of the mix.
But there are enough positives here to make this book worth a read. Learning how to teach children how to break down tasks into components, striving to improve one's patience, working as a team, and remembering to reward achievements are all good things. Although such advice is certainly valuable for helping any child, not just those who have this Edison-trait.
The dichotomy between convergent thinking and divergent thinking, a core idea in this book, seems a bit artificial and a bit too clear-cut to me (true, I'm only a parent and former teacher) but I find most real-life issues a bit more blurry. But this model does illustrate to a good degree the serious "dumbing down" problems inherent in our education systems.
The sections on therapy, ADD, and professional diagnosis were the least intriguing and least inspiring.
Realizing that there are different ways to approach a situation has its value, and the author's greatest success here is reminding readers to step back and consider the options.
Average customer rating:
- Do not read!
- If only I could give 0 stars
- Truly saddened and angered by this book.
- Why is anyone suprised!
- Oh Please! Why, David?
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Customer Reviews:
Do not read!.......2007-09-20
I have to agree with the many negative reviews written here. Do not read this, even if you think you need to read the end of the series. You don't, you can probably guess the ending after reading book 2, and if you can't, whatever you imagine is better than what is in this book. I don't think I've seen a more disappointing, pointless, and uninteresting ending to a book in a long time, certainly not to an Eddings' book. I'm really hoping this gets re-written and re-released, soon, just to redeem the Eddings reputation for quality fantasy.
If only I could give 0 stars.......2007-09-12
I can't recall the last time I've been so disappointed with a book, or a series for that matter. The first one was lighthearted and amusing, but the rest have been repetitive and boring, sloppily written, and overly populated with the same tired one-liners and cutesy dialogue. I don't think I've ever seen a writing gimmick nearly as annoying as all the italicized words cropping up in nearly every sentence of this book. Please, trust your readers to know what the emphasis is, and don't beat us over the head with it. The ending of this series was truly uninspired, and came across as nothing more than a cheap cop-out stolen from a cheesy Dallas season that got poor reviews even back then.
If it's true that Leigh has been secretly writing with David from the very beginning as the authors have tried to tell us, then why this downward spiral after making that public? Whatever these two are doing, it's not working. Please take some time to understand where you've gone wrong, and get back to the quality you used to write, whether as a team or individually.
Truly saddened and angered by this book........2007-09-04
I made the mistake of only bringing one series with me when I went on vacation to Mongolia, and this was it. I cannot believe anyone would give this book more than two stars and the four to five star people are just deluded. It was repetitive in the extreme, both with the jokes and the narration. As has been said by many on this review, the characters were all very much the same wise-cracking smart mouths and none of them mattered at all. It was deus-ex-machina material, and when I got to the ending, I literally felt like going out and killing a whole tribe of bad fantasy writers. These books were to be my only link to English literature whilst I was amongst the Mongol hordes, and I felt like someone had kicked me in the groin at the end of it. At least General Whatis and Queen Whoha were going to get a deus-ex-machina wedding (I think I vomited at that point). I feel bad about the talent level of David Eddings being reduced to this, and my condolences to him for his wife, but please do not do this to your readers. If you can't hack it, then take up gardening. Writing and automotive repair may not be your forte any more.
Why is anyone suprised!.......2007-08-20
David Eddings has been rehashing the Belgariad every time he writes a series, he even pointed it out in the Mallorean with a couple of the characters asking 'why things seemed the same?'...because they were!
Those of you maligning Leigh Eddings should know that she was involved in all the novels.
I loved the Belagriad, enjoyed the Mallorean (started to feel a sense of being cheated during this series), got fed up of being treated to the same story with minor changes after the Elenium, and gave up on anything original from Eddings after the deja vu all over again of the Tamuli. If you want to read and enjoy Eddings, read the Belgariad, if you've read it then you pretty much have his others books covered already; you should move on to George RR Martin. A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)
Oh Please! Why, David?.......2007-08-10
Let me preference things with saying that I have read everything that the Eddings have published...so it is with great chagrin that I am adding my displeasure with all the other reviwers on The Younger Gods. The series itself was not up to standards in the first three books, but was still enjoyable on certain levels. But this book...
This book was one of the worst written books that I have EVER read. The plot mirrors the other books in this series, which in the first couple books was semi-enjoyable, but in the last two became tiresome. THEN they change everything in the end of this book and take "majik" fairy dust, sprinkle it over the ending, and make reading the entire series worthless.
Save your money. This book was a waste of time. Absolutely horrible.
Book Description
DARK DREAM
Christine Feehan
She's known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon—the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.
A DREAM OF STONE & SHADOW
Marjorie M. Liu
There are those who do terrible things in this world, and those who simply watch. Charlie would do neither. Imprisoned, his only release is through his own destruction—or through Aggie Durand. Sweet as a kiss or a rescued child, she is the one dream he does not dare desire. As an agent of Dirk & Steele, she could be his salvation. Today, Charlie's dream is waking.
Customer Reviews:
Always great.......2007-09-27
Feehan is great, as always.
The Liu piece is also great and you should know that it is actually the #4 story in the Dirk and Steele series.
Enjoyed reading this book.......2007-03-20
I am a fan of Christine Feehan but had not read anything by Liu. This was a good read to get me excited about reading her work. I am now on my third book by her.
The Best Sci-Fi ever.......2007-01-18
Well in a nutshell, if you want sci-fi and ur into vampires, romance and adventure , Christina Feehan is the one to go to .. i picked up one of her books randomely and read it and since then ive been hooked up and made it my aim to get all of her novels and read them..
Good, but not Great.......2007-01-18
First off, a lot of reviews start right off negatively because it was not said that this was a re-issue on Feehan's part of her novella After Twlight, so this is more for those of us who hadn't read After Twlight yet and didn't realize it was a reprint till we came and read the reviews.
I had not read After Twlight as novellas never held much interest for me, I feel alot of them are two short and an unfilling read. I had gone to Feehan's website, really needing a new read from a dependable author and saw Dark Dreamers and hadn't heard of it. I read the introduction/first chapter on her website and I would have to say is some of Feehan's best work. It kept me on the end of the computer seat, glued to the computer screen and then left me hanging so that I was instantly out the door to the bookstore (in a blizzard).
After getting the book and sitting back down to read Falcon and Sara's story, I was kind of let down by the second chapter mellowing out in when the first was full of highstrung excitement, but the book did pick back up. I really enjoyed this story for it being a novella and shorter. Sara at times got on my nerves because she was just so ready to do anything Falcon says while trying to do the "I want an equal partnership" al-mata. Falcon on the other hand was somewhat of a nice change from the usual acts of the other Carpathian men in the series with a different attitude about him.
Falcon finds Sara on his journey home to which he percieves his last journey before he meets the sun to keep from turning vampire, but he is given new hope in finding his lifemate Sara, but learns she has been hunted since 15 by a vampire as old as he is. He sends her to the Carpathian mountains to find Mikhail and the others to help protect her. Orphans that Sara has been trying to adopt are taken and she is in a head-long flight to try and save them and still escape the vampire. The story was well done and was ended nicely, not overly rushed at all.
My one real quip though is not really with the story, but with the headline on Feehan's website, it starts off, "She's known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon--the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate.. " which makes me think that the story line is something along the lines of he found her when she was 15 and had to wait to claim her till she was an adult and has taken care of her till then, something along that line. Well, its not till you get into the 2nd and 3rd chapter that you find thats not the case at all. And how this book started off, it would have made a good story line, but Feehan took it a different direction that still works quite well.
Marjorie M. Lu's story was apparently a continuing in her series of "Dirk & Steele," agents. I haven't read any of the others. This story includes Charlie and Aggie. It had plenty of excitement, but too many spots and comments left me stopping to think, "What? What did she mean by that comment?" So I just skimmed through most of it thinking it was just okay. I think the review before this one is pretty accurate concerning Liu's story."
Perhaps I'm being harsh but..........2007-01-12
This book is split evenly between two stories. The first is a typical Christine Feehan vampire story -- very old, depressed vampire meets the love of his life, a young lady psychic who was traumatized by a vampire murdering her family long ago. Their happiness is threatened by a homicidal maniac vampire. The writing was uninspired and passionless -- formulae, as if Feehan just couldn't work up interest or excitement. Ho, hum.
Liu's tale has more life and excitement to it, but problems of its own. The lady, A, can fortell the future, and uses her skills to find & help arrest villains who kidnap and rape children. The man, C, is imprisoned by an evil witch but able to astral travel. C finds A through astral travel and gets her help to rescue a young girl. As you can tell, this is an icky and depressing topic that is entirely non-condusive toward romance.
A accuses everyone of being racist and occasionally makes racist comments. I always find this offensive, but some people who have struggled with discrimination might sympathise. A is also a whiner who blames all of her problems on other people, and refuses to take any responsibility. Grr! I prefer leading ladies with an optimistic outlook on life.
Other than this, Liu's writing is exciting and the setting interesting -- a noticable improvement over her first novel -- but the plot is a downer and not condusive toward romance. Still, you might really enjoy this story.
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"What if the question is not why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be, but why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am?" This is the opening question to The Dance. And like a thematic melody, this is the thread that holds Oriah Mountain Dreamer's book together, as she encourages readers to stop trying to change who you are and simply remember that "who you are is really enough." There are many reasons Mountain Dreamer is such a popular author (her debut book, The Invitation, was a soaring success), the main one being she doesn't pretend to have all the answers. Instead her warm, conversational writing shows us how to "live the questions," as the poet Rainer Maria Rilke once beckoned us to do. When Mountain Dreamer yells at her 19-year-old son, even after vowing to be patient, she asks herself, "Why [do] I repeatedly fail to live the intentions that matter to me? I want to know how to narrow the gap between the sincerest desires of my soul and my daily actions." Living these questions isn't easy, but it is the only way Mountain Dreamer wants to dance. Her chapters explore topics such as greed and money, creating love relationships, overscheduling, and solitude. At the end of each chapter she suggests a fitting mediation or exercise. --Gail Hudson
Book Description
Welcome to The Dance, the wise and practical book that expands on Oriah Mountain Dreamer's new moving prose poem. In this compelling book the acclaimed author of The Invitation challenges readers to live with passion, energy, and honesty. The key, says Oriah, is to savour the everyday world of family, friends, love, and work with clear minds and open hearts. When we are physically and emotionally stressed and our spirits are depleted, we must realise that happiness has not vanished but is buried beneath the clutter of our harried lives. With rare courage and honesty, Oriah unveils the challenge of her inspiring poem through compelling stories from her own experience, offering us tools to become fully the person we already are –– not ways to change."To dance –– to live in a way that is consistent with our longing" –– is to discover a gift that we can give ourselves again and again over a lifetime. To dance, alone or with others, is to be who we truly are as we fulfill our soul's desires. To do this, we must learn how to let go and slow down, returning to the sacred emptiness where we encounter our true self. Practical, inspiring, and profoundly illuminating, The Dance is an invitation to discover a place of connection, serenity, and joy that is uniquely our own."
Customer Reviews:
Mastering the beauty of words.......2005-07-03
The Dance is a great book. I enjoyed it from the first page to the last. Oriah is not just a writer; she is an artist, with a new perspective on life, and on events. Her thoughts flow smoothly, as if you were reading something you wrote, or something you already knew to be true. I am going to say it again, she is an artist.
Some parts of the book, you won't help but read out loud to someone you care for. I did that with my mother, and some other times with a friend of mine. Both of them want to borrow the book.
This book will help you dream, and here I will quote something from the author, as she wrote "To dream is to create the stories of how we live our lives, and these are the stories our children's children will remember. I write with as much honesty and frankness as I can, because I want to offer stories of being present with what is. I recite poetry when I speak, because I want offer beauty and the power of art to remind us of who and what we are. I share personal stories, because I want to cocreate a story of intimacy and cultivate our capacity for compassion in dealing with out human failings. I tell love stories because I want to learn how to love well." (p151)
I will buy The Call, and I know it will be as good as the Invitation and The Dance. And hopefully one day in the future I will make it to one of Oriah's retreats.
Soul Desires.......2005-06-01
Words themselves can become acts of beauty that awaken and strengthen our commitment to living our soul's desires. ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Oriah Mountain Dreamer blends daily existence with spiritual insight. She survived a violent marriage, chronic fatigue and living almost next door to her ex husband when he remarried. Her life is a study in patience, emotional turmoil resolved and survival of the most open heart.
The start of the book contains a poem and then each chapter is an expanded vision of the elements contained in a part of the poem. After the poem, Oriah dives right into a retelling of her life, the conflicts she has experienced and how as a spiritual teacher, she too struggles to maintain emotional equilibrium. There is a subtle comfort in knowing that if Oriah can survive her life, then we can too.
This is the beauty mingled with the various stunning insights Oriah has while trying to unburden her heart and pull us out on the dance floor of life. She loves to read and a number of the books she mentioned where books I had just recently read. She quotes Rainer Maria Rilke and Rumi. She discusses Daniel Ladinsky's translations of Hafiz. Her "headed for home" comments made me think of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.
Throughout this work Oriah focuses on connecting, serenity, joy, an authentic lifestyle, living with passion, retaining energy and focus, being honest and finding happiness within the complex. She also provides meditations on worthiness, surrender, slowing down and letting go.
This is not a five-step or a ten-step program, it is more an unfolding of experience through an exploration of Oriah's life experience. She has struggled, she has survived. She also knows there are no quick fixes and that many self-help programs are no match for real-life situations. Sometimes there is no easy way out of the pain and you have to endure heartache to learn your greatest lessons.
"Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance,
the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart,
and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet
and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again."
~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer
What did I love most about this book? The section where she talks about her ultimate fantasy of reading in bed with the man she loves. Yes, this book is mostly about Oriah, or the people she has met throughout her life, but the way she draws on her inner wisdom is by experiencing life and dancing with difficulty.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
Poetic and Practical.......2005-05-05
Several years ago I listened to the audio version of this book and I thought at the time that it was a nice diversion, but just typical New-Age feel-good stuff. Now in my 50s, when I listened to it again recently I was stunned by how powerfully honest the author is and how her poetic honesty brought strength and character to her message. This is not a "how to . . ." book. It is more likely to impact the reader who is a mature spiritual seeker (Christian or otherwise) who feels bogged down by mundane daily living and, like many spiritual seekers, tripped up by trying to DO before really knowing how to BE. That is no small distinction. This book addresses real issues like chronic illness, divorce, raising children, mid-life love, finances and regret all from a practical perspective that helps the reader assess where she is and where she hopes, someday, to be. Mountain Dreamer doesn't give formulas or pat answers--she even amusingly describes hearing a motivational speaker who's message sounds good, but doesn't ring true in any lasting, practical sense. The book is about both inner and outer balance, cutting yourself some slack while still holding yourself to standards of character that have meaning for you personally, and about offering the reader an opportunity to stop for a time and check his own spiritual development against his dreams. Her passage describing meeting a "significant other" thirty years after a teenage crush, and the clarity he was able to bring to her regarding how essentially true to her young self she had remained is priceless. The reader can find peace and hope merely by acknowledging having faced the issues discussed, and being willing to ask how they mattered.
Accepting the invitation to dance.......2005-03-09
Oriah Mountain Dreamer invokes the question of how to dance with life. Often we are asked to dance. But how often do we accept the invitation to move to the tune of our own hearts? Let this poem stir you to new vibrations.
The big lesson no one listens to!.......2005-01-15
Hurray for Oriah! This book tells the simple but seldom lived truth! It is not until we learn to follow the thought that"GOD doesn't make junk,and I am great just as I am"do we reach our potential.Oriah's writings are like fresh air after a rainstorm!
Book Description
One classic follows another. In Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys, Philip Bromberg continues the illuminating explorations into dissociation and clinical process begun in his seminal Standing in the Spaces (TAP, 1998). Bromberg is among our most gifted clinical writers, especially in his unique ability to record peripheral variations in relatedness - those subtle, split-second changes that capture the powerful workings of dissociation and, as such, chart the changing self-states that analyst and patient bring to the moment. Three interrelated contentions weave their way through these essays. For Bromberg, a model of mind premised on the centrality of self-states and dissociation not only offers the optimal lens for comprehending and interpreting clinical data; it also provides maximum leverage for achieving true intersubjective relatedness. And finally, this manner of looking at clinical data offers the best vantage point for integrating psychoanalytic experience with the burgeoning findings of contemporary neuroscience, cognitive and developmental psychology, and attachment research. But these essays are no esoteric attempt at theory construction for its own sake. Bromberg consistently brings the reader into the felt human experience at the heart of the clinical encounter. Dreams are approached not as texts in need of deciphering but as means of contacting genuine but not yet fully conscious self-states. From here, he explores how the patient's "dreamer" and the analyst's "dreamer" can come together to turn the "real" into the "really real" of mutative therapeutic dialogue. The "difficult," frequently traumatized patient is newly appraised in terms of tensions within the therapeutic dyad. Such patients, Bromberg finds, sense dangers within the dyad that the analyst unwittingly heightens. And then there is the "haunted" patient who carries a sense of preordained doom through years of otherwise productive work - until the analyst can finally feel the patient's doom as his or her own. Laced with Bromberg's characteristic honesty, humor, and thoughtfulness, these essays elegantly attest to the mind's reliance on dissociation, in both normal and pathological variants, in the ongoing effort to maintain self-organization. Awakening the Dreamer, no less than Standing in the Spaces, is destined to become a permanent part of the literature on therapeutic process and change.
Customer Reviews:
Clinical Writing At Its Best.......2006-06-25
For the practicing clinician, "Awakening The Dreamer: Clinical Journeys" is an exciting trip into the shared reality of the interpersonal field in which psychoanalytic treatment takes place, and into the critically important dissociated aspect of that field. The book is a totally engaging read, clinically alive and wonderfully erudite, drawing on the history of psychoanalysis, literature, poetry, and neuroscience. Both clinically and conceptually, it provides an indispensable frame of reference that will deepen even treatments that appear "routine," but Bromberg's perspective is most breathtakingly powerful in helping the analyst reach the many so-called difficult patients currently finding their way into our waiting rooms.
From the vantage point of what is experienced as "me" at a given moment, a patient's "not-me" self-experience, because it cannot be formulated cognitively or linguistically, is communicated through enactment in the interpersonal field of the analysis --a shared dissociative experience that requires the co-participation of the analyst in processing it. By Bromberg's willingness to share with the reader his most intimate thoughts and feelings as he describes his actual work with patients in evocative detail, he provides the reader with an extraordinary window into the enacted channel of affective communication that links dissociated self-states in patient and therapist while what we call "the work" is going on.
Bromberg vividly portrays how the optimal analytic relationship involves an ongoing process of collision and negotiation between the subjectivities of the participants and is thus "safe but not too safe." In this relationship the analyst allows himself to perceptually experience and contain the existence of his own "not-me" states and eventually share the details of his subjective "awakening" with his patient while simultaneously communicating his attunement to the issue of how affectively "safe" this self-revelation is feeling to his patient. The analyst is in effect disclosing his personal encounter with a "not-me" self-state in the patient, and by so doing he allows that aspect of the patient's self to feel recognized relationally and thereby begin to "awaken" too. An increased tolerance for surprise gradually replaces dissociative defenses against potential traumatic shock because verbal meaning, including that of "safety" is negotiated rather than unilaterally defined by the analyst. By the therapist's surrender to the domain of personal reality --his own and the patient's-- for which no words exist, those areas of the patient's subjectivity that have been traumatically invalidated, find a relational context through which "not-me" can become part of "me," and participate creatively and spontaneously in the process of living.
This book by Philip Bromberg, "Awakening The Dreamer: Clinical Journeys," is a remarkable accomplishment, a courageous and inspiring example of clinical writing at its best that should be read and reread by therapists and psychoanalysts of all persuasions.
Customer Reviews:
A warm and wonderful way to introduce geometric shapes!.......1998-12-09
As a new teacher I am always looking for good literature to introduce mathematics. This warm family story uses loving, hard-working characters to spin a tale of promises and dreams, all wrapped around geometry. The possibilities for geometric-based lessons are endless. When I read it to my second grade class they were enthralled.
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