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The Inspired Life: Unleashing Your Mind's Capacity For Joy
Imagine being connected to an infinite source of loving energy. Imagine finally being whole, happy and content. Imagine experiencing life as a source of limitless creative possibility. With Susyn Reeve and Joan Breiner's new guide to upgrading the software of your mind, you can have an inspired life with unlimited joy. Through definitions, quotes, life stories, exercises, and meditations you create your own inspired life vision, and nourish it day-by-day with proven Inspired Life Actions. This book is directed to those of us who need a push to open our minds and hearts to the vast creative potential and possibility alive in each moment. Are you ready to live an inspired life rooted in the sacred union of your heart and intellect and reflected in your thoughts, words, and actions? It all begins with making a choice, with saying: "Yes, I choose an inspired life."
- GenresSelf HelpPsychology
232 pages, Paperback
First published October 4, 2011
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April 15, 2012
Do you live an inspired life? Are your days filled with passion? Does unconditional love surround you even during the most difficult times?
The Inspired Life looks at the elements of living an inspired life based upon personal truth, acceptance of what is, and passion for each and every day. It’s reality based approach which I really liked and found refreshing. So often, books that seek to inspire tend to leave out that life can be messy sometimes. They forget that often those difficult times redirect us in positive ways. Moreover, that in going through dark days and nights of the soul, we have opportunities to understand ourselves and provide unconditional love.
The book explores a wide variety of life lessons which often includes a story either from the author’s own lives or from others they know. In this way, we are reminded that everyone stumbles, it’s just a matter of what we do afterwards. Do we pick ourselves up, suspend judgement, and open ourselves to the possibilities or do we wallow, using that situation to define who we are and what we can accomplish in this lifetime.
The Inspired Life looks at the elements of living an inspired life based upon personal truth, acceptance of what is, and passion for each and every day. It’s reality based approach which I really liked and found refreshing. So often, books that seek to inspire tend to leave out that life can be messy sometimes. They forget that often those difficult times redirect us in positive ways. Moreover, that in going through dark days and nights of the soul, we have opportunities to understand ourselves and provide unconditional love.
The book explores a wide variety of life lessons which often includes a story either from the author’s own lives or from others they know. In this way, we are reminded that everyone stumbles, it’s just a matter of what we do afterwards. Do we pick ourselves up, suspend judgement, and open ourselves to the possibilities or do we wallow, using that situation to define who we are and what we can accomplish in this lifetime.
February 28, 2018
This book is definitely geared toward people just starting on the path to living a more "inspired" life.
It's filled with short exercises which are basic but can be useful. The section on the brain and creating pathways is VERY brief, so if you're looking for depth on that are, this is not the book.
It felt like it lacked some depth. Also, more concrete ways of cultivating your life is the current technological area would be helpful.
If you can get it for free or from a library you'll be happier than if you'd spend a lot on it.
It's filled with short exercises which are basic but can be useful. The section on the brain and creating pathways is VERY brief, so if you're looking for depth on that are, this is not the book.
It felt like it lacked some depth. Also, more concrete ways of cultivating your life is the current technological area would be helpful.
If you can get it for free or from a library you'll be happier than if you'd spend a lot on it.
August 24, 2017
One of the useful self-help books. It offers small exercises and tasks to follow , which are very helpful.
September 9, 2013
While I was reading this book, I won on Goodreads, I made sure I updated my reading status.
I wanted to touch on and ponder the book as I read it instead of just reading it straight through. I, sincerely, hope that the readers of this review will take the time to read those status updates---I don't want to repeat my statuses here verbatum.
Overall this book makes some good points, but it isn't enough for me to really like it FOR ME. Quite possibly it is because I am a pretty positive person who firmly believes that when one door closes another one opens. I also believe that it is up to us to create our own realities and to be true to ourselves and to pick ourselves up when circumstances try to get us down--also things this book covers.
I can see that there are many people who could be helped by this book and, quite frankly, I do know many people who would be served well by this little book--those who fall prey to negative thinking, those who worry too much about what other think, those who feel trapped and just need a direction to go in their lives, those who don't realize that the power to create their own reality lies within themselves, and in a very very small way those who feel unloved. Thought patterns create realities just as much as realities create thought patterns and this book presents that idea, which can be a big help to those who need to see that reality presented in concrete words. There were somethings that I liked--highlighted in my status updates. I will quickly name them here: inspirational quotes, things to ponder and write about, listing of further resources. It is a pretty easy book to carry around, read and work through.
A few things come to me that I do not like about this book, but I feel that they are things that would not apply to others who might read this book. The main ones are being too reliant on others to pick you up--a support system and feeling the constant search to live an inspired life. I firmly believe that everyone should be their own greatest fan--not in a self-absorbed or arrogant or even prideful way, but if you don't believe in yourself and what you are capable of why should anyone else? As far as the constant search---isn't it enough to just be and to just enjoy? The final things I did not like about this book is that it really works hard to make judging seem like a negative thing. Humans are constantly judging---it is impossible to not. Turning judging into a negative thing, only serves to make people feel bad about doing a very natural thing and it doesn't allow people to have a full range of emotions without feeling guilty. That to me is bad. (that was my judgement about that---see?) Human beings are dynamic. We feel a wide range of emotions. That is life. We have to be open to the bad and the good. (again---I find that to be a judgement as well.)
This quote pretty much sums up this book: (and life in my judgement)
"The mind is its own place, and in itself. Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven" Paradise Lost by John Milton.
I wanted to touch on and ponder the book as I read it instead of just reading it straight through. I, sincerely, hope that the readers of this review will take the time to read those status updates---I don't want to repeat my statuses here verbatum.
Overall this book makes some good points, but it isn't enough for me to really like it FOR ME. Quite possibly it is because I am a pretty positive person who firmly believes that when one door closes another one opens. I also believe that it is up to us to create our own realities and to be true to ourselves and to pick ourselves up when circumstances try to get us down--also things this book covers.
I can see that there are many people who could be helped by this book and, quite frankly, I do know many people who would be served well by this little book--those who fall prey to negative thinking, those who worry too much about what other think, those who feel trapped and just need a direction to go in their lives, those who don't realize that the power to create their own reality lies within themselves, and in a very very small way those who feel unloved. Thought patterns create realities just as much as realities create thought patterns and this book presents that idea, which can be a big help to those who need to see that reality presented in concrete words. There were somethings that I liked--highlighted in my status updates. I will quickly name them here: inspirational quotes, things to ponder and write about, listing of further resources. It is a pretty easy book to carry around, read and work through.
A few things come to me that I do not like about this book, but I feel that they are things that would not apply to others who might read this book. The main ones are being too reliant on others to pick you up--a support system and feeling the constant search to live an inspired life. I firmly believe that everyone should be their own greatest fan--not in a self-absorbed or arrogant or even prideful way, but if you don't believe in yourself and what you are capable of why should anyone else? As far as the constant search---isn't it enough to just be and to just enjoy? The final things I did not like about this book is that it really works hard to make judging seem like a negative thing. Humans are constantly judging---it is impossible to not. Turning judging into a negative thing, only serves to make people feel bad about doing a very natural thing and it doesn't allow people to have a full range of emotions without feeling guilty. That to me is bad. (that was my judgement about that---see?) Human beings are dynamic. We feel a wide range of emotions. That is life. We have to be open to the bad and the good. (again---I find that to be a judgement as well.)
This quote pretty much sums up this book: (and life in my judgement)
"The mind is its own place, and in itself. Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven" Paradise Lost by John Milton.
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June 5, 2012
Advice geared towards women as to how to live an authentic and spirited life. Has exercises for journaling etc and instructions as to how to form a support group. Nothing earth shattering or new, but a good reminder as to how to be in touch with your values.
January 7, 2014
it was an ok book.
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