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Power of the Soul: Inside Wisdom for an Outside World
This fascinating book gives you the tools to help tap into one of the most powerful forces in the Universe -YOUR SOUL. This is a step by step guide to help you reconnect with your natural spiritual abilities. You’ll develop a conscious awareness of the spiritual laws that exists in each and every person. “Power of the Soul” will help you to dismantle some of the barriers created by your outer-self, to unveil your true inner-self and enable you to break free from some of the psychological restrictions that have prevented you from identifying and realizing your full potential.
Within these pages you’ll learn how to:
· Discover and access your spiritual faculties
· Open yourself to a guiding higher consciousness
· Tap in to your own intuitive abilities
· Remove psychological and spiritual blocks
· Find your true self as you understand the nature, function, and purpose of the soul
· Create and control your own path
· Use spiritual energy to heal yourself and others
· Enhance your body, mind, and soul to live a life of harmony
This transformational book is more than just a guide. It is also a way back to a life lived from the inside out. No matter what your walk of life, this book will help you to follow your own spiritual journey. “When you tap into the incredible force and power of your soul, and once your spiritual gifts are recognized, opened and used,” says John, “you’ll see yourself and the world in a way you never thought possible.”
Within these pages you’ll learn how to:
· Discover and access your spiritual faculties
· Open yourself to a guiding higher consciousness
· Tap in to your own intuitive abilities
· Remove psychological and spiritual blocks
· Find your true self as you understand the nature, function, and purpose of the soul
· Create and control your own path
· Use spiritual energy to heal yourself and others
· Enhance your body, mind, and soul to live a life of harmony
This transformational book is more than just a guide. It is also a way back to a life lived from the inside out. No matter what your walk of life, this book will help you to follow your own spiritual journey. “When you tap into the incredible force and power of your soul, and once your spiritual gifts are recognized, opened and used,” says John, “you’ll see yourself and the world in a way you never thought possible.”
- GenresSpiritualityNonfiction
205 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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220 people want to read
About the author
John Holland
143 books47 followersJohn Holland is an internationally renowned psychic medium and spiritual teacher. He has been lecturing, teaching, demonstrating, and reading for private clients for over 17 years. He's dedicated to the ongoing development of his unique gift and brings real integrity to his profession. John says, "If I can help people connect with someone on the other side, and bring peace, comfort, and perhaps some closure, then I've done my job."
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September 1, 2016
When I saw this book recommended by one of my book club members (Thanks Julie!), I was attracted to it because of its subtitle: "Inside Wisdom for an Outside World" which is similar to one of my own taglines ("Change your outer world with your Inner Wisdom") on my newsletters. John Holland is a psychic medium, and although this book doesn't talk about those means and methods, we can sense that respect for the soul in the entire book. The author also seems very respectful and caring about his clients and readers, when he narrates many examples and stories in relation to the topics he talks about in this book - I especially liked the chapter called Breaking Free, about overcoming fears and anxieties by cutting the energy cords that bind us. I also appreciated his attitude of a student, sharing with us about his Eastern teachers and traditions that he learned from, after he acknowledged his gift of psychic seeing.
If you're interested in spirituality, philosophy, yoga, etc., join my Old Souls Book Club (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...) for other recommendations and thought-provoking conversations!
If you're interested in spirituality, philosophy, yoga, etc., join my Old Souls Book Club (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...) for other recommendations and thought-provoking conversations!
April 19, 2025
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. UNDERSTANDING THE SOUL:
- Soul is consciousness.
- Spirit is the life force, the vital energy that animates us all.
- Journal daily to relish time with yourself.
- Capture your spiritual progress and record the patterns weaving in and around your life.
- Keep track of synchronicity and intuitive impressions. - Start a list of what you’re grateful for in your life.
- You’ll feel spirit moving within you and guiding you.
The real you will begin to emerge.
- Your thoughts will take on greater clarity.
- Your particular talents and abilities are meant to help you be happy, enjoy life, achieve your true potential as a spiritual being.
- People who don’t embrace their purpose will often take jobs for the safety and security of a regular paycheck.
2. ACKNOWLEDGING THE SOURCE:
- Be thankful for who and what’s in your life, instead of complaining about what you don’t have.
- If you focus on gratitude, you’ll attract prosperity and abundance.
- Helping those around you is what living from your soul is all about.
- Just as it’s important to give, you have to be ready to receive.
- It’s not about luck: it’s about how and why you’re attracting such conditions in your life.
3. UNFOLDMENT OF YOUR SOUL SENSE:
- we have the natural capacity to tap into our intuitive psychic abilities.
- Responsible for helping ourselves.
- Trust: have faith in yourself and believe that you’re entitled to live intuitively and psychically.
- When you’re constantly reaching out to achieve more and more, it’s easy to slip further away from the spark of your life force, and our soul may wonder if it’s original track.
- The upper or higher chakra still with all psychic abilities and spiritual gifts.
4. POWER OF LOVE:
- The heart center can be filled with so much joy and happiness, since your feelings flow through it.
- Every relationship is in an opportunity for soul growth.
- The learning process is all part of guiding you in the direction of where you’re supposed to be.
- The purpose of not speaking to anyone, which is a form of solitude, is to let our minds bring up thoughts without paying attention to them as we let them come and go.
- If you practice these quiet times, you’ll find that the hold that your mind has over you will diminish.
- When you stop for a moment without all the distractions, you’ll have time to reflect on the individuals and situations in your life and how you feel about them.
5. HEALER WITHIN:
- To start any healing process, you have to let go of any old, limiting beliefs in your mind as well as your soul.
- Peel away the layers of your limitations.
- Loving yourself, as well as others can be a powerful force.
- Having an upbeat attitude does work.
- Your body has a way of sending you signals through its own intuitive language.
- When you pray, you connect.
- The benefits are extra extraordinary as the surge of energy permits your body, and the feeling of pure joy fills your heart.
- Begin noticing how your prayer requests are being fulfilled.
- To begin the practice of forgiveness, you must let go of negative emotions within yourself that are holding you prisoner. - Encourage yourself by changing your approach and outlook.
6. TURNING PAST INTO A BRIDGE FOR THE FUTURE:
- When you make time to explore and heal your different viewpoints and belief systems, you’ll have a stronger stand against the insecurity, stemming from your ego, self, giving your soul opportunity to move forward and sore to new heights.
- Worry is an extension of fear and could be a shattering blow to your personal and spiritual development.
- You possess one soul and one life in this body. You embark on a path of endless opportunities that serve your highest good.
- Some people think that’s worrying over things will somehow protect them or prepare them for the unexpected. When you worry, it interrupts your natural rhythm.
- When you worry, you’re demonstrating a lacked of trust in God, the divine source.
- Trust that God is working to help you all the time.
- Don’t let anxiety take over your entire thinking process.
- Worry breeds worry
- All I can do is my best, so let go of the outcome.
- Worry can close down our creative abilities.
- If you’re going to lead an expansive and soul filled life, then part of the process of breaking free is to learn to stop boring.
- By working on ourselves, we nourishing the overall positive consciousness of the world that were all connected to.
- People who worry usually remember their failures rather than their successes.
- People with too much time on their hands will often spend it feeling anxious.
- Change your mental programming.
- Be your own spiritual coach and support yourself with positive affirmations.
- Get out of the house and connect with nature as often as you can.
- Replace perfectionism with permission to be human.
- When you worry, you tend to imagine the worst thing that could happen.
- Imagine the best thing that could happen turn it around.
- You must recognize and become aware of the negative behavior patterns in your life so that you can process and correct them.
- People will always have an opinion, but it’s theirs, not yours. The only person who really knows you is you.
- Journal your errors, what you learned from them, and what steps you took.
- Feedour soul with positive energy of renewed self improvement.
- Guilt is highly destructive as it can eat away your soul and robust of our spirit force.
7. JOURNEY OF THE SOUL:
- Your soul knows what it needs to evolve and will continue to steer you in the direction that it wants for its highest good.
- The soul is like a powerful magnet, continually drawing in the conditions that it needs in order to learn, thrive, and evolve.
- Trust that your soul knows what’s best as your journey unfolds.
- You’re the total accumulation of all your learning through different lifetimes, and these experiences create the history of your soul.
- Life Review: Every interaction is experienced all over again, but this time you’re on the receiving end. You become your own judge and jury.
- When you hurt someone, you’re hurting yourself.
- Learn, grow, and honor your pain.
- Wake-up Call: When we don’t heed our intuition, the language of the soul, or when obvious synchronicity aren’t grabbing our attention, will receive a wake up call from the soul.
- Wake up calls aren’t intended to be punishments, they’re meant for you to immediately stop and look at your life.
- The divine source is always looking out for you, and it makes every attempt to keep you moving forward on your soul journey.
8. SOUL LIVING:
- Everything you do in your life can be spiritual. How you treat yourself, others, and the Earth.
- A mentor never offered the answers, but instead would empower me to reach inside and get them for myself.
- As a soul, you’re quite capable of manifesting your own reality and your own future.
- Choose wisely and the regrets will be few.
- Soul Shine: the energetic power of manifesting throughout someone’s being.
1. UNDERSTANDING THE SOUL:
- Soul is consciousness.
- Spirit is the life force, the vital energy that animates us all.
- Journal daily to relish time with yourself.
- Capture your spiritual progress and record the patterns weaving in and around your life.
- Keep track of synchronicity and intuitive impressions. - Start a list of what you’re grateful for in your life.
- You’ll feel spirit moving within you and guiding you.
The real you will begin to emerge.
- Your thoughts will take on greater clarity.
- Your particular talents and abilities are meant to help you be happy, enjoy life, achieve your true potential as a spiritual being.
- People who don’t embrace their purpose will often take jobs for the safety and security of a regular paycheck.
2. ACKNOWLEDGING THE SOURCE:
- Be thankful for who and what’s in your life, instead of complaining about what you don’t have.
- If you focus on gratitude, you’ll attract prosperity and abundance.
- Helping those around you is what living from your soul is all about.
- Just as it’s important to give, you have to be ready to receive.
- It’s not about luck: it’s about how and why you’re attracting such conditions in your life.
3. UNFOLDMENT OF YOUR SOUL SENSE:
- we have the natural capacity to tap into our intuitive psychic abilities.
- Responsible for helping ourselves.
- Trust: have faith in yourself and believe that you’re entitled to live intuitively and psychically.
- When you’re constantly reaching out to achieve more and more, it’s easy to slip further away from the spark of your life force, and our soul may wonder if it’s original track.
- The upper or higher chakra still with all psychic abilities and spiritual gifts.
4. POWER OF LOVE:
- The heart center can be filled with so much joy and happiness, since your feelings flow through it.
- Every relationship is in an opportunity for soul growth.
- The learning process is all part of guiding you in the direction of where you’re supposed to be.
- The purpose of not speaking to anyone, which is a form of solitude, is to let our minds bring up thoughts without paying attention to them as we let them come and go.
- If you practice these quiet times, you’ll find that the hold that your mind has over you will diminish.
- When you stop for a moment without all the distractions, you’ll have time to reflect on the individuals and situations in your life and how you feel about them.
5. HEALER WITHIN:
- To start any healing process, you have to let go of any old, limiting beliefs in your mind as well as your soul.
- Peel away the layers of your limitations.
- Loving yourself, as well as others can be a powerful force.
- Having an upbeat attitude does work.
- Your body has a way of sending you signals through its own intuitive language.
- When you pray, you connect.
- The benefits are extra extraordinary as the surge of energy permits your body, and the feeling of pure joy fills your heart.
- Begin noticing how your prayer requests are being fulfilled.
- To begin the practice of forgiveness, you must let go of negative emotions within yourself that are holding you prisoner. - Encourage yourself by changing your approach and outlook.
6. TURNING PAST INTO A BRIDGE FOR THE FUTURE:
- When you make time to explore and heal your different viewpoints and belief systems, you’ll have a stronger stand against the insecurity, stemming from your ego, self, giving your soul opportunity to move forward and sore to new heights.
- Worry is an extension of fear and could be a shattering blow to your personal and spiritual development.
- You possess one soul and one life in this body. You embark on a path of endless opportunities that serve your highest good.
- Some people think that’s worrying over things will somehow protect them or prepare them for the unexpected. When you worry, it interrupts your natural rhythm.
- When you worry, you’re demonstrating a lacked of trust in God, the divine source.
- Trust that God is working to help you all the time.
- Don’t let anxiety take over your entire thinking process.
- Worry breeds worry
- All I can do is my best, so let go of the outcome.
- Worry can close down our creative abilities.
- If you’re going to lead an expansive and soul filled life, then part of the process of breaking free is to learn to stop boring.
- By working on ourselves, we nourishing the overall positive consciousness of the world that were all connected to.
- People who worry usually remember their failures rather than their successes.
- People with too much time on their hands will often spend it feeling anxious.
- Change your mental programming.
- Be your own spiritual coach and support yourself with positive affirmations.
- Get out of the house and connect with nature as often as you can.
- Replace perfectionism with permission to be human.
- When you worry, you tend to imagine the worst thing that could happen.
- Imagine the best thing that could happen turn it around.
- You must recognize and become aware of the negative behavior patterns in your life so that you can process and correct them.
- People will always have an opinion, but it’s theirs, not yours. The only person who really knows you is you.
- Journal your errors, what you learned from them, and what steps you took.
- Feedour soul with positive energy of renewed self improvement.
- Guilt is highly destructive as it can eat away your soul and robust of our spirit force.
7. JOURNEY OF THE SOUL:
- Your soul knows what it needs to evolve and will continue to steer you in the direction that it wants for its highest good.
- The soul is like a powerful magnet, continually drawing in the conditions that it needs in order to learn, thrive, and evolve.
- Trust that your soul knows what’s best as your journey unfolds.
- You’re the total accumulation of all your learning through different lifetimes, and these experiences create the history of your soul.
- Life Review: Every interaction is experienced all over again, but this time you’re on the receiving end. You become your own judge and jury.
- When you hurt someone, you’re hurting yourself.
- Learn, grow, and honor your pain.
- Wake-up Call: When we don’t heed our intuition, the language of the soul, or when obvious synchronicity aren’t grabbing our attention, will receive a wake up call from the soul.
- Wake up calls aren’t intended to be punishments, they’re meant for you to immediately stop and look at your life.
- The divine source is always looking out for you, and it makes every attempt to keep you moving forward on your soul journey.
8. SOUL LIVING:
- Everything you do in your life can be spiritual. How you treat yourself, others, and the Earth.
- A mentor never offered the answers, but instead would empower me to reach inside and get them for myself.
- As a soul, you’re quite capable of manifesting your own reality and your own future.
- Choose wisely and the regrets will be few.
- Soul Shine: the energetic power of manifesting throughout someone’s being.
November 11, 2025
Lots of good information
I've read all of this author's books and with each one I've learned something new. I used to be a medium and turned it off for the simple fact of survival. Had I had the information in this book 30 plus years ago, I may not have needed to turn off the ability.
The information contained in this book is helpful as you begin to develop your skills and your abilities, even if it's just your intuition. Going through the simple exercises is very helpful. Learning from others when they talk about the things they did as they were beginning to develop their intuition and mediumship skills because those simple life lessons will be a great benefit.
If you find yourself growing and you need a teacher as the author said, find a qualified teacher. Find somebody who's going to really help you. I'm just re-beginning my path as a medium and I'm going to follow what the author has put in this book. I highly encourage my friends to read this book.
There are a lot of people claiming to be many things in the world today and I advise caution. I know this author knows what they're talking about as to many other authors and courses on Hay House in Sounds True.
I've read all of this author's books and with each one I've learned something new. I used to be a medium and turned it off for the simple fact of survival. Had I had the information in this book 30 plus years ago, I may not have needed to turn off the ability.
The information contained in this book is helpful as you begin to develop your skills and your abilities, even if it's just your intuition. Going through the simple exercises is very helpful. Learning from others when they talk about the things they did as they were beginning to develop their intuition and mediumship skills because those simple life lessons will be a great benefit.
If you find yourself growing and you need a teacher as the author said, find a qualified teacher. Find somebody who's going to really help you. I'm just re-beginning my path as a medium and I'm going to follow what the author has put in this book. I highly encourage my friends to read this book.
There are a lot of people claiming to be many things in the world today and I advise caution. I know this author knows what they're talking about as to many other authors and courses on Hay House in Sounds True.
May 17, 2024
"Power of the Soul" encourages readers to trust their intuition, follow their heart's desires, and embrace their unique gifts and talents. It teaches how to overcome obstacles, cultivate resilience, and create positive change from within.
Overall, the book serves as a guide for navigating the challenges of the modern world with clarity, courage, and compassion, drawing upon the timeless wisdom of the soul.
Overall, the book serves as a guide for navigating the challenges of the modern world with clarity, courage, and compassion, drawing upon the timeless wisdom of the soul.
January 29, 2024
Awesome book
This is an amazing book with lots of spiritual insights to learn. The author writes as if he's sitting there next to you & you're having a conversation. I highly recommend this book if you need to reconnect with your soul & divine purpose.
This is an amazing book with lots of spiritual insights to learn. The author writes as if he's sitting there next to you & you're having a conversation. I highly recommend this book if you need to reconnect with your soul & divine purpose.
December 1, 2017
Highly recommended!
Very inspiring book to live a more fullfilled life. There is a lot to ponder over and I will definitly read it a few times and come back to it often.
Very inspiring book to live a more fullfilled life. There is a lot to ponder over and I will definitly read it a few times and come back to it often.
January 13, 2019
Beautifully written, insightful, poetic and enlightening.
January 17, 2020
Very informative
Great read, very informative on the soul and how to connect within. I would recommend to those looking for exercises to boost your spiritual level.
Great read, very informative on the soul and how to connect within. I would recommend to those looking for exercises to boost your spiritual level.
April 7, 2020
This book had so much information that I had to read it twice! Definitely a keeper.
June 19, 2020
Great information. I'll be going back to this book over and over again whenever I feel the need for it.
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August 5, 2011If you have ever read any metaphysical books, that have dealt with positive thinking, or psychic gifts, then this will not be something new, but if it has been a while since you have explored either, then this is worth pursuing especially if you are questioning your own path or journey in life. I used his analogy of physical self, spirit self and soul self recently for an educational group with women who are dealing with addictions. It was a really good discussion on what the soul means, what it is and what it is not. " Imagine an automobile of your choice. The outside or shell of the car is your physical body; the driver is your soul, steering the vehicle in different directions and destinations; and the gas that fuels the vehicle is your spirit. The Divine force of spirit is what infuses and feeds your soul, pushing you ever forward to strive to be all that you are an all that you could hope to be in this life." Something to ponder.. I always thought the soul is what infuses the spirit.
July 24, 2016
I felt that this book was written with so much love for the reader. As I was reading it and he is writing about how to get in touch with your Soul, it's like grandma's apple pie...how you can taste the love in grandma's cooking, that's how I felt about this book. He's not just throwing a bunch of stuff at you and saying "learn", he's coaching you, I don't know how else to say it, you can tell it is his greatest intention in this book to help you / me to get in touch with your Soul. I appreciate the guidance he has given. I haven't read any of his other books (yet) but if this is any telling, he is a generous writer and I am grateful for the recommendation and thankful for John for having written it.
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March 20, 2010Book that is inspiring,possitive and teaching us how to take control over our lives through knowing our inner self...
Book that changed my life...XDDDDD
Book that changed my life...XDDDDD
April 26, 2010
Inspiring and also provides many meditations and affirmations.
August 28, 2011
Good read :)
April 14, 2012
A very inspiring & thought provoking book, which highlights the importance of positivity & being true to your soul.
March 25, 2013
An amazing book which will guide you on your way to your true self, your soul.
My first introduction to the infinite possibilities which each one of us hold ^ ^
Highly recommend!
My first introduction to the infinite possibilities which each one of us hold ^ ^
Highly recommend!
January 15, 2016
a must buy for my collection <3
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