Wayne Walter Dyer was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker. Dyer earned a Bachelor’s degree in History and Philosophy, a Master’s degree in Psychology and an Ed.D. in Guidance and Counseling at Wayne State University in 1970. Early in his career, he worked as a high school guidance counselor, and went on to run a successful private therapy practice. He became a popular professor of counselor education at St. John's University, where he was approached by a literary agent to put his ideas into book form. The result was his first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold. This launched Dyer's career as a motivational speaker and self-help author, during which he published 20 more best-selling books and produced a number of popular specials for PBS. Influenced by thinkers such as Abraham H. Maslow and Albert Ellis, Dyer's early work focused on psychological themes such as motivation, self actualization and assertiveness. By the 1990s, the focus of his work had shifted to spirituality. Inspired by Swami Muktananda and New Thought, he promoted themes such as the "power of intention," collaborated with alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra on a number of projects, and was a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
I enjoyed this practice and I would have given it 4 stars if he hadn't mispronounced or misspoke the word "renounce" on Track 4 at the 6:33 mark. He was doing some affirmations on God and started out with the term: renunciation. Then, he went on to make it a verb as in "renunce," which I don't believe is a word. Up until that point, I was relaxed and into the breathing and vocalizations. After that, it kind of disrupted the flow. Dr. Dyer is great tho. I think I'm going to continue to practice this and just ignore the little mistake in the middle- to be fair its only one small part of a twenty some minute meditation.
This was a short little book for meditating. I've been attempting to mediate since the beginning of the year. Although if I were to mediate to this audiobook I think the "Oms" would have been more distracting for me. I'd like to just hear his thoughts on life and that'd be enough.
This is a very quick listen. It's all about walking your through a meditation to get your going in the morning and then one in the evening to help calm and settle you. He has done research and found sounds and movements that have proven to be helpful in accomplishing the proper meditation. He explains a little of why he is making certain sounds, but the majority of the 1 hour audiobook time is split into doing the 2o minute morning and the 2o minute evening meditation.
Another I am looking for on book on CD; am listening to this twice a day for my (just beginning) of meditation. Kind of a different meditation than what I had thought meditation was; but it suits me perfectly for right now. It's hard for me to clear my mind like the other meditation books talk about. (I keep checking this one out of the different libraries around me.)