I Decided: How Being Aware of My Thoughts and Emotions Transformed My Life by Wahiba C. Rekkab is a timely addition to any library shelf. Its part memoir, part self-help handbook is its greatest appeal as is its focus on affirmations that are bound to help change where one focuses one’s attention at any given moment.
It’s inspiring and motivational in more ways than you’ll ever know unless you read the lessons this Author lived through to arrive at the place she arrived.
Immediately I felt this individual was all heart for wanting to reach those battling self-doubt and challenges.
In her gentle voice, Author Rekkab recounts her ordeal with an incurable disease which gave rise to various versions of herself. Through her intimate account, the Author invites us into her world, and shares the tools she used—one we all come equipped with but often overlook—to fill her life with hope and spiritual faith and winning a hard battle.
I liked how we come to know this Author through her various acquaintances: her yoga instructor who wrote the Foreword and the many positive reviewers who, besides loving the book also touched on the Author as an individual with a generous heart. And I adored the motivational quotes throughout:
“What if pain and obscurity serve as powerful motivators to push us higher and allow light to shine through us?”
“…hold on to something more significant, more prominent than our fears, and more potent than our doubts.”
I was deeply touched by the second and third parts, titled “Plumbing the Depths of Truth” and “A Daily Handbook for A Positive Life” sections, nodding gladly at how the advice is relevant and actionable in any present moment if we change our mindsets.
Also, the part titled “Wahiba-The Evolution.” Here, the Author explains that her journey to healing is not specific to “healing multiple sclerosis” but is a framework for profound self-awareness along with deep inner healing. I cried in this section. But by the end of the book, I too, was mesmerized once again by the power of the human mind.
In the book, the Author writes that this book “will particularly appeal to migrants and those feeling out of place in their environment.” A keen observation. But aren’t we all a little bit migrants and a little bit out of place? I think this book is for everyone.
climb out of that kind of depressive spiral; look for the light within,
walk the path of healing, find fulfillment and happiness,
trust in the process,
love is a great healer,
I can’t help but agree. I highly recommend this book.