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40 Days and 40 Nights: Taking Time Out for Self-Discovery
From the best-selling coauthor of the List Your Self series, 40 Days and 40 Nights is a guided journal of self-inquiry and personal discovery based on a symbolic 40-day period.
There is something sacred and profound about the number 40. In ancient texts, it is revered as the length of time required for enacting lasting change.
This interactive journal will help you to dedicate an inspired time and space for conscious growth. It begins with identifying and clarifying your intention for the excursion. What do you want to accomplish or discover? No matter what your intention, whether it be to end a stagnant relationship or to find your true life's calling, the 40 days will act as a vital container as you go about your normal life with more awareness and commitment. Each day includes simple, yet insightful activities and stories, as well as thoughtful journaling prompts focused on specific topics to help you along your journey. There are also blank journaling pages designed to record the physical part of this spiritual journey. Once the 40 days are complete, you can reenter the world and make the most of what you've discovered during this special period. Segalove's accessible step-by-step framework provides an uplifting odyssey, one that will enliven the way you connect with yourself, with others, and with the rest of your life.
There is something sacred and profound about the number 40. In ancient texts, it is revered as the length of time required for enacting lasting change.
This interactive journal will help you to dedicate an inspired time and space for conscious growth. It begins with identifying and clarifying your intention for the excursion. What do you want to accomplish or discover? No matter what your intention, whether it be to end a stagnant relationship or to find your true life's calling, the 40 days will act as a vital container as you go about your normal life with more awareness and commitment. Each day includes simple, yet insightful activities and stories, as well as thoughtful journaling prompts focused on specific topics to help you along your journey. There are also blank journaling pages designed to record the physical part of this spiritual journey. Once the 40 days are complete, you can reenter the world and make the most of what you've discovered during this special period. Segalove's accessible step-by-step framework provides an uplifting odyssey, one that will enliven the way you connect with yourself, with others, and with the rest of your life.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2004
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September 24, 2008
This book is absolutely amazing. I believe it is so great b/c it just makes you take time to stop and think. Most of what makes a person grow and achieve inner peace and success is just paying attention to your actions and reactions. I REALLY believe in stopping an taking time out for the little things in life. Stopping to smell the roses or looking at the ripples in the pond, even listening to the things from ones day.
This book helps those who may get stuck with anything from passing a test in school, to getting over a broken heart. NO it does not fix these things or give you a magic answer, but what it does is it helps you CLEAR your mind and space and really get FOCUSED or even GET UN FOCUSED if that is what you need. It helps you find a place to help you achieve a personal goal you may have by NOT focusing all your efforts on it at all instead approaching it from a much calmer place where things are more easy to just click. It really is a weird thing to try an explain b/c this really differs based on the person an your personal goals, beliefs, and commitment.
This book helps those who may get stuck with anything from passing a test in school, to getting over a broken heart. NO it does not fix these things or give you a magic answer, but what it does is it helps you CLEAR your mind and space and really get FOCUSED or even GET UN FOCUSED if that is what you need. It helps you find a place to help you achieve a personal goal you may have by NOT focusing all your efforts on it at all instead approaching it from a much calmer place where things are more easy to just click. It really is a weird thing to try an explain b/c this really differs based on the person an your personal goals, beliefs, and commitment.
February 21, 2008
Ilene guide us to a great "journey" in our wondering mind and soul to seek new enlightments for this life -something that we usually been taken granted of- and see things in different perspectives. Good to release dull, boredom, anxiety and depression. Find your own truth and meaning with this book!
May 11, 2009
It's always nice to have new journal prompts inciting ways to look at your life. This book provides just that.....it is easy to follow without having to take everything so seriously and does not take much time. The main theme is to just stop and slow down just enough to "see".
March 1, 2015
I absolutely love this book. I have recommended it to many friends and family. I have done this book 2 times and purchased my 3 copy. Every few years I do it to help me on new emotional journeys. It is easy and self guided so you have help.
January 25, 2008
Great way to journal and notice things happening in your life that you never noticed before
November 19, 2011
Not that great and some of the activities were really weird.
August 6, 2011
I found value in this for the first 20 days, but then the exercises became tedious and I lost interest.
April 23, 2016
This book inspired me to write, write and write some more.
August 1, 2016
Awesome book
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