YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE -(Review)-Jimmu Joseph 5014

Book Review

"If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed".   - Louise L.Hay
'A thought can change yourself '  that is what came into my mind while reading this inspirational book titled 'YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE' written by Louise L Hay. In this work the author gives insight into the relationship between the mind and the body. It gives awareness of the impact that mind has on our health and well being.
 Louise L Hay is a lecturer and teacher and the bestselling  author of 27 books. She has helped millions to heal their life. Exploring the way that limiting thoughts and ideas control and constrict us, she offers us a powerful key to understanding the roots of our physical diseases and discomforts.

A thought can cure illnesses , disease or it can eat your life. It is on our thoughts the future depends . Therefore our thoughts should be free from negativity such as resentment, criticism, guilt and fear or it will end up in caught with diseases. Her key message in You Can Heal Your Life is this "if we are willing to do the mental works almost anything can be healed". I truly believe in this statement. We all can change
ourselves if we are ready to do so. She has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing. She says that every disease has a mental cause. If we are ready to do mental work we can cure easily from diseases. The course in miracles says "disease comes from a state of unforgiveness ". What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us . Every thoughts we think is creating our  future.

Within the book there is a section which includes an alphabetical chart of different ailments and their probable metaphysical causes and healing affirmations to help you heal. This book inspires us to have a positive outlook of ourselves. Which begins from the realisation that the point of power is always in the present moment. All the events that you have experienced in life is all past, it is over and done with. What is important in this moment is what you are choosing to think and believe right now.
Self approval and self acceptance in the now are the main keys positive changes in every area of our lives. Loving our self means loving the way we are, never ever comparing ourselves with other,forgiving others.

This book will help you to  in build positive way of thinking and to do a mental evaluation of ourselves and  to live  the present in a positive way without  regretting the past...


      "Power is on the present moment"

" In the infinity of life where I am ,all is                  perfect, whole, and complete .
I believe in a power far greater than I am that flows through me every moment of everyday . I open myself to the wisdom within, knowing that there is only one intelligence in this universe. out of this one intelligence comes all the answers, all the solutions, all the healings, all the new creations.  I trust this power and intelligence,knowing that whatever I need comes to me  in the right time,space, and sequence. 
                   All is well in my world."

The Postconventional personality-BOOK REVIEW-Rahul Babu 5024

     THE POSTCONVENTIONAL
                              PERSONALITY.......
                                 

This edited book on the farthest reaches of adult holistic development includes a brief introduction and 13 diverse and separately authored chapters. These are of digestible length and comprise the 232 pages of substantive text, not counting references, index, and other welcomed scholarly assists. The book’s diversity is reflected in the authors’ position titles. Eight chapters include an author who holds a faculty position in a department of psychology, four include an author who is extensively employed as a leadership/management consultant, and six include an author who holds a position title related to integral studies or the study of consciousness.

The introduction surveys Loevinger’s ego stages in relation to Susanne Cook-Greuter’s extension of these stages and usefully provides a concordance of revised ego stage names that chapter authors have used in their adaptations of her measure. The book is then divided into three broad sections: (a) assessment issues, (b) emerging research, and (c) theories of postconventional development. These sections are indeed topics in the book, but also chapters typically are broader than the sections to which they are assigned. The order of chapters worked well for me, with the notable exception of the placement of chapter 2, which disrupted my tracking the assessment issues that flow from chapter 1 to chapters 3 and 4.

The book was originally conceived as a Festschrift to Jane Loevinger in recognition of her work in founding a scientifically productive theory of ego development, but that is only one point of reference that links the chapters. Nonetheless, the book’s opening attention to issues in assessing higher level ego functioning reassuringly connected me with her regulatory ideals for rigor and clear thinking or explicitly offered another perspective on these ideals. In chapter 1, Angela Pfaffenberger reviews the validity of Loevinger’s Sentence Completion Test (SCT). She empirically addresses how its adaptation into the Harthill Leadership Development Profile (LDP) yields somewhat lower estimates of ego level and observes that the two scoring systems may not be equivalent measures of advanced ego development, though they overlap. In chapter 4, Cook-Greuter summarizes the extensive data base of sentence completion protocols that has supported her identification of a 10th stage of ego development. Her main focus is on her rationale and standards for revisions of the SCT and on her various and evolving assessment purposes, which she has pursued in collaboration with others. Both of these chapters are informative and treat traditional assessment concerns with sufficient respect. Because I was well alerted to measurement issues that were afoot, I was ready as a reader to expect and look for empirical groundings in the book’s chapters and was less troubled when these were not as apparent or in the form I preferred.

Integral Leadership Review readers will appreciate that many of the chapters are positioned in relation to Ken Wilber’s integral theory and/or to the wisdom traditions of Eastern philosophy, which in substance seemed to be referenced as frequently as the developmental psychologists who more typically define the field of ego development in academia. There is an intellectual heft and even satisfying wholeness to this book that belies its small size and the wide diversity of the authors’ perspectives and backgrounds. The explicit binding focus is what the editors perhaps reluctantly settled on calling in the book’s title, the postconventional personality. A more descriptive term for the abiding focus might be, the postconventional self, which Jack Bauer uses in the title of his chapter. Perhaps this alternative title felt relatively discordant to those who reference the transcendence of the ego as the teleological end-point of spiritual or integral development. Of course, the term self (or its more formal cognate, ego) is perilously ambiguous in any tradition without clear reference. Moreover, in popular imagination, its connotations are drawn from the lower stages of ego development. And yet, it also seems indispensable if I am to use a single term to describe the center of gravity of this book, which is the various ways of being-in-the-world that are self-reflexively distinct from merely received societal conventions for construing purpose and meaning. For most of the authors, the termpostconventional self references ego development that is at or beyond Loevinger’s individualist stage, which in the book’s concordance is stage 7. But also, the broad categorical naming of the self of the highest stages may be further distinguished.

There is a general consensus among authors on the need to distinguish structural development of the ego, as a way of being in the world, from more ephemeral states of peak awareness. Indeed, this distinction between advanced structural development and heightened moments of consciousness is one of the thematic threads of the book. Chapter authors most often make the distinction in relation to the Wilber-Combs lattice and, more generally, integral theory, where concordances between levels of awareness and stages of ego development have been postulated.

On the one hand, the lattice posits that levels of awareness states (as defined in Eastern traditions) are, in some formal sense, concordant with stages of ego development. On the other, the lattice’s function within integral theory is to represent empirical discordances between a state of awareness and a stage of development so that these discordances can be theoretically leveraged or addressed. This is not an idle concern for integral theorists

The Power of Positive Thinking - Review

Anju Shibi 

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THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

                         -Norman Vincent Peale

 

The Power of Positive Thinking is a famous inspirational book written by Norman Vincent Peale. He is a 20^th century writer. He was the pastor at Marble Collegiate Church for over 52 years. He and his wife, Ruth, founded the Guideposts magazine in 1945. Peale’s life was subject to a movie named as ‘One Man’s Way’ in 1964. He was also one among the world’s most recognized motivational speakers at that time.

The main theme of this book is faith in oneself. Without faith in ourselves we will be a big zero. Faith is the first step towards success. This will allow good things to happen. The book acts as a guide to enhance our self esteem and thus conquer success. He coined the idea of the book from his own life experience. He understood that it was his inferiority complex that held him back. As a result he now preached about the need of having a positive attitude which will lead to success. Our inferiorities will not take us anywhere. We should be bold enough to face the challenges of life. Through his book he tries to highlight prayer as the greatest energy in the universe and the link between people’s thoughts, feelings and actions. He also says that perseverance is the key to success.  This book, definitely, is a perfect motivator that will boost the self confidence in you.