Growing the Positive Mind with the Emotional Gym
by Dr. William Kent Larkin
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Author: Dr. William Kent LarkinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-08
ISBN: 1605850179
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Applied Neuroscience Press
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Book Review: A Lay Persons Review of "the (Neuro)science of the secret behind "The Secret"
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is for those of us ... who absolutely "know" the truth of The Secret yet fail to let it work for us ... either easily or consistently.
We are the devoted seekers who have invested and "efforted" much in life to know and "improve" ourselves. We grow and understand more each year! And still battle with ourselves even when we know better?
It's OK and perfect. We have been blessed with breakthroughs, understanding and insights, and have stretched our self awareness. We have continued to evolve with the love, care and commitment of many wonderful educated inspired practitioners of varied incredible modalities.
So why are we not where we want and expect to be by now???
You are right! It absolutely makes no sense!
And the times we actually get "there" ... then we know that we better perform a sacred ceremonial rain dance to try to secure "there".
Then sooner or later "wham" ... frustration with ourselves and again disappointment at best, shame at worst!!
Growing the Positive Mind, speaks specifically to us ... us "on a good day" that are for the most part healthy and who know there is "more and easier"!
With an entertaining fast paced curriculum, backed by empirical proof,
Dr. Larkin, a brilliant and funny neuroscientist/mentor/coach and teacher extraordinaire, shows us the light and how to follow it to the other end of the tunnel! The UpSpiral!
You finally understand it is not your fault and why you have had to fight so diligently to change. Then he shows how, with more ease and grace than you would suspect, we now can gently experience positive change daily.
His simple, yet profound techniques (mentioned eloquently in other reviews) can easily with practice get you to the state of being called Joy ... without needing any exterior conditions to change. And how you can learn to sustain "good feeling states" and build upon them.
Gratefully you will discover that you are primed and closer to "there" than you think. Your essential self has always known that this "there" is the flow. And that we humans were designed to live life in "flow"... the core motivation of our continual seeking.
You learn how to live in an UpSpiral expressing and living more and more from the essential (real) you.
And in spite of all the science you will still have to trust!
Even with libraries full of empirical proof these techniques work without fail ... they will appear to be so elementary that your ego will urgently try to get you to ignore them!
This to the delight of your subconscious who will gladly join in ... "Oh brother ...the Emotional Gym ... how silly ... this is too simple to be any good" etc etc.
Like breathing? So simple, so automatic ... you do it unconsciously all the time. However we are all aware how much deeper and enriching breathing is when practiced consciously and consistently.
This is as easy and as difficult ... to coach yourself to do!
However with Dr. Larkin's brilliance and passion, he will ease you along until, on your own, you always choose feeling good and relishing your choice. And you will learn what to do when you don't choose feeling good.
Learn literally to restructure your brain ... kicking out a life time of thought whose sole purpose is to prove that you have to fight and/or work very hard to find life's natural currents.
Dr. Larkin teaches you with hilarious stories (usually on himself) and exciting leading edge science to gently and easily turn yourself around and catch "your flow" living the life you were always meant to and want to live!
Enjoy ... and I hope you choose to go with the "flow" then share with multitudes!
P.S.
Explore joining the first video broadcast class to be offered September 2008. It amplifies all the nuturing wisdom and techniques offered in this book. Twenty ++ of us were challenged, prodded ... and loved every minute of our 20 week adventure with Dr. Larkin. See web site in the book.
Tanya
Rancho Mirage
California
Summary of Growing the Positive Mind with the Emotional Gym
At the crossroads of applied neuroscience, positive psychology and quantum physics. You don t even have to know what these words mean to read this book, understand it, and make it work in your life. No matter who you are or where you are, 18 to 80, a kid, a searching student, a worker bee, a mom, a dad, a professor, a social worker, a psychologist, a teacher, a worn-out therapist, or a pauper, you can read this book and apply The Emotional Gym to your life. There are 7 promises in this book. Do the simple work the book suggests and all of the promises will be yours, I promise. Start by taking The PM Factor Test The Positive Mind Test. Take the test first, then put it away and read the book and do the work that is outlined here. Why grow a positive mind? You can grow a positive mind. But why want one, you may ask. First of all, if you stay in a positive mind rather than a negative one, you will live longer. People who spend more time in a negative downward spiral than in an upward spiral, are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack. Reason enough? If that is not reason enough, the more significant ones are that when you have a positive mind and when you are growing a positive mind, you get more of what you want. It comes to you more easily and it comes to you more quickly. You are healthier, you solve problems more quickly, you are more creative, you score higher on every test of well-being and life-satisfaction, and you thrive at a cellular level. Reason enough yet? How about seven more promises about the significance of growing a positive mind? These promises are the 7 chapters of Growing a Positive Mind. They are promises to a brighter, happier, more fulfilling, and authentic life. The First Promise (The Emotional Gym) is that you can learn to feel positive emotions, that you can grow positive emotional muscle and that it becomes stronger and stronger. This is the first work-out in the Emotional Gym. As you practice exercising positive emotional muscle and doing the exercises over time your UpSpiral Score, which you keep daily for 90 days will increase and your Emotional Scale Score will also increase. The Second Promise (The UpSpiral) is that you can stay in the UpSpiral of a positive mind 100% of the time and by learning to be there over time, that you can raise your emotional set-point and your happiness set-point. Quite a promise, don t you think? The Third Promise (StrengthSmart) is that you can actually find out what your own personal strengths are and that those strengths are at the core of becoming happier and more content in your life. The Fourth Promise (The VibeCore) is that your VibeCore, which is at the very heart of you, can grow and increase and as it does, you will create and find more of what you want in life. The Fifth Promise (The FuturePac) is that if you follow these directions that you will emerge with a sense of direction and vision for you life. The Sixth Promise (VisioNavigator) is that your vision in life will lead you to a sense of your passion. The Seventh Promise (MasteRevelation) is that your vision will lead you to vital friends and connections that from this synchronicity there emerges revelation When you have finished the book and after you have done some of the work, take The PM Factor Test again. You may send your results into us and we will tell you what they mean from our research and work.Self-Help Books
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