Book Reviews By Juul Hochstenbach
The Top 100 Dreams – The Dreams That We All Have And What They Really Mean, by Ian Wallace
Some mornings you wake up feeling a bit silly with flashes of last night’s dream running through your mind. It takes some time to realise it was all just a dream... Or not?
We tend to ignore the content of our dreams. Sometimes they are funny or strange but in general we feel they do not really make sense and probably aren’t important. However, according to Ian Wallace, who is a professional dream psychologist, dreams express elements that can help us to better understand our lives.
In his 30-year career, Ian Wallace has analysed over 100.000 dreams. He noticed that there is a range of dreams that appear over and over again. These 100 most popular dreams, including very useful descriptions and solutions, are all collected in The Top 100 Dreams. Ian explains how knowing their meanings makes it possible to make positive changes to your daily life.
Understanding your own life pattern can help to break through habits and circles, and improve your life. This book helps you to get insight in these patterns by looking at the ‘hidden’ messages that your dreams try to tell you.
Dreams unveil important elements of our waking life: our unconscious feelings and beliefs. Some of our hopes and fears might be hidden for us, intended or not.
Every dream is clearly explained in four different parts: Dream, Meaning, Action and Background. With all dreams Ian starts off with first an outline and description of the dream, and then its meaning is explained, followed by tips what to do to make changes, concluding with some background information about the dream and its connection to our daily life.
Ian Wallace provides great action points that are probably very useful for all dreamers among us. Sweet dreams!
ISBN: 978- 1848503281
Price: £9.99
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The Power of Your Spirit – A Guide to Joyful Living , By Sonia Choquette
Be happy; that is the purpose of life according to the Dalai Lama. Might sound like an easy thing to do. But… when something bad happens, we often let this affect our mood. Why?
According to Sonica Choquette our personal peace does not have to depend on all the things going on around us. By reconnecting to your inner spirit, you will find the strong power to live joyfully every day.
In order to reconnect with your spirit, this book leads you through the following stages: Awakening, Discovery, Surrender and Flow.
At the first stage, the Awakening stage, we are still unconscious, having very little spiritual feelings. The mind and body are in a stressful state, we feel bored, ungrounded and we focus on the outer world instead of our inner self; we seek approval from others.
The second phase, Discovery stage, is recognisable by exhaustion, dissatisfaction and a strong feeling that there has to be more. We feel that all previous attempts for becoming happy have failed.
Stage three, Surrendering, teaches our well-being to trust upon our intuition. This is often what we find difficult because it can feel a bit scary. However, once you come to notice the limitations of the ego, this will motivate to break through the life patterns that currently keep you from living life to the fullest.
Then, the final stage called Flow, represents the state of optimism, gratitude, flexibility and the following of your intuition without fear. You feel protected.
Living in this stage is the goal that we actually should all strive for: to become completely happy and peaceful. It will then become our standard habit to share positive energy with everyone
around us and make the world a much kinder and happier place.
In her book, Sonia Choquette provides a combination of interesting theories, helpful examples and fun exercises.
We cannot control the world around us, but we can definitely control our inner peace. The POWER of Your Spirit could be our guide to joyful living.
ISBN: 978-1848502239 - Price: £9.99 CHOICE POINT MAGAZINE 71
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