How Women Can Develop Their Inner Strengths, Genius, and Intuition

Mona Lisa Schultz, M.D,. Ph.D.

2005
http://www.drmonalisa.com/
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This is a great follow-up on her first book on intuition.  In contrast to the "you are what you eat" approach, Schultz says "you are what you feel," and names her process of recognizing emotions and their effects and taking action to promote what is positive and neutralize what is negative "Emotional Feng Shui."  She has released another book and some CDs since this one, and has moved her practice more and more toward being a "psychic doctor."  

John E Sarno, M.D.
1999
http://www.healingbackpain.com/
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This is a very effective book to read if you are suffering from back pain or other chronic pain conditions.

You Can Heal Your Life
Louise L. Hay
1984
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I finally read this classic, having been prejudiced against it by the "new age industry" that is churning out motivational books by the carload, including her Hay House publishing company. In looking at world history and contemporary human behavior, there does not seem to be a shred of evidence that we are all magically progressing toward universal enlightenment. On the contrary. Reading any newspaper will demonstrate that humans still regularly behave toward each other with zero compassion and often gratuitous cruelty in the personal, social, business, political and especially the religious context. It takes real insight and desire to overcome these tendencies that exist in all of us.

However, after reading it, I had to revise my opinion about her approach.

Featuring Louise Hay, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Gregg Braden, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Esther and Jerry Hicks, Cheryl Richardson, and Dr. Mona Lisa Shultz, among others.

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This film is quite well-made. It avoids the supercharged tackiness of The Secret, but does a good job of presenting the concepts of the Law of Attraction and the use of affirmations. The best thing about the film is to see healing pioneer Louise Hay now celebrating her 80th year, looking gorgeous and full of vitality, speaking simply and modestly, and I swear not wearing a bra! I especially liked the presentation of her loving and hopeful work with young gay men with AIDS at the very beginning of the epidemic, before anyone knew anything about the syndrome.

The New Mood Therapy: Clinically Proven Drug-Free Therapy for Depression

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The explanation and exercises contained in this book comprise a therapeutic treatment that has been demonstrated in clinical trials to work as well as antidepressants against depression, with zero dangerous side effects, even without the help of a therapist. In other words, a person who feels plagued by negative attitudes or feels depressed and unhappy and wants to do something about it can change her state of mind simply by reading and understanding this book. . .

How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D.

1990, 1998
http://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

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yes is a word
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

e.e. cummings, “love is a place,” No Thanks (1935)