Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life - Softcover

Holden, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340716886 ISBN 13: 9780340716885

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2000

Synopsis

SHIFT HAPPENS! is a book about 'more': more love, more joy, more prosperity, more time and more fun!
Happiness guru Robert Holden identifies the most common 'unconscious' conspiracies that hold us back in life. Focusing on the 'five muscles' that need building up to do this - Perception, Beliefs, Thoughts, Words and Action - he shows that in order to change ourselves and accept external changes, we need to be as positive and proactive as possible.
Written in short essays and drawing on entertaining and inspiring anecdotes, stories, poems and affirmations, SHIFT HAPPENS is a highly practical book that will give us the tools to withstand and encourage every shift in our lives.

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Review:

Psychotherapist and TV-featured business coach Robert Holden believes that you can shift your life if you learn to open up, let go of old baggage and are prepared to go all out for in-depth happiness. His incisive book aims to show you how, with examples and case studies.

Fear lies behind every stress, angst and anxiety. "At a certain level there are no problems, only fear; there is no illness, only fear; there are no conflicts, only fear and there is no devil, only fear. Heal the fear and you rediscover your freedom", he says. And the way to clear your life of fear, he suggests, is to confront it by aiming for higher thought and God's help. So who or what is God? Although contemptuous of "churchianity" Holden often advises turning to God who, he says, does not believe in atheists. "God is your immeasurable Self--your unconditional 'you.' When you reach to God you are simply reaching to the highest in yourself", declares Holden.

Like the proverbial optimist whose glass is half full, not half empty, Holden argues that there are no problems only opportunities. He also insists that both sacrifice ("martyrdom always ends in tears") and independence ("'I' strain") are obstacles to happiness. An independent person is too scared to ask for help and fears intimacy. A checklist enables the reader to see whether s/he is dysfunctionally independent on Holden's terms.

Subtitled "Powerful Ways to Transform your Life", this is a sharply written, exceptionally readable book, organised in short sections. It is, however, inspirational rather than practical. Few would be strong enough to achieve much of what Holden advocates without face-to-face help. --Susan Elkin

Review:

'I love this book! If you want to embrace a more powerful and fulfilling way of being in this world, then immerse yourself in Happiness Now!' (Susan Jeffers on Happiness Now!)

'Read Hello Happiness. It is full of gems, pearls, sparkle and wonder. A true gift and portable friend' (Paul Wilson, author of The Little Book of Calm)

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0340716886
• ISBN 13: 9780340716885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256