Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

Let me start by saying, I'm not a big fan of self help books. I've read a few in my life that had interesting and helpful points, but wading through the unrealistically positive twaddle is hard to take. This book was very different. She gets right to the heart of human nature and paints a beautiful picture of the path to recovery from the human condition.

If you are introspective and want to grow, read this and you'll be glad you did. If you aren't introspective, you probably need to read it even more, and your life will be significantly enhanced. :-)

The scientific foundation of the book could have easily stood on its own, but I really appreciated her including intuition. Some times the reading went a little slow, seeming to belabor a show more point, but I appreciated this on the segments covering what I most needed to improve. It got the point across. show less

Let me start by saying, I'm not a big fan of self help books. I've read a few in my life that had interesting and helpful points, but wading through the unrealistically positive twaddle is hard to take. This book was very different. She gets right to the heart of human nature and paints a beautiful picture of the path to recovery from the human condition.

If you are introspective and want to grow, read this and you'll be glad you did. If you aren't introspective, you probably need to read it even more, and your life will be significantly enhanced. :-)

The scientific foundation of the book could have easily stood on its own, but I really appreciated her including intuition. Some times the reading went a little slow, seeming to belabor a show more point, but I appreciated this on the segments covering what I most needed to improve. It got the point across. show less

I agree with previous reviewers who said (paraphrased)--"Yes, but the point is that someone who is emotionally stuck doesn't know how to do what this author suggests." I did get that vibe from this book more than once and it was one of the reasons it made it to my "didn't finish wall of shame" list.

Yet that doesn't make the content unusable.

The author is a practicing psychiatrist who, from my reading, knows that what she's describing takes time and is a lifelong process.

Sometimes the best value of a book is as a primer. It may not change drastically change my life right away, but as it marinates in the back of my mind...

Maybe that's where all the magic happens anyway--in the background where I don't THINK. (smiles)

If today is show more mostly better than yesterday, I call that A Win.


PS Added 12/6/2012: The early section on dreaming and especially "how to sleep well," were very well done. She gave sleep a flavor and it is delicious! show less

This had some great ideas in it. I listened to it mainly in the car so I couldn't take notes. I might have read a physical book instead. But it was good. Good examples. I had several ah ha moments listening. I will implement some of the exercises.

It's ok. Not very many ah ha moments. Very hippish ideas. Some good ones. Doesn't explain how to cultivate "intuition" or where it comes from and (in my opinion) is a off on how to tell the difference between intuition and wishing. She tends to bend religious and philosophical ideas to fit her own.