Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Jerry Hicks, Esther Hicks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires
Book Review: Interesting
Summary: 3 Stars
The book is interesting. But Esther hears voices talking to her, the voices in her head are called Abraham. Isn't hearing voices diagnosed as schizophrenia. Interesting that people are so into this book.Book Review: Just like that, huh?
Summary: 4 Stars
The book is built on the premise that one creates life though your thoughts and emotions. If these are changed for better or worse, so the life is changed accordingly. Your life is the sum total of your thoughts and emotions which create a positive or negative reality.
This book teaches a good sort of self/mind control. It has a workbook of exercises that shows how a person may be able to create a desired reality. One suggestion is to live life segment by segment, suggesting to yourself how you want each segment to play out through positive suggestions such as "I'm having a smooth and easy day at work" or I'm getting a deep and refreshing sleep". Then you should feel or anticipate the emotion of well-being behind your desires to create that reality. Another exercise is to write a script about how you want your life to turn out in the future. It's fun to write such a script and supposedly your life will start to come out like the script. Or you can imagine that you are given a $1000 dollars each day. How would you spend it? This gets you into the feeling of being prosperous, which will create that reality. If you are down, you should focus on the positive things that are going on in your life. Look around your surroundings and be grateful for the good things you have. This will create positive thoughts, which will create a good mood, which will create a better reality. You should focus on how you want your life to be, not on how you think life really is. You should then expect what you wanted and feel that it is coming to you. Meditation can also uplift thoughts and break old patterns. Change your life; don't try to change others or the world.
There aren't many anecdotal stories that the techniques actually work, but they are fun mind games anyway. I will check back in if the book helps me in any way. I tried making lists about desired outcomes at one time, which is a similar technique, and it didn't work. Supposedly, I would be resisting the outcome in some subtle way, according to the book. This is a channeled work coming from higher beings called Abraham. Esther Hicks gets into a meditative state to receive such messages.
Creating reality through thoughts and emotions is harder to justify when some extremely bad things happen to relatively innocent people such as wars, torture, kidnappings, impoverishment, exploitation, and enslavement. How do such realities get created, especially on a mass scale?
Book Review: LIFE CHANGING
Summary: 5 Stars
Thank you to Esther and Jerry for sharing Abraham with the world. I highly recommend getting The teaching of Abraham on audiobook. It is so powerful hearing Ester speak. This material is life changing. From the first line, I knew I was home. Thank you again, it is all perfect and all is well.Book Review: Law of Attraction 101
Summary: 5 Stars
This has got to be the first and foremost book on the 'Law of Attraction'. I've enjoyed listening to Ester and Jerry Hicks for years on Hay House Radio, and finally decided to buy the book - it really pulled everything together. This book provides valuable new awarenesses and insights, as well as easy and effective processes to help you connect to one of the most powerful and miraculous laws of the universe! Reading this book gave me a deeper understanding of the Law of Attraction, and helped me to utilize more in my own life. If you want to start working with the Law of Attraction, this is an excellent starting point.Book Review: Learn about life and success
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an absolutely outstanding piece of work. It is the third book I have read by the Hicks about the teachings of Abraham. It explains why I have succeeded and why I have failed. It tells me now how to succeed in every area of my life. It makes more sense to me than almost anything else I have ever read about life and how to live it. In order for it to make sense, one has to be at a place in life where he/she is ready to receive this wisdom. If this doesn't work for you, you either don't get it or don't practice it. Go back and read it again. I was also facsinated by their DVD's. I will read everything they publish.