3 X 5's: Index Card Wisdom from Best of Books

POSITIVE SPINS & NEGATIVE FRAMES  Richard Bandler (2019). Thinking on Purpose: A 15 day Plan to a                                                             Smarter Life. Bandler (along with John Grinder) is one of the founders of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and has many books on the topic beginning with The Structure of Magic (Volumes 1 & 2) in the 1970's. This latest book harvests many key principles of NLP in creating a "smarter" life like: dealing with negative memories, spinning positive emotions in the body, creative visualization, and the view that happiness is an ACTIVITY, something we do. 2 practical things to test out in everyday life: framing negative memories and spinning positive emotions.  1) For a negative memory, mentally put a FRAME  (like a picture frame) aro...

  THERAPEUTIC TOUCH  Dolores Krieger (1993). Accepting your Power to Heal:                                                    The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch Krieger is a PhD and an RN who, together with Dora Kunz, developed " therapeutic touch " (TT) in the 1970's, taught TT to over 36k professionals, facilitated its teaching in over 80 colleges and health care facilities in the US, and researched TT for over 25 years as of the time of the books writing in the early 1990's.  Simply, TT is using one's hands to direct and modulate one's energy to support the healing of another. The TT method involves centering oneself, assessing the energy field of another, treating the person, and then reassessing the energy field.  What i love about the book is the ACTIVITES provided to learn TT...this is literally a "...

HEALING Raymon Grace (2003). The future is yours: Do something about it! Raymon is a healer that advocates a simple healing method: relax the body and quiet the mind into an alpha state, set an intention to heal along with a visualization of the positive outcome desired...that's it! He says, "...If you can relax your body and mind enough to focus your thoughts, and use vivid visualization, you can perform miracles!" (p.2). For those skeptical about these healing methods, i point to his phrase, "...If we do nothing, nothing happens, but if we do something, then something might happen" (p.27). So, what's to loose in trying? To create the alpha brain wave state  [there are devices to measure one's brain waves to confirm that one is in a state of alpha, but Raymon maintains that we don't need these, you'll simply feel relaxed in body and centered in mind--i agree] for healing,  Raymon recommends a relaxing visualization that brings all the sens...

💗 THE MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD OUR HEARTS KNOW IS POSSIBLE💗 Charles Eisenstein (2021). Sacred Economics: Money, gift and                                                                     society in the age of transition                                                               (revised edition). Eisenstein's first edition of Sacred Economics was published in 2011. This second edition comes out a decade later in 2021. The basic ideas of the book revolve around two worldviews: one of separation, scarcity, and materialism, and the other worldview of reunion, relationship, connection, and living in the gift. The middle parts of the ...

 Sacred Geometry Michael Schneider (1994). A beginner's guide to constructing the                                                                universe: The mathematical archetypes of                                                        nature, art, and science. Geometer tools (pencil, ruler, and compass) combine with archetypical principles (from monad to decad) to construct the universe of forms. These shapes and numbers can be perceived in all of nature, including our bodies and art. Everything speaks its purpose through patterns of sacred geometry.  I had the most FUN making all the geometric shapes from the instructions in...

TECH JOY Jonathan Robinson (2019). The Technology of Joy: The 101 Best                                                  Apps, Gadgets, Tools and Supplements                                                           for Feeling More Delight in Your Life. Robinson is a "psychotherapist" but does not list his credentials nor can i find them on any website...he is the author of 10 best selling books at the time of this writing, and has been a speaker for Fortune 500 companies like Google.  In this book, Robinson explores various "technologies" which he defines as "the application of tools and methods for achieving a specified result more efficiently" (page 1). He bases the selection of these tech...

  CORE SHAMANISM Tom Cowan (1996). Shamanism: A Spiritual Practice for Daily Life. I first met Tom Brown in his book The Way of the Saints which includes practices based on the life of each saint--immensely practical. Similarly, Cowan's book Shamanism is immensely practical, providing an introduction to " core shamanism " (taking cross cultural/universal shamanic practices and adapting them to modern times because we cannot uproot the traditional shamanic practice from its time and culture, we need a translation for our own particular time and culture, and Cowan provides this translation with appropriate cautions). Cowan advocates that anyone can be a practitioner of shamanism , but few can become a shaman. An authentic shaman is called by their community, at a particular time, place, and culture.  Within a practitioner of shamanism context, Cowan describes how to develop relationships with helping spirits by consciously shifting from ordinary reality to nonordinary real...