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Your Heart Knows the Answer by Gail Harris

I'm reading a wonderful book right now called Your Heart Knows the Answer by Gail Harris. It's exactly the kind of book the world needs right now. We are so inundated with choices, advertising, news, and opinions bombarding us on all sides. So it's important that we learn to turn inward and listen to our own inner guidance to help us lead the way. Gail Harris knows from personal experience that following your heart is the only way to a happy spirited life.

Now, I read a lot of self-help books, spirituality books, and spirited, fun books. What I liked about this book is that it doesn't hit you over the head with all the things you should be doing in your life. It slowly welcomes you back to the wisdom of your body, mind, and spirit. Yes, those three words are often overused and they saturate the market, but what Harris does is encourage you to find your heart's voice wherever it resides.

For me, my heart's voice appears in the "gut" reactions of my body. Also, I feel things with an inner knowing - when you just know. What I was worried about was finding that "inner voice" amidst all the mind chatter that I typically have throughout the day. But Harris has you identify with those other voices and recognize where they come from. By doing so, you realize that your heart's voice and guidance is still there, you just must listen a little bit harder. She gives you permission to find that voice wherever it lives within you.

Though a small book, it's packed with beautiful ceremonies, prayers, and affirmations (it even says so on the cover). There's one that I just love to pieces and can't wait to actually finish. It's where you marry yourself and promise to love yourself forever. We are often advised to love ourselves more, but actually marrying yourself? The more the idea sunk in, the better I felt about it: kind of like drinking hot chocolate on a cold snowy day. The warmth just spread out to toes and the sweetness made me smile. Now I'm searching for the perfect ring or piece of jewelry. So whenver I wear Ican say, "I'm pretty neat and I promise to love myself all the more."

Your Heart Knows the Answer by Gail Harris is a treasure of a book that should be in anyone's collection. It helps you reconnect with who you are and offers you unique new opportunities to reunite with the guiding voice of self-love. Moreover, its simply friendly guidance brings you back to yourself and shakes you out of your slumber with important questions such as:

If you are in a relationship, does it continually take you deeper within yourself and challenge you to renew yourself?

Why not challenge yourself to live your best life by picking up a copy today? Or better yet, buy a copy for a loved one. You'll love yourself for doing so!

You can find out more by going to Gail's website at: www.yourheartknows.com

They Are Coming...

Okay, there's only so much I can do right now. I was hoping to write a review a week, but I work 40 hours a week on top of taking online classes, updating content, and coaching.

There's only so much time in the day.

Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

What an interesting read. I chanced upon Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell at the library a few weeks ago. Being interested in intuition and trusting one's inner voice, I found Gladwell's research on split decision making very insightful.

Gladwell introduces study after interesting study about what goes on behind our eyes when we make "blink" decisions. He calls it thin slicing and essentially coins the term from what many of the researchers have done: taken small slices of an experience and used it to gather information. And I'm not talking about 30 minutes, but 30 seconds.

Fascinating examples of thin slicing include research done on speed dating, marriage, and professors to classical musicians and police shootings. Did you know that if you take a 30 second clip of a professor, show it on mute to a bunch of students, the students can rate whether or not its a good professor? Mind you these are students who have never had this professor. If you compare the results with actual post semester evaluations, you'll find that the thin sliced evaluations are just as accurate.

There are so many neat examples that Gladwell goes into, you are bound to look at something anew. I don't want to give too much away. Pick up your copy today!