BOOK REVIEW: Second Chance at Your Dream & BOOK GIVEAWAY

Author: Dorothea Hover-Kramer
Title: Second Chance at Your Dream
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Energy Psychology Press
Genre: Nonfiction; Health, Mind & Body
Language: English
ISBN: 9780345499707
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ABOUT THE BOOK:

This is the first book to apply the breakthrough insights of Energy Psychology to healthy aging. Energy Psychology is an exciting new healing method that changes the vibrational patterns in the body’s energy fields to produce rapid emotional healing and a sense of well-being. With the help of the over fifty exercises for rebalancing yourself offered in this book, you can face the challenges and opportunities of later life to create a time of energy, abundance and joy.

BOOK REVIEW:

The buzz word in Dorothea Hover-Kramer’s book, Second Chance at Your Dream, is energy.  Energy resources, energy balancing, energy resource tools, energetic strategies are just a few.  According to Dorothea, this book is the first book to apply the breakthrough insights of Energy Psychology to aging and literally shows us how to use our own energy resources to battle pain, restore low energy and change our lives.  She addresses how human energies originate and explains how our biofield and chakras work which all tie into the whole scheme of things.

I particularly liked this part:

“Examples of dysfunctional belief patters are: “Aging will be difficult,” “Memory gets worse with age,” “Retirement is a time of rest and withdrawal from life,” and “Seniors need to rest and sit back.”  Ideas about aging and  retirement can be as varied as we choose, but over time, they impact thinking, behavior, and even cellular structures and DNA patterning.”

The point Dorothea is making here which continues throughout this marvelous book is that some people don’t realize how harmful it is to them to accept what they perceive as the norm – that old people should call it quits and wait for “their time.”  Dorothea believes that’s the worse thing you could ever do if you want to continue to live a happy, normal life with each year that goes by.  So, believing that, she has devised ways – techniques and exercises – to help us find a second chance at your dream even with whatever limitations a individual has.

Dorothea says, “The basic tool for energetic self-care is identifying problems readily.”  How many of us have not so fond past memories that have turned us not into someone we didn’t know we were?  How many perceivable nice people end up grouchy and mean in their later years?  Why is this?

She gives us one example of a man who at 72 was inhibiting happiness from stepping into his life because of his partents’ constant fights when he was young.  It was so bad, he took up somking at age 13 to alleviate the pain.  When his wife suggested him quitting at 72, he went to a therapist who got him to notice his bodily sensations while remembering a fight between his parents.  Immediately, he felt a tightening in his stomach.  His therapist taught him to acknowledge his emotions with several releasing strategies for a month.  Eventually the memories no longer created an emotional “charge.”  The point Dorothea is making is that problems, left untreated, end up plaguing you for years and by using the techniques and exercises in her book, you will lear how you, too, can have a second chance at your dream.

I really liked this and have been meaning to do it for some time:

“No one should wait until a terminal diagnosis to start living more fully.  Make a list now of the things you want to do, the people you want to see, the actions you can contribute to make the world around you better.”

I am a firm believer in doing things you love to live longer.  Too many people allow themselves to be idle.  “I don’t know where to start,” they say, older people especially.  Dorothea explains that sometimes we don’t know what to do, but things land in our laps which result in happiness.  She explains how to focus on energetic strategies (explained all in her book) to help you to become the creative artist of your life with a creativeness self-inventory exercise that was really beneficial.

One of my favorite chapters that really hit home was “A New Look at Pain,” in which Dorothea explains how there are methods to help us take “a new look” at pain.  She quotes:

“As we come to distinguish the difference between physical pain and the psychological factors involved in suffering, we recognize how closely they are interrelated.  Both need to be addressed to diminish distress.  Remarkably, both emotional suffering and physical pain respond well to energetic interventions by inviting changes in perception and hope of relief.”

Dorothea backs this with exercises to encourage you to learn from your pain sensations and find ways of diminishing pain reliably.

Dorothea’s book is about choices.  Do we let our pasts or our current health limitations take over our lives or do we get out of passive mode and do something about it so we can live a longer and happier life?

I think you know the answer to that.  I highly recommend Dorothea Hover-Kramer’s Second Chance at Your Dream, if you want to get out of the “everyone feel sorry for me” rut and into a more harmonious, healthy and happy life that everyone deserves.

BOOK GIVEAWAY!

We’re offering a book giveaway!  If you would like to win a copy of Dorothea Hover-Kramer’s A Second Chance to Your Dreams, here are the details:

Dorothea says, “”No one should wait until a terminal diagnosis to start living more fully.  Make a list now of the things you want to do, the people you want to see, the actions you can contribute to make the world around you better.”

Give us ONE thing on your own list of things you want to do, people you want to see, the actions you want to contribute to make the world around you better and leave it in the comment section.  Be sure to include your email address or your entry will be void.  Contests ends on August 1, 2009 and the winner will be hand selected by Dorothea herself.  Your entry should not run over one or two sentences, so please be brief.   Good luck!