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| Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want | 
 enlarge | Author: James Arthur Ray
Creator: Linda Sivertsen
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 1138
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1401322646
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781401322649
ASIN: 1401322646
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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Book Description
Are you ready to transform your current thoughts, beliefs, and assumptions? Are you ready to shatter the illusion that it's not "spiritual" to want a fit body or financial wealth? Are you ready to create outrageous results in every single area of your life? You're in the right place. Harmonic Wealth will propel you to where you want to go. This practical, results-based book will help you to push beyond your self-imposed limitations and show you how to get past all the reasons you think you can't have what you want. Struggling to know what you want? That doesn't mean you're not perfect, it just means you're ready for a shift. And that's exactly why you picked up this book. The result of more than twenty years of study and practical application by World Thought Leader and featured expert for The Secret, James Ray's Harmonic Wealth is based on extensive study of ancient wisdom traditions, cutting-edge findings in quantum physics and other scientific fields, not to mention years of hands-on, hard-won experience. Let this sought-after teacher show you what he's discovered about the secrets of attracting more than you've ever thought possible. Learn how to: - Heighten your creativity, intelligence,
intuition, and mental functioning. - Deepen your personal relationships and ramp up
your ability to attract the people you want in your life. - Achieve financial freedom.
- Maximize your health and energy, and amplify
your physical strength. - Free yourself from unconscious limitations.
- Vanquish the fears that have kept you stuck,
kept you from knowing and owning that you deserve the best. If you've been having trouble with the Law of Attraction, you'll quickly learn the missing keys. Harmonic Wealth will reveal the formula for success in the Five Pillars: financial, relational, mental, physical, and spiritual. You'll see why having anything less than success in all of Five Pillars will never bring you true wealth, and you'll learn how to go 3 for 3 . . . how to have your thoughts, feelings, and actions working together in complete alignment. With these factors firing together, you'll create everything you desire and deserve. Harmonic Wealth encourages you to get real and get creative about how to achieve your goals . . . and then walks you step by step through the blueprint for their attainment. Stop playing it safe. Stop living in fear. Start living in harmony right now, and know that everything you want is within your reach.
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 Man on a Journey April 8, 2008
139 out of 146 found this review helpful
I wanted to like this latest book by James Arthur Ray. The author is a tireless speaker and teacher trying to lift our consciousness and that is a very, very good thing. And his contributing author, Linda Silvertsen, is someone whose writings I have previously enjoyed in Balance Magazine.
Indeed, there was much I liked about the book. Most importantly, it is a very substantive book in a world where so many books of this type are feel good, quick reads (which have their place). And, it is written in the aggressive, challenging style that the author unabashedly proclaims is his intent. As Ray says near the end in talking about reading the book: "Some of it (may have) excited you, some of it may have made you uncomfortable, some of it struck you as full of it, some of it flat out confused you. That is all good." Because of the author's challenging style, I used the book to challenge my thinking on what it takes to take one's performance to an even higher level. I enjoy a book that challenges my thinking, and this one did so.
I also liked the fact that the book is apparently designed to be well integrated into online tools that will help readers extend their insights on a variety of areas. (I say apparently as the site was not operating at the time I write this and was instead harvesting emails, and doing so with a privacy policy with an usual twist that you will want to consider carefully. "Harvesting" because after supplying my email, I did not get access to the info promised in the book, instead I was told I was now "just" on a mailing list. I very much want to believe this is just an early glitch.)
Regretfully, for me, the book had some annoying shortcomings, in addition to the online material seemingly not yet being available as promised. The author seems to pick fights that seem out of keeping with his expressed interest in peace and seemingly do little other than needlessly offend. As just one example from a handful I could give, he devotes a page to seemingly try to support the notion that the real innovators are those that either didn't go to college or did poorly in college. Could it possibly be that the author hasn't really gotten over his own self-consciousness about his education? I, for one, am grateful to the many scientists with PHD's whose research has made, and continues to make, discoveries that save lives and help us lead better lives while we are here on earth. Sure, there are well educated people that have done little with all their formal education. And, there are people who have not been extensively (formally) educated who have made great contributions to society. So why put down either end of the spectrum, especially if ones true intention is to raise the consciousness of all?
Even more troubling was the fact that I found reading the book a bit of a chore. I like to be mentally stretched by a book but I don't like to have to work unduly to be stretched. Not sure I can explain why, but at times I kept thinking the book was needlessly convoluted.
Of the fifty plus reviews I have written on Amazon, this book is -- by far -- the most challenging to rate. If you are in need for an "in your face" style wake-up (along the lines of a Dr Phil style), you will like this book and perhaps a five star rating would be in order. Fans of the author will undoubtedly like a new Ray book, although some fans will likely question how much is really fresh thinking compared to prior books. For fans of Mr. Ray, a four or five star rating is probably in order. For those who like their self-help guidance more compassionately given, I expect that a three star rating would be more the order of the day. I am going to settle on giving it a four star rating and hope the author forgives me as I am very, very grateful for what I learned by thinking through the book. With two graduate degrees, it may just be that I am too much of a lost soul to fully appreciate some of the author's strong biases; hence my four star rating.
One final thought. What I liked most about the book is that for me it read more like a tour of the world of self-help and a self-analysis of one man's search for meaning. As one who believes that all of us are on a journey and can learn from the journeys of others, I came away surmising that the author is - perhaps -- only midway through a journey that will hopefully bring him to a place of deep, personal peace wherein he can be at peace with all of us. I am saving my five star rating, for this author, for the great book I expect is still within him and will be written when he reaches that place of deep peace.
PS Pleased to see that the web site has now been changed to reflect that info is coming later thereby making it less likely someoneone will unknowingly register, as I did, and then not get access to info.
 Spiritual Narcissism Run Rampant April 10, 2008
56 out of 112 found this review helpful
For anyone who got suckered into the amazingly dull THE SECRET, now here comes James Arthur Ray's own tome on how you can have EVERYTHING you want in life with the perfect thoughts. This is a rehash of many old concepts, so James really has nothing new to say. If you've read Napoleon Hill, Joe Vitale or the Hicks' work, you'll see that Ray is a fabulous marketer for simply putting his spin on very old lessons. The problem is the lessons themselves. This hokey you create your own reality entirely does nothing but set people up for victim consciousness as 95% of the people who read this will truly not change their lives and will end up feeling duped. But James has already cleared a path to absolve himself from taking any responsibility as it's your own fault for simply not believing in yourself.
What I dislike is how he tauts this as spirituality--most of this book is just narcissim run rampant. The "want, want, gimme, gimme" crowd will love this, but if you harken to any spiritual truths, you see right through the self-absorbed writing here.
 Universal Laws Simply Explained April 26, 2008
53 out of 58 found this review helpful
This book explains universal laws and combines it with quantum physics and world religions. As an excellent motivational speaker, Mr. Ray has not only motivated me, he has sparked an interest in reading more about quantum physics.
I actually listened to this book on audio read by the author. His 5 pillars of wealth make sense. Also he doesn't claim you can become majically welathy, he shows how you can achieve your desires with hard work. He also encourages us to "do the work that brings us passion."
This book is certainly worth your time.
If You Don't Want to be Successful... April 11, 2008
45 out of 59 found this review helpful
...don't read this book. If you don't want to become the kind of person who can create all that you desire, if you want to complain about your life and the way things are, if you think the Game of Life is rigged and there isn't anything you or anyone else can do about it, don't read this book. (Yeah, and if you think the Law of Attraction is mumbo jumbo and all self-help books are written by charlatans just trying to make a buck, dial 1-800-GET-A-GRIP. These people are successful, and they are successful helping other people. And you?)
Let me admit it at the start of this review: I am a fan of James Ray since I saw him in "The Secret" and then on Larry King and Oprah. He's energetic, interesting, knowledgeable, well-spoken, smart, and endearing in his zeal to help others to become people who can create all that they desire. I respect that as a goal, and the fact that he is also enormously successful gives weight to what he says. You want to learn to become successful from someone who is successful, right?
I appreciate authors who tell how they learned their "secrets" - usually from many failures along their own journey. James tells his stories of lost opportunities, failed businesses, and failed relationships, too, and they are compelling reading. What comes across most strongly to me is his desire to make you see and understand what he's learned so that you can have a successful life without having to endure as many challenges. "Take the shortcut!" he seems to say, "here's how to do it." You will be familiar with some of the themes here, but his take on them is as unique and individual and interesting as he is.
James will blast you out of your complacency, though. He will harangue you to actually DO the exercises and put his principles into action in your life. He is clear that you can't just sit around and dream and have fame and fortune fall on you one fine day. The Law of Attraction is just one law - there are others at work as well.
I read about 50 self-help books a year and have done so for many years. I even wrote two myself. This is one of the best. It is an instruction book for your successful life. It works if you work it.
Chellie Campbell
Zero to Zillionaire
The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction
 Like Pages Scattered In The Wind May 14, 2008
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
James Arthur Ray knows his stuff. As someone familiar with his other books, I know that James can walk his talk, and is capable of being a compelling and motivating speaker. Just look up some of his videos on YouTube and you'll see that he has amazing recall and mastery of the work.
Having said this, you would expect Harmonic Wealth, his largest and most ambitious work so far, to be a veritable gold mine of information.
And you would be right, but also wrong.
Imagine if I approached you and told you that I had all the knowledge you needed to live an amazing life. It was all written down in detail, and all you had to do was read it, follow the steps and you, too, could change your life.
You'd be excited right?
You'd want that book!
Now next imagine that I take all the pages of the book and put them into a shredder. Each page cut up into thousands of pieces, like confetti after a New Years Eve party.
You'd be sad and disappointed and maybe a bit pissed, right?
That's how I feel after reading Harmonic Wealth.
It's full of great information, but it's so poorly designed, so poorly thought out, so poorly edited, that I came away sad and disheartened.
I was hoping that James would, after going into detail about each pillar, lay out some easy to find, easy to collect, concrete steps that I could take toward improving that pillar.
It just frustrates me that while I read, I keep wondering "What are you recommending?" "What worked for you?" "How can I duplicate your experience in my world?"
Like I said, a recap at the end of each chapter, and then again, at the end of each pillar of the main points to remember and concrete actions to take would make this book even more amazing.
I recommend that you do buy the book, but read it with a notepad or a stack of index cards handy to write out the action steps that James recommends for a better life.
Follow those cards, follow those notes, integrate them as habits into your life and you will change it for the better.
This is a C book from an A+ teacher.
William Mize
PWA Shamus Award Nominee
Creator of the Denton Ward and Monty Crocetti mystery series
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