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| The Essential Laws of Fearless Living: Find the Power to Never F Powerless Again | 
 enlarge | Author: Guy Finley
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 12770
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 157863427X
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9781578634279
ASIN: 157863427X
Publication Date: June 1, 2008
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Product Description
The Essential Laws of Fearless Living is a step-by-step manual for all who aspire to realize their ultimate potential as a human being. In its seven chapters of forty concise essays, Finley explores deeply personal and meaningful ideas, revealing the secrets of the universe itself; but he does so in a way that makes the journey fascinating, compelling, and comforting at the same time. A great hope fills the heart that the untold mystery of human existence has not only been revealed, but solved.
Then, most importantly, at the close of each chapter readers are given specific insights and practical exercises that empower them to make real and lasting changes in their lives. Loneliness, stress, anger, and fear are replaced by a contentment, ease, compassion, and freedom that never fade away.
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 Preaching to the choir, not real helpful for someone investigating June 30, 2008
37 out of 51 found this review helpful
After reading the great reviews on this book, I was eager to read it and eager to find a resource that I can pass on to others. I have enjoyed working on learning how to control my thoughts and thus my attitude and my energy and I know it has revolutionized how I live my life. I'm always looking for good books to recommend to others so they can "get it" and really get to live the life of their dreams.
This book is not one that I'd recommend to others who are trying to figure out the "how to" of living an amazing life. This book preaches to the choir, really speaking to those who are already living powerful lives. The book is esoteric and loaded with wisdom, but mostly lacking in any real details that would help someone comprehend how to implement this in their life.
The book has a number of interesting stories, but that's all they are. I often was left wondering, "OK, so now how does someone use that story in their own life?" An example from page 13 is quite typical: "Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Truth itself will see to it that you rise." That's the end of the paragraph and the end of the section. Nice and esoteric, but not very helpful to most people in my opinion.
I debated whether to give this book 2 stars or 3 stars and finally decided on 3 stars because the content is OK, just not particularly helpful to someone who doesn't already grasp most of it.
Jan Dahlin Geiger, Atlanta, GA Get Your Assets in Gear! Smart Money Strategies
 TRULY TRANSFORMING - AN IMPORTANT BOOK! June 10, 2008
33 out of 46 found this review helpful
Guy Finley's "The Essential Laws of Fearless Living" is *NOT* the same old, same old. In this important book, Guy fills our mind with undeniable truth that at its core stems from a deep desire to truly make a difference.
One aspect of this book that is worthy of note is at the end of each chapter there is a detailed, reader-friendly section "Special Key Lessons in Review" that takes the most important concepts from the chapter and makes them readily available, condensed and completely understandable that is not only great for review, but for remembering.
To give you a feel for this book, I'll share an example from the text, a paragraph I found to be especially uncanny and illuminating:
["...From simple immature beginnings, when the mind instinctually seeks what will satisfy it, the activity of this divided mind slowly evolves into more subtle forms of psychological sophistry until, without knowing it, we become IMAGE EATERS [my caps italics in the book] - feeding ourselves with passing sensations produced by an imaginary self." ]
Finley's ethics, care and compassion for humanity are evident throughout the text as his uncanny laser sharp wisdom goes straight to the core of what ails us, while he delivers what will turn our lives around time and time again.
Enlightening and Practical April 30, 2008
31 out of 33 found this review helpful
I've been a fan of Finley's books for awhile now. He really knows how to say it like it is.
I just got done reading this book and would recommend it highly. It makes the unusual but immensely important point that even if you fulfill all of your dreams, and become the most successful person in the world, what good is it if you still have to live with fear and stress like all of us do? It's a simple idea, but one that most every success and self-help book misses.
I would even go so far as to say that the ideas in this book should be taught to every human being at an early age. Can you imagine what a different planet we would have if we were all taught as children how to let go of negative states like fear, stress, resentment, and anger? There would be no more war, and everyone would be a lot more productive and happy.
The practical techniques are unique and powerful. The stories and inner-life descriptions are inspiring. Overall, I give it two thumbs up.
Just fantastic May 14, 2008
28 out of 52 found this review helpful
I've not always been Guy Finley's biggest fan, but this book is just fantastic. All that you will ever need to know to make that elusive breakthrough to the awakened life is here. It is simply the clearest approach to awakening from the dream of the false-self I have ever read. Get this book.
Flashes of Brilliance but... July 4, 2008
27 out of 36 found this review helpful
Finley combines new writings, his audio albums and previously written essays in this collection of 41 essays. His stated intent in the introduction is to "gently lead the reader in step-by-step sections into higher levels of self-understanding. I'm not certain this mission was accomplished with me. While I found some terrific insights and anecdotes to support them - I found too many sections obtuse (difficult to comprehend: not clear or precise in thought or expression), repetitive and circular in thinking. For crisp thinking and guidance with metaphysics, I found Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer, Chopra, Don Miguel Ruiz - to be more effective.
I would have rated this book a 2 but for the well thought out insights below:
1) Nothing that resists life can hope to learn from it
2) Not wanting our negative states actually nourishes them.
3)Real learning requires surrender
4)The proof of the horse is in the ride. If the ride is punishing or meandering, we're in the wrong carriage. This royal power to discern dark horses from light ones is already ours; but to wield it, there is a key, a secret step that must be taken. This higher power to choose what will carry us and what won't - is only as powerful as our willingness to come to a special kind of psychic pause, an inner halt. By working to momentarily anchor ourselves in the present moment, we bring our own thoughts and feelings in the Light of consciousness to see them for what they are.
5) Wouldn't it be nice to be able to reach down inside of ourselves, grab hold of the controls of our own consciousness, and pull ourselves up. To quietly watch that would-be mountain of a problem, whatever it is, pass by harmlessly below us, even as we reach ever-higher and happier skies. We can learn to do this. Such power is not a pipe dream; ours is the ability to take conscious control of our spiritual altitude...this is why we must work in every moment to remain inwardly awake -to be aware of our attitude toward our life as its unfolds before and around us: so that whenever we find a negative attitude in ourselves, some form of dark thought or feeling trying to drag us down - we don't say "I" to it. In a manner of speaking, we pull up and away from it...to go higher begins with choosing to be higher.
6)See that the size of the discouragement you feel is directly proportional to the size of your insistence that life conform to your demands.
7)We want to first come awake to whatever activity is running through own our mind, and then simply quietly, take a single step back from our own thoughts. We watch our own thinking - its movement and character - instead of allowing ourselves to be drawn onto its stage and into its drama.
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