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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780812932188
ISBN: 0812932188
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: January 29, 2002
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Sales Rank: 4292
Studio: Three Rivers Press
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“Explorers depend on the North Star when there are no other landmarks in sight. The same relationship exists between you and your right life, the ultimate realization of your potential for happiness. I believe that a knowledge of that perfect life sits inside you just as the North Star sits in its unaltering spot.”
Martha Beck has helped hundreds of clients find their own North Star, fulfill their potential, and live more joyfully. Now, she shares her step-by-step program that will help you take the exhilarating and frightening journey to your own ideal life. Finding Your Own North Star will teach you how to read your internal compasses, articulate your core desires, identify and repair the unconscious beliefs that may be blocking your progress, nurture your intuition, and cultivate your dreams from the first magical flicker of an idea through the planning and implementation of a more satisfying life. Martha Beck offers thoroughly tested case studies, questionnaires, exercises, and her own trademark wit and wisdom to guide you every step of the way.
Amazon.com Review:
Put the telescope away; the North Star mentioned here is a human body, not a heavenly one. And like Polaris, which has guided sailors for centuries, the human body's gut feelings and emotions can help guide a wayward soul back to his or her 'essential self.' In this absorbing combination of detailed self-awareness exercises and true stories from her own counseling experience (equal parts sobering and hysterically entertaining), Harvard-trained sociologist Martha Beck invites readers to explore their heart's desires and the vast social webs that keep such desires in check. The goal is not to forsake the 'social self' and indulge every emotional impulse of the 'essential self.' Rather, Beck gives readers the tools and the encouragement to achieve maximum happiness by harmonizing these typically divergent voices.
Beck (author of Expecting Adam) admits that repairing a damaged emotional compass and setting out on such a vital journey--which often involves painful realizations and changes--'has all the combined attractions of suicide and childbirth.' But the payoff, she concludes, is a love affair with real life. To that end, she walks readers through a lengthy exercise to evaluate their current lifestyle's pleasures and pains, teaches the process of listening to the body for directional cues, describes how to extract 'soul shrapnel' (healing all those nasty, self-defeating emotional wounds), and provides an intriguing 'Map of Change' to achieve an authentic life. Beck's impressive knowledge, her engaging (if somewhat irreverent) voice, and her ability to parse this scary process into achievable steps make her a new champion in the self-help arena. --Liane Thomas
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Rating:  - Wonderful
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live by Martha Beck is a book that teachers you to find your "essential self." Through self awareness exercises you begin to understand your heart desires. One learns to repair their "emotional compass" and begins to change their lifestyle. You learn to listen to your body for its directional cues thereby healing emotional wounds.
If you are leaning toward a more spiritual way of healing yourself may I suggest a down to earth book on the miracle of God and who exactly He is, and what you will do in the after-life then I suggest you read a great book entitled "The Enlightenment, What God Told Me After One Million Prayers: A Message for Everyone," by John H. Eagan. It brought me to tears. It's great and also deals with Jesus' Passion. I think if you liked Beck's book you will love this book.
Rating:  - A Real Handbook for Life
Someone gave me a copy of this book at a time when I really needed it. Since then I've purchased and given copies to others because it has some basic common sense for understanding the inevitable changes that occur in life, wisdom for living fully, and much wonderful humor. Very highly recommended.
Rating: - Great book!
This is one of the best books I've read all year. It confirms I'm on the right path, but more than that, it's a great guide that I give to all of my life/career coaching clients. I highly recommend it to anyone who feels they're on the wrong path in life and needs to figure out who they really are!
Malcolm O. Munro
The Career Fitness Coach[..]
Rating: - The Ultimate Coaching
This book offered me so much insight based off of the examination of my own life. There are workbook sections that help you pinpoint exactly where you are off your path. It helps identify the resistance and blockages in your life and it then leads you to discover exactly what you are here to do. There is a formula that Martha Beck uses as she is extremely talented as a life coach. She works from the soul and she will offer you tools and techniques to guide you to work from yours.
I think this is an essential part of realizing your potential and living a peaceful life. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a life's journey full of passion, enthusiasm and, ultimately, triumph. Martha Beck's lessons will inspire you to reach for the stars. Good luck.
Rating:  - Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages I wasn't aware of.
Book in good shape, but so many underlined passages and the underlines distract from my enjoyment of reading the book. I underline my books that I do not intend to sell. I wish I'd known the book I chose to purchase had so many underlined passages. I would have bought another one.
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