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Summary: Joel Rothschild says, I am a long term Aids survivor
Review: Forgiveness is one of the keys to surviving loss and pain. It is something we do for ourselves. To release hurt is to our own advantage. To hold it will kill us. This is a wonderful book and an important tool for living.
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Summary: I loved the book
Review: I agree with everything these authors say. However, I did not always think this way. A few years ago I purchase a copy of the book An Encounter With A Prophet. The author advanced similar ideas about forgiveness. I was impressed with some of the concepts but failed to use the techniques suggested regarding resentments. Then one night walking home from work, I was attacked by a mugger. Coming up from behind me, out of the shadows, the mugger managed to hid me twice the back of the head before I knew what was happening. Due to space limitations I will skip the details of what followed suffice it to say when the ambulance picked me up off the street , I was drenched in my own blood. On the way to the hospital my mind started to race. Having grown up as a fighter, I vowed to find this man and evoke some Charles Bronson style justice. As I engaged in this type of thinking, in my mind's eye I could feel and see the mugger sneaking up behind me getting ready to hit me - something they call a flashback a frightening experience to say the least. As this flash back phenomena continued, it occurred to me to pray the unique prayer suggested in this book. I started saying the suggested prayer repeatedly. The flashback dissolved. However, every time I stopped praying, my mind immediately started planning more Bronson style justice and the flashback phenomena would returned. This phenomena gave me the continued motivation to pray for the S O B all that night and for the next few days. (This strange prayer let's you call the person an S O B while you are praying) When I returned to work I was surprised that I could, against all advise to the contrary, walk home down the very same street at night without experiencing any fear whatsoever. The only feeling I had for the mugger was compassion and all fear was gone. You can debate the concepts advanced by Lewis Walsch and Jampolsky or you can use them. If you use them there will be no more room for debate. Buy these books and a few copies for your family and friends.
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Summary: I loved the book
Review: I agree with everything these authors say. However, I did not always think this way. A few years ago I purchase a copy of the book An Encounter With A Prophet. The author advanced similar ideas about forgiveness. I was impressed with some of the concepts but failed to use the techniques suggested regarding resentments. Then one night walking home from work, I was attacked by a mugger. Coming up from behind me, out of the shadows, the mugger managed to hid me twice the back of the head before I knew what was happening. Due to space limitations I will skip the details of what followed suffice it to say when the ambulance picked me up off the street , I was drenched in my own blood. On the way to the hospital my mind started to race. Having grown up as a fighter, I vowed to find this man and evoke some Charles Bronson style justice. As I engaged in this type of thinking, in my mind's eye I could feel and see the mugger sneaking up behind me getting ready to hit me - something they call a flashback a frightening experience to say the least. As this flash back phenomena continued, it occurred to me to pray the unique prayer suggested in this book. I started saying the suggested prayer repeatedly. The flashback dissolved. However, every time I stopped praying, my mind immediately started planning more Bronson style justice and the flashback phenomena would returned. This phenomena gave me the continued motivation to pray for the S O B all that night and for the next few days. (This strange prayer let's you call the person an S O B while you are praying) When I returned to work I was surprised that I could, against all advise to the contrary, walk home down the very same street at night without experiencing any fear whatsoever. The only feeling I had for the mugger was compassion and all fear was gone. You can debate the concepts advanced by Lewis Walsch and Jampolsky or you can use them. If you use them there will be no more room for debate. Buy these books and a few copies for your family and friends.
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Summary: Hype
Review: I bought and read this book and found it to be a superficial treatment of the subject for Christians who believe in a single God, which I am not. I finished the book hoping for a deeper understanding of guilt and forgiveness after experiencing the recent suicide of my only child, a seventeen year old boy suffering from severe depression. I am sure this book will be comforting for those it is written for but it did not shed any light on the subject for me.
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Summary: A Religious book for Christians but not helpful for others
Review: I bought and read this book and found it to be a superficial treatment of the subject for Christians who believe in a single God, which I am not. I finished the book hoping for a deeper understanding of guilt and forgiveness after experiencing the recent suicide of my only child, a seventeen year old boy suffering from severe depression. I am sure this book will be comforting for those it is written for but it did not shed any light on the subject for me.
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Summary: A must have for every library
Review: I keep this little book out where I can see it and the title reminds me to open it and use one of the processes when I am forced to deal with a total jerk. Makes all the difference.
One manager of the complex where I choose to live was so obnoxious and purposeful did irritating things and enforced self made rules so often that we talked of moving or doing some really nasty things to him (like entering his name onto 200 junk mail lists ). Anyhow , with Jampolskys guidance I desensitized this guy - didn't make him into a good human being as I had been attempting with my Christian background but I did come to see that he is a jerk, his job in the world was to jerk people around and I was in his world. No big deal now and he leaves me alone.
( I think this is a symptom of really forgiving someone that they don't continue irritating you ) another good book is "Why Forgiveness?" heavy duty and dramatic you'll need this one for reference if your still dating.
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Summary: A must have for every library
Review: I keep this little book out where I can see it and the title reminds me to open it and use one of the processes when I am forced to deal with a total jerk. Makes all the difference.
One manager of the complex where I choose to live was so obnoxious and purposeful did irritating things and enforced self made rules so often that we talked of moving or doing some really nasty things to him (like entering his name onto 200 junk mail lists ). Anyhow , with Jampolskys guidance I desensitized this guy - didn't make him into a good human being as I had been attempting with my Christian background but I did come to see that he is a jerk, his job in the world was to jerk people around and I was in his world. No big deal now and he leaves me alone.
( I think this is a symptom of really forgiving someone that they don't continue irritating you ) another good book is "Why Forgiveness?" heavy duty and dramatic you'll need this one for reference if your still dating.
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Summary: The best book out of 25+ on forgiveness
Review: I read more than 25 books one after the other on how to forgive, and this turned out to be by far the best one of them all. Upon finishing this book, I was of the immediate opinion that I wished I had read this book first. The language was quite accessible. By the time I finished this book, I felt that I had totally forgiven the person I needed to forgive.
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Summary: Hype
Review: If you are looking for real answers, don't buy this book. It's a feel good read but provides nothing more than a bunch of hot wind. Morever, the style is bland, sleepy, like a ghostwriter did the best he could from notes he took from dictation.
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Summary: Too simplistic
Review: People who say victims MUST forgive may be laying an additional burden on a person who is struggling to heal by forcing them to feel something they can't, making them responsible for their abuser's rehabilitation (remember that so many victims are told to be quiet to protect their abusers), and marginalizing their suffering. Far too simplistic for a self-help book and may inspire well-meaning people to add more injury to someone who is suffering
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