A multilayered exploration of the power each person has to achieve inner harmony.
A comprehensive guide to using hypnosis in order to achieve your goals.
The latest nonfiction work from Dann (Your Hypnosis Career, 2017) goes into great detail about the author’s conviction that hypnosis is a key method of unlocking “Neuro-Linguistic Programming” practices that can change the reader’s life. These changes will come about when readers learn to grapple with what the author refers to as the different levels of personal awareness. “When your Conscious, Subconscious and Superconscious are in alignment,” she writes, “you will feel in harmony with yourself.” Hypnosis, which Dann describes as “fun, natural, and easy to learn,” is a practice she claims will take readers “to a place of stillness where you can access your inner resources and live in the present moment.” In discursive prose, Dann takes readers through the steps necessary to refine their personal goals and better shape their own inner universe, basic steps like discovering what they want, assessing how close they already are to achieving it, and, in what’s often called “the Meta Outcome Question,” asking what achieving that goal will actually do for them. The author stresses the centrality of what she (somewhat redundantly) calls “positive affirmations,” things like eating healthy meals, “attracting” more money and a life partner, and trusting in God. Readers are urged to create an affirmation, go into a trance, and allow their subconscious to feel the experience of actually already having what they want. “You will notice what you visualize comes into being when you say and feel them everyday [sic],” Dann writes in one of the book’s self-evidently inaccurate assertions (another being a popular assertion in self-help spiritualism: “Powerful affirmations can help heal and regenerate your body, and bring radiant health”). Dann’s narrative tone is warm and inviting, and her underlying message, emphasizing the infinite potential for self-betterment, more than compensates for the book’s more than occasional vagueness (“You lose sight of your true being when you identify with the personality,” etc.).
A multilayered exploration of the power each person has to achieve inner harmony.Pub Date: July 18, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-68470-407-1
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Lulu
Review Posted Online: Jan. 28, 2020
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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