"Life is a journey...life is not short, rather, life is precious so enjoy the experiences..."
In loving memory of my Mother-n-law: Ms. Linda P. McDaniel Cotton.
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Title: One Day My Soul Just Opened Up
Author: Iyanla Vanzant
Data: Simon & Schuster
316 pages, $13.00, Non-Fiction
One day my soul yelled out from under, it was a cry for healing. After mediating and doing extensive re-evaluating choices concerning my life, I needed an empowerment read; One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, delivered it enormously. I have to say; it changed my life. This book is just what the title states, it opens up your soul for self healing of all your wounds. Which according to Dr. Larry T. Richardson, a local Psychiatrist, “All current pains are nothing more than a re-accruing of a previous painful experience, originating from your childhood.”
In Iyanla’s book, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up, is an energetic, motivational, and an inspired spiritual book. It is orchestrated for the reader to obtain a changed in their being; “40 days and 40 nights toward spiritual strength and personal growth.”
In her book, Iyanla does just that with each daily word: is a different emotion that we encounter, however, we do not take the time to look within to see why we are in this foul mood and tend to blame others. Iyanla talks about each emotion though her own personal experience of family dysfunction, abuse, poverty, but ending with humor of a lesson for all of us to learn. A working definition is provided to give a brief explanation of that particular emotion, leading to a commentary of each daily word. After each passage, Iyanla ask you to question yourself; “Reading today’s commentary, I realize? The key phrase(s) I want to remember and work with today are?”
Next, are the morning affirmations to work on after each passage. It is a poem which emphasis the them of the emotion to work on. Along, with a “Let me remember”, section which is a brief notation of what Iyanla personally gets from the passage; “To have Peace, I must be Peaceful. I can choose Peace in all situations. Nothing in the world can disturb the Peace I create within. I welcome others to join me in Peace.”
The last section of each passage ends with an evening journal. “Today, I realized it is easy to remain Peaceful when? I find it is difficult for me to remain Peaceful when? As of this moment I am completely at Peace about? You will indeed cry and laugh with anticipation to read on for the next daily word. It will heal your wounds on your soul from your childhood and up to now. The reader is encourage to take the steps to changed his/her life for the better outcome of self empowerment.
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