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--------------------------------------------------- If you read Self Improvement Books, this free newsletter is for you. Information on new book releases, best sellers, book reviews, excerpts, special promotions, interviews with the authors & more. This is an opt-in, by request only newsletter. Subscriber information is listed at the bottom of this email. --------------------------------------------------- Send all questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (732) 761-9930 In this issue: => Sponsor of the Week => What�s New? Self-Help NEW BOOK RELEASES � October 1-2, 2004 => Self-Improvement Book Store => What Are People Reading? AMAZON.com Top 5 BEST SELLERS for Self Help => Book Excerpt: The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness � By Gary Zukav and Linda Francis => Book Excerpt: It Was Food vs. Me�and I Won � By Nancy Goodman => Book Review: Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time � By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, Tom Joyner => How to subscribe and be removed from this newsletter => How to recommend our newsletter to your friends ------------------------------------------------------------ ** SPONSOR of the WEEK ** ------------------------------------------------------------ * Classic Self Improvement Book : Think and Grow Rich -by Napoleon Hill * Here are money-making secrets that can change your life. Inspired by Andrew Carnegie's magic formula for success, this book will teach you the secrets that will bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. 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Visit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0449214923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Self-Help NEW BOOK RELEASES � October 1-2, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time � By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, Tom Joyner http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0757301428/selfimprovemeonlA/ 2) From First Kicks to First Steps: Nurturing Your Baby's Development from Pregnancy Through the First Year of Life � By Alan Greene, M.D. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0071427864/selfimprovemeonlA/ 3) Krav Maga: An Essential Guide to the Renowned Method�for Fitness and Self-Defense � By Dr. David Kahn http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0312331770/selfimprovemeonlA/ 4) Single: The Art of Being Satisfied, Fulfilled and Independent � By Judy Ford http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1593371543/selfimprovemeonlA/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- *** SELF-IMPROVEMENT BOOK STORE *** ------------------------------------------------------------------- * How To Win Friends And Influence People -by Dale Carnegie * This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because Dale Carnegie had an understanding of human nature that will never be outdated. Visit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0671723650 * Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People -by Stephen R. Covey * The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change was a groundbreaker when it was first published in 1990, and it continues to be a business bestseller with more than 10 million copies sold. Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. 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Visit http://www.youwereborninvincible.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** AMAZON.com Top 5 BEST SELLERS for Self Help *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1) He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys � By Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=068987474X/selfimprovemeon1A/ 2) How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life � By Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1595620036/selfimprovemeonlA/ 3) Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life � By Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard (Foreword) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0399144463/selfimprovemeonlA/ 4) Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People � By Stephen R. Covey http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0671708635/selfimprovemeonlA/ 5) Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High � By Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0071401946/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------- *** BOOK EXCERPT: The Heart of the Soul: Emotional Awareness � By Gary Zukav and Linda Francis *** ------------------------------------------- Our adopted Sioux uncle once told me, "Nephew, the longest journey that you will make in your life is from your head to your heart," gently touching his forehead and then his chest. Linda Francis, my spiritual partner, and I are still on that journey, and so are you. Everyone is on it. The journey into the heart is our future and our only way of creating a future. It is movement toward wholeness, integrity, and compassion. It is the healing each of us longs for, and the healing that each of us must accomplish if we are to move forward into our fullest potential. Learning to experience emotions is one of the most difficult tasks that can be undertaken. Many people do not know that they are angry, even when rage flows through them like a river. Some do not know that they are grieving, even when sorrow is the only sun that rises for them in the morning. Most people think of themselves as experiencing emotions only when powerfully emotional currents erupt through their lives, disturbing routines devoted to activities, accomplishments, or survival. Emotional awareness -� becoming aware of everything that you are feeling at every moment -� is very difficult because we experience so much pain each moment. Becoming aware of our emotions means becoming aware of pain. It is challenging, difficult, and unpleasant. It is also more rewarding than most of us can imagine. That is because most of us cannot imagine a life free from compulsions, fixations, obsessions, and addictions, in which we act with an empowered heart and are free of attachment to the outcome. The alternative to becoming aware of your emotions is to continue masking the pain that you experience. When you do, your pain emerges in unexpected ways�distorting your behavior, changing your words, shaping your perceptions, and creating consequences that are as unwanted as they are difficult. This alternative no longer works. Our species is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Its consciousness is changing. Its perceptions are changing. Its values and goals are also changing. Individual by individual, old aspirations are being replaced by new. Comfort and influence are no longer goals that inspire, even those who live in poverty. The new goal is spiritual development. An awareness is emerging in millions of individuals that we are more than bodies and minds, more than enzymes and molecules, and that each of us is more than a temporary presence in the Universe. This awareness is transforming the human experience. As it does, the determination to explore every aspect of consciousness, and to cultivate those that contribute the most to Life, is replacing the desire to bury painful emotions. This requires emotional awareness. I am an author by choice, inclination, and aptitude. I love language. I love the rhythm and flow of words and sentences as they clothe ideas and give them expression. I love the challenge of writing without ambiguity, even though I know that is impossible. I know the slipperiness of language, and the delight of it. I know the limitations of my native language, and I honor the capabilities of other languages to shape thought and experience differently. I was born to know and use language. I am a fish and concept is my water. Shortly after I met Linda eight years ago she told me, "Beloved, language is my second language." Now we have cocreated a book together. Linda's language is relationship. She excels at empathic communication -- she is sensitive to others and she often knows what they feel. She swims confidently in a sea of emotion. Her challenge is articulate expression. Mine is consciousness of emotion. Both of us strive to create authentic power in our own lives -- the alignment of the personality with the soul. The list price for this book is $14.00. To purchase it for $11.20 at a 20% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0743234960/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------- *** BOOK EXCERPT: It Was Food vs. Me�and I Won � By Nancy Goodman *** -------------------------------------------- I had a wonderful life. I loved my husband and inhaled my children. I appreciated all that we had. I didn�t long for a change and actually wished it would stay the same. I was not unhappy about my life; I was unhappy about my weight. And I deplored my problems with food. In my mind there was no hope to ever live a life free of obsessions with food. I didn�t know anyone else who had this. I knew there were people with eating disorders who got too thin, vomited, or ate to obesity, but I had never heard of the kind of obsessing that I did. No one except my husband really knew, and he didn�t know what to make of it or how he could help. And with all he knew, he knew only half. I was at a fine weight if judged by the standards of others. I worked out a lot in order to counter what I had eaten, so I had a decent figure. The days following �bad� eating, I made sure to eat very little. This would average out my weight. During the days when the scale went up, I pulled away from my life. I hid behind my kids� activities, wore bigger clothes, and buried myself under my secret. As an adult, my weight had vacillated over the years. When I got married I was very thin, not that I could see it. I remember wishing I was just a bit thinner, and then I could have felt perfect. With my first pregnancy I put on more than forty pounds, and never lost all the weight. Depending on my binges and diets, I was between ten and fifteen pounds heavier than my prepregnancy weight. Had I been a hundred pounds more it wouldn�t have made a difference. To me, it was insurmountable. I used to look at thin people and decided they were one of two types. Either they were selfish or they were lucky, but both left me out of the picture. I would never be lucky enough not to need food, so forget any hope of that. And I would never allow myself that kind of freedom to let myself do what they did, whatever it was that they did. So forget hope of that one, too. My life with food felt like prison. I felt like an inmate serving a sentence for a crime he didn�t commit, waiting for some kind of break. Not able to understand how this could have happened to him, he dreams of the day he�ll be free. No matter how long he�s there, or how futile it seems, he has some hope of a release. One day someone will come to his cell, bang on the bars, and tell him it�s time to go home. I prayed that day would come. They say that prisoners, once free, repeat their crimes, due to a fear of life on the outside. Prison, while awful, has an element of safety due to the lack of choice and responsibility. It�s structured and dependable. Freedom, while exhilarating, can be frightening. It leaves the door open to trouble and bad decisions. Prison can feel protective. And so can food obsessions. To someone with eating and weight obsessions, food feels like living in an unsafe neighborhood, always in fear of attacks. It�s an unsafe world of your own obsessions. You can lock all the doors, close all the windows, but there�s nothing more to do. If they want to get in they�ll get in. The concept of life on the outside means taking full responsibility. The ex-convict would have to live honestly, and he hasn�t a clue how to do that. For an ex�food convict, what would life be like without the food or food concerns? Would it feel like there would be nothing to look forward to, boring and sort of empty? Would there be an absence of comfort? Or would a life without food be the solution to the one last problem? And which is worse, the fear of staying in the prison or the fear of getting out? Now that I�m living on the �outside,� I have some answers to those questions. Breaking out is hard. Very hard. But living inside is harder. Living inside is full of diets, magazines, books, scales, articles, mirrors, and sizes. It�s waiting for food, avoiding food, trying to cut something out. Living inside is searching for the answers. Maybe more protein, more exercise, cut out the bread and starches. Drink all liquids, fast for three days, find the latest herbs. Eat small portions, eat one meal a day, and never eat after six o�clock. Drink more water, avoid all sugar, and don�t mix food groups together. Get a two-hundred-dollar enema; you�ll lose three pounds in one day. And let�s not forget surgery and the latest remedies for fat. Staple it, stretch it, or suck it all out. Ask about a prescription; it�s so much less invasive. Inside is endless. Inside never works long-term. Successes are pounded down. Inside, too much self-esteem comes from one place. That place is thin and it�s never thin enough. The list price for this book is $21.95. To purchase it for $15.37 at a 30% discount from Amazon.com, go directly to http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=067003312X/selfimprovemeonlA/ -------------------------------------------------- *** BOOK REVIEW: Chicken Soup for the African American Soul: Celebrating and Sharing Our Culture One Story at a Time � By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Lisa Nichols, Tom Joyner *** ------------------------------------------------- This newest addition to the bestselling series features Chicken Soup's trademark stories in a "tribute to a culture that prides itself on survival, resiliency, healing, prayer and perseverance." This collection hits all those notes, with inspiring contributions from familiar names, including Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Maya Angelou, as well as heartfelt vignettes from everyday folks. While the writing quality varies, most essays are moving. Stories of helping others, of gifts received from strangers and of pursuing one's dreams speak to our common humanity. Yet the struggle of being black in America pervades this collection; many contributors discuss issues of identity, discrimination and injustice. Writers describe the difficulty of becoming comfortable in one's skin; of not being "a Black girl posing in a white girl get-up." Most writers also make clear that as they meet challenges, they honor the past and forge into the future: "[My father] has shown me that when a black man fulfills his own potential, he makes it possible for his future generations to come to the table and experience the world in a different and better way." Resonating throughout is the rallying cry of doing one's best, whatever the situation. While this volume speaks to a specific audience, it has lessons for everyone, including that "for folks of color, living with race isn't a choice, it just is." 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