Product Description
This title is about the power of positive thought - and about how negative thinking can wreck lives.Negative thinking is seen as a debilitati ng illness that will slowly kill your spirit - and for some people lead to actual physical disease. Happily though, this is not a doom-filled book at all! The authors show how to: eliminate the negative - spend less time thinking "down" and negative thoughts accentuate the positive - spend more time focussing on the positive things in your life and latch on to the affirmative - enjoy each moment! It contains inspirational, funny, and moving quotes. This book was written in part specially for those who have been diagnosed with severe illness. Negative thinking drags you down - whilst a truly positive approach will have a positive effect on your whole self - thus promoting good physical health. This title shows you how to focus on the positive.
Rate Points :4.5
Binding :Paperback
Label :Prelude Press
Manufacturer :Prelude Press
ProductGroup :Book
Studio :Prelude Press
Publisher :Prelude Press
EAN :9780931580246
Price :$7.95USD
Lowest Price :$4.04USD
Customer ReviewsEasy read with great results
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :1
I never thought of myself as a negative thinker but after reading this very funny, interesting and helpful book I now understand. Yes, I am a negative thinker but I dont have to remain so. This wonderful book explains what a negative thought is, how to evaluate your thinking and the best part, how to stop that distructive process.
This book is filled with thought provoking quotes, easy to understand explainations and practical advice and a wonderful sense of hope.
Not worth the time
Rating Point :1 Helpful Point :3
All in all, I was pretty disappointed with You Cant Afford. Their writing felt very light and airy, lacking in substance. It didnt help that every other page was completely blank save a quotation.
More troubling, theres a not-so-fine line between thinking positively and denying reality, and the authors here fall on the wrong side of it. Ironically, they acknowledge this line early in the book and pledge to heed it. Yet later in the book, for example, they encourage the reader to deal with painful memories by simply imagining how they would have liked things to go and dwelling on that. I found this invitation to denial insulting in more than one way.
My final verdict: Dont bother with this one.
Help and Hope for Finding the Positive Side of Life
Rating Point :5 Helpful Point :0
There is a ton of inspiration, plus humor and wit, packed into these 500-plus pages. Author Peter McWilliams, writes in the introduction "This is not a book just for people with life-threatening illnesses. Its a book for anyone afflicted with one of the primary diseases of our time: negative thinking."
Although published in 1995, the message is timeless. The quotes by famous people that are scattered throughout the book, are thought-provoking and uplifting. "There is no failure except in no longer trying."- Elbert Hubbard. "A man needs a purpose for real health."-Sherwood Anderson.
"Do what you can, with what you have, with where you are."- Theodore Roosevelt. "Most of the time we think were sick, its all in the mind."- Thomas Wolfe.
McWilliams asserts "Negative thinking is always expensive-dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically-hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury. When, however, we have the symptoms of a life-threatening illness-be it AIDS, heart trouble, cancer, high blood pressure, or any of the others- negative thinking is a luxury we can no longer afford."
McWilliams exhaustively explores "The Disease of Negative Thinking," in sections such as "The Power of Thoughts" and "The Addictive Quality of Negative Thinking."
He delves into "The Cure" with his thoughts on "Strengthening Your Intention to Live," "You Can Have Anything You Want-Just Not Everything You Want," "The Willingness to Change," "Choose Well Your Companions,"
etc.
The book has an excellent index, which helps the reader refer back to favorite parts. This is a book to keep handy, which offers something new upon each re-reading. Excellent advice for overcoming negative thinking. Highly recommended!
An easy to read, entertaining book on positive thinking
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :3
I got this book from the library during a very low point in my life. I didnt really have any faith that it would help, but I was desperate. As it turns out, I was pleasantly surprised by how much better I felt after reading it.
McWilliams does sometimes employ overused pep-talk truisms and occasionally plugs one of his other books (hes written many), but every time I was tempted to put the book down, the next paragraph would keep me reading. Soon I was noting down passages nearly every other page, and in the end, after wanting to copy the whole last chapter, I decided to buy the book so I could dip into it the next time I was feeling down.
In my opinion, the book is saved from its minor flaws by the extremely easy to read format (short chapters, a large-font quote every few pages) and the authors wry tone and practical advice he knows positive thinking is hard for some of us some of the time - as a cancer survivor, hes been there - but he encourages the reader to take responsibility for his or her attitude and come out stronger on the other side.
Part comic, part persuader, part tough-love coach, McWilliams doesnt produce a flawless book here, but it IS well worth reading.
Makes you think
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :0
I am about half way through this book and I really like it so far. I recommend it for anybody that may think they have an issue with negative thinking. It makes the reader think about things in a different perspective and I love the quotes too. Thanks
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