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In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim - 'to be absurdly happy every day'. But a few years down the road, she's stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she'd intended. There's only one way to get out of the hole: throw out the ideas that landed her there and start over. So, using the ancient Chinese tradition of the five elements of life - Metal, Fire, Wood, Water, Earth - Isabel breaks her own life down to its essentials to explore five areas of inner and outer change. She calls in a feng shui consultant to discover that her bedroom decor is 'draining the father' (whatever that means)...takes a motivational workshop to experience the power of 'doing'...turns a silent meditation retreat into an exercise in unrelenting 'being'...sits at the feet of a Brixton guru to examine the nature of mind...and undertakes a shamanic ritual in the Amazon to part company with her own mind completely. As rich as the book is in the particulars of a life hilariously lived, it's also universal: readers can see themselves in Isabel's experience and look at their lives with new eyes. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)133.3337Philosophy and Psychology Parapsychology And Occultism Specific Topics Divination; Oracles; Second sight; Omens; Predictions Divination Using Symbols Geomancy (including Feng Shui) Feng ShuiValoraciónPromedio:
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When Isabel Losada feels as if she is stuck in a pot-hole, she decides to try five methods of digging herself out, starting by hiring 3 different feng shui consultants to analyse her house. She follows this up with a four-day Anthony Robbins seminar, a ten-day silent meditation retreat, attending meetings with a guru in Brixton, and finally by taking a hallucinogenic drug administered by a shaman during a trip to the Peruvian rainforest.
Part of me feels like a dog that was promised a special meal and gobbled it down trustingly only to find that it had been horribly poisoned. That’s not so much what I feel like – that’s what happened. But of course I do not allow a vicious snake to crawl out of the tent. Just a battered Isabel. ‘How are you this morning?’ asks Dilwyn, looking full of the joys of spring, as if he’s just heard that he had a large win on the lottery. ‘I’m glad to be alive, Dilwyn,’ I say, quite calmly. He misses, or ignores, the strong undercurrent of hissing.
I like the way the author describes her adventures humorously but without mockery, and manages to take something positive from each experience, even if she did not really enjoy it at the time. ( )