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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
This book has profoundly shaped me, altering the way I view the world and teaching me to embrace everything with an open heart. In particular, the section 'Day 10: Magic Dust Everyone' has deeply influenced my understanding and acceptance of human behaviour. This is a book worth reading in your lifetime.
If you're interested in a detailed summary, I highly recommend visiting this site for an in-depth exploration: https://scoreread.com/28-day-journey-with-the-magic-by-rhonda-byrne/.
Trust me, you'll fall in love with this book just as I have.
If you're interested in a detailed summary, I highly recommend visiting this site for an in-depth exploration: https://scoreread.com/28-day-journey-with-the-magic-by-rhonda-byrne/.
Trust me, you'll fall in love with this book just as I have.
I haven’t read her other books, but this 28 day gratitude practice felt intentional and good to do. My friend started the challenge, it felt like something that would be good for me. I’ve never been successful at any form of daily gratitude practice, but writing down 10 things each morning, including the “why” and saying thank you to each was different. I think it was because I had to think of why I was grateful for the thing.
The chapters included additional daily practices on how to infuse your life with gratitude. Practices for gratitude around relationships, food, money, self, future desires, services and many others opened my eyes to the many things I could see and be grateful for.
It really did help me! I needed to feel a bit more hope, and trust in God and this helped me see all the details, the miracles, and the gifts that are just sent my way. I’ve been happier.
If you need something the change your life, I’d recommend this. I “really liked it” because the effect it had on me, but each chapter was repetitive in explaining the “magic”
Of the day and I got bored so I skimmed in spots. It might be a 3.5. But still, the work was worth it.
The chapters included additional daily practices on how to infuse your life with gratitude. Practices for gratitude around relationships, food, money, self, future desires, services and many others opened my eyes to the many things I could see and be grateful for.
It really did help me! I needed to feel a bit more hope, and trust in God and this helped me see all the details, the miracles, and the gifts that are just sent my way. I’ve been happier.
If you need something the change your life, I’d recommend this. I “really liked it” because the effect it had on me, but each chapter was repetitive in explaining the “magic”
Of the day and I got bored so I skimmed in spots. It might be a 3.5. But still, the work was worth it.
She can’t be serious.
Reading this was a harrowing experience. I initially started it in a kind of blind stupor - being promised incredible, life-altering possibilities, all of my wildest dreams come true - all with the simple practice of gratitude. She punctuates every chapter with quotations from the world’s most highly successful, motivational figures who have done well in their lives, so much so that I very narrowly missed that this is nuts! By the fourth chapter or so, I started to feel sick. Gratitude is a cornerstone of basic human decency. It is a profound, life-enhancing way of experiencing the world, and it can feel like magic, but is very importantly not magic itself.
I feel it is horrifically irresponsible, bordering on immoral, to say that all of a person’s circumstances can be changed simply through the act of gratitude. I don’t mean to say that being thankful isn’t important or life-affirming, but that one’s material reality is often not directly influenced by one’s capacity for gratitude. There is a fine line in distinguishing these things, and she crosses it, and runs a couple miles. For instance, what is a decent person to make of this:
“If enough people felt gratitude for food and water, it would actually help the people who are starving and in great need. By the law of the attraction [sic], and Newton’s law of action and reaction, the action of mass gratitude must produce an equal mass reaction, which would change the circumstances of scarcity of food and water for everyone on the planet.”
Perhaps it is true that a planet-wide adoption of unyielding gratitude would fix nearly every starving community, but her careless framing of the situation, along with the delusional claims of “magicalness” end up blaming the starving for their own empty stomachs.
Furthermore, it is clear by about the fifth chapter or so that there are only a handful of ideas holding this book together, and she stretches them past their breaking point. Repeating over and again the same bullshit about how gratitude will magically pull your dream life out of her ass, and it becomes clear that this is just another blind cash-grab of a self-help book. This magical concept of gratitude that she will not stop butchering is her means of quickly making a pay-day through promising whatever it is you want, no care for the genuinely needy, nor any sincere attempt at gratitude.
Or maybe she is simply one of the most blissfully, delusional people to have made it to this green earth.
Reading this was a harrowing experience. I initially started it in a kind of blind stupor - being promised incredible, life-altering possibilities, all of my wildest dreams come true - all with the simple practice of gratitude. She punctuates every chapter with quotations from the world’s most highly successful, motivational figures who have done well in their lives, so much so that I very narrowly missed that this is nuts! By the fourth chapter or so, I started to feel sick. Gratitude is a cornerstone of basic human decency. It is a profound, life-enhancing way of experiencing the world, and it can feel like magic, but is very importantly not magic itself.
I feel it is horrifically irresponsible, bordering on immoral, to say that all of a person’s circumstances can be changed simply through the act of gratitude. I don’t mean to say that being thankful isn’t important or life-affirming, but that one’s material reality is often not directly influenced by one’s capacity for gratitude. There is a fine line in distinguishing these things, and she crosses it, and runs a couple miles. For instance, what is a decent person to make of this:
“If enough people felt gratitude for food and water, it would actually help the people who are starving and in great need. By the law of the attraction [sic], and Newton’s law of action and reaction, the action of mass gratitude must produce an equal mass reaction, which would change the circumstances of scarcity of food and water for everyone on the planet.”
Perhaps it is true that a planet-wide adoption of unyielding gratitude would fix nearly every starving community, but her careless framing of the situation, along with the delusional claims of “magicalness” end up blaming the starving for their own empty stomachs.
Furthermore, it is clear by about the fifth chapter or so that there are only a handful of ideas holding this book together, and she stretches them past their breaking point. Repeating over and again the same bullshit about how gratitude will magically pull your dream life out of her ass, and it becomes clear that this is just another blind cash-grab of a self-help book. This magical concept of gratitude that she will not stop butchering is her means of quickly making a pay-day through promising whatever it is you want, no care for the genuinely needy, nor any sincere attempt at gratitude.
Or maybe she is simply one of the most blissfully, delusional people to have made it to this green earth.
it was great, but I felt like since I’ve been researching manifestation my whole life I already knew most of this. I would recommend this book to a beginner Manifester but I also just kind of lost motivation since there were stuff you had to do each day and I just didn’t feel like it.
Inspiring...makes you change the way you view the outside world and you learn more about yourself. I always thought I was a pretty positive person. When I used some of the exercises for positive thinking I came to the harsh reality that I had more negative thoughts than positive. I catch myself faster now. Working on some change over here. What can I say, my mind is under construction lol.
It's hard to review a book like this. It's so astronomically bad I find it difficult to start. I began reading this book as it was generously gifted to me by a friend. This book apparently helped my friend a great deal, and I'm glad that it has. It was because of this I started reading with genuine curiousity. I wanted to enjoy this book. I wanted to do it with her. I wanted to be able to share this journey with her. But it was not to be. This friend had recommended other books to me, along the same kind of genre, that I had really enjoyed. Books based on psychology and philosophy. Books with studies and actual *references*. You can't just say 'according to a study' and expect me to swallow whatever you say next as gospel truth.
The psuedo science alone is enough to drive me insane. The author's stunning lack of understanding of the laws of physics shine brightly through every single analogy that dares to mention the universe, or god forbid, gravity. (Spoiler alert, Rhonda, we already know how gravity works.)
I found the book had the potential to be more than a little ableist as well. Several chapters were dedicated to things like; being grateful for being able to walk! (Not every one can.); Being able to see (See before); and being able to hear (see before). Apparently poor health is something that you can just *wish* away by being grateful. Not only is this wildly inaccurate, but I can't help but feel for those who have poor health, who might read this and actually fall for it. I'm not saying there aren't medical miracles. I'm not saying that the placebo affect isn't real, 'there are studies' that suggest otherwise. But telling someone to be grateful for something they don't have seems to me like a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
Not only this but I found Rhonda's talk on relationships to be potentially dangerous. In a shitty relationship? Just *be grateful* for it, and it will be all better. No! Sometimes relationships are shitty and you just need to get the hell out of it.
And lets not even get into the magic rock, the sprinkling of magic dust and the Magic Check (A blank check from the Universe to bank when you're grateful enough for this money to 'magically come into your life'.).
Maybe this book was lost on me because I feel like I am naturally a grateful person. Maybe it was the poor writing and the severe lack of any actual research (annoying anecdotes of your shopping trips are NOT evidence to your claims). Maybe it was the bible quote she misinterpreted to suit her agenda then continued to paraphrase the entire way through the book. Either way, I did not enjoy this book. Thankfully I only had to read one chapter a day, else I'm not sure I'd have made it through.
If this book has helped you, then don't listen to me, what do I know. But unfortunately I don't feel like this book is worth the paper it's written on.
The psuedo science alone is enough to drive me insane. The author's stunning lack of understanding of the laws of physics shine brightly through every single analogy that dares to mention the universe, or god forbid, gravity. (Spoiler alert, Rhonda, we already know how gravity works.)
I found the book had the potential to be more than a little ableist as well. Several chapters were dedicated to things like; being grateful for being able to walk! (Not every one can.); Being able to see (See before); and being able to hear (see before). Apparently poor health is something that you can just *wish* away by being grateful. Not only is this wildly inaccurate, but I can't help but feel for those who have poor health, who might read this and actually fall for it. I'm not saying there aren't medical miracles. I'm not saying that the placebo affect isn't real, 'there are studies' that suggest otherwise. But telling someone to be grateful for something they don't have seems to me like a poke in the eye with a blunt stick.
Not only this but I found Rhonda's talk on relationships to be potentially dangerous. In a shitty relationship? Just *be grateful* for it, and it will be all better. No! Sometimes relationships are shitty and you just need to get the hell out of it.
And lets not even get into the magic rock, the sprinkling of magic dust and the Magic Check (A blank check from the Universe to bank when you're grateful enough for this money to 'magically come into your life'.).
Maybe this book was lost on me because I feel like I am naturally a grateful person. Maybe it was the poor writing and the severe lack of any actual research (annoying anecdotes of your shopping trips are NOT evidence to your claims). Maybe it was the bible quote she misinterpreted to suit her agenda then continued to paraphrase the entire way through the book. Either way, I did not enjoy this book. Thankfully I only had to read one chapter a day, else I'm not sure I'd have made it through.
If this book has helped you, then don't listen to me, what do I know. But unfortunately I don't feel like this book is worth the paper it's written on.
informative
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Good to realise how much we have in our lives already.