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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
by Joe Dispenza
This book had been sitting on my shelf for a while and after an intense chronic pain flare up, I decided to finally pick it up and start reading. After all, I've heard a lot of people who have healed from chronic pain and illness swear by this book. So, what did I have to lose?
When I first started reading this book, honestly, I was incredibly impressed. I felt like it was opening my mind and allowing me to see the possibility of healing. Reading stories about people who were worse off than me, move into a place where they're healed and thriving was extremely motivating.
However, as I reached the midpoint, specifically at the Mind Movies chapter, I realised one important thing: I'm being sold something.
I started to realise that the genuine useful techniques were being completely overshadowed by the quickly unbearable amount of self-promotion. Even with the meditations he suggested, you're expected to buy them for $25 each. Per 50 minute meditation. And he constantly talks about his workshops (which, when I searched up a UK workshop of his, was utterly shocked to find it cost over £700). Taking advantage of people who are ill and suffering, knowing that so many people with chronic illness find it difficult to maintain paying jobs, is something I can never get behind. Nor would I ever trust someone who partakes in that.
That being said, I do agree with his messages and the ideas that he presents. As a spiritual person, I found that he reaffirmed a lot of ideas that I already believed to be true. I even found some of his meditations helpful (I was able to find some elsewhere online for free and tried the heart meditation unguided). I would even go as far as to saying that the book has encouraged me to enter a more positive mindset which, in turn, is helping me heal. However, it's not the quick and painless process that he seems to make it out to be. And I would encourage anyone looking to heal from chronic illness to look beyond just his work and try different methods.
Honestly, I was going to write how I believe overall the book is a mixed bag. However, the last few chapters were fascinating and brought me back into it. When he focuses on the research and the science, and uses it to encourage the reader, that's when this book really pulls you in. And I genuinely feel more positive and determined after reading this book. Although I understand the need to promote his workshops and other books, I do wish there was less focus on this aspect as it completely detached me from the messaging at times. And is why I can't bring myself to rate this higher than 3 stars.
If you feel this book may be useful then I'd say go ahead and read it. Try to look past the promotion and allow yourself to be open-minded. I absolutely love his meditations and I found the information around the unified field incredibly interesting. Always remember to trial and error different techniques and that healing is possible, but healing takes time. It isn't pretty but its completely worth it.
When I first started reading this book, honestly, I was incredibly impressed. I felt like it was opening my mind and allowing me to see the possibility of healing. Reading stories about people who were worse off than me, move into a place where they're healed and thriving was extremely motivating.
However, as I reached the midpoint, specifically at the Mind Movies chapter, I realised one important thing: I'm being sold something.
I started to realise that the genuine useful techniques were being completely overshadowed by the quickly unbearable amount of self-promotion. Even with the meditations he suggested, you're expected to buy them for $25 each. Per 50 minute meditation. And he constantly talks about his workshops (which, when I searched up a UK workshop of his, was utterly shocked to find it cost over £700). Taking advantage of people who are ill and suffering, knowing that so many people with chronic illness find it difficult to maintain paying jobs, is something I can never get behind. Nor would I ever trust someone who partakes in that.
That being said, I do agree with his messages and the ideas that he presents. As a spiritual person, I found that he reaffirmed a lot of ideas that I already believed to be true. I even found some of his meditations helpful (I was able to find some elsewhere online for free and tried the heart meditation unguided). I would even go as far as to saying that the book has encouraged me to enter a more positive mindset which, in turn, is helping me heal. However, it's not the quick and painless process that he seems to make it out to be. And I would encourage anyone looking to heal from chronic illness to look beyond just his work and try different methods.
Honestly, I was going to write how I believe overall the book is a mixed bag. However, the last few chapters were fascinating and brought me back into it. When he focuses on the research and the science, and uses it to encourage the reader, that's when this book really pulls you in. And I genuinely feel more positive and determined after reading this book. Although I understand the need to promote his workshops and other books, I do wish there was less focus on this aspect as it completely detached me from the messaging at times. And is why I can't bring myself to rate this higher than 3 stars.
If you feel this book may be useful then I'd say go ahead and read it. Try to look past the promotion and allow yourself to be open-minded. I absolutely love his meditations and I found the information around the unified field incredibly interesting. Always remember to trial and error different techniques and that healing is possible, but healing takes time. It isn't pretty but its completely worth it.