Decent book. Pretty much mirrors my massage school curriculum when it comes to the description of anatomy, movement, and massage technique. I picked up a number of tools I can use. The DVD is terrible that accompanies so don’t buy it for that reason. I’m finally on my path to being more a body master that can help people. Massage is always something I’ve loved recieving and giving.

That said, it was NOT a waste of my time. Most of the book was unhelpful to me because I have been learning to do this all of my life, the book gave very few examples or lessons on how to apply, and there were no good case studies presented until the very end (and even then there were only two). I did learn though how to think on this topic properly. That is, long term. And I did learn that…

I haven’t listened to Joseph Cambell speak much and wouldn’t mind hearing some more now. This deserves another go through also. One of my top favorites for relisten on Audible now. Yesterday I went to my massage therapist’s office for the first time in a spell and there on a table in the lobby was a hard back version of this. Good sign! I had just finished it the day prior.

I kid. This book was published in 2009. The perfect time probably for the author, assuming all those who’d be interested at the time still had money enough left to buy a book after the market crash.

I learned to think more broadly in terms of the mass being the market and making it, one way or the other, collectively. And maybe how to pay attention for and notice what the market may be saying about itself psychologically. Many solid historical…

This book I’ve known about for many years. Most likely when it was published in 2014. This most likely through conversations with people in yoga. I’ve now owned it for several years as well. The promt to read it now was having expereicned a kind of trauma, observing a loved one experience (and relive old traumas in the present), and going through more fucking trauam (lol) with a group of men earlier this year. In addition,…

My second from the same author. Both excellent to listen to vs read. Many use the principles herein to give some guide marks on whether markets are overbought or oversold. However, this is not for the typical ups and downs in the market that are caused by one of any 100 factors, often at once. I feel this is mostly useful in understanding the psychology of past major overbought and oversold territory…

This was recommended to me by Kaila in my massage therapy course. I’ve been impressed with her intellect and grasp of deep psychological and spiritual matters and noticed she’s also shared she wants to focus on what she can use and not get too caught up in the mass of information out there. She mentioned this book the first time we spoke and a couple weeks later reminded me that she had. So, I ordered it within the hour. The one thing I can personally do without, well two, are all the astrology…

The stoics had such a simply wonderful way of reminding themselves and others of the reality of time, death, and making the best use of what they can with what they have. Of thinking on those things which they can control and not on anything else. And in doing so, they were able to get rid of a host of unnecessary thought, fear, worry, anxiety, wrong action, and self-sabotage and, instead, to be in the present moment, to manage their circumstances, and have a greater impact on their circumstances whatever they be…

Compliance officers intend on making you compliant to think and vote and buy and buy more of whatever they wish. And you most likely will unless you are aware of the many ways to make you compliant and the reasons that you will find it difficult to resist. This was recommended by my investor group. It has implications for the mind of an investor in a market ever under the rule of the mass mind, short sellers, politicians, etc.

Amor Fati is a love of fate. One thing I’ve known for many years now is that whatever happened was supposed to happen exactly the way it happened simply because it happened. Could it have been some other way? Here we birth anxiety of many forms. Instead, why not accept the correct answer may just be…

I didn’t know until a man close to me was addicted to 40-50 ambien per day, dosing several times during the day just to lower anxiety. Unbelievable insantiy. Today this man said to me that he would not have gone to rehab without me. I can’t really describe the level of stress this caused me then, or that I encountered from taking this on at the time. And I did not know how much I had to learn…

Most begin here/end here. I am grateful for this gift from a partner in my life. And I read and finished it just in time.

A man can bear almost any how with a why. And Frankl certianly did. My first of his was his more well known “Man’s Search for Meaning”…

This was one of the most pivotal/impactful spiritual reads of my life to date. What a jewel. I am in God and God is in me, inseparable, never having been separate. This was part of my nightly reading stack for about a year maybe and it was difficult to have to complete. I plan to keep it close by and revisit favorites.

I was drawn to this because a good friend and I went through and spoke (a lot) about some of the topics here. Saw her on the Mel Robbins podcast and wanted to dive in some more…

Stories, aphorisms, Sufi wisdom. I enjoyed this. And it was challenging in part because it forced me to slow down to follow the language at times and to find, to wonder at the meanings. Though some were quite obvious. A jewel. Though often the good parts were diamonds in the rough it felt at times.

This one will go on my list of books to listen to again when the market crashes, when the market rises to awesome heights, when the market is boring the hell out of me. In all cases, it provides the orientation of mind, the structure of thought, backed up by experience and real life lessons from many years of investment experience.

I don’t mean to be too harsh, Edna. For what you taught me, “I’ll not soon forget.” That is, that for a writer and a poet to succeed, a million failures are necessary. To me that is what this collection was. For sparsely there would be an ahha! poem…

What a great book to get my mind set on the long term. I need this and it surely takes retooling of past habbits. Disciplined process and emotional constitution. Right selection…

This is a wonderful picture of Adlerian Psychology, so far as I know. It was my first intro to Adler save for once in college a friend had shares ideas with our then group…