Today’s Book:
Getting into the Vortex Guided Meditations CD and User Guide
By Esther and Jerry Hicks
At the very beginning of this book, Jerry Hicks appeals to the reader in two ways.
The first way is to ask that, although you may REALLY want to get down to the meditation CD, please read the first section of the book FIRST and then listen to the corresponding meditation.
The second is to ask that, if you’re going to share their work, please do so in its entirety. In other words, please don’t just upload the meditation CD and give it away. Give the whole CD AND the users manual with it…. And that’s what I intend to do.
More on how YOU can get this book and meditation CD for free after my review :)
Both the book and the CD are split into 4 different parts.
* General Well-being
* Financial Abundance
* Physical Well-being
* Relationships
They recommend you read and listen to the sections in the order they’re presented, and so that’s what I did.
I sometimes find Abraham-Hicks books a little hard to read. Sometimes I think I get lost in the translation. Not that I’m translating for myself, but Esther translates Abraham, and I have a hard time following her. It’s only in print that I have this trouble though. I love her voice and before this CD, I’d watched her on youtube tons.
I wouldn’t recommend this book as someone’s introduction to Abraham only because I think that the printed text is easier to follow after having heard the way Esther speaks.
I DID enjoy the book. It was exactly what it says. A user guide for the meditation CD.
The sections are short and they’re presented in a very digestible way. A positive, affirmational type statement is made at the top of the page, and then the rest of open book face space is a short expansion on the beginning statement. And there’s only like 16 statements per section.
Short and digestible.
Once I began listening to my first meditation, I recognized some of the phrases Esther was saying and realized that she was saying the affirmational statements from the book. And because I’d read the expanded portions before I listened, I DO feel like the words meant more to me than they might have otherwise.
Each section is about exactly what their titles imply. I do, however, want to make a special note about the relationships section. This section isn’t just about love. It’s not just about your mate. It’s about how you relate to other people and how you relate to yourself. It’s not to be brushed past or overlooked simply because you’re not seeking a relationship.
Now, the meditations…
It is stated in the book that “Through the hearing of our words in your relaxed state of allowing, you will allow the gentle tuning of your Vibrational frequency to match the frequency of your Source.
This will not be an exercise of effort or trying, but instead an exercise of releasing and allowing…gently allowing yourself to be who-you-really-are.”
I found this to be quite accurate. For the first 5 minutes of my first meditation I had a hard time following the music with my breath and listening to the words. I had to stop trying to listen to the words and almost tune them out and only hear the music. Then I found the rhythm and began to hear the words again.
The second meditation I went through the exact same process.
The third meditation was another similar process only this time, it went faster. I relaxed faster and was able to release and allow easier.
The fourth meditation was even faster.
Then the next day, when I went back to the first meditation, I found that as soon as I started to hear the music and breathe, I was immediately in “The Vortex.”
I intend to continue with the daily meditations. They’re a very pleasant way to get a timed, fifteen minute meditation in each day.
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Now about getting YOUR copy of this book and CD that I got for free!!
Having read this book, I would like to pass it along to someone else. The whole program is too great to keep to myself, so I want to give everyone an opportunity to WIN it!
Here’s what I propose. I am wishing to expand my audience, so I am asking everybody to put me out there in cyber-land.
First, mention my blog and link back to me here at http://www.TheSmilingSpirit.com
Then send an email to ElBaugher@TheSmilingSpirit.com with FREE BOOK in the subject line. Please include your name, email address, and a link to where you placed the link to my blog.
On November 28th, in the next Half Moon Book Review *), I will announce the winner! All entries will be accepted until 11:59pm on 11-27-2010 and the drawing will be totally random.
