Product reviews for Their Finest Hour

Deborah Rose, Therapeutic Hynotherapist for Stress Free Caring In the City, a WellBeing and Training Membership organisation for Social workers and Social care workers
This book is a book for therapists! The book gave me chills of appreciation. As I gently, realised that the manuscript, brings together the smallest experiences of Master Therapists, adding them up into a big picture for us. I discovered how we all do things a little different in so many small ways. I had a small yet growing smile that was lighting up my whole face as I sat and read it. It's a good feeling book as it lights you up, as you concentrate on how the Masters focused with so much enthusiasm on their work. I really enjoyed it, as it put on view all the smallest, hidden emotions of how Masters have fun keeping on course whilst dealing with smallest, lasting challenging situations. All of which just connects up with a lot of what many people I know who I talk with within the Healing Arts. How to deal with the small little issues that keep reoccurring. As I read this, I can also connect up other small experiences, and feel very grateful to the authors for bringing all these pieces of working into one place. Into one substantial place, which sends you back out into your work place with a new set of powerful tools. I am so grateful to authors of each small chapter, who so generously open up and allow you to learn from their deepest mistakes and learn through their own eyes, about how they reversed them. Each story, building up into an enormous, immense example of good practice.

As a reader I felt myself wanting to repeatedly sing its biggest praises, as you can see I am doing right now. I found myself blooming like a flower. Growing. Reading each small chapter gave me the confidence to feel like I too was mastering the smallest steps. This mastery of the small seems to be at the heart of the book. I could feel the immense power of the love of their work, from the tiny, unseen steps that each Master took. It's like reading a melodious book that sings. With all its small ups and downs.

It's the title, which is awesome, because it gives you the secret. That the book is powered by the small, compelling changes that each therapist has taken. Feeding back, on its self, creative and consciously renewing itself, expressing the mind of the therapist. And in that conscious field is built into it is intent. And in it the book introduces intent. Which connects everything to everything else, which is a force in nature? This cannot come from the ego. It comes from a place which no longer needs approval. That is what each of the small chapters in a series of detailed, smallest moments of examples of successes demonstrates.

Success with a difference, because they equally show where the biggest failures occurred and how 'turnaround approaches' have been implemented from smallest, smallest smallest steps. Looking at the smallest minutes and adding them all together. The meaning and enjoyment from the tiny successes, which have in fact resulted in the mastery of 'their finest hour'.

The title immediate helps you, the reader to take yourself out of the ordinary and to identify with thinking highly of yourself. Each small chapter looks at a different therapist. It is a proud history of Icons of the therapeutic world. The tiniest steps, the small trivial steps that begin to move you in the right direction and to calm down the issues. When you see each small chapter that way, then just by reading it you will help you to recall your own finest moments? It's a passionate book, enthusiastically giving your attention the most positive ways that healing can occur for the most challenging situation. If you are uncomfortable with your own magnificent, it's worth reading this. If you are comfortable with our own brilliance, obvious or emerging, it generously opens you up to feeling more and more comfort with recreating a new paradigm.

Its so different from so many books, which indirectly reprimand, reproach, reprove or rebuke you for not doing something, in stead this book, just lights you up as a reader because you really connect to the ups and downs that all therapist. You focus on their feelings of happiness, comfort, security, well-being, ease and contentment. It is this focus that the book has that switches your attention to nourishing yourself about how in different ways you too are experiencing your finest hour.

The book goes beyond the petty, beyond the overblown egos, beyond the conflicts, beyond misunderstanding, beyond .It's a gathering of humility stories. Each chapter is another humble offering from a Master therapist. That's the smallest part of the books pleasures which come forward fro the smallest of moments. Success is how you collect your minutes. This book is a collection of the small tiny successes which have come from these Masters. I take pleasure in the smallest of these successes and the simplest, small natural less dramatic things in therapy.

This review has become a set of specific compliments, because I appreciate the each and every master in the book. Each one has performed like a dream in the examples they provide. Each describe them in a way that makes you feel like a rock star, because you can imagine yourself being able to do just what they did. They really generously give you energy to really connect you, to light you up and helps you to make the connections for yourself.
Guest | 11/11/2008 00:00
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