Second Sight: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How to Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom

SECOND SIGHT: An Intuitive Psychiatrist Tells Her Extraordinary Story and Shows You How to Tap Your Own Inner Wisdom (Three Rivers Press, $15) is the perfect book to awaken your intuition and inspire you to act on it.

We live in an over-intellectualized society where too many people are stuck in their heads. An Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, Dr. Judith Orloff is a bridge between traditional medicine and the intuitive/spiritual realm. In Second Sight she helps us open to a part of us with a much wider vision than the linear mind: our inner voice.

Second Sight reads like a thriller. It is a page-turner that's hard to put down.

This pioneering book shares the struggles and well-won successes of a courageous physician who fights against a skeptical medical system to validate the power of intuition. This book will assure anyone who ever thought they were weird or crazy for having intuitive experiences that they are not.

In Part One, "Initiations," Dr. Orloff describes being an intuitive child who had premonitions about deaths and illnesses that frightened her and her physician-parents--so much so they forbade her to discuss them at home. Judith grew up believing there was something wrong with her. This part of the book is extremely personal and frank. In riveting detail she describes how an ignored premonition of a patient's suicide attempt convinced her to get beyond her fears and integrate intuition into her medical practice. And the chapter "Female Lineage" also shares the "family secret" about intuition that her mother told her on her deathbed. You'll discover what that secret is when you read the book.

In Part Two, "Teachings," Second Sight shows you effective ways to cultivate your natural intuitive abilities including how to recognize intuitive experiences in daily life such as déjà vus and synchronicities. There are particularly touching chapters on remembering dreams and embracing the spiritual path of the intuitive. She describes intuition as an outgrowth of spiritual evolution and an expansion of the heart--not just as information your pick up to win the lottery.

Second Sight is the rare book that is both inspiring and controversial. You will find a new friend in Judith as her writing style is as intimate as if she was talking to you in her living room. In this revised edition with a new introduction by Judith, Second Sight will challenge to reexamine your assumptions about the parameters of the human mind--and your own wondrous potential.

Book review by Joan Borysenko Phd, a pioneer in Mind-Body Medicine, author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind

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Decision Points by George W. Bush

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings readers inside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America’s most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq; and behind the Oval Office desk for his historic and controversial decisions on the financial crisis, Hurricane Katrina, Afghanistan, Iran, and other issues that have shaped the first decade of the 21st century.

President Bush writes honestly and directly about his flaws and mistakes, as well as his accomplishments reforming education, treating HIV/AIDS in Africa, and safeguarding the country amid chilling warnings of additional terrorist attacks. He also offers intimate new details on his decision to quit drinking, discovery of faith, and relationship with his family.

A groundbreaking new brand of memoir, Decision Points will captivate supporters, surprise critics, and change perspectives on one of the most consequential eras in American history – and the man at the center of events.

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Brian Tracy's - How to Write a Book

How to write a book – Brian’s 20 steps

1.  Start with a message, idea, story that you really want to share with other people.

2.  You must be an expert on your subject.  You must know 10 words for every word you write.  If you write on success, you must already be successful.  If you write on money, you must already be rich.  If you write on relationships, you must already be happily married.

3.  Define your target market, exactly who are you writing this book for?

4.  Make sure that your market is large enough, containing 100,000 to 1,000,000 potential book buyers.

5.  Buy, read, find out everything you can about other authors, books or articles dealing with the same subject.  Make sure your material is different and better in at least three ways.

6.  Gather all the information that you will need to write your book.  Do your research and homework before you start to write.

7.  Organize your material into seven, ten, twelve or twenty-one chapters, each following in a logical order, from beginning to end.

8.  Write out every key point in each chapter on a legal sized writing pad.

9.  Organize your points from #1 through to the closing part of the chapter.  Do this for every chapter until you have a separate "down dump" of all the key ideas.

10.  Begin with Chapter 1 and dictate the book in the order of material you have chosen.

11.  Once you have dictated the entire book, have a typist type it out and give if back to you by email or disc for your computer.

12.  Set up a work schedule with block of time of two, three or four hours.  Discipline yourself to sit at the keyboard and edit during this time.

13.  Edit the entire book from front to back the first time.  Cor4rect the grammar and typing errors.  Create the necessary paragraphs.  This is the longest, hardest job of editing in the whole book.

14.  Write an introduction, a Preface and Acknowledgements if necessary.

15.  In your second edit, break up the text with a heading every 2, 3, 4 paragraphs.  Make is "bite-sized" and easy to read.

16.  In your third edit, place a quote at the beginning of each chapter.  Create three, five or seven action steps at the end of each chapter if it is a self-help or educational book.

17.  In your fourth and edit, which will take much less time, polish the sentences, delete unnecessary material, make final corrections. 

18.  In your fifth and final edit, completely reread the entire book from cover to cover.  This takes the least amount of time of all.

19.  The entire process about requires 50-100 hours of work, once you have gathered all your material.

20.  Always play gentle classical music in the background.  Best of all, get headphones and listen to classical music while you work.  Music makes you more alert, creative and fluent.

How to Write a Book