Very helpful and so much information!

This is a tool and I use it as such. I read the book but for the most part I just use the list of emotions in the back. I usually don't use the script in the book which has been updated and revised, but process things on my own. This is a book that was on my grandmothers shelf and now on my mother's and sister's.

I read this book a few years back and it helped me greatly. It has a script in it that you use to help change from the inside...it works :) I am reading this book again due to recent issues that have come up personally.

I like the title of this book more than I like the actual book (:

Wow. I wish I found this book years ago. At least I found it now. Everyone should read it and apply it. It’s life changing.

Oh my, horrible book.

First of all, the lack of editing was horrendous. There were mix-ups between "its" and "it's," capitalizing of letters to stress a point, weird misspellings . . .

Secondly, the book seemed to claim one thing and then immediately jump to something else without realizing that the one refuted the other.

Third, once I got to the book's trick to unburying feelings, I just laughed out loud. It seemed so quacky, I wondered why anyone would do it. Basically, you pray to your body to find the buried feelings behind physical problems, and then you say something like, "I want to be confident, I feel like I'm confident, I am confident!" Wow. Wow. Wow.

Fourth, I can definitely see how emotional problems can lead to physical issues, but some things on the list were ridiculous, like diarrhea being a sign of running away from something, and back pain being a sign of having a heavy burden.

Anyway, skip this one.

I wanted to love this book. The title was intriguing and I heard it referred to in a podcast on trauma that I listened to.

The best I have to say about this book is that the tool it pushes has some similarities with CBT (and has a similar to flavor to some of my EMDR experiences). It encourages you to consider the first time you experienced a feeling or belief, examine your feelings and beliefs about yourself, and counter/replace negative thoughts and feelings with positive ones.

On the other hand, it was a chore to finish this book and I only made it because I feel that it's irresponsible to write a review of a book if you didn't actually read the work in its entirety, and I really wanted this work to redeem itself. I was disappointed.

Feelings, emotions, thoughts and beliefs are claimed to have "vibrations" and "energy" that create and change physical energy fields that can actually be measured using scientific devices.

Two basic premises of this book are that your traumatic memories are genetically stored in your DNA (an idea that is generally accepted as false at this point, although there is research in epigenetics showing that trauma may change the expression of your genes) and that your prenatal and birth experiences cause trauma: "It is important to remember that the dominant pivotal feeling we experience at birth colors all our perceptions of life from that time on, and is therefore the ruling feeling through which we view life - the feeling that compels us to the behavior we exhibit each day." (p 107) There are stories like a man "uncovering" a repressed memory of feeling abandoned as newborn, resulting him yelling, "Baby wants his mommy!! Baby wants his mommy!!" And apparently that trauma was the underlying root of all his adult problems.

It references situations like how one woman was triggered by hearing a song on the radio and didn't know why, and going through the "script" (a short reading where you ask your Higher Self - your actual self, not a higher power - to show you the root of an issue and then resolve it) showed her a previously suppressed memory of having been raped while that song was on. After the simple and quick exercise of going through the script, the woman "found that she no longer was bothered" by the song/trigger. I think trauma therapists would be out of a job if trauma were really this easily resolved.

Another basic premise of the book is this: "The master program in the subconscious must be changed before the circumstances will change." (p 213) So if you are experiencing financial lack, it's probably because you are sabotaging your own finances because you have some inner feelings of not being valuable. The solution is to choose being financially successful. Go through the script, making sure that you affirm, "I choose being financially successful. I welcome financial success with open arms." (p. 205)

The idea that the body and mind are connected is well established. Books like The Body Keeps the Score are excellent at discussing this. But Truman gives numerous examples of how an acute and significant illness was both caused, and then cured, by feelings and their appropriate resolutions using her script. For example, her husband gave himself leukemia by giving up his will to live and surrendering to depression (her specific words), but then she looked up the root cause of leukemia and realized it was a result of surrendering to depression, so they used the script together, ending with "I choose happiness and joy! I feel happy, joyous, and tenacious! I AM happy, joyous and tenacious!" and suddenly he felt better. The next morning, he woke up with kidney problems. Thankfully, she was able to research that kidney problems are a result of trying to control life, being disloyal to self or overly judgmental, feeling emotional confusion, leaving yourself out to please someone else, unfounded criticism of others, etc. and they were able to resolve his kidney problems by talking through the script as well. (p 221 - 223)

The book lists all sorts of emotional roots of physical ailments. Abscesses are the result of wanting revenge or unresolved hurt feelings, acne the result of feelings of guilt and fear of being one's self, AIDS the result of denial of the self and lack of inner peace, allergies the result of suppressed weeping and denying own power, Alzheimer's the result of feelings of inferiority & insecurity and wanting to live in own little world, and jaundice the result of difficulty in loving yourself, just to name a few... (p 226-272)

Book club choice for May. This is why I'm in book club because this is a book I wouldn't have picked up on my own. I thought there were some really good things about this book and I thought there were some things that were a little hard to swallow. I appreciate that this was chosen so I could read something about how positive thinking, feelings, words, and actions help our lives become better. I even tried "the script" out a couple of times and found value in it (especially with potty-training issues!) so it's a win-win! I am looking forward to discussing this book at book club and seeing how everyone else felt about it.

I refer back to this book all the time. The basic concept is that Truman believes every disease we have stems from the emotional rather than the physical. She tries to give you a different perspective on things(and some affirmations), to help you get past these feelings that are acting as a sort of cancer to your body. A lot of it does get spiritual, but if you can get past that and keep reading, there are a lot of really good points in this book. My copy is underlined and highlighted all over the place.

I love letting old, bad feelings go. This book was a great help for me. I finally got through the whole thing. I have used it more as a reference book.

I don’t normally write reviews, but this book could be a dangerous to someone suffering from real illnesses , in no way is using a script to change an attitude compare to seeking medical treatment, Especially in cases such as leukemia and other cancers.

This is one of those books where I had to put my writer/editor brain and English-teacher critic aside and simply listen to the message. Truman's book provided me a foundation for rethinking my inner life, and I continue to be grateful for that. Years later I still use it regularly as a reference when various ills turn up, and it always seems spot on for the causes.