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Title: Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne W. Dyer ISBN: 0-06-109148-0 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 November, 1993 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Opened my eyes to the truth
Comment: I read this book when I was fourteen. I am now seventeen. Wayne Dyre told me the truth in this book about life, the TRUTH that requires no logic because it is so simple. At the time I read the book, the truth was something that the adults I knew and depended on had lost long ago, and which I was in desparate need of. Thanks to his book, my life took a turning point. Rather than feeling confused by the strange and painful circumstances surrounding me, I learned how to see them clearly. I saw past the surface of problems and to the core of what made people tick. Dyre, in ERRONEOUS ZONES, relates his understanding of human defense mechanisms and how they effect others, and how you can deal with the people around you that use these mechanisms as weapons. Best of all, you can learn how to destroy your own. And once you do this, and you stop functioning from your ego, your problems will become clearer. Don't get me wrong. Magical solutions is not what this book offers. It does, however, offer a sane perspective on living with your problems. And the trick lies in the fact that the perspective and the solution are one in the same thing. This book's message will open the door, but you must step inside. It is a great book. Please read it for yourself. And if it affects you (as I know it will) in the same way it affected me, give it to family and friends. They may be defensive about accepting, from you, a book that they feel is "self-help," but after having read ERRONEOUS ZONES you'll understand why they resort to this type of reaction. READ IT, AND PASS IT ON!! the truth is rarely so evident as it is in this book. And i've read a couple of his other ones, but this one was by far the most powerful. Dyre really gets it. Maybe you will too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Breaking away from needing approval.
Comment: This book showed me a way out of 14 years of self-destructive behavior. The ideas expressed are SO simple and after reading just the first few chapters I knew that I had finally stumbled onto a gold mine of "how to live the happiest life possible." I would like to comment about the review from Feb 2002, Dr. Dyer does not "over-stress the idea of complete personal autonomy" in regard to marital relationships. What Dr. Dyer stresses is that if a person gives up something unwillingly; because of guilt, worry, or out of the need for approval, etc., then THAT is the point where it becomes an erroneous zone (self-defeating behavior) giving freely and lovingly to a spouse/significant other must come from personal choice.
This is an outstanding book! I have my mom's original copy from 1976 and never read it until now. Some of the references are a little dated (songs quoted, cultural-norm examples) but the message transcends time. I HIGHLY recommend this book, especially if you feel you've lost control of your own happiness.
Rating: 1
Summary: your erroneous popularizers . . .
Comment: I am writing this review as this sort of book is extremely popular for people who believe they have problems.
My complaint about books like this, is they rarely discuss the need for the individual to overcome many of their problems by the simple mechanism of cultivating a decent image for themselves in their community, and augment their social power in order to accomplish needed goals.
If 'learning to love your body' and other approaches advocated in this book help, I say great! But only a naive and inexperienced person goes around really beleiving that it doesn't much matter what others think of them. Good or bad, what others think of you may have a heck of alot to do with cultivating personal and social power, leaving you fre to have all the high self-esteem you may want or need. Working on your social and community image and power, as methodically as possible, ought not to be excluded as part of your over-all 'esteem' program. I don't care if your a flaming hippie, or whatever... issues like public image, place, and power in the community, still must be addressed, and are best addressed consciously. This is better than throwing caution to the winds, letting 'fate take its course,' and relying enitirely on your own opinion of yourself ( tho' self-image is part of the overall picture.)
In short, its no use trying to have a marvelous opinion of yourself. All the police power on your side standing up for your rights and what-not, may not be good enough to really help you, if there are those with negative opinions or actual dislike of you, who have the power to work lack, misery, or harm for you and your life. This is not paranoia. It is practicality, a practical acknowledgment of the total facts.
And woe to s/he who practices Dyers' notions about going around 'expressing your anger' all the time! That can just get you into deep waters. It can get you perceived as uncontrollable, dangerous, even criminally mad. Better to let lose anger in private somehow, as one learns to control it, than risk the social ostracism and denial of necessities you need to make your life smoother. Running around saying whatever the heck you want all the time, always expressing anger - well, you need power to do this. You need areputation that allows you. Others with the power to do so, will simply laugh. They will be glad to cut you down and deny you various things, playing with you, causing you various kinds of direct and indirect harm, while you go around telling yourself how you dont need their opinions, even just a little.
Yes, you are a free individual. You can rejoice in that individuality, it is your birthright, etc. You may not have to be nice, smiley, and sensitive all the time, as you know that may just get you walked all over and taken for granted. But so will neglecting issues of personal, social, and community power.
I look eagerly forward to a revision of Dwyers' little popular classic, now 30 years old. And I hope it will include references to cultivating and acquiring social power and proper community image. This is not stodginess, or 'keeping up with the Joneses.' It is important to do such things so you can avoid abuses, avoid getting overlooked for things material and immaterial you may want, deserve, and need, get needs met, and have the 'high personal esteem' you may want or need for the sake of keeping body and soul together.
This necessary esteem, I might add, doesn't just come from nowhere, as pleasurable as it is to pound one's chest, acknowledging one's 'goodness' to oneself. It is not wise to be heedless of the influential opinions of others who may have great significance, impression, and inluence over the course and direction of your life, in ways you might not have expected at first!
There: I've done much of the work here for you, Wayne. Now revise.
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Title: Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne W. Dyer ISBN: 006109224X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 15 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Your Sacred Self by Wayne W. Dyer ISBN: 0061094757 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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