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The Art of Limitless Living: The Joy, Possibility and Power of Living a Heart-Centered Life Paperback – April 16, 2018
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Join inspiring, life-transformational leader Melissa Joy on a journey to the heart of interactive reality creation, where self-love is the new normal.
Humanity is in a position that we have never been in previously, on new and unfamiliar terrain. You may be at a place in your own life where you are aware that "tried and true" behaviors and beliefs are no longer working. You may be unsure how to proceed.
Through a brilliant weave of unique language, testimonials, and practical play, The Art of Limitless Living provides multiple access points for creating new self-loving maps to navigate through changing landscapes.
In The Art of Limitless Living, you will learn:
- Why the notion that we create our own reality is only half true.
- Why heart-centered awareness is key to self-love, authenticity, completion, and transcending your stories.
- How to bridge the gap between limitless potential and limitation.
- How to leverage placeholders, heart-mind synthesis, and fluid boundaries.
- How to overcome problems with family, friends, work, and society.
- How to apply equal service to self and others to change prevailing paradigms.
- How to transcend addictions and distractions.
- How curiosity can transform predictability into possibility and create a new reality, right now.
- Print length224 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWeiser
- Publication dateApril 16, 2018
- Dimensions6 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches
- ISBN-101632651424
- ISBN-13978-1632651426
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"Melissa Joy's transformative book shows us firsthand how simple it is to live from a place of limitless possibility. The Art of Limitless Living reveals the necessity of moving fully into our hearts, and completely embodying a new way of relating to ourselves, each other, and the universe. The author's sage focus on integrity, authenticity, and exercising choice every step of the way is complemented by practical examples for how we can take these concepts and put them to work in our own lives. Melissa Joy's grounded approach to time-honored spiritual principles activates new ways of thinking about our place in this changing world. I highly recommend this book!" -- Kelly McNelis, author of Your Messy Brilliance, & Founder, Women For One
"This book encodes for the power of love on every page. Whether you are seeking to change yourself, life circumstances, or the world around you, The Art of Limitless Living provides practical effective methods for experiencing the heart of change at the personal and collective level. A must-read book for anyone seeking more self-love with desire to make a difference." -- Susan Shumsky, award-winning author of 14 books, including Awaken Your Divine Intuition
"This book will guide you to think differently, trust your heart, and realize your immense significance in our interconnected universe. Melissa Joy has written The Art of Limitless Living with vulnerability and power, teaching that we can genuinely love ourselves regardless of past experiences. If you want to move beyond trauma, drama, and relentlessly trying to fix yourself, this book offers a whole new way of being complete." -- Eileen McKusick, award-winning author of Tuning the Human Biofield
"Melissa Joy has written The Art of Limitless Living with clarity and wisdom, making the physics of heart-centered consciousness available to all with ease. From a foundation of personal integrity, the author brilliantly conveys why change can feel so challenging, while offering very powerful tools that can catalyze individuals and societies to a resonance of love and connection." -- Midge Murphy, JD, PhD, author of Practice Energy Healing in Integrity
"Melissa Joy delivers new insights into her legendary heart-centered teachings with authenticity, accessibility, and ease. Whether you are looking to heal your life, get out of your own way, improve your relationships, or move beyond addictions, there are many strategies in this book that will transform even the most stubborn patterns. The Art of Limitless Living will expand your perception, ignite your heart, strengthen your intuition, and delight your being." -- Richard Bartlett, D.C., N.D, award-winning author of Matrix Energetics and The Physics of Miracles
"The Art of Limitless Living is gently powerful. As you read each page, the energy and truth of the words transform you. Melissa Joy speaks from her heart to yours, honestly and lovingly. If you are ready to stand in your own space and have a true, authentic, loving relationship with yourself, to express the love that you are and to experience a new dimension of being, you will want to read The Art of Limitless Living." -- Maxine Taylor, Georgia's First Licensed Astrologer, and best-selling author of Move Into the Magic
About the Author
Melissa Joy Jonsson is the founder of M-Joy, a unifying "we" movement that provides a new language to experience self-love as integrity. She is best known for her ability to engage people to embrace their true authentic power by playing in the field of the heart. Melissa has been teaching popular life-transformational seminars around the world since 2008. As an intuitive coach and holistic practitioner, Melissa has a diverse client base in more than 25 countries. Melissa spent more than a decade as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry. She is the author of Little Book of Big Potentials, Practical Play the Heart-Centered Way, and M-Joy Practically Speaking. Melissa has a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She resides in San Diego, California. To learn more, please visit www.MJoyHeartField.com.
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The Art of Limitless Living
The Joy, Possibility, and Power of Living a Heart-Centered Life
By Melissa Joy JonssonRed Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Copyright © 2018 Melissa Joy JonssonAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-63265-142-6
Contents
Introduction,1. Moving Into the Gap,
2. Everything Is You in Relation to ... Placeholders,
3. Mapping Unity,
4. Becoming True Heartists In-Joy,
5. Heart–Mind Synthesis,
6. TAS, Emotions, and the WE Experience,
7. Addictions as Distractions,
8. Integrity, Relating, and the Ricochet Effect,
9. Surrogate Power,
10. Fluid Boundaries and Concrescence,
Conclusion: Distinctions, Curiosity, and Living Into the Answer,
Notes,
Bibliography,
About the Author,
CHAPTER 1
Moving Into the Gap
"We create our own reality."
— Anonymous
This is a popular meme circulating through the collective consciousness that says we create our own reality. Pursuant to this notion is the idea that we are each responsible for everything that happens to us and around us.
Everything? Does this mean if a volcano erupts in Hawaii, we are personally responsible for the occurrence? Or if a relative commits suicide, or our child dies, that we somehow (consciously or unconsciously) created that choice as experience?
What if a war occurs among nations with opposing ideologies? Are we creating that reality from the remote privacy of our living rooms? What if, during an economic downturn, we are laid off from a company we loved, at which we had outstanding performance reviews consistently every year? Did we create that reality too?
The concept that "we create our own reality" seems a little oversimplified and, to a lesser degree, egocentric. Certainly we are not the center and instigator of all circumstances in our reality? Yet the notion that we create our own reality seems to imply that this is the case.
This is an easy idea to accept when things go our way. We are very receptive to being responsible for our successes. Some may consider abundance and accomplishments to be a function of luck, skill, or perhaps tenacity, but regardless of what we call our "Midas touch," we have no problem being responsible for making reality happen.
But what about when things do not go our way? What then?
Proponents of the Law of Attraction imply that we create our own reality by attracting what we focus on. This attraction is magnetized by our own resonant energy, sometimes called "frequency" or "vibration." Presumably, when what we focus on and expect from our minds (consciously) does not match our actual frequency or energy (often unconsciously), we wind up not getting what we expected. We are still creating our reality even if what we create ends up being what we think we do not want.
So if we are totally creating our reality, it seems we would be able to create a reality in which our unconscious energy or vibration does not cancel out what we focus on, intend, or desire.
Some might offer that reality doesn't always go our way and challenges occur because our souls agree to have certain experiences before we incarnate. Well, then, that would imply that we do not necessarily have free will, the freedom of choice. And if we are creating our own reality according to an agreed-upon preconceived soul blueprint, then through free will as choice, we would also be free to change that blueprint as creators of our reality.
Reality is not that simple.
We do not really create our own reality. Not entirely.
Consider that the idea that we create our own reality is perhaps not entirely true, or untrue, but is potentially useful, as the belief can help us to feel occasionally empowered.
However rigid an adherence to this notion we create, our own reality may result in feelings of failure and self-condemnation when things do not seem to go our way as intended.
Perhaps no matter how hard we may try; no matter how positive our thinking, how strong our beliefs, or how consistent our actions; regardless of how many times we may "get in the vortex" or follow the Law of Attraction, we encounter distractions and destructions that spin us in a direction bearing little resemblance to what we had envisioned for ourselves.
"What are we doing wrong?" we may ask. Do we need another book, seminar, or coaching session to tell us what we have yet to figure out? What is the secret, and why is the universe allegedly keeping it from us?
Indeed, maintaining awareness that we create our own reality does empower us to make changes in our lives. If our thoughts, beliefs, and choices are creating our circumstances, then conceivably we can change our thoughts, beliefs, and choices to create different circumstances and experiences. However, is reality really this simple? Or is there truly more to interactive reality creation than our own individual notions, emotions, energy, and actions?
Party of Experience
Perhaps it is not so much that we create our own reality as it is that we participate in creating and interacting with our individual and shared realities. We actively engage in the co-creative process consciously (and often unconsciously), and we have the power to choose how we react, respond, and relate to what seems to be happening as reality. We create our experience of reality.
When we change how we relate to our reality, through our inner actions and interactions, then we indeed change our personal and often shared perceived experiences. We may not change the immediate outward circumstances, but when we change how we relate to our circumstances, there is a ripple effect that influences everything.
Furthermore, consider that our experience of reality is more than the sole result of individual creative impulses; rather, reality is a function of a complex interplay of interconnected variables. Our individual choices, as well as the choices of others, are inexorably woven together in an interdependent synergy that creates a diverse tapestry of experiences. Our individual experiences are entangled with everyone else's individual experiences. Reality includes all these experiences.
Everything in reality is in relation to ... itself. Everything is also you in relation to ... everything. Your own experience of reality is based on where you resonate and how you connect with and relate to reality. Your projections, reflections, and connections continually serve as filters, mirrors, and windows into realms of individual and collective experiences.
What if we do create our own reality and there are also invariably circumstances that occur beyond our locus of control? How do we reconcile this perceived disparity into empowered forms of creating and relating to ourselves, others, and life in general? How do we change up external circumstances that seem to involve factors beyond our immediate grasp?
Language of the Heart
One of the most important tools for making distinctions and relating to our reality is language. Through the use of language, we categorize, identify, and name our experiences. Ultimately, we perceive the world according to our language. Our experience of reality is largely a function of the language we use to describe and reference reality.
As human beings, when we experience something new and unfamiliar, our minds will perform a few automatic activities. Our minds may ask, "What is this I am experiencing? How can I label and organize this unknown in my awareness?" To do this, our minds will compare and contrast the experience: "This is like something I already know, so this must be that," or "This is not like something I already know, so this isn't that." Or our minds will simply dismiss the experience from reality because the experience is beyond the mind's limited perceptual filters.
Words are carrier waves that connect us to both the seen and unseen aspects of our reality. We can't see love, but we have an innate feeling for what it is. We can also experience the effects of love in myriad ways. The word love enables us to connect to and relate to the experience of love even though the word love is not the experience. The word love represents the experience.
Through language, we relate to our reality. Yet language as a symbolic representation of reality can, by its very nature, fragment our consciousness and, consequently, fragment the experience of ourselves and our reality. Thus our experience of reality is often limited by virtue of the language we are using.
What if there was a language for organizing reality from which we could relate to reality and ourselves not from a framework of segregation and compartmentalization but from a framework of completion? What if this language could describe a terrain innate to everyone if only there were a way to map it? What if this new language enabled people to expand beyond their perceptual biases and programmed ways of navigating through the world, to experience the truth of their own unity and completion? What if this language could open anyone to the power and Joy of limitless living?
The Art of Limitless Living and the constructs utilized to organize reality occur via a new language for relating to all experiences of reality from the heart-mind of completion. This language also provides coordinates for creating new maps to navigate through current changing landscapes. These maps reflect on our inherent love and unbounded potential no matter what has happened, may be happening, or is yet to occur. This integrative language of heart-centered awareness coupled with the power of congruent choices creates indelible imprints, heart-prints that pave the way for the Integrity Effect to ripple into our personal and collective realities.
The Integrity Effect
How do we bridge the perceived gap between where we are in our current experiences and where we want to be as individuals, within our families, in our work dynamics, and among the collective global community?
The answers lie not in minding the gap such that the gap becomes bigger, because in many cases, what we focus on will grow, and we will end up getting more of what we do not want. Rather, answers rest in moving into the gap, integrating who we think we are with who we truly are. We move into the gap by embodying the integrity of our True Authentic Self. The answer rests in the Integrity Effect.
The Integrity Effect is noticed and experienced through the embodiment of heart-centered awareness. As a result of living from the heart in a space of coherency, making congruent choices that are aligned with the wisdom of the heart, we experience the beneficial ripple effect of symmetric physics expressing through proportional unity and completion. When we live from our hearts, connected to our True Authentic Self, there is no gap. There is only connection.
Moving Into Concrescence
The Integrity Effect fosters concrescence. Concrescence is defined as the growing together and merging of like or unlike separate parts or particles. When we embody heart-centered integrity as individuals, we experience concrescence as unity and connection within ourselves. Consequently, we are able to relate to others (and all of reality) through perceptual filters of unity rather than of separation and division.
The Integrity Effect at the level of the individual enables concrescence to begin to occur at the level of the collective consciousness. It begins with us. Heart-centered integrity begins with you and me in the WE experience.
Integrity is being undivided within oneself. Integrity is not some external standard that we must strive toward, like a moving target that perpetually evades our reach. Integrity is also not an earned award, nor is it a moral standard to follow, although integrity can foster morals. Integrity is not found outside ourselves; rather, integrity emanates from within our hearts and is reflected without via the unfolding of corresponding congruent circumstances.
Integrity is what permits our unique soul signature to emerge from heart to sole, as we step forth into the world one moment and movement at a time. Integrity requires consistent choices for sustainability.
Though integrity is a substance that cannot be seen or touched, like a chair can be, the essence of integrity emerges invisibly and undivided from the seat of our soul, creating an indelible imprint — a coherency that is reflected in all matters. We can choose integrity. Just choose.
Containers for Integrity
Words, deeds, and actions are all energetic containers for the essence of integrity to flow. Integrity is the skin of the soul, our largest organ and interface (inner-face), which breathes life into all endeavors.
When integrity is congested by confusion, deception, or manipulation, the flow of integrity is obstructed in all systems of inner actions and interactions. Integrity is not a barrier; rather, integrity is a carrier wave to bare what is raw and authentic in the heart-soul of our being. Integrity opens us to our truth, a song for the soul's transmission of love — love that transmutes and transforms everything.
Integrity cannot be compartmentalized, no matter how many mental lies are told. When integrity is compromised, the broken promise to self reverberates into the eternal soul.
Broken integrity creates wounds that lie before us. Initially the wounds may be only scratches or scuffs we may overlook, mask, or cover with a bandage. Left unattended without authentic awareness, the wounds will fester, bleed, and infect all organizations of the interconnected systems of reality.
What once was hidden by a bandage of protection may bondage the soul's True Authentic Expression. Life circumstances will present like salt thrown in the wound to beckon our attention. Through our hearts, we can air the wounds with the breath of honesty, inspired by integrity. This loving action will flow directly to the hemorrhage and heal the soul, restoring cohesiveness by providing wounds with the necessary ingredients to mend what once was severed.
We can allow the organ of integrity to orchestrate harmonic symphonies in all aspects of life with ease as grace. Love is integrity and can end all self-betrayal. Love as integrity is loyalty to the soul.
Defining Integrity
Integrity is deeply personal to everyone and yet transpersonal in that it affects everyone. Integrity may mean something different to everyone, depending upon personal thoughts and beliefs. It is not important that we be on the same page with respect to defining integrity. What is important is that you discover the essence of integrity that already exists within your heart.
Nonetheless, the integrity I am describing is an energetic integrity, centered in the heart, which radiates through congruent choices and actions, reflected in observable matters of everyday reality. Integrity includes a facet of transparency.
At the time this book is being written, there are no technological tools to measure energetic integrity. We can observe the effects of embodying integrity. We can also sense integrity like we may notice the presence of light in a dark room. We are attracted to the radiating essence of integrity as the light of life.
However, just because we can't measure energetic integrity doesn't mean it doesn't exist and it can't eventually be captured scientifically as an observable and measurable phenomenon.
As heart coherence can now be measured through electromagnetic tools, evidenced through HeartMath Institute research, I suspect the energetics of integrity will also someday be measurable too.
Just because energetic integrity may not yet be measurable does not mean it does not exist, for integrity as an essential quality is real, just like we know love is real. We know it when we feel it, and it is very real to us when we experience it.
Sensing Integrity
Once upon a time, the collective consciousness did not believe in the existence of germs, because science could not see or measure germs. Then the microscope was invented. Now germ theory is a fundamental tenet of medicine. This theory states that microorganisms, which are too small to be seen without the aid of a microscope, can invade the body and cause certain diseases. Until the acceptance of germ theory, diseases were often perceived as punishment for a person's evil behavior.
What is invisible to the naked eye is not unreal. It is simply ... invisible to the naked eye. So, too, is the invisible essence of integrity that expresses through coherent wave-based interference patterns. Organized movement. Organized flow. Organized glow.
Some of us see these waveforms with expanded perception, and we know they are every bit as real as coffee tables. Others hold hands with skepticism and wait for the tools to prove the existence of unseen realities.
Wherever we are on the continuum of knowing or doubting, trust that someday soon what is hidden will be revealed. Perhaps we will be able to calibrate integrity in the same way we may sit down for a cup of tea — with ease and grace.
Our settings for reality will change. The settings are changing now. Feel it. Know it. Trust it. Our hearts can calibrate integrity. Our hearts have an innate sensor for heart-centered integrity.
Integrity Is Our Business
Not everyone will do as he or she says and honor integrity through words, deeds, and actions. It is not up to us to ensure that others have integrity. That is a path of control.
It is only up to us to honor our own integrity, for this is the path of the heart. When we do as we say, and honor our words through deeds and actions, integrity honors us with the rippling of our true authentic magnificence.
Consider that anything that lacks integrity is not sustainable. The physics of integrity is enduring. And although it is our inherent birthright to honor our own integrity, it is not our responsibility for others to step into integrity. That is not our business.
(Continues...)Excerpted from The Art of Limitless Living by Melissa Joy Jonsson. Copyright © 2018 Melissa Joy Jonsson. Excerpted by permission of Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC.
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- Publisher : Weiser; First Edition (April 16, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 224 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1632651424
- ISBN-13 : 978-1632651426
- Item Weight : 10.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.6 x 8.8 inches
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About the author
Melissa Joy Jonsson, MSc, is a pioneering force in the realm of heart-centered consciousness. As the founder of the Joy Mapping process, a unifying “WE” movement, she has dedicated herself to providing a new language for experiencing self-love as integrity.
With a Master of Science in Neuroscience and Psychology of Mental Health degree from King's College London and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pepperdine University, Melissa's journey has been an exploration of bridging scientific principles and spiritual concepts to create transformative, practical experiences.
Melissa's extensive experience extends to her work as an intuitive coach and holistic practitioner, with a diverse clientele spanning more than 25 countries. Before embarking on her profound exploration of consciousness, Melissa spent over a decade as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry, specializing in Neuroscience.
Melissa is also a prolific author, with several groundbreaking books, including The Science and Art of Letting Go Workbook, The Art of Limitless Living, Little Book of Big Potentials, Practical Play the Heart-Centered Way, and M-Joy Practically Speaking. She has co-authored The Physics of Miracles and Guides, Grace, and the Field of the Heart.
Today, Melissa resides in the vibrant city of London and the serene shores of Bali, where she operates an eco-conscious scuba diving center in the Komodo Islands. Whether it's teaching, writing, or diving into new adventures, Melissa continues to empower individuals worldwide to live a life filled with limitless possibilities.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2018The Art of Limitless Living is, for me, experiencing the journey and the destination together from a place of trust in your own guidance and a remembering that you are already complete. How often do we get stuck on the journey to self-love, endlessly seeking the how to's and frustrated to find yet another 'lesson' on what we must change in order to be happy? How tired are you right now just reading that sentence? This book removes the struggle. In this book I discovered something about my perception of reality that allowed me to finally stop beating myself up. I found ways to embrace myself, my choices, and my life in a cocooning 'Love Sphere' while at the same time emerging as a free and 'perfectly imperfect' butterfly. A way to navigate with trust in myself and 'speaking my truth' that instantly takes away any need for a fight and includes love for others. Melissa Joy's writing is clear, intimate and inclusive, like a conversation with a friend who sees your mutual wonderfulness. Melissa shares much of her own
personal experiences in this book as well as input from many others who have been using these teachings to practically navigate their own lives as they remember and reveal their joy. This is a book I will revisit like spending time with a cherished friend.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018If you’re looking for a book that is truly a game changer—look no further! Melissa Jonsson is a true visionary. She possesses the artful skill of taking heady concepts and making them easily accessible through her gift of weaving science and cutting edge discoveries with story-telling and play.
This book is inspiring on every level and yet so much more. Melissa Jonsson takes this inspiration and deftly anchors it into a new reality that is easily integrated into everyday experiences through her “practical play”.
Not only will this read blow your mind and your heart wide open. It will gently change your perspectives and soften your edges, all while being a truly fun, funny and delightful read.
Her authenticity shines through, making this a book that I’ll read and re-read!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2018Melissa Joy Jonsson has surpassed herself with The Art Of Limitless Living. She brings courageous vulnerability to her personal story in the Introduction while treating her past with immense self-love and self-compassion. How many others could bare their life heartaches without self-recrimination and without heaping judgment upon others? Melissa's gentle, loving example primes readers to long to give themselves the experience she shares.
This gift of self-love and self-compassion becomes the foundation for everything else Melissa presents. Whether it's challenging the embedded concept that "we create our own reality" by suggesting that "we create our experience of reality" instead; or by demonstrating how language "allows us to make distinctions", and how "our experience of reality is often limited by virtue of the language we are using," Melissa asserts that "we are the meaning makers of reality."
Melissa guides her readers into the heart of their core essence, opens the gateway to the True Authentic Self, teaches us how to chart new maps to navigate morphing life terrain and provides readers with the necessary tools empowering them to "create new imprints for reality," which is the very art of limitless living.
And through it all Melissa assures us that the individual is always in control. By making distinctions through the field of the heart, "We are always free to choose."
Heartening, empowering, loving and kind. This book is soul food at its very best.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2018This book IS AMAZING! It will help you change your life if you let it. It may use a vocabulary you might not be familiar with but it's because we need to change our vocabulary and understanding to undergo a real change. Open your mind and heart, do the exercises (they will truly free you!) and let this book transform your life forever. You are here to live fully and there's no need to succumb to your old story and limit your potential. Joy, abundance and freedom are yours at your will. Thank You, Melissa Joy, for this wonderful manual for the paradigm shift!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020Not excited about this book. I was hoping for something else.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2018The Art of Limitless living is for me impossible to define. It defies any description I could come up with. That said if you would like to connect with the limitless possibilities in your own life, this is a book for you. If the title caught your eye but you have no idea what “Heart Centered”means, this is a good thing. It means you are curious. Now add a nice amount of Play.. and you are ready to embark on an amazing journey. It’s all about you.
Melissa writes eloquently but in a very simple and easy to understand way.
I have this book in audible format but use the paperback most of the time.. I write notes, highlight often and love the feel of the book.
No matter how many times I open the book something new and helpful shows up.
Melissa touches every aspect of life..easy parts and of course the huge potholes!!
You will LOVE this book!!
Ditch your limits and give it a try!!
- Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018While since I read it but found it hard going. Terminology threw me a bit.
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AnnetteReviewed in Germany on August 6, 2018
5.0 out of 5 stars Bewusstsein schaffend, Lebensverändernd!
Für mich sind in diesem Buch viele Beispiele aus meinem Leben beschrieben, für die ich bis ich Melissas Buch gelesen habe, nie eine Erklärung hatte. Sie beschreibt unglaublich umsetzungsfähig, wie man diese Situationen verändern kann indem man die eigene Haltung ändert. Für mich funktioniert es, ist einfach und schnell. Für mich ist ganz wichtig, dass ich mich immer wieder erinnere, wie ich zu den Dingen stehen will und das dann in die Tat umsetze. Natürlich ist das ein Prozess und hört vermutlich nie auf, da man ja mit jeder Übung dazu lernt und neue Themen anpacken kann, die sich erst dann zeigen.
- PilatesladyReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 4, 2018
2.0 out of 5 stars I have read half of it but had to put it down as I'm bored. Words I have never heard before and I ...
Too wordy and too much waffle. I have read half of it but had to put it down as I'm bored. Words I have never heard before and I am an avid reader. No new content here.