There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem Paperback – Deckle Edge, 14 August 2003
by Dr Wayne W Dyer (Author)
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In this inspiring book, bestselling author Wayne Dyer draws from various spiritual traditions to help us unplug from the material world and awaken to the divine with.
With his trademark wit, wisdom, and humor, bestselling author Wayne Dyer offers compelling testimony on the power of love, harmony, and service. When confronted with a problem, be it ill health, financial worries, or relationship difficulties, we often depend on intellect to solve it. In this radical book, Dyer shows us that there is an omnipotent spiritual force at our fingertips that contains the solution to our problems.
The first part of the book provides the essential foundation for spiritual problem solving, drawing from the wisdom of Patanjali, a Yogi mystic;
the second half is organized around the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, whose legacy is one of love, harmony, and service.
Each chapter contains specific practical applications for applying the teachings of these wise men to everyday problems, including affirmations, writing exercises, and guided meditations.
Profound and thought provoking, yet filled with pragmatic advice,
There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem is
a book about self-awareness and tapping the healing energy within all of us.
As Dyer writes,
"Thinking is the source of problems.
Your heart holds the answer to solving them.
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About the Author
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer was the bestselling author of 20 books and had a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectured across the country to groups numbering in the thousands and appeared regularly on radio and television. He passed away in August of 2015.
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Publisher : William Morrow & Company; Reprint edition (14 August 2003)
Language : English
Paperback : 288 pages
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Lorna Vince
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
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I'm still working my way through this book but it is for me life changing. It has similarities to A Course in Miracles, but more reader friendly. Wonderfully meaningful, understable and do-able. You have to apply it and work at it but I feel motivated by it. I'm obviously ready for it - I recommend it.
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SmilingInside
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One of my favourite books by the amazing Wayne Dyer. The advice and guidance offered in this book will nourish your soul and help you connect with the higher peaceful energies and reject the lower slower ones.
Peace and love to you reading this. 🙏🏽
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Fantastic book but one thing I did notice about the book where he mentions relationships like all is always gonna be ok if you change your mindset yet he divorced lol
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TomD
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It's clear that Dr Dyer has read very widely and he uses a lot of spiritual literature as the basis for the points he makes. Unfortunately, there is a lot of repetition but if you can put up with that, it's worth a read.
I can't help feeling that he could have made the same points and impact with less pages.
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June Vernon
5.0 out of 5 stars An uplifting.
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I found content of this book very believable and uplifting. It's nice to pick up and read when feeling a little confused with life.
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Maybe it's just me, but I have a problem with people telling me how to live when it doesn't look like they can do what they suggest the rest of us should do.
Let's take for example Dr. Wayne Dyer's There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem.' Wasn't there a spiritual solution to prevent any of his three marriages from ending in divorce? Or didn't he think divorce was a problem? I'm assuming he took the same vows all married people take, the ones that include 'Until death do us part.' Don't those vows apply to him? Instead of writing Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life,' maybe he should've written 'Change Your Mind, Change Your Wife.'
Wayne Dyer leads the self-help brigade appearing on the highly regarded PBS channel. PBS, which stands for PUBLIC Broadcasting System means that your donations help fund his programs. In addition to what he gets paid to appear in the studio, he gets to promulgate his products during breaks in the program.
"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into," says Dr. Dyer. How we do that is something of a mystery. What is obvious, however, is that if you can write a fluffy inspirational book packed with maxims sans substance, you can make a bundle. Just open up and let the universe send you its abundance. "Successful people make money," he says. "It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."
Is money the only barometer of success? Does anyone really understand how to "attract money?" Doesn't that sound a little passive to you? If you want money, I always thought you had to work for it. But that concept isn't going to sell any books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, or tickets to speaking engagements.
How much money do you think we spend for self-help advice? "Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products," says one industry expert. American pop psychology and pseudo spirituality is an industry that offers a quick fix to whatever ails us, but never actually delivers the payoff. One book, after another CD, after another DVD comes out restating essentially the same message: "If you follow my program, you'll achieve a life beyond your wildest dreams." I see a lot of people buying the products, but not many living a life beyond their wildest dreams.
Am I saying that people like Dr. Dyer do more harm than good? Not necessarily. What I'm saying is that there's no quick fix, no shortcut to living the life of your dreams. It requires a little luck and a lot of hard work. No one can tell you the meaning of life. The purpose of your life is the purpose you give it. Don't rely on a self-help guru to neatly package a solution to your individual problems. That's your job. If you're successful, even if you never utter a word or write a book, how you live will speak volumes about you.
As Dr. Wayne Dyer says, "Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."
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The principal message of this book can be summarized with the universal maxim, as you think, so shall you be. It’s that simple and you can either dismiss this book as hippy dippy or you can embrace the fact that spirituality and positive energy need not be complicated. From the teachings of mystics to the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, Dr. Dyer leads you through the practical applications of their wisdom and how you can shift low energy vibrations (fear, anger, guilt, envy, etc.) to a higher energy frequency (insight, consciousness) that abstains from destructive thoughts and toxic people. I listened rather than read this book and it was as if Dr. Dyer was easing me through meditation. Henceforth, this will become my go to when I need a spiritual tune up and find my determination waning.
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I am beginning to believe that anything by Wayne Dyer is amazing, but I may be partial. I love his soothing voice, his wonderful sense of humor, and his brilliant messages. If you are struggling in any area of your life, or if you're having a great time and want ti to get even better, then you really shoudl consider this book. According to him, there are no problems in life. We create the problems. I had to listen to this part several times because it's difficult to grasp. Life doesn't have to be struggle - we create our problems through our thoughts and how we react to things happening around us. (I'm also reading through Conversations With God - Book 3 and the message is synonymous with that of Dyer.) Nothing is real. Everything is an illusion. When we understand that we can let go of fear and doubt and negative thoughts and really start to LIVE the live that we were intended to.
There was a segment in the move that was particularly intriguing to me. Dyer references a man by the name of David Hawkins, who performed kinesthetic tests on people using things that would be bad for your body and things that would be good (i.e. Sweet&Low artificial sweetener and natural vitamin C). He tested people's individual strength when one of these things was held by each person. Amazingly, each person appeared weaker in strength when holding the product of chemicals, and stronger when holding the item found naturally in nature. Dyer suggests reading Hawkins' book titled Power Vs. Force, which explores this in much greater detail.
I highly recommend this book to everyone. Don't be put off by the word "spiritual" in the title. This isn't a relgious book. In fact, you don't even have to believe in God to get something from this book. It's an inspiring book chock full of positive suggestions on how to lead a better, happier, more rewarding life.
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HIGHLIGHTS:
1. All your conflicts with others are never between you and them = They are between you and God.
- Love your body as the temple that God gave you to house your soul on this journey.
2. The empowering way is to view trials as lessons and opportunities to choose differently.
3. True abundance is an absolute knowing that everything you need will be supplied.
4. Give the world your spirit and detach from the outcome of your efforts and your energy field becomes less and less contaminated.
5. Every experience of sadness provides valuable lessons to learn and doors to open to higher spiritual awareness. Therefore, give thanks when such opportunities surface.
6. Joyful people rejoice in their strengths, talents, and powers and don’t compare themselves to anyone.
- Joy comes from rejoicing in all that you are, all that you have, all that you can be, and from knowing that you are divine, a piece of God.
- Finding joy means consciously deciding to process your life in ways that focus on gratefulness for what you have.
7. It is always about how you choose to process events, not the events themselves that determine your level of peace.
8. In the faster vibrational frequencies, you are able to invoke intuition, insight, and other potentials that are dormant when you are in ordinary human awareness.
- How you look upon the world and the images you have within you determine what you will get in your life.
9. Success: Highly successful people are those who have knowledge about resolving problems, and they are not focused on proving their point to anyone.
10. Passion – When successful people harden their will they become immune to outside forces that might attempt to dissuade them from their inner passion.
- Burning desire to achieve an inner objective.
What you intend in your thoughts with passion, you will act upon and ultimately create.
- If you keep the vision of what you want, you will not be able to do anything but act upon that energy.
- Happiness is an inside job. You don’t get it from anyone or anything; you bring it to everyone and every event of your life.
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Some books on spirituality are life changing. This is one of them for me. All of our problems are created in our minds/ego. They can be nullified by seeking a spiritual connection instead.
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It was good enough that I've just finished it a second time and bought a used copy for my own library. Much of the book is derived from the Saint Francis prayer. "The spiritual solution to any and all despair is one, to move your energy up by making conscious contact with God and trusting in that contact, thereby dissolving the images of negativity and pessimism, and two, to radiate outward this higher 'up' energy toward others who are believing in and therefore living, lives of quiet desperation."
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got it for a quarter in a garage sale...but it is becoming worth way more than that...priceless
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There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
By Wayne Dyer
Examines the aphorisms of a Yogi mystic and the most famous prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi as a spiritual approach to life.
Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Wayne Dyer is the bestselling author of more than 20 books and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. At the outset of this paperback, he writes:
"Spirituality is from within, the result of recognition, realization, and reverence. My personal understanding of spiritual practice is that it is a way of making my life work at a higher level and of receiving guidance for handling problems."
Dyer turns to the writings of Patanjali, a Yogi mystic who wrote sometime between the fourth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. He takes five of his aphorisms and uses them as a foundation for seeing a spiritual solution to every problem:
1. Identify yourself beyond ignorance.
2. Calmness is the peace of God within you.
3. You create obstacles, you do not sin.
4. Be steadfast in abstaining from falsehood.
5. Be steadfast in abstaining from harmful thoughts and acts.
Dyer then proposes that everything is energy and that faster vibrations means getting closer to "spirit." But in our spiritual evolution, it is necessary that we slow down. We can do this by meditation and other practices to ease the mind. The author quotes the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan: "The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within." The awareness of our infinite nature puts things in perspective and we see:
"If my message to the universe is 'What can I give?' or 'How may I serve?,' the message I receive from the universe will be 'How may I serve you?' or 'What can I give you?' Then I experience the magic of sending generous thoughts and energy out wherever I go."
The second half of this book focuses of the famous prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi which begins "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace." Dyer dissects each line and sees it as very practical advice for implementing spiritual solutions. Here's one of his suggestions for becoming an instrument of peace:
"Practice thinking peace. Remember, you become what you think about all day long. How often do you clutter your mind with thoughts of nonpeace? How many times a day do you say out loud how terrible the world is? How violent we have all become? How uncaring we seem to be? How racist we are? How little the government cares about us? All of these thoughts and their expression are indications that you have become trapped in a nonpeaceful mind and, therefore, a nonpeaceful world."
Dyer maintains that there is a spiritual solution to every problem when we can learn to follow Saint Francis and sow peace, love, pardon, faith, light, and joy. These practices will serve as antidotes to turmoil, hatred, injury, doubt, despair, and sadness.
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There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem
By Wayne Dyer
Examines the aphorisms of a Yogi mystic and the most famous prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi as a spiritual approach to life.
Book Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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Wayne Dyer is the bestselling author of more than 20 books and has a doctorate in counseling psychology. At the outset of this paperback, he writes:
"Spirituality is from within, the result of recognition, realization, and reverence. My personal understanding of spiritual practice is that it is a way of making my life work at a higher level and of receiving guidance for handling problems."
Dyer turns to the writings of Patanjali, a Yogi mystic who wrote sometime between the fourth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. He takes five of his aphorisms and uses them as a foundation for seeing a spiritual solution to every problem:
1. Identify yourself beyond ignorance.
2. Calmness is the peace of God within you.
3. You create obstacles, you do not sin.
4. Be steadfast in abstaining from falsehood.
5. Be steadfast in abstaining from harmful thoughts and acts.
Dyer then proposes that everything is energy and that faster vibrations means getting closer to "spirit." But in our spiritual evolution, it is necessary that we slow down. We can do this by meditation and other practices to ease the mind. The author quotes the Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan: "The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within." The awareness of our infinite nature puts things in perspective and we see:
"If my message to the universe is 'What can I give?' or 'How may I serve?,' the message I receive from the universe will be 'How may I serve you?' or 'What can I give you?' Then I experience the magic of sending generous thoughts and energy out wherever I go."
The second half of this book focuses of the famous prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi which begins "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace." Dyer dissects each line and sees it as very practical advice for implementing spiritual solutions. Here's one of his suggestions for becoming an instrument of peace:
"Practice thinking peace. Remember, you become what you think about all day long. How often do you clutter your mind with thoughts of nonpeace? How many times a day do you say out loud how terrible the world is? How violent we have all become? How uncaring we seem to be? How racist we are? How little the government cares about us? All of these thoughts and their expression are indications that you have become trapped in a nonpeaceful mind and, therefore, a nonpeaceful world."
Dyer maintains that there is a spiritual solution to every problem when we can learn to follow Saint Francis and sow peace, love, pardon, faith, light, and joy. These practices will serve as antidotes to turmoil, hatred, injury, doubt, despair, and sadness.
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