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The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose

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I've always been curious about how evolutionary leaders like Debbie Ford experience the divine. And this book really let me into that secret. Reading it, I felt like I could see spirit through her eyes and I entered the same reverence and respect she writes about in the book. What was most unexpected, though, is that I developed my own very personal relationship with a Higher Power, one that gave me the courage to take risks, to let go of the past and to step boldly into my dreams. I've been looking for a long time for a book that will just tell me what to do, and Debbie Ford does just that. But instead of pointing me outside myself, she pointed me inward, toward a source that I had no idea existed. I am so grateful to have read this book and I can say without a doubt it has totally transformed my life.

Every time I think it isn't possible to take a complex concept and idea and make it simple and understandable, Debbie Ford writes another book that shakes the foundation of human understanding on that topic. Consciousness has been discussed for years but no one has ever given a simple formula for raising ones consciousness in a structured and planned way. Debbie's books movie's and training programs are changing the way the world looks at transformation and personal development. This book is full of clear internal exercises and tools to raise your vibration and make a huge change in how you see the world and operate in it. I highly recommend this book.

I have been seeing a spiritual teacher for over 20 years now, but I wanted a book to challenge me on a set program. The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with your Soul's Deepest Purpose, by Debbie Ford, does just that.

The book is clear and concise; Ford presents complex ideas simply and very clearly.

The goal of the book is to help the reader reach their highest potential. "Clearing the past, getting honest about the present and envisioning a future unlike anything you've ever imagined," she writes.

Ford isn't recommending we live our live solely inward--if anything, the goal is to seek a balance between our inner and outer worlds.

The first section is all about the 21 day program and includes preparation and the necessary tools.

The next three sections deal with past, present and future.

When we achieve true peace, we also achieve love, compassion and serenity, according to Ford. We detach from past, present and future and live joyfully.

If you decide to embark on this worthy program, consider cleansing the body and your home as well as aids in the spiritual journey. I have found, as a designer, that living in a sanctuary helps me on my spiritual journey, as does eating really healthfully. I recommend: HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT: BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET and QUANTUM WELLNESS.

Highly recommend.

A step-by-step approach to ridding yourself of negative and toxic thoughts, patterns, actions, beliefs, and whatever else is holding you back from being your most complete, with the help of what I call your Source and what Debbie calls God.

Her take on cleansing your consciousness of negativity is clear and meaningful, but her style may turn off some readers. For instance, heavy use of the language of addiction and recovery, taken from AA and such. Also, many formal prayers using "thou" and "thy," which may work for some people but is too prim and proper for my taste.

But her deep passion for God and her great respect for her readers shines through ~ this could be a life-changing book for someone who's new to going within, is feeling utterly stuck in life, or has lost faith.

I like this book and think that it is very useful. The pages between the chapters with lists of questions are not very useful, most of the time I can't figure out how to incorporate them even though there is an explanation at the beginning.

The book is full of important questions to ask yourself. Day 3 was very difficult to do, but I feel like a mountain fell off my back! The only thing that I feel was a let down was the day on Forgiveness. That could have been a deeper, more thought provoking exercise. That could have had a meditation on how to forgive others AND oneself, but it didn't. I didn't feel like I could proceed well without that. A friend read me meditations from another work of Debbie Ford, which was helpful.

It is worth doing in any case.

Starting out on the Consciousness Cleanse, I was excited. While cleaning out my garage, I'd found a blank, leatherbound journal which I took to be a good omen. The first day, I followed the cleanse instructions, carefully cutting out pictures of my dreams and goals and double-side-taping them into the journal. But, on the second and third days I kept stumbling over two things: 1) the constant references to cleansing your soul and letting God come in; and 2) a focus on consciousnesses with lots more anger and feelings of hurt than I have. I'm not really upset at anybody in my past.......I wanted to build on my mostly solid foundation and overcome some of my weaknesses. The 21-Day Cleanse wants to help people who are really damaged, it seems to me. I'll probably go back and re-attempt the cleanse again (I do have that lovely journal, after all!) but I did find all the talk about God and about toxicity to be off-putting.

Debbie Ford's work and previous books have always come from a distinctly spiritual perspective, yet one generally tempered with the language and accoutrements of the personal development world. But with the 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, she steps out of the spiritual shadows, clearly and overtly calling on people to recognize, seek and surrender to the Divine presence that exists in, around and through us all. Ms. Ford is a master at developing and guiding people through transformational processes. This book is another shining example of the depth and effectiveness of her process work, reverently, compassionately and lovingly delivered.

With the 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, she offers us all a simple to follow, three-week process for cleansing our minds and hearts of the toxicity of day to day life in this technology driven, ego saturated, relentlessly negative world. She guides us to reconnect with the phenomenal wisdom and comfort of our souls, while consistently nurturing ourselves emotionally, spiritually and physically. The exercises, tools and day by day structure provide an easy to follow method for opening to and cultivating the ultimate love relationship - that between ourselves and the divine. As Ms. Ford asserts, there's nothing that can compare to that.

Gosh, I like Debbie Ford. Just finished watching her DVD set, The Shadow Effect, an Interactive Movie Experience: A Journey from Your Darkest Thought to Your Greatest Dream and was just blown away. Now comes The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse. Thank You Debbie! Okay, hardly am I through day 2, but (yes I cheated and scanned the pages ahead) I have to say this guide is awesome. In reading some of the other reviews, I'd have to say, "What they said!" I know that our individual power comes from within us as well as the troubles that haunt us. I fully expect that I'll be touched by these guided transformational exercises as much as I was with Judith Orloff's Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life which helped me forgive and release "stuff" I'd been burdened with for many years.

If you are ready to transform your life, Debbie Ford's latest treasure is the powerful tool to get you there. It will take courage, commitment and willingness AND the results will be amazing - you will be awed by yourself and what you discover on the journey! If you've had it with the status quo of your life, and I suspect you have if you are reading this review, then DIVE IN. Give yourself the gift of releasing your pain and disappointment and welcoming back your vital energy and the creation of the life you have always imagined!

A lot of the info in this book is not really new to me, especially as I have read most of Debbie Ford's other books. I will say that it may go deeper though, and bypass some of the ways we have of not 'getting it'. I am now doing the online part at Daily Om and the meditations are great. I will do the whole written part with her class that starts in January. And even if we have heard some of this 'stuff' and even if we think we have done the work....it seems there is always more. I look at it as yet another round of emotional decluttering...