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All Your Prayers Are Answered

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In Dr. Menahem's book, he doesn't disappoint. After his first book and after taking a class with him at Columbia, I expected nothing less than humor mixed with compassion and grace ... the book is firmly constructed within and outside the walls of classic to experimental philosophy/psychology. Delightful!! Just like Sam, er, Dr. Menahem.

Dr.Sam Menahem has authored a most insightful book which combines both the power of psychotherapy and religion. As a practicing rabbi for over forty years, I found that many people are fearful of both areas of psychotherapy and religion. They feel that the two disciplines interfere with their routine pragmatic lives. They are content to leave psychotherapy to the professional practitioners and matters of prayer to clergymen. Menahem masterfully debunks these distortions by showing that the layman can comfortably pray and expect answers provided that he understands what prayer can and cannot do for us. I have learned a great deal about myself and the power of prayer from this fine piece of work. Rabbi Simon Glustrom

This reviewer read and endorsed Dr. Menahem's first book, When Therapy Isn't Enough. The publication of his second, All Your Prayers Are Answered, proves two truths to me. One is that education and the resultant enlightenment is ongoing. And the other is that Sam Menahem is even more insightful, compassionate and sharing than I knew.

All Your Prayers Are Answered continues and amplifies the fact that, "...in addition to the personal unconscious self, with all its conflicts, there is also a Higher Spiritual Self...". Thus, Dr. Menahem explores the ways in which prayer and meditation work, how to pray effectively and how to recognize the answers to our prayers.

The reader learns that, "When people seek therapy, they are usually looking for symptomatic relief from depression, anxiety, guilt or relationship problems". But as Dr. Menahem points out, "As we learn to join with the Higher Self, the part of us connected to the divine, our symptoms fade and our relationships improve".

By using his studies in Eastern and Western religions combined with his training in transpersonal psychology and actual case studies of patients he has treated, Dr. Menahem proves the effectiveness of the alliance between ego and Spirit. "It is very difficult to get the ego to acknowledge its inevitable alliance with God. But it is necessary and can be accomplished in different ways by the various forms of prayer".

All Your Prayers Are Answered can enable the reader to realize that the goal of prayer is Self realization, and that prayer helps us to see that the ego gives us an incomplete and erroneous perception of our true nature. Sam Menahem, Ph.D has written a new paradigm of understanding and enlightenment!

Dr. Sam Menahem is gaining a growing reputation for his spiritual insights related to psychotherapy and counseling. In his latest book, he presents compelling cases and ideas on the importance of prayer for our emotional health. I found his chapter on forgiveness to be especially worthwhile. Those in the helping professions, as well as lay readers, will find this book a valuable resource.