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Awakening the Warrior Within: Secrets of Personal Safety and Inner Security

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This book contains a depth of wisdom I have rarely seen in my continuing study of warrior philosophy. Dawn Callan brings the esoteric and the practical together in such a natural way that the fabric of the book is seemless. There is a practical twelve-step/recovery flavor here that anyone struggling with addiction, compulsion, will find solace in what reads like a familiar and helpful friend.

I read this book about 9 years ago and it changed my life. Then I placed it on my annual re-read book shelf and I read it again once a year. If you're a shrinking violet (like I was), you NEED this book. It inspires, it instructs, it shows readers exactly how to get into their power center--and most of us need to do just that.

However, I recently read Ms. Callan's second book, The Hero's Code, and was very disappointed with it, hoping as I was that it would inspire me the way her first book had. It would've been a great magazine article but it falls very short as a book (for instance, do we need to know the full details of all of her many courses and why would her favorite real estate agent, carpenter, and insurance broker be listed under Resources?).

If you choose between the two, buy Awakening the Warrior Within. You won't be disappointed--it's fantastic!

Starting from her courageous biography, the accomplished martial artist takes us through the steps of identifying our fears, weaknesses and strengths. Learning to responsibly relate to people and the planet is as much a part of personal safety as are spirituality and physical prowess - a work-mind-body-map for the journey to a safer and better future!

This book would be a great gift for the cousin you have that keeps getting beat up because he won't stop telling dock workers how their leather jackets are murder.

This book does not deal with self defense per se, but does kind of argue the case that learning to defend yourself will not incur a huge karmic debt.

People who mainly are interested in self defense will be disapointed in the lack of practical advice. There is nothing really devoted to how to defend yourself. All it does is tell you it is alright to do so. The stuff on chakras and meditation will probably turn off many martial arts practicioners looking for practical ways to come home safely. At the same time, all the new age stuff will probably bore those who have read it before in books better suited to explain it.

This books value is very narrow. But it does make the case that a person can be a loving, new ager and still learn to do violence to others if needed. After reading this, that cousin might be willing to take some martial arts classes. Maybe he will even learn enough to know that he will avoid trouble if he just keeps his opinion to himself- but keep the bandages close just in case.