Combining six decades of clinical experience with cutting-edge research, two acclaimed leaders in the field of psychology have developed a revolutionary approach to happiness—one that’s accessible and practical enough to apply at home, yet powerful enough to create a profoundly positive transformation in our lives. Doctors George Pratt and Peter Lambrou have been delivering successful results to professional athletes, top executitves, celebrities, and nearly 45,000 other patients with their four-step process. Now, their revolutionary solution will help readers identify and diffuse the negative “blocking beliefs” that are standing between them and the happiness they want to achieve.
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“Drs. Lambrou and Pratt’s work has had a fabulous impact on my life.” (Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., coauthor of The One Minute Manager )
“As a returning Olympic medalist, I faced a major challenge trying to make the team for 2000. I used Dr. Pratt and Dr. Lambrou’s method during our Olympic trials and it really helped my concentration and endurance during the long and grueling competition. And we won!” (J.J. Isler, three-time Yachtswoman of the Year, two-time Olympic Medalist )
“George Pratt is one of the most gifted healers on the planet today. His work has touched my life and the lives of those throughout my global community.” (Debbie Ford, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Dark Side of the Light-Chasers and The 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse )
“Code to Joy offers a simple, powerful, and brilliant method for experiencing authentic happiness from the inside out. And that inner happiness is the basis of outer success.” (Marci Shimoff, author of the New York Times Bestseller Happy for No Reason )
“As a returning Olympic medalist, I faced a major challenge trying to make the team for 2000. I used Dr. Pratt and Dr. Lambrou’s method during our Olympic trials and it really helped my concentration and endurance during the long and grueling competition. And we won!” (J.J. Isler, three-time Yachtswoman of the Year, two-time Olympic Medalist )
“George Pratt is one of the most gifted healers on the planet today. His work has touched my life and the lives of those throughout my global community.” (Debbie Ford, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Dark Side of the Light-Chasers and The 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse )
“Code to Joy offers a simple, powerful, and brilliant method for experiencing authentic happiness from the inside out. And that inner happiness is the basis of outer success.” (Marci Shimoff, author of the New York Times Bestseller Happy for No Reason )
From the Back Cover
We are meant to be happy. Instinctively, we all know this, somewhere deep inside. We all know what it's like to feel a burst of delight. Every one of us has at some point in our lives experienced a sense of ecstatic joy, of euphoria at the sheer sensation of being alive.
Have you ever wondered why that experience has to be so rare and fleeting?
The answer is, It doesn't.
—from Code to Joy
All the positive thinking, affirmations, talk therapy, and pharmaceuticals in the world will never be enough to make us as happy as we were designed to be, according to acclaimed clinical psychologists George Pratt, Ph.D., and Peter Lambrou, Ph.D. That's because those approaches fail to address a third aspect of the human organism, one that bridges the gap between mind and body: the biofield.
Combining six decades of clinical experience with cutting-edge research, Drs. Pratt and Lambrou have developed a revolutionary program for rediscovering (and then never again letting go of) your innate happiness in four simple, proven steps.
Pratt and Lambrou's program has already transformed the lives of more than 45,000 clients, including professional athletes, top executives, and celebrities. Code to Joy can transform yours, too, with all the science-based tools and guidance you need to complete the process of becoming a more focused, more powerful, and more deeply joyful you.
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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
By Bob Burg
Format:Hardcover
Do you constantly find yourself in unhealthy relationships? Do you have an unnatural and exaggerated fear of heights? Are you ever despondent for no particular reason? Do you sabotage your abundance time and again? Are you deathly afraid of getting lost? Or do you suffer from something different but nonetheless devastating?
This book, by noted psychologists Drs. George Pratt & Peter Lambrou (and coauthored by John David Mann), helps us dig deep into our subconscious in order to unlock the door to what's really holding us back.
In his foreword, famed talk-show host Larry King quotes coauthor Pratt:
"Whether it's an unresolved hurt, persistent low self-esteem, or vague sense of anxious unease, most of us struggle with some version of what we call the fog of distress. It clouds our lives, interfering with our relationships, our careers, even our health. And no matter how many hours you spend on the couch, talking it through just doesn't always do it."
"Why not?" asks King.
Pratt explains, "Because there's typically a disconnect between what we logically know about ourselves and the place in the brain where our emotions live. Sometimes you just can't get there from here. You have to find alternative ways to get that information to click."
Throughout the book, the authors discuss "energy psychology" and share dozens of case studies involving a wide assortment of personality challenges. The one constant in all these cases is that something deep in the subconscious, based on an event that happened long ago (and, in many cases, that is totally forgotten by the sufferer) has manifested in the current, debilitating challenge the person is experiencing.
According to the authors, there are seven -- what they refer to as -- "limiting beliefs," and at least one is at the root of whatever conscious form the problem has now taken. There are four steps that each sufferer is taken through. And while I'll name them...
Identify
Clear
Repattern
Anchor
...each step comes with its own set of instructions. The reader is taken through a series of exercises, and I have little doubt that if the reader followed them faithfully, he or she would most likely be able to work through what is keeping them from the happiness and joy the authors believe we were created to have.
Because (to paraphrase the authors) the subconscious is to the conscious "as an elephant is to a flea," the subconscious rules. This is something that most of us who have studied personal development know. However, along with compelling case studies and step-by-step instructions to work within this context, Pratt and Lambrou take it a step further. Their four-step process goes beyond addressing the mind and emotions and works directly with the biofield, at the cellular and energetic level. This is key!
This is an excellent book. At the very least, you'll find it to be a fascinating explanation as to how the mind works (and can play some devastating tricks on us) and, at best -- if you are willing to invest the time and energy in following their instructions -- you could make some hugely positive changes in your life.
This book, by noted psychologists Drs. George Pratt & Peter Lambrou (and coauthored by John David Mann), helps us dig deep into our subconscious in order to unlock the door to what's really holding us back.
In his foreword, famed talk-show host Larry King quotes coauthor Pratt:
"Whether it's an unresolved hurt, persistent low self-esteem, or vague sense of anxious unease, most of us struggle with some version of what we call the fog of distress. It clouds our lives, interfering with our relationships, our careers, even our health. And no matter how many hours you spend on the couch, talking it through just doesn't always do it."
"Why not?" asks King.
Pratt explains, "Because there's typically a disconnect between what we logically know about ourselves and the place in the brain where our emotions live. Sometimes you just can't get there from here. You have to find alternative ways to get that information to click."
Throughout the book, the authors discuss "energy psychology" and share dozens of case studies involving a wide assortment of personality challenges. The one constant in all these cases is that something deep in the subconscious, based on an event that happened long ago (and, in many cases, that is totally forgotten by the sufferer) has manifested in the current, debilitating challenge the person is experiencing.
According to the authors, there are seven -- what they refer to as -- "limiting beliefs," and at least one is at the root of whatever conscious form the problem has now taken. There are four steps that each sufferer is taken through. And while I'll name them...
Identify
Clear
Repattern
Anchor
...each step comes with its own set of instructions. The reader is taken through a series of exercises, and I have little doubt that if the reader followed them faithfully, he or she would most likely be able to work through what is keeping them from the happiness and joy the authors believe we were created to have.
Because (to paraphrase the authors) the subconscious is to the conscious "as an elephant is to a flea," the subconscious rules. This is something that most of us who have studied personal development know. However, along with compelling case studies and step-by-step instructions to work within this context, Pratt and Lambrou take it a step further. Their four-step process goes beyond addressing the mind and emotions and works directly with the biofield, at the cellular and energetic level. This is key!
This is an excellent book. At the very least, you'll find it to be a fascinating explanation as to how the mind works (and can play some devastating tricks on us) and, at best -- if you are willing to invest the time and energy in following their instructions -- you could make some hugely positive changes in your life.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Paula Shaw
Format:Hardcover
Although Dr's Pratt and Lambrou support the concepts in this book with valid references to neuro-science; don't look for this book to be a technical, scientific reference book, rather it's written for the general public and reads as an engaging story until you get to the 4-step process. Being a therapist who also uses Energy Psychology processes, I was primarily looking for the Four Step Process that they put forth in the book. However, I found the first part of the book so engaging that I read it anyway. Although the book has a great deal of scientific information, you don't have to "read it with your teeth." I will definitely recommend it to my clients.
"I had Drs. Pratt and Lambrou's previous book on acupressure for the emotions, and have integrated several of their methods into my counseling work, so I was curious to see if this book would have anything new. After reading a 'sneak peek' at the forward and introduction at their [...] website, I decided to order it and take a look. I was pleasantly surprised. Where their previous book dealt primarily with emotional relief, this book digs deeper to the core beliefs that often drive emotional overloads and create what they call a 'fog of distress'. I love the term "fog of distress," it's so vivid and clear (no pun intended). Being a grief therapist, working on a soon to be released book integrating Mind/Body approaches with grief work, (Turn Your Frown Upside Down), I found this phrase a perfect description of what I call an accumulation of unreconciled mini-grief experiences. I'm not sure fog of distress is what my clients would call their inability to sustain joy or happiness in their lives, but it's the label Pratt and Lambrou use and as a metaphor it works. It so aptly describes the pervasive, nagging feeling of "something's not right but I'm not exactly sure what it is," that my clients so often report.
Drs. Pratt and Lambrou also enlighten us about what they call micro traumas, the small hurt feelings, criticisms, insults, and shaming experiences of childhood as well as other damaging real life experiences like a child being left for an hour standing outside a school waiting for a parent to arrive, or a lack of soothing after a bullying experience at school (2 examples I've seen in my clients). These micro traumas accumulate and form distortions of how a person sees themself in adulthood. This term "micro traumas," in my thinking, aptly describes the myriad of small loss experiences that go undetected and unhealed in people's lives every day. This is what leads to that accumulation of grief that I mentioned above.
I've seen how this has happened for many of my clients and how those losses form beliefs like, "I'm not loveable, or I'm inadequate" and so on. These beliefs later get triggered by certain circumstances in adulthood and can cause a person to become limited in their ability to feel good about them self or about their life and relationships.
I easily understood the concepts that the authors were bringing to light and felt that they dovetailed perfectly with my own beliefs and experience. I liked the clean, simple way they explain how these limiting life beliefs develop. They give lots of examples that readers can easily relate to. The 'fog of distress' was explained in an interesting way when I (the reader) was asked to guess how much water was in a square block of thick fog. I won't reveal the answer here.
Their description of the flea and the elephant as a metaphor for the relationship of the conscious and subconscious minds, provided a great visual that I'll use with my clients to help them understand how powerful subconscious beliefs (the elephant), can drive us in one direction even when the conscious mind (the flea), wishes to go in a different direction.
I liked the simplicity of the 4-step process: Identify the belief; Clear the mind/body biofield; Repattern the limiting belief to a new and productive one; and then Anchor it for permanency.
Each step has some relatively easy exercises that I went through myself for a personal issue and found that it did what they intended. I've integrated several parts of the process into my work with grieving clients with very successful outcomes. Most clinicians will find something in this book that they can use to help their clients, and readers who aren't suffering a clinical disorder, can, for a small investment of time and money, find solid help with lifting their personal fogs of distress. And, without a doubt, all will find the read enjoyable.
Paula Shaw CADC, DCEP
Author of Chakras, The Magnificent Seven
"I had Drs. Pratt and Lambrou's previous book on acupressure for the emotions, and have integrated several of their methods into my counseling work, so I was curious to see if this book would have anything new. After reading a 'sneak peek' at the forward and introduction at their [...] website, I decided to order it and take a look. I was pleasantly surprised. Where their previous book dealt primarily with emotional relief, this book digs deeper to the core beliefs that often drive emotional overloads and create what they call a 'fog of distress'. I love the term "fog of distress," it's so vivid and clear (no pun intended). Being a grief therapist, working on a soon to be released book integrating Mind/Body approaches with grief work, (Turn Your Frown Upside Down), I found this phrase a perfect description of what I call an accumulation of unreconciled mini-grief experiences. I'm not sure fog of distress is what my clients would call their inability to sustain joy or happiness in their lives, but it's the label Pratt and Lambrou use and as a metaphor it works. It so aptly describes the pervasive, nagging feeling of "something's not right but I'm not exactly sure what it is," that my clients so often report.
Drs. Pratt and Lambrou also enlighten us about what they call micro traumas, the small hurt feelings, criticisms, insults, and shaming experiences of childhood as well as other damaging real life experiences like a child being left for an hour standing outside a school waiting for a parent to arrive, or a lack of soothing after a bullying experience at school (2 examples I've seen in my clients). These micro traumas accumulate and form distortions of how a person sees themself in adulthood. This term "micro traumas," in my thinking, aptly describes the myriad of small loss experiences that go undetected and unhealed in people's lives every day. This is what leads to that accumulation of grief that I mentioned above.
I've seen how this has happened for many of my clients and how those losses form beliefs like, "I'm not loveable, or I'm inadequate" and so on. These beliefs later get triggered by certain circumstances in adulthood and can cause a person to become limited in their ability to feel good about them self or about their life and relationships.
I easily understood the concepts that the authors were bringing to light and felt that they dovetailed perfectly with my own beliefs and experience. I liked the clean, simple way they explain how these limiting life beliefs develop. They give lots of examples that readers can easily relate to. The 'fog of distress' was explained in an interesting way when I (the reader) was asked to guess how much water was in a square block of thick fog. I won't reveal the answer here.
Their description of the flea and the elephant as a metaphor for the relationship of the conscious and subconscious minds, provided a great visual that I'll use with my clients to help them understand how powerful subconscious beliefs (the elephant), can drive us in one direction even when the conscious mind (the flea), wishes to go in a different direction.
I liked the simplicity of the 4-step process: Identify the belief; Clear the mind/body biofield; Repattern the limiting belief to a new and productive one; and then Anchor it for permanency.
Each step has some relatively easy exercises that I went through myself for a personal issue and found that it did what they intended. I've integrated several parts of the process into my work with grieving clients with very successful outcomes. Most clinicians will find something in this book that they can use to help their clients, and readers who aren't suffering a clinical disorder, can, for a small investment of time and money, find solid help with lifting their personal fogs of distress. And, without a doubt, all will find the read enjoyable.
Paula Shaw CADC, DCEP
Author of Chakras, The Magnificent Seven
24 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you've heard or read that we are all created to have happiness and joy in our lives, but you're wondering why you aren't happier and more joyful, this book is for you.
Co-author, John David Mann, has made it pleasantly readable - not just another psychological self-help textbook. Drs. Pratt and Lambrou have created a brilliant formula for tapping into our highest potential. They've gone beyond the mind, body, spirit connection - a "biofield" at the cellular and energetic level.
Happiness and joy are emotions, and emotions live deep in our subconscious. If you faithfully follow the exercises in this book, you could make some highly positive changes in your life.
Code to Joy will help you find your best happiness and joy, more success in your endeavors, and all with a smile on your face. it's a truly good read, and can be immensely rewarding.
Co-author, John David Mann, has made it pleasantly readable - not just another psychological self-help textbook. Drs. Pratt and Lambrou have created a brilliant formula for tapping into our highest potential. They've gone beyond the mind, body, spirit connection - a "biofield" at the cellular and energetic level.
Happiness and joy are emotions, and emotions live deep in our subconscious. If you faithfully follow the exercises in this book, you could make some highly positive changes in your life.
Code to Joy will help you find your best happiness and joy, more success in your endeavors, and all with a smile on your face. it's a truly good read, and can be immensely rewarding.
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I think it could be helpful to some individuals; however, it is a circuitous route to reach results. Not what I need.
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