Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide [Paperback]

Shirley Cheng (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 2008

Life is musical, yet your heart has to know how to pick up the beat to dance to its lovely tunes. Embrace Ultra-Ability! will gently guide you through the dance steps so you can waltz to the music of life. Filled with the blind author's precocious wisdom and insight, this book empowers you to accept all the jewels Jehovah God Almighty abundantly supplies us, and supports you on your journey to using the gifts wisely. Once you have welcomed all His treasures--from love to hope--be ready to dance with your heart to life's wondrous melodies! "If there is ever to be a poster person for people with ultra-abilities, it would have to be Shirley Cheng. ...(a) power-packed guide...full of sage advice, helpful exercises, common sense analyses...tough love prescriptions..." -ForeWord CLARION Reviews

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"If there is ever to be a poster person for people with ultra-abilities, it would have to be...Shirley Cheng. ...(a) power-packed guide...full of sage advice, helpful exercises, common sense analyses...tough love prescriptions..." -M. Wayne Cunningham, ForeWord CLARION Reviews, Perfect 5-Star Rating

"(Written) with verve and conviction...ever cutting to the chase." -Kirkus Discoveries

"...very effective and empowering in teaching positive affirmations, self-confidence, self-love and true sight." -Dorothy Lafrinere, WomensSelfEsteem.com

"Shirley Cheng's vibrant prose refreshes the soul. Her positive message of hope and love has universal appeal." -The Rebecca Review, Top Ten Amazon.com Reviewer

Shirley Cheng (b. 1983), a blind and physically disabled award-winning author, motivational speaker, self-empowerment expert, poet, author of seven books, contributing author of ten books, and a parental rights advocate, has had severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since infancy. Owing to years of hospitalization, she received no education until age eleven. However, after only about 180 days of special education in elementary school, she mastered grade level in all areas and entered a regular sixth grade class in middle school. Unfortunately, Shirley lost her eyesight at the age of seventeen. After a successful eye surgery, she hopes to earn multiple science doctorates from Harvard University.

Contact Shirley at ShirleyCheng.com

Shirley Cheng is the author of Waking Spirit: Prose & Poems the Spirit Sings (with foreword by New York Times bestselling author Cynthia Brian), a heartfelt collection that explores a world of dancing hearts, singing spirits, with infinite love from life (ISBN: 9780615136806 paperback; 9780615138930 hardback); Daring Quests of Mystics, a soothing read to relax the mind, body, and spirit (ISBN: 9781411656642); an empowering 700-page autobiography, The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine: A Young Woman's Autobiography of 20-Year Victories over Victimization (ISBN: 9780615150444); and Dance with Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart Tells, a collection of inspirational and fantasy short stories (fairy tales, fables, and myths) and poems for the heart from the heart (ISBN: 9781411618589).

Waking Spirit is an award-winning finalist in the national Indie Excellence 2007 Book Awards in the new age nonfiction category, Honorable Mention in the 2007 New York Book Festival in the poetry category, as well as Honorable Mention in the 2007 DIY Book Festival in the poetry category.

With highly acclaimed experts like Dr. Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, and Brian Tracy, Shirley co-authored Wake Up...Live the Life You Love: Finding Life's Passion, the latest installment in the bestselling Wake Up...Live the Life You Love series; she is also the co-author of 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2, along with leading experts Jack Canfield, John Gray, Richard Carlson, Alan Cohen, Bob Proctor, et al.

Shirley is also an advocate of parental rights in children's medical care, and aide/caregiver monitoring and screening for students with special needs and disabled people. As a parental rights advocate, she wants to help today's loving parents protect and keep custody of their children. "When doctors ask yes or no, parents should have the right to say no," says Shirley, who is the survivor of the 1990 five-month internationally broadcast news of mother Juliet Cheng's custody battle with a doctor. Juliet was on CBS This Morning with Paula Zahn.

Shirley promotes aide advocacy for the disabled because she was mistreated and abused by one-to-one aides when she attended school. "The trouble with the uncaring aides actually lies with the authorities," she says. "If they listened to my complaints and kept a close watch on the aides, I wouldn't have gone through all the suffering."

She had been published twice before her writing career. One of her short stories, Mary Miller, the Elusive Lady, received Honorable Mention and was published by the Poughkeepsie Journal in 1997, and a poem, The Colors of the Rainbow, earned merit status and was published in Celebrate! New York Young Poets Speak Out in 1999.

In 2006, Shirley tied for 1st place in the national writing contest for Be the Star You Are! founded by New York Times bestselling author, TV/radio personality Cynthia Brian, garnering her a third appearance on Cynthia's live radio show. Shirley's winning entry, titled The Jewel from Heavenly Father, is dedicated to her beloved mother Juliet Cheng. In 2007, Shirley received Honorable Mention in the same contest for her essay, I Hold the Power, her personal story of overcoming blindness at the age of seventeen. In 2008, Shirley was yet again one of the honorees, this time winning Honorable Mention for her essay, My Mother: A Fighter, a Victor, a Lover, which applauds her mother for being such a courageous and loving fighter to protect her life at all costs.

Shirley is available for interviews, speaking engagements, book signings, and inspirational events.

Product Details

• Paperback: 170 pages
• Publisher: Dance with Your Heart! Publishing (January 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615155227
• ISBN-13: 978-0615155227
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,668,950 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Womensselfesteem.com's review of, 'Embrace Ultra-Ability'., March 13, 2008

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This review is from: Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide (Paperback)

Embrace Ultra-Ability!

Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide, is an excellent and effectively written book by Shirley Cheng. You will feel your mind open to her insightful thoughts, spiritualism and advice, while at the same time find yourself reaching ultimate goals such as inner peace, self-acceptance and happiness. Have you ever wanted to, win with positivity or overcome limitations and negativity? In this book you will find steps and strategies to do just that.

Shirley Cheng takes you on another mindful journey as you read her thoughts, experiences, and her interpretations as she visualizes the world and what it has to offer.

Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide, is a key that will enable you the reader, to finally unlock doors that have blocked you from understanding and really seeing what is beyond your own impaired vision. An impaired vision in a non-physical sense such as being blinded to what really is waiting to be seen and embraced in life.

This book is very effective and empowering in teaching positive affirmations, self-confidence, self-love and true sight. A must for every reader!

Womensselfesteem.com highly recommends, " Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide".

Shirley Cheng's ability through her own physical blindness has allowed her to see the world through a true site or vision. She sees through all of the obstacles of negative-emotional thinking and learned behaviors which have impaired so many of us in our daily lives.

Shirley embraces her insight-fullness which enables her to accept what she cannot change and gives her the strength to continue to move forward!

Shirley continues sharing her world of peace and tranquility through her poetic words, teaching her readers the true meaning to the words blindness and insight-fullness.

Through Shirley Cheng's book, you will gain the strength needed to reach your ultimate goal in life of a true balance.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cherish every minute of your existence!, August 12, 2008

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Shannon L. Yarbrough "Shannon L. Yarbrough" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide (Paperback)

If you visit Shirley Cheng's website, you'll soon discover she is a very unique individual with an inspirational story that will definitely touch you in some way. Shirley was born in 1983 and diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis before she was even one year old. Due to years of hospitalization in both China and America, Shirley received no formal education until she was eleven years old. In public school, she suffered from abuse at the hands of public school aides. At the age of seventeen, she lost her eyesight. Today, Shirley is a motivational speaker, poet, and an author of a handful of books all available through Amazon.

Shirley's book, Embrace Ultra-Ability, presents over 20 chapters of the author's own personal advice on focusing in on the world around you in order to achieve personal success. From learning to appreciate nature to developing your own spirituality, Shirley teaches the reader to focus on the simple everyday parts of life that those of us who are not handicapped often take for granted.

My favorite chapter in the book is called "A Matter of Time." Shirley begins the chapter by asking the reader if they would like the power to look into the future. Who wouldn't? Psychic power is something many of us seek out as a novelty, astounded when predictions often do come true, a power many of us wish we had. However, Shirley embraces the opposite. "But after carefully considering it, I would like to keep the future a secret instead," Shirley writes. Why spoil the surprise of life, she stresses. She continues:

"While we hope for a bright tomorrow, we need to capture our time right now before it slips away between the cracks of everyday rushes. The best way to capture time is to cherish every minute of your existence."

Yep, it's a broad realization, right? But so true. I often dread facing another work week when Monday gets here, anxious for the weekend, only to look back and wonder where the weeks went to because they flew by so fast. And so is life, passing me by quicker and quicker every year, which is why I found Shirley's book to be a nice bit of encouragement to take time out everyday, slow down, and appreciate the simple things in life I am fortunate enough to have.

Embrace Ultra-Ability is not a sad book written by someone who is misfortunate and asking for your sympathy. Sure, her words and story are truly compassionate and will definitely touch you, but Ms. Cheng is a motivational and kindred spirit that we can all learn from. The title of her book says it all. We should ignore our inabilities in life, and turn them into ultra-abilities that will work in our favor and make us a better person. I have no doubt that reading this book is a great start to achieving just that!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Trish Lay:, June 2, 2008

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Patricia Lay "Life/Leadership Coach" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide (Paperback)

In a society that is self absorbed, unjustly critical and judgmental; out comes an honest and humble perspective from a young, prophetic muse, whose inner perception is astounding.

"Embrace Ultra-Ability!" - defines the very essence that truly needs to exist in all of us. We have no place for pity within our lives after reading about the determination, resilience and extreme faith Shirley holds towards her life and her experience. The courage to share her understanding in anticipation others will follow, is a sheer sign of true leadership and accountability.

And as a matter of fact, each teenager should be given this book in High School as a basis from which to build their values, morals and gratitude toward life.

With what we view as set-backs, Ms. Cheng views her challenges as monuments of growth and turns them in to the highest of accomplishments and achievements. I honor her endurance and envy her strength.

Very well done...What is next Ms. Cheng?