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Emotional Wellness: Transforming Fear, Anger, and Jealousy into Creative Energy

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I have personally enjoyed reading this book! After reading more than a dozen of osho books, you realise how the same ideas and the same stories pop up in the different pages and different book. This book has a different twist as osho doesn't just focus on one concept...but on different concepts or difficult conditions one passes by in life.
Its an excellent book...once again osho making a miracle by "decomplexing" or "decomposing" all the complexities in life in this book!

I really never expected to purchase a book like this. I am very glad I did. I got the essence of the year out of the first few pages: the heart does the loving, not the mind... the mind doubts, the heart does cannot.

Beautiful.

I actually enjoyed this book quite a bit. Osho's approach to Buddhism is truly something else. It's so down-to-earth. Sometimes, while I was reading the book he seemed not to make any sense, then immediately on the opposite page he imparts such deep insights that it gave me the goose bumps. Osho doesn't seem to be afraid to speak whatever is on his mind and is not afraid to hurt your feelings or beliefs. Which makes this book a very straight, in your face, nonetheless entertaining read.

I would not recommend to rely on this book as a foremost spiritual guide, but there are certainly many ways to look at Buddhism, and this is one of them. Entertaining, sometimes funny, sometimes deep, sometimes confusing. Truly a mirror to life. Worth a read either way.

How many people know that the opposite of fear is love. Osho illustrates how our fears dictate our lives and due to our fears hinder us living rich and meaningful lives. Anger is driven by fear or jealousy or both. Living with these emotions can in no way allow us to live a life of wellness. Osho expresses his thoughts in a clear and simple manner that makes it all the easier to reflect on how we may have allowed our life to be governed. Excellent reading.
Dr Gunta Krumins-Caldwell author of On Silver Wings

osho, once again provides a unique approach to healing emotional wounds and living a fulfilled life.... the most comprehensive approach I have encountered which allows a person to feel all emotions ( so called good and bad emotions) yet rise above them in a spiritual context... highly recommended for people open to alternative options

I love Osho's emphasis here on the fallacy of supression and moralizing. At times I feel he just rambles, but there are some real pearls of wisdom coming out of him. There is some bathwater, I feel, but certainly a beautiful baby too.

This book is amazing. I couldn't put it down and it truly changed my life. I have bought it for all of my friends.

I picked up this book and plan to return it today. I'm not saying its a bad book, I just did not make a strong enough connection with it to hold onto it. Osho says some insightful things, but some of them I have already experienced myself. I did not like his approach, he uses some sarcasm here and there and is constantly telling you what you "SHOULD" be doing. Many spiritual books I find are packed with contradictions and hipocracy, but not so much this one. Maybe I'm just not ready for this book yet? I'll revisit it down the road, but for now it's back on the shelf. I would recommend the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle instead. Thanks for viewing!

First, here is my disclaimer:

I did not finish reading this book. Perhaps if I managed to stick it out I would have a different feeling about it...but I couldn't take anymore!

I enjoy reading. I purchased this book in the hopes that I could at least find some new perspective on jealousy. Instead what I found was laughable...literally...laugh out loud at how silly it was, laughable. The writing felt shallow and for the weak of mind. Before completely giving up on this book I decided to skip ahead to the jealousy chapter. I could not believe what this book was advising!?!? (Here is where I hope that finishing the book would have made a difference.) This author recommends that rather than "possessing" the one you love, instead you should be supporting their freedom. Makes sense so far, right? Freedom was then described to include spending weekends or entire weeks with a different lover "if it is their joy", and if it makes them happy then it should also be "your joy". Hopefully later in the chapter this is somehow made into a joke? Either way...this book was 100% not for me.

Part of the reason I purchased this was because of the reviews. I thought you should know that I definitely regret the waste of money and time. Perhaps you'll find something more meaningful out of it than I did? Maybe New Age/Self Help books are just not for me.

It is just fine to have an introduction to Buddhism but this book is not that.

If you believe your life is a train wreck because your religion, your family, your school, your society and your friends have forced you to repress your feelings then you may find this book to be your holy book since about the only answer to every question is to realize you are repressed and don't be. This is not inspiring, it is simplistic and repetitive.

If you are interested in emotional wellness there are so many other books that are easy to read but contain real content, two are: The Happiness Trap, and Zen Heart. Either of these runs circles around Emotional Wellness.

P.S.The dust jacket is very pretty. That is one plus.