Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet [Hardcover]

Dawson Church Ph.D. (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

At the core of your being, what are the joys and the wounds that live most vividly in you? What touches the most vulnerable parts of you? Now imagine our beautiful sentient planet Earth. What are the joys and wounds that touch her most deeply? What is the healing touch she longs for? In what ways can you bind the wounds that afflict her heart?These are some of the powerful questions asked by the thirty-three writers whose profound wisdom is collected in this book. From the core of their hearts to the core of the world's heart, they explore the issues and inspirations that lie at the center of the dilemmas facing humankind on the cusp of becoming a planetary species. Drawing on a rich variety of backgrounds, these entrepreneurs, doctors, educators, executives, healers, and leaders offer the personal and global solutions that point the way to a sane, hopeful and sustainable future.

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About the Author

Dawson Church, Ph.D., has edited or authored over 200 books. He is a co-founder of Aslan Publishing, a former CEO of Atrium Publisher's Group, and former publisher of Celebrity Press. During a long publishing career he has worked with many best-selling authors, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, and Joan Borysenko, as well as developing the careers of unknowns.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 330 pages
• Publisher: Elite Books (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971088853
• ISBN-13: 978-0971088856
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,023,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Combines self-help techniques, respect for life, spirituality and can-do action into a single uplifting catalogue, December 10, 2005

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet (Hardcover)

Compiled, organized and edited by Dawson Church, Healing The Heart Of The World: Harnessing The Power Of Intention To Change Your Life And Your Planet is an anthology of essays by learned authors describing simple ideas and techniques anyone can follow to bring about a marked improvement in the well-being of oneself and the planet. From learning to forgive, to finding value and purpose in oneself rather than looking to the fickle whim of outside society and popular culture, to engaging with and even finding God in nature, to learning from the scientific revolution and minimizing or eliminating the use of damaging or polluting products, Healing The Heart Of The World combines self-help techniques, respect for life, spirituality and can-do action into a single uplifting catalogue of recommendations for a better future. Highly recommended.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A distillation of usable wisdom, December 5, 2005

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C. Engel "Student of Life" (Memphis, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet (Hardcover)

Heaving a sigh upon hearing about "Healing the Heart of the World", and groaning over another
book I knew was, for me, a must read, I am now equally as thrilled. The contributors to the book give the reader forty books in one! I can understand why Dawson Church chose each of them. Every contribution builds on the last. The sage advice given to would-be writers: keep it simple, clean, and to the point is pristine within these pages. In my profession every chapter could serve as the catalyst for a class or a Sunday morning lesson.
Jean Shinoda Bolin's words still ring in my heart. We do indeed heal the heart of the world one cell at a time.

Rev Colleen Engel-Brown

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Ourselves - Healing The World, December 4, 2005

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Steven R. Gettler (Las Vegas, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Healing the Heart of the World: Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet (Hardcover)

Carolyn Myss, Naomi Judd, and (and somewhat to my surprise) Prince Charles - these are just a few of the some 40 plus contributors of thought provoking and insightful essays contained in this book. I read three or four essays as a starter. And I think I will use this book by reading an essay each day as a source of inspiration and renewal. There is much wisdom contained in each essay to ponder. And if a person could implement only a small portion of the wisdom contained in this book, it would (will) accelerate a person's own personal growth and, in turn, the healing of the world.