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Practical Miracles for Mars & Venus: Nine Principles for Lasting Love, Increasing Success and Vibrant Health in the 21st Century

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Unlike John Gray's other books which are focused on specific topics, Practical Miracles For Mars And Venus is aimed at improving one's life in general. It's a kind of 'How to' manual for life.

The ideas, concepts and information in this book are truly clever and insightful. There is a lot of insight and wisdom that anyone can use to improve all aspects of their life. You can't help but think "That is so clever. How did he think of that?" while reading Practical Miracles. Read this book, it will definetly improve your life.

A Practical book - the hallmark of John Gray. Good examples for all the 8 rules. Marriages may be made in heaven - but miracles are made by this book. The author suggests clear guidelines on how to achieve success (in love) by "letting go" - not compromise - but letting go. Submitting yourself to the supreme power and having faith in ones own mind - he /she can create a mode which can relive one of all stress and generate long lasting love. The examples in the book are truly inspiring. A must read for all Gray fans.

Albert Einstein's famous quote sums up the message of this book: "There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."

A large part describes the cultural and historical changes that have taken place that now allow miracles to take place by common people - rather than by the stereotypical monks that live in the mountains.

Smashing old and limiting beliefs with inspiring and liberating ideas, John Gray provides nine techniques that'll
allow you to use these nine principles to create miracles in your life in a simple, practical manner.

One technique, however, may be a bit superficial and impractical: The Blockbuster Technique.

In this short chapter, John Gray describes a familiar way of healing: writing a mock letter to whomever you are feeling negative towards. Gray provides a chart of "blocks" that are common to most. Examples include: Resentment, Depression, Confusion, etc. Your letter should explore the feelings attached to your particular block. By exploring emotions below the "block," one can attain healing. Examples of feelings attached to these blocks: Deprived, Angry, Abandoned, etc.

I tried this with a particular person I knew at one time. My biggest challenge with this technique? I would have been up all night writing this letter. And I would have wasted an entire notebook of paper to boot!

In trying to figure what was not working out for me, I realized one's beliefs about oneself and others determine how long this letter will go on for. So rather than using this technique of letter-writing to feel better, go read something by Albert Ellis instead - and change your ideas that lead to these feelings. That way, you will not only feel better...but you will GET better. There is a big difference between those two.

Regardless of the validity of writing letters, there is one fantastic part that I love: this book will teach you the
exact technique behind energy healing.

Yes, the mysterious stuff "those spiritual people" have used to create miraculous healings. Whether these techniques work or not, I cannot say - I still need to start applying them myself. These are not ideas that you grasp in an hour, however. There are three separate exercises involved with energy: Recharging, Decharging, and Natural Energy Healing. Each one has separate instructions, and John encourages you to take baby steps
and learn these concepts gradually.

John Gray has the background for this, too. From my hazy understanding of him, before he got his Ph.D. in psychology and created the Mars-Venus craze, he was a monk for nine years. His story of how he healed his own blindness is described in the book as well.

A great book: liberating, practical, and useful. Most important, if you've always wanted to learn how to heal yourself and others via meditation, touch, and energy, you must read this book.

This book is, in many ways, an expansion of 'How to Get what You Want and Want What You Have'. It a general book about life and living. The basic message is that being independent and self sufficient -emotionally, mentally and physically- is the way to live life, and the techinques, principles and insights in this book help us do so.

I thought the discussions about spirituality are among the most beautiful, open minded and thoughtful I've read anywhere. John Gray looks at all religons and simply points out the common universal themes in them all. All he basically says is they're all good. I guess those who have been severely brainwashed into believing their particular religon is 'the (only) way' may be upset with this, but such people are usually threatened by anything that's different.

In short, this is a very insightful book. It will expand the way you look at your life and living and contains valuable information that anyone can use to improve their life.

No mincing words: this is a total piece of trash. There are no original thoughts here, no specific or concrete advice, and no sense of logic or literary ability whatsoever. Instead, you will find long passages of rambling, redundant and seemingly random musings, astoundingly ill-informed re-writings of history and medical wisdom used to "prove" theories that are specious at best...and an endless river of self-promotional spewings for Mr. Gray's numerous and highly over-marketed other works. And don't be fooled by the title. There are no male/female "Mars/Venus" pearls of wisdom here (gender issues are barely even mentioned). The only thing scarier than the way the author is trying to keep his shaky career alive with this tripe is the fact that some folks actually do seem to be taking it seriously.

I got this book because of the fame of John Gary and the big title of the book. I managed to go through half of the book and finally, I cannot stand it and throw it away.

Basically, this book gives you 9 principles to bring miracles to your life, like eating healthy, love as if it is your first love, blablablah. Yeah, it is true, but it is also totally vain and misleading. For example, everybody knows that if you eat healthy food and work out intensively four times a week, two hours each time, you will definitely be fit as supermodel. But, can anybody really do that if somebody just told you to do so? It has to be tricky to deal with like finding the right and affordable workout program, finding the incentive, etc.

What I found ridiculous is that John kept saying that if you believe in his nine principles, then you can do whatever you want. Even superman cannot do that! Well, John, have you accomplished all of your wishes in your life? Belief is necessary for any success, but it is not a guarantee for all successes.

Also, John made some metaphors to prove his points, but most of them don't make enough or any sense, at least to me. Another reason I hate the book is that it takes the first 1/3 to boast his former achievements, like 12 bestsellers, without touching the core topic of this book.

If you are looking for practical miracles in this book, I assure you that you will be practically disappointed, period.

I enjoyed this book but if you are a person that doesn't like John Gray then don't waste any of our time reading this book only to down it afterward. I think the book is great and being a Reiki Master I loved the section about recharging technique in which I tried and really felt the energy flowing from my elbows to my fingertips. I haven't tried connecting to the energy in this manner before and really felt the affects for a while afterward. I am going to use the technique often.

Great book for relaxing in the evening after dinner with or early in the morning when your mind is clear, it's a keeper in our house!

I have many of his books but this one falls to the bottom of the list of ones to buy. Didn't really think it matched description and was more based on his personal life, opinions and religeous beliefs than anything. some parts were interesting. overall kinda boring though and like i said normally read his other books more than one time and benefit from them, this one...worthless in one word.

I will admit up front, I am a big John Gray fan. Why? Because he gets right to the point. I have often found his writings to be clear and precise.

Not one to buy every self-help book I can find, John Gray is one author I can count on for common sense advice.

In Practical Miracles for Mars and Venus he reminds us of the essentials to live a life with happiness, well being, and balance.

I don't know about you, but I can always use reminding of what is important in life.

This book has very bad content. It doesn't really help at all. I'm a fan of lots of his books specially Men are from Mars.... and also Mars and Venus on a Date. But this, it was a disaster. I repent from buying this garbage. It works better for the chimney, I don't have one but I might consider building one to give this book some use.