Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit [Hardcover]

Christel Nani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 7, 2006

When you are making a decision, do you feel torn between what you are supposed to do and what you would like to do? Do you feel unable to live a fully spontaneous and authentic life? Are you troubled that some of the things you do conflict with your intuition or inner knowing? Have you wondered why your positive affirmations aren’t coming true? In general, do you feel stuck or frustrated with the way things are?

If so, you may be experiencing a conflict between your evolving spirit and your tribal beliefs. Tribal beliefs are a set of unwritten rules that are passed down to us from our families and other cultural, religious, or social organizations about the way life works, what defines a good person, and how we should live our lives. Unfortunately, some tribal beliefs can limit our intuitive choices causing dissatisfaction, anxiety, fatigue, depression, and eventually physical illness.

In this warm, engaging, and inspirational work of personal renewal, Christel Nani guides you to listen to your inner “knowing,” the always wise and honest voice of your spirit that will illuminate the specific tribal beliefs that are standing in the way of your success, happiness, and healing. Based on a program that has helped thousands of people transform their lives, Nani shows you how to creatively rewrite your tribal beliefs in areas such as work, marriage, health, and success in a way that harmonizes with your own spirit, talents, secret wishes, and individuality. Best of all, you will be astonished at how easy it is to accomplish such a personal transformation and how quickly you will be healed and liberated from a sense of burden and guilt that you probably believed would be with you for a lifetime.

The decision to break free of your limiting beliefs and live the life you were meant to live is truly a sacred choice. With this joyous and enlightening book as your guide, you have the power to make that happen—starting today.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“A powerful new approach to tackling the tribal beliefs that limit our potential. Christel Nani is an inspiring and compelling voice with unique insight and approaches for achieving physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.”—Deepak Chopra, author of Life After Death: The Burden of Proof

About the Author

CHRISTEL NANI, R.N., is a Medical Intuitive who has worked for sixteen years as an E.R. and trauma nurse in New York City’s busiest hospitals. Since devoting herself to medical intuition, she has performed readings for thousands of clients. Christel speaks and teaches nationally and in Europe on the principles of Spiritual Responsibility and intuition and their role in creating health and happiness in our lives.

She is the founder of the Center for Spiritual Responsibility in Encinitas, California, where she lives.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Crown Archetype (November 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307341658
• ISBN-13: 978-0307341655
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 1.2 x 8.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,936 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Change your life forever!, January 21, 2007

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Diane Sutherlin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit (Hardcover)

I have never written a book review before. It's not because I haven't wanted to, but because I have believed, since high school, that I am a lousy writer. I would have never considered writing anything on such a public forum before this because of an incident in one English class that resulted in this limiting belief about myself.

Christel Nani, in her third book, Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit, explains what tribal beliefs are and how they can not only limit your life and true potential but impact you daily, causing you to make unconscious choices. Tribal beliefs are limiting beliefs you have about all areas of your life--family, love, work, health, God, and of course, for me, writing--that you learn growing up from your family, school, church, and other significant people in your life; they drive your behavior unconsciously.

Christel's well written, easy to follow guide allowed me to identify many beliefs that rule my life. The multiple examples she gives throughout the book aided in unearthing tribal beliefs in my life that would have otherwise remained deeply hidden. Reading Christel's book helped me see how these beliefs have kept me from living the kind of life I want. Her guidelines for rewriting a tribal belief are practical and easy. Discovering that I didn't have to change my belief of being a lousy writer all the way to "I can write like an eloquent, best-selling author" freed me from my all-or-nothing thinking. Changing that belief to "It is reasonable to believe that I can write in an articulate, succinct way about something I strongly believe in and feel passionate about" allowed a shift to occur.

So here I am writing my first book review because I wanted to share something I believe in and feel passionate about...changing a tribal belief held for over 35 years is possible and so freeing! By reading the personal stories Christel writes about in her book, you, too, will be inspired to identify a few of your own tribal beliefs and rewrite those that have kept you stuck. It can forever change your life!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Holy Grail, January 7, 2007

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B. Fitzpatrick (Pittsburgh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit (Hardcover)

For years I have been on a quest to understand how someone as capable and well-intentioned as me could have such challenges living to my fullest potential.

In Sacred Choices, I at last found the answer. This book is truly my Holy Grail.

I've heard and read so frequently about "belief systems." But until Christel, no one ever showed me how to rewrite them. In addition, this book helped me identify belief systems I didn't even know I had.

I feel like I have been given a magic key that just keeps clicking in me, unlocking the secrets to a better, more fulfilling life.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Heaven sent book, November 8, 2006

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Agnes Lam (Cupertino, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit (Hardcover)

I got the book yesterday. I could not put it down. Read most of it by last night. I had been waiting for it since it had been announced :-).
In her simple yet usual profound style (Consider reading her other books if you have not done so already), she explains how tribal beliefs can affect your life, how they can even make you so sick that they can be deadly. She teaches you how to align with your spirit, how to be truer to Yourself. In this book in particular, she helps you identify which ones affect you the most, and the list is looooonnnng!
If you still feel that the book is not enough, please, please, consider attending at least one of her workshops. This could save your life. You will cry, you will laugh, but oh, you will feel better afterwards if you are willing to listen!

She is a truly extraordinary person: she can go straight to the problem in a flash. You will be transformed, never to be the same again. You will live in a higher vibration mode.
I will never thank her enough for her gifts.