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12 Secrets for Manifesting Your Vision, Inspiration & Purpose: How to Make Your Dreams Come True

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I agree that both the contents and writing skills of this book are cheesy, and so are its written exercises too. In the book, you will find large amount of spaces for you to fill in the blanks. You homework will be like this :-

- "Write the top 49 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next year. See these goals as red." (Page 77)
- "Write the top 33 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next five years. See these goals as orange." (Page 79)
- "Write the top 12 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next ten years. See these goals as yellow." (Page 81)
- "Write the top 9 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next twenty years. See these goals as green." (Page 81)
- "Write the top 7 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next thirty years. See these goals as blue." (Page 82)
- "Write the top 5 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain in the next forty years. See these goals as indigo." (Page 82)
- "Write the top 3 things you would love to become, perform, or obtain for this life time. See these goals as violet." (Page 83)

If you think you can tolerate the most clumsy writings, and consider these red-yellow-green exercises as 'powerful' and 'inspiring', I won't stop you from buying this book. Good Luck !

I bought this book because of the good ratings by the other 'readers', but I really regret that I've wasted GBP11.05 to buy this book, which today I'm going to dispose it to leave more space for my bookshelf.

The 12 secrets suggested by the author are Purpose, Thought, Vision, Affirmation, Feeling, Writing, Action, Energy, Matter, Gratitude, Perseverance and Manifestation. These concepts are not any secrets at all. You've probably read about them in many new age style books. I just find it difficult to grasp how these 'secrets' can manifest our vision from the author's murmuring style of writing. There are pages and passages that I really don't know what the author is trying to say. Is the author speaking Russian ? If you're tempted to buy this book, check it in your local bookstore first.

I've heard that some publishers and writers would send people to write 5-stars ratings for their own books. I'm curious if the 5-stars reviews below are really rated by real readers ?

12 Secrets is the best book that I have found on the subject of finding your life purpose/mission. Dr. Bellamy's book is NOT a passive read! If you want to fully profit from his findings and work be prepared to complete the exercises this book contains. After reading 12 Secrets and doing the exercises I am much more focused on what I should be doing with my life. It is well worth the time that you invest in reading and doing the exercises. When you finish with 12 Secrets you will not be the same person you were when you began this journey. You will have a completly different perspective towards life. No longer will you be content to go out on "Tangents". When you embark on a project you will know that it will either be serving or dis-serving your purpose.

Dr. D. Richard Bellamy, author of "12 Secrets for Manifesting your Vision, Inspiration and Purpose: How to Make Your Dreams Come True," provides a comprehensive how-to book. The reader may find his sentence structures long and convoluted, with repetitions that border on irritating. However, the reader who can stick with him through the first three chapters will find rewards worth the effort. As his phrasing becomes more familiar, the reader begins to absorb the ideas he explains as fundamental laws or processes in life. And the repetition serves an educational function, making it easier for us to remember his points. Bellamy quotes often from the world's prime religious leaders, as well as the foremost philosophers. He reminds us, "Great insights and ideas are first accommodated and then assimilated, and finally integrated." Be patient and keep an open mind if these thoughts are new to you. In discussing purpose in life, Bellamy points out several things that distract us from the direct pursuit of our purpose. In this first chapter, he introduces the topic of our feelings of guilt over the past and our fears of the future, both factors that deflect our attention from the present. In the next chapter, he adds the mechanisms of exaggeration and minimization, two ways in which we lie to ourselves and fail to keep our thought focused on purpose and goals. In chapter three, Bellamy urges us to keep a clear vision of not only our purpose, but all of life. He writes, "We camouflage our guilts by projecting judgment onto others. When we are in judgment of self or others we are exaggerating or minimizing what is, as it is, about a person, place idea or event." He encourages us to tune into our spiritual nature until we "...find yourself reconsidering people, places, ideas, and events you once perceived as traumatic or bad. You can have the courageous state of mind that enables you to begin to think about them differently and see them in a whole new way...." Bellamy explains that what we focus our thought on will influence what we bring about in our lives. In other words, we manifest what we think about most often. He suggests that we hitch purposeful affirmations to our focused thinking in order to achieve our goals more quickly. Writing becomes an important tool in Bellamy's process. He gives exercises for listing and prioritizing your goals, for resolving conflict with other people, and for dealing with issues in seven areas of life: physical, spiritual, mental, career, financial, family and social. The book is loaded with copies of two forms to fill out in working with his exercises and he generously offers to send additional copies to anyone requesting them. Bellamy shows the reader how to plan action toward achieving goals and how to apply energy most effectively to that action. For instance, he states that "To liberate more energy, arrange more order in your thoughts and actions on purpose." In the final chapters of the book, Bellamy explains the interaction of energy and matter and the importance of gratitude, as well as perseverance, in reaching the point of manifesting goals.

After a series of personal failures and frustrations, I've looked for all the inspirational/self-help books I can find. There are a few books that are really helpful, but the "12 Secrets" is just a trivial one. I agree with the other customers that its long convuluted repetitive sentence structures are irritating, I have to re-read it several times to guess the meaning. Its contents are nothing new but secondhand. There are numerous better choices available. You won't miss anything if you omit this one.

This book is by far the worst I've ever read. The more I read through this book, the more confusing I found it. I really had a headache after finishing the chapters. I felt as if I've trapped into a distorted hallucinated world led by the writer. I'd been led to jump from the "vertical" to "horizontal", from "within" to "below", from "upper" to "inner", from "golden" to "yellow"..... All the abstracts are jointed without a linkage, without a centered theme. I was bombarded by descriptive words which are dissociated, senseless and jumbled. Afterwards I had to read the Garfields to balance myself.

This book is VERY difficult to read, not because it contains any big ideas nor any in-depth knowledge. Indeed, the so called 'secrets' are merely new age ideas such as Purpose, Vision, Affirmation, Gratitude... etc which you can find in many other books. It is difficult to read because of its flow of language, and its unusual semantic structure. For example, you will find the book filled with sentences written in such a style:-

Introduction, page 8, "Imagine syntropy as the bigger idea of a symmetrical relationship between entropy (disorder) and negentropy (order) that opens up to a new paradigmal sphere of influence that is greater in magnitude and relative order."

Chapter 1, page 22, "Every person has a unique purpose that has a single course up the middle golden line of purpose to the pole star above the mountain of life"

Chapter 3, page 45, "The horizontally ordinary around you mysteriously births the process of uniting past memory and future imagination to the point of becoming one in present-time consciousness now, while you are illuminated to such as degree that the sacred, extraordinary, unified, and beautiful vision appears vertically in infinite brilliance, clarity, and details."

Chapter 4, page 48, "A tiny seed of thought birthed by the galactically inspired power within and planted in the earthly power below, when it is watered with attention and fertilized with action by the will of the power within directing the vehicular power below, does blossom into full flower."

Chapter 5, page 58, "Eventually you can naturally find yourself realizing that the one neutral (+=-), stable state is mysteriously and instantaneously felt at the point of synthesis where the polar opposite, abstract entities combine to birth a transformed, enlightened, unified, and relatively noble entity."

The author likes to quote from many great people. He quotes Socrates, cites Nietzsche, jumps to Sigmund Freud, mentions Nicholas of Cusa ... turns to Matthew 25:29... introduces Dr John Demartini, also includes Lao Tsu .... and back to William Blake. Each quotation discretely is great, but the summation of all these quotations becomes a fragmented cut-and-paste picture, which you cannot find any meaning.

As a whole, it is a product made up with different chunks of second-hand ideas glued by incomprehensible language. ...

"12 Secrets" has been the most remarkable book I've read in a long time. It cuts through the fluff and goes right to the heart of actually HOW to accomplish your life's goal. If you don't already know what that goal is, "12 Secrets" will help you discover that mission. Lots of books talk about accomplishing your mission in life, but most don't tell you HOW. Here's a book that finally does. After reading the book and seeing results in my own life, I also used the taped version of the book for further integration. Dr. Bellamy's rich, melodic voice will speak right to your heart. He's like a trusted friend talking directly to your soul. I heartily recommend either or both methods for using this most inspiring book. Dr. Bellamy has been called a "mid-wife for your dreams", and now I understand why. I'm accomplishing important things in my life now and "12 Secrets" has certainly helped. I suggest you see what you can accomplish when pushed in the right direction!

The whole book is written in such a style:(quote) "We continue to flip-flop our coin of life on the horizontal plane until we become disillusioned, and then stop, and dissolve the illusive ions of our perceptions." (first page of chapter 1) The vocabulary is not hard but the way the ideas are expressed is very hard to understand. The whole book is written in the same style as the above quotation and even when it (quotation) is read within its context in the book, one still cannot understand the idea. I urge the reader to check the book in some bookstore before buying it. The other customer reviews were so good I thought to my regrets, I can save myself the trip to the boostore. Do not be mislead by the excerpt shown. The excerpt is very easy to understand. 1% of the book is similar to the excerpt and the rest similar to the aforementioned quotation.

"TWELVE SECRETS" by Dr. Richard Bellamy is a short, clear and accurate textbook describing the nuclear physics of explosive growth in your life. It is not light reading for self-help dabblers looking for fluffy entertainment or a quick endorphin jolt. The more work you put into it, the more value you get out of it. For example, "The other customer reviews were so good, I thought [later] to my regrets, I can save myself a trip to the bookstore." Well, you can save yourself a trip to the gym by looking at pictures of gorgeous, healthy people; but sooner or later you have to commit to the work too. "Dreaming is for free, and you get what you pay for." If it was easy, everyone would be doing it already. For my money, Dr. Bellamy still has the shortest, fastest track to reaching your goals of a lifetime. God bless you, Dr. Bellamy.