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Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World

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Most books in this field do not live up to their hype. Oftentimes, a book promises a lot but delivers very little. This book is the exception. It delivers more than promised by a brilliant author who does the ordinary (writing) extraordinarily well.

I have been on the Internet since the late 80's. I am rather well known for my personal growth and professional development work. I am not saying that to impress you but rather to let you know that I am not some guy off the street. I have been around for a few years and I know the difference between a good book and an outstanding one.

SHIFT is an outstanding work of art. Yes, a work of art in that the author paints with her words. She paints a masterpiece with words that will inspire you to become the fully expressive, passionate human being you always dreamed you could be. Her words will pierce through your self-imposed limitations so you will experience yourself as the magnificent, powerful person God intended you to be.

In my lifetime, I have read over 6,000 books, magazines and articles dealing with personal growth and spiritual development issues. To date, hands down, SHIFT is the best book I have ever read on the subject.

I rarely recommend books. If you Google me, you will find in all of my years on the Internet, at the most, I have recommended fourteen books. Today, SHIFT as the fifteen book I have reviewed, is at the top of my recommendation list. I guarantee you, after reading it, it will be at the top of your recommendation list, too. - Frederick Zappone, Author of the Feeling GOOD, No Matter What, Newsletter. - [...]

Thirty-five years ago the author had a life-altering experience. Since then she devoted her efforts to understanding and conveying wisdom using word sculptures as her vehicle, challenged by the constantly shifting meanings of words. Her book is an exceptional tool for consciousness expansion. The word sculpture experience incorporates poetry, illustrations, stories, quotations, and questions- all different word tools for increased awareness, living in the present, and peace within. This unique book accelerates perception by including ink blots, cloud patterns, ambigrams, optical illusions, a consciousness diagram, and a discussion of the "Human Truth Puzzle." The work combines ordinary words in extraordinary ways to jump start readers' minds so that each person's unique wisdom can emerge. Even a beginner can understand this university level word course.

SHIFT is a wonderful journey of poetic wisdom and carefully crafted words that will make you think about your experiences each day. Enjoy the depth and delight of this inspiring book filled with life stories, inspiration and thought-provoking chapters. This tapestry of great philosophy will challenge you, engage you, and compel you to "shift" your perspective to change your world. I highly recommend it!

Janet Smith Warfield is an extraordinary writer with profound insight. She has an awesome plan. This plan just might make you wish to change the way you live. In creating this book she has used poetry and many quotations, they all work beautifully together.

A mystical experience changed Janet's perceptions. She suddenly gained startling new insights, which she is sharing. Naturally, one would like an exact description of a mystical experience. Too bad.

The book contains both complex ideas and practical solutions that would allow one to handle situations in a positive healthy manner. The suggestions would potentially make a difference to the individual and to the world. You might wonder what a world would be like if one constructively managed his anger. Would prisons even be needed?

This small book is gigantic in scope. As you read Shift you may wish to ponder over one section and at the same time want to know what the next section will contain. The book moves. It is about human consciousness and the factors involved in making a change. It's about ideas. It's about language. The reason words have different meanings to different people is explained. It illustrates how changing words changes attitude. It's about perception, awareness, and creativity, it's about taking care of yourself, protecting yourself and dealing with life's problems constructively. It's about choosing how you wish to live, it's about life and death and energy. It's about you and me and our planet.

A heaven without a hell? Peace without war? The "Here After" right here? Could a "human consciousness shift" lead to such a possible outcome?
If you find such thoughts disturbing, this book may not be for you.

I highly recommend this book for everyone else on the planet. It is a reading experience you will enjoy more than once.

"Janet has written a wonderfully crafted and clever guidebook that takes you on a journey of the past, present and future you. Read with the willingness to look within; you will find you are becoming refreshed, relaxed, renewed. It's insightful, entertaining and masterfully written."

In my stress-filled life, I had just about given up on ever finding a way to just sit back, stop and smell the roses. In SHIFT, Janet Smith Warfield has written a remarkable, life-changing book. Her methods for changing just a few words in your every day conversations can bring about a substantial transformation in how you feel, how you look, and how you live. For anyone who wonders to themselves, "Where do I go for help to adjust my outlook on life?", look no further. This book is for you. Thank you, Janet, for being my agent of change.

Janet Smithe Warfield's "Shift" is a beautifully written book with a beautiful message. She analyzes the way our minds formulate our thoughts and how important it is to choose the right words when thinking and speaking both. Janet had a mystical experience one day in the presence of an irritating person who was yelling at her," angry, arrogant and rude." She did not think through her behavior but just decided not to react the way most of us normally would. She literally turned the other cheek. in this nano-second Janet was changed forever. She immediatly saw that she had a choice how to respond and our usual over emotional reactions to situations that trouble us exacerbate the situations and that we can always choose how we feel and defuse the environment around us of its tension. In this slim, elegant volume, she spells out through her theme of word-sculpting, how we can "overcome" our lower selves and attain freedom in that overcoming.

Sprinkled with her word-sculpted poetry throughout, Janet puts down her ideas in amazingly clear and uncomplicated language. Her Biblical references are numerous and yet she sees the ancient book through a new lense, a modern, evolved way of understanding. Her discussions on fear and courage, parents and children, choices and decisions, anger and freedom, consciousness and unconsciousness are enlightening and persuasive.

In the middle of the book there is a list of principles by which to live that serves as wonderful checklist for anyone seeking peace of mind and joy in spirit. "Make Your play your life's work," "Polish all facets of your diamond personailty, "focus on becoming more functional . . . "
are just a few. Along with these she offers examples, affirmations, visualizations and steps to awareness. Her insights on The concepts of Thesis, Anthithesis and Synthethis are fascinating as she brings in examples of Christ and Neitzsche. Her paradoxical conclusions make complete sense!

This is a wise book by a wise woman and for many out there who are seeking "transformation," who are riding the new wave of our changing times, this book will pull together many readings and thoughts and workshop principles readers may be familiar with. For the uninitiated, it will simply be an eye-opener. A necessary book for the student of peaceful coexistence, who wants to think out of the box, and believes there may be a beautiful solution to the crazy turbulence of human history. Ms. Smithe Warfield can actually change, as well as challenge, the way we think. Led by her clarity and logic, we see that we can have a perfect world. In fact we shall have one in due time, as her recommendations become habitual behavior, as we dig new neural pathways with out new perspectives, as we overcome old self-defeating ways of thinking and feeling. We may do this one at a time or collectively, but when the critical mass is reached, we will see we were raised on falsehoods and led by duality to extremes in judgments and behaviors; indeed, Janet convinces us our world can become the lovely, peaceful gift from the supporting, universal powers that it was designed to be.

Shift gets the highest praise from this reviewer; this Panama author is an artist, a wordsmith, and a philosopher of life's deepest questions. Shift is a guidebook to life that catalyzes us through the deepest regions of knowledge, truth, and language. Asking unexpected questions and then exploring complex ideas clearly and succinctly, she manages to slice through the inadequacy of words to express the indescribable. Janet's well-honed words sharpen our perception and transform our thinking, and perhaps prepare us for genuine transformation. This book flows through you, like a stream of linguistic wisdom.

Sometimes you just pull one thing from a book right away that makes you really thankful that you got the book and read it. With shift it was the chapter on anger and inner peace. The rest of the book really gets you thinking about its message and I'll be going through it a second time.

I was very impressed by this book. It is simple and beautifully expressed. Janet Smith Warfield's education, brilliance and spirituality shine through her intriguing choice of format and words. - Dr. Pilar Tan