Soul Currency: Investing Your Inner Wealth for Fulfillment and Abundance [Hardcover]

Ernest D. Chu (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 14, 2008

What is the best answer to rising gas prices, plummeting stock and real estate values, and not enough income? Soul Currency presents an exciting new way to understand how we open to abundant flow and fulfillment by focusing on our inner wealth — traits such as integrity, generosity, imagination, love, and intuition. These often overlooked traits are part of our soul currency, a term that refers to both a medium for exchanging value (as with money) and the circulation of a divine force in our lives, a force that bridges the material world of finance and the invisible world of Spirit. When we tap into the creative force of this “currency,” our lives unfold in the direction that we most desire.

In this transformational book, Chu explains how to recognize and overcome the false and limiting beliefs — the “counterfeit currency” — that hold us back. He helps you to identify your personalized “adventureprise” — the life that incorporates the adventure of pursuing your soul’s loftiest dreams with the enterprise of realizing your grandest ambitions — and to connect to the stakeholders who directly and indirectly support you.

Chu writes from his own experience: As a former member of the New York Stock Exchange and an entrepreneur, he took on over a million dollars in debt to avoid filing for bankruptcy when a start-up business failed. Expecting to work his entire life to pay back the debt, Chu followed the principles in this book and was able to resolve it within eighteen months.

When we finally learn to invest our spiritual capital without conditions, we build a life that brings not only material wealth but also fulfillment and a deep sense of purpose.

Editorial Reviews

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“This book will bring you joy, success, and fulfillment.”
— Deepak Chopra, author of The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

“Ernest Chu’s new book emphasizes that the essence of our soul’s currency is love and that the power of love creates a whole life rather than fragments. It is a book I highly recommend.”
— Gerald G. Jampolsky, MD, coauthor of Mini Course for Life

“ Soul Currency is a powerful blend of spiritual philosophy and scientific principles merged into the perfection of a real formula for joy and abundance — both material and spiritual. Your reward for opening this book is how quickly you’ll recognize the magnitude and value of your own spiritual currency. I love this book!”
— Gregg Braden, New York Times bestselling author of The Isaiah Effect and The God Code

“ Soul Currency is a unique and vital work that heals while it harvests the spiritual reality of currency. This book gives us a magnificent perspective on the wealth of the soul and an entirely new way of looking at and achieving abundance. There are few books more current than Soul Currency !”
— Jean Houston, author of The Search for the Beloved and The Possible Human

“ Soul Currency is a much-needed, astute, and Spirit-centered guide to true prosperity, delivering a wealth of principles, vision, and experience. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get the source of true riches and bring them to life every day.”
— Alan Cohen, author of I Had It All the Time

“Your spirit moves before your finances are realized. Soul Currency eloquently teaches you how to manifest the earnings that you desire and deserve.”
— Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the #1 New York Times bestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul and coauthor of Cracking the Millionaire Code

“More than just a book about prosperity, Soul Currency is about the richness of the relationship you have with yourself and all those around you. True wealth comes from within, and Ernest Chu provides you with the road map.”
— John Gray, PhD, internationally bestselling author of Men Are From Mars, Woman Are from Venus

“Ernest Chu’s Soul Currency puts the soul back into currency, revealing it as the energy exchange that it is. He reminds us that money making for its own sake doesn’t compare to a spiritually liberating relationship with our livelihood that benefits not only ourselves but contributes to the well-being of all sentient beings. Don’t just read this book—practice its principles and you will realize the prosperity that comes from understanding money’s true place in our life as an energetic exchange of currency, service, and being a beneficial presence on the planet.”
— Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of Agape International Spiritual Center and author of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential

About the Author

Ernest D. Chu is a former investment banker and member of the New York Stock Exchange, an accomplished entrepreneur, and a spiritual teacher. As an investment banker and business coach, he has advised some of America's best-managed companies and directly funded nearly one hundred emerging growth companies. An ordained pastor at the Center for Spiritual Living in Fort Lauderdale, he has led workshops on the metaphysics of spiritual abundance in more than seventy spiritual centers in twenty states. He lives in Deerfield Beach, Florida.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: New World Library (October 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157731624X
• ISBN-13: 978-1577316244
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #672,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful book! October 16, 2008

By Maureen

Format:Hardcover

Ernest Chu rescues the masses from their mundane concerns about money with an uplifting, hopeful book. Engaging, heartfelt and highly informative, Soul Currency is filled with practical insight. Chu takes the reader by the hand through the often woebegone land of financial frets to discover how it's not only possible to maintain equanimity in times of economic strife, but how to use these experiences as a catapult to tap an immense vein of wealth. His careful marshalling of evidence illustrates how human beings can rebound even in the most adverse circumstances when they allow themselves to be led by their impeccable inerrant guidance system--the Soul. This valuable book bridges the gap between material success and spiritual fulfillment.

Maureen Whitehouse, Expert in Personal Development and Enlightenment, Founder of Axiom, Inc. and author of the best selling, award-winning book, Soul-Full Eating. www.experienceaxiom.com
www.soul-fulleating.com

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Soulful Insights Foundation to Fiscal Revelations January 13, 2009

By Marcy Goldman

Format:Hardcover

I expected this book to be about wealth and having 'more' but in actuality it is about bulking up your inner wealth in 'real' currency - a soul and spirit working in harmony from the inside out - to draw wealth as well as personal fulfullment, great bonds, and a sense of serenity. Using a metaphor of spiritual capital and other terms of the finance world, Chu writes articulately and convincingly about being in alignment inside- positive, whole, and honest. According to Chu, even if you are 'successful' - negative belief systems put a lowered ceiling on what we can achieve and at what other costs. He relates business examples from his own life and those he coaches in service to the theme of abundance. But the notion of settling your 'inner house' first - (and he gives ways and means how) is the anchor to everything else positive you can achieve. Not only that - this doesn't (and shouldn't) be such hard work and effort. When you have your soul capital safely in place and making dividends, everything you need in other major areas of your life flow in. The book is intelligent, comforting, and endorsed by some of the best authors in this area of publishing (Deepak Choprah, Jampolsky, for example) and in reading it, it's easy to see why. A super book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST read - This book WILL change you, if you let it. November 22, 2008

By Dr. Russ A. L'Hommedieu, DPT

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

Soul Currency is the most practical, down to earth guide to bringing one's life into spiritual balance. In my case, the author has clearly done what he had set out to do. Ernest's insights, inspiration and easy to do exercises have brought real value into my life. I could not give any higher praise than that. Thank You, Ernest.

Professionally, in my life coaching practice, Soul Currency has helped me in working with people that are struggling with their weight.

I even quoted the book in one of my recent podcasts: "People commonly mistake struggle for the nobility of rising to meet a challenge. But there is a distinct difference. While wrestling with our challenges, we may feel at times like we are struggling; in taking on any real challenge, we gain energy that is expansive and life-giving. Overcoming a challenge transforms us and rewards us with a sense of accomplishment. Struggle drains energy because it is pointless. It robs us of life-giving purpose. Struggle feels like drowning or spinning our wheels in deep mud." - Ernest Chu, Soul Currency

This is a powerful message for people that believe they need to struggle in order to lose weight. When people set their sights on weight loss, they struggle and deprive themselves until it hurts and then they interpret the pain they feel as `doing them good'. It is called "being on a diet" and it doesn't work. In the end it is that very struggle that leaves them frustrated enough to forget the whole deal and go back to exactly the way they were. . . or worse.

One of the greatest challenges I face when working with clients is getting them to set their sights on "do-able" goals not incredible ones. They feel somehow that if they are not suffering then they are not really doing anything. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. As a betterness coach, I don't actually teach people how to lose weight at all; I teach them how to re-gain their life one small "do-able" step at a time. In the process, they end up accomplishing some pretty incredible stuff, including weight loss. Because they allow themselves the time to adjust to this new life as they create it, it is not only painless - it lasts too.

Soul Currency is not a book about weight loss. It is a book about how to transform your life by developing and investing the unlimited energy of your very soul. As I was reading the book, however, it seemed to me that Ernest knew a lot more about losing weight than I had originally thought.

Thanks Again, Ernest - by improving the lives of those that help others to improve their life, this book is helping even folks that have yet to read it.
"Doc" Russ L'HommeDieu, DPT the Betterness Coach.
( www.betternesscoach.com )