There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem (Paperback)

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In There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, bestselling author Wayne W. Dyer offers compelling testimony on the power of love, harmony, and service. When confronted with a problem, be it ill health, financial worries, or relationship difficulties, we often depend on intellect to solve it. But in this inspiring book, Dyer shows us that there is an omnipotent spiritual force at our fingertips that contains the solution to our problems. Drawing from the various spiritual traditions, especially from the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, Dyer helps us unplug from the material world and awaken to the divine within.

The first part of the book provides the essential foundation for spiritual problem solving, drawing from the wisdom of Patanjali, a Yogi mystic; the second half focuses on the legacy of Saint Francis. Dyer offers specific practical applications for applying the teachings of these wise men to everyday problems, including affirmations, writing exercises, and guided meditations.

About the Author

Wayne W. Dyer is one of the most widely read authors today in the field of self-development. He is the author of many books, including such bestsellers as Your Erroneous Zones, You'll See It When You Believe It, and Real Magic.

A psychotherapist, Dyer received his doctorate in counseling psychology from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, and has taught at many levels of education from high school through graduate study. He is the co-author of three textbooks, contributes to numerous professional journals and lectures extensively in the United States as well as abroad.

He appears regularly on radio and television shows around the country.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 14, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060929707
• ISBN-13: 978-0060929701
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #32,624 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How deep does the rabbit hole go?, December 15, 2004

By	natalie (chicago) - See all my reviews

I happened to pick up this book by chance. I thought of how bold the title was and it piqued my curiousity. You mean- there is a spiritual solution to EVERY problem? This is how we've been conditioned and Dyer challenges us to unlearn or readjust some ways of thinking. I feel encouraged to take inventory of my life and reapproach my problems and their true source. However, the real solution is within the spiritual beliefs themselves. The St. Francis prayer is the book's skeleton and because it's not a rule book of how to avoid going to hell, some may brand it as new age. I think if you believe in prayer and it's powers, then you are open enough to take something from it. However it's branded, I'm happy to have chanced upon this read. I don't expect any one book to be the one answer to all of my problems. As complex beings with unlimited potential, how could there be a fast food solution to our problems?
I particularly like his down to earth approach. So many times I've pictured in my mind, expecting the unwanted to happen and when it would, I'd say to myself, "told you so." Dyer helps us to see our powers and asks us if that if such can happen, can't anything happen? It's certainly refreshing and I'd suggest this to anyone who is open to the possibilities.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tuning To Higher Frequencies In Giving, Means Receiving, January 29, 2005

By	R. Schwartz (United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this an excellent book, however before you read this positive review, I will say that this is somewhat unrealistic. It's easy to say that mental and psychic abilities and mantras and mental visualizations are the reasons and cures to illnesses when you are a successful 6 digit author. Yet this book is very helpful in personal transformation in dealing with our circumstances and training our thinking to achieve peace and strength.

Dwyer starts his book five of Pantanjali aphorisms or steps to access spiritual direction in recognition of higher vibrational frequencies, realization of higher infinite spiritual force where we surrender ourselves in an empty mind from conceptions, exhibiting generosity and gratefulness, appreciation for the simplicity of life in a cheerful disposition. The solution is a change in thinking realizing a connection we have to a higher energy source or God, which ever you which to call or perceive it.

Here we must cease to identify our selves with our bodies and minds but rather part of a teleology or higher existence of spirit as a spiritual being in a human experience, to learn detachment from the false identification of ourselves as separate beings, now seeing ourselves as part of an infinite. When we identify with this higher spiritual self we can find an inner calmness that removes itself from the disturbances of our illusionary egos that try to convince us of a separateness. Like the calm universe, the force and power that holds the planets in orbit, the sun burning, this is the force that we must identify with and trust. It is an inner calm, peaceful recognition. It is our union with God or the infinite, whereas sin is our disunity in illusionary obstacles of this life that overwhelm us. This new identification empowers us from our union with a higher universal force.

Its all matter of energy. Lower frequency relates to negativity, problems and disunity, as in fear, anxiety, stress, depression and ego centricity, while the higher frequencies relate to spirit and harmonious movement toward unity, health and wholeness. The idea is that we can choose to stay connected to the higher spirit rather than the lower when we recognize the differences and make the necessary changes, by removing energy obstacles as in letting go, forgiving, moving away from other people that try to bring us down to negativity and so forth. Its adjusting our selves to tune into the higher frequencies which in turn give us the ability to express ourselves through such in guidance and serving others. We change our agenda from "what's in it for me" to "how can I serve. " By giving ourselves away we connect to the higher spirit which reverberates back to us in receiving.

It's a matter of giving our energy to the higher sources of serving, giving, generosity. We have to avoid giving our energy to all those that attempt to pull us down into their anger, gossip, so-called problems which bring us down. Our failure to let go, to forgive, to believe in our potentialities in appreciation and gratitude of what we have at this present moment rather than what we don't have and wish to receive. Most of our ingrained habits cause us to send our energy to what we don't want or like in a situation. The idea is to send our energy to what we want - as you think, so shall you be - the glass half empty verses the half full - we perceive as empty we get more empty, we perceive as full and we receive more full. In this Dwyer recommends positive self visualizations, an ancient technique that has enormous benefits. Our greatest illusion is defining ourselves from our pasts. Instead we must cease to look at the trail behind the boat and recognize that is the engine that runs the boat not the trail. And this is the case with us, it is not our pasts and personal history that define us but our present moment connection to the higher energy, God, calm-detached universal power that guides us into peaceful unity and harmonious solutions of inner peace.

To keep our energy fields uncontaminated and connected to the higher source, God, or universal power is to take care of our physical health and diet, visualizations for healing, ceasing to let anger and hate bring us down recognizing that all our disputes with others are not between us and them but between us and God or us and the universe or higher universal force. We have to try our best to refrain from environments of fear, as in areas of conflict, turmoil and negativity and gravitate to environments of love, nature, peaceful surroundings - this is about the areas of collective energy. Its what we think about, talk about and perceive as. We do the choosing.

Practicing awareness, recognizing the place you are in as holy, seeing the hidden beauty throughout the day in the scenery, the people, places and things you encounter. Letting go of the need to convince others of our ideas and opinions, silently content with our connection to a higher source. Our prayer is not asking for favors or changes in our circumstances, but rather changes from our attachments and energy deposits in lower frequencies of negativity to higher in service in our ability to forgive, to let go, to give over grasping and aversion, to recognize that prayer is our detachment from lower frequencies to higher calm, silent love that casts all fear aside. Fear is replaced with love and quiet harmonious peace, to the natural state of being.

We give up fighting our problems of disunity. When we fight against anything we join forces with that which created the problem in a counterforce. So we give our attention, our energy to what we positively believe in towards unity and peace. Stop fighting the negative and give our energy to working towards the positive. That is the way to achieve it. Let go, stop judging others, improving yourself from your former self. We slow down our minds from the chatter in our fight in analyzing and conquering over negativity and open our minds up with space from the higher frequencies or natural state of mind to take place.

Dwyer then applies the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi in our direction into instruments of peace to ourselves and others - how can I serve? Into choosing peace, refraining from negative challenges that our egos use to expend our energies, to meditate, to slow our mental chatter, practice thinking peace - we are what we think. To recognize the peacefulness of nature. Not to fight hate with hate, which remains at lower energy levels, but to sow love, cease revenge and retaliation. To recognize that hate from others are their very perceptions that bring them to this state. Love defuses this both in them, but mostly in us. We have to apply this both to ourselves and others, in letting the incident go, to direct our thinking away, to practice visualizations that portray love energy. If we are detached from our false ego identities then we can remove our selves personally from hate insults and remain as observers.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening, But Difficult to Apply, November 14, 2003

By	D. Buxman "A Seeker of Truth" (Pueblo, CO United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This book is based upon using the Prayer of St. Francis of Assissi as a road map to inner peace and enlightenment. Wayne Dyer is a talented writer and this is a worthy subject, but the principles that he discusses can't be put into practice overnight unless you already have the spiritual strengths of the Dalai Lama. However, if you focus on taking the small steps that are outlined first (such as developing a daily meditation practice), I think that this book can be quite helpful. There are also good chapters addressing issues such as Forgiveness and Dealing with Anger. The only reason that I didn't give it 5 stars, was the fact that the book isn't a real page-turner and it was difficult to keep my interest high enough to keep reading. As such, it took me a couple of weeks of night-time reading to complete.