The Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life [Paperback]

Victoria Castle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2007

?I am not enough! Not smart enough, rich enough, successful enough, or good enough!? This is the trance of scarcity?a self-inflicted premise of ?not-enough-ness? that successfully cripples the lives of people who would otherwise be buoyant and passionate. Here, Victoria Castle offers a prescription for realizing abundance and empowerment.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

from the NATIONAL REVIEW NETWORK

In The Trance of Scarcity Victoria Castle confronts the prevailing myths in our culture of "not enough" and "not good enough." These fallacies limit the ability of individuals to fully embrace their lives and create abundance.

Based on 20 years of coaching and teaching, Castle brings a new awareness to the pervasive problem of lack in our culture and provides substantive suggestions for awakening from this trance.

The Trance of Scarcity helps readers create a new cycle of abundance by first helping them identify where they are and then providing exercises to help upgrade their inner stories and create a new state of being. Every chapter provides specific meditations and exercises to move the reader into awareness and to change old patterns of behavior. In this era of expanding interest in quick ways to make millions, this book provides a dynamic framework for readers to understand their own inner thoughts and behaviors and teaches powerful techniques to say, "Hello, abundance! Goodbye, trance!"

--Nation Review Network

About the Author

VICTORIA CASTLE is a leader, facilitator, and executive coach with 20 years experience helping individual leaders, small entrepreneurial firms, nonprofit agencies, and mega-corporations succeed and thrive on both personal and business fronts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 205 pages
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (January 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576754391
• ISBN-13: 978-1576754399
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Victoria has been coaching Fortune 500 executives and social entrepreneurs for over 20 years. Embodiment is a signature of her work and she is a Master Somatic Coach.
Through her classes and workshops, she has helped thousands to embody abundance as a way of life. It was her students and clients who insisted she write the book so that everyone could have access to these simple yet profound principles.
She lives on an island outside Seattle with her partner Tim, and their teacher/dog Tucker. When she's not on the road speaking and teaching, she's writing, hiking, singing, cooking, and getting into mischief.
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Customer Reviews

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gear shift from 'magical thinking', February 20, 2007

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vanda marlow (Mill Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life (Paperback)

Victoria Castle's book is an elegant and educated exposition of the Universal Law of Flow, but she's too grounded to call it that!.It is extremely readable,filled with robust contagious optimism and wisdom- from her own life and 20 years of coaching others. Whilst none of these ideas are new, she puts into a working framework the over-hyped messages of The Secret, and The Law of Attraction, and shows us the somatic ('in-the-body') practices that allow us to connect to our own real lives and play our part in the dance. Such a relief from all the 'magical thinking' that abounds out there - you know the kind of stuff - write your wish list and affirm it daily, and if it doesnt show up it must be your unconscious beliefs holding you back...sorry to be cynical,but it takes more insight than that! Victoria's book brings that insight. It is practical and inspiring, and gave me a great framework to understand where I get blocked, and how to shift my own body and thinking, to unblock and return to my natural generative state - a state of curiosity and connection that we can all experience, a state in which we feel naturally abundant and connected to life and our fellow beings. I urge you to go out and get this book - it will get you out of the trance and into the dance!
PS I was lucky enough to get to one of her workshops, just one week after finishing the book, and she is as wise and approachable in person as she is in the book - nice to see people who walk their talk...

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Embodying the change we want to see in the world, June 26, 2007

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Ceci Miller - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life (Paperback)

This book is a life-changer. After working on it as an editor, I have recommended The Trance of Scarcity to a number of people, all of whom later made a point of thanking me personally for the rich wisdom they found here. Victoria Castle's Somatics-based guide to breaking out of the trance of "Not Enough" by adopting a greater attitude, both mentally and physically, is embodied brilliance. Her sassy wit, together with hilarious illustrations by Obadinah, make the book a real joy to read. Read The Trance of Scarcity and you'll surely experience greater ease and wisdom around the big money, prosperity and generosity questions. Oh yes, and joy is allowed. Buy this book for everyone you know!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Trance of Scarcity, February 24, 2007

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David McNally (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Trance of Scarcity: Stop Holding Your Breath and Start Living Your Life (Paperback)

An inspiring yet practical book. The author has a humorous self-deprecating style as she shares her own journey of moving from scarcity to abundance. This book made me aware - again - that I am surrounded by abundance but, in my busyness, am so often blind to it. The book flows beautifully making the ideas easy to comprehend and to apply immediately. I am buying a copy for each of my five children.
David McNally - Author - Even Eagles Need A Push