Unleashing the Soul of Money [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Lynne Twist (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2005

Imagine feeling completely at peace about your money?whether you?re earning it, spending it, saving it, or using it to help others. On Unleashing the Soul of Money, world-renowned fund-raiser and ?money mentor? Lynne Twist shares from her thirty years of global research into happiness and money to reveal a surprising truth: that the size of your paycheck has little to do with fulfillment?and everything to do with getting your money aligned with your deepest commitments, values, and desires. In this workshop, listeners uncover the insights about their own relationship with money, and learn how make the transformation to a life of sufficiency, contentment, and benefit to others in the world.

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About the Author

Lynne Twist is a global activist, author, and teacher, who has devoted her life to sustainability and economic integrity. An original staff member of The Hunger Project, she is author of The Soul of Money (W.W. Norton, 2003) and president and founder of The Soul of Money Institute.

From AudioFile

Though many people feel there's never enough money, it doesn't have to be that way, says the author of the 2003 book THE SOUL OF MONEY. In a potent audio adaptation, she says the feeling of "not enough" hurts us, whether applied to money, to things, or to the self. From her vantage point as a global humanitarian activist, she says it's mainly popular culture that keeps telling us that more is better and that "not enough" is our fault. We can change this harmful energy by embracing life's possibilities and by adopting the self-acceptance one needs to discover one's true purpose in the world. This is a potentially life-changing audio for all but the most compulsive accumulators. T.W. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated; Audio edition (April 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591794196
• ISBN-13: 978-1591794196
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #241,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #28 in Books > Books on CD > Business > Personal Finance

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Exquisite Enoughness", December 10, 2006

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Pie Dumas "piewriter" (Charlottesville, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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I had not heard "Enough" being touted as exquisite or for that matter something for which to strive. We're constantly focused on "ABUNDANCE" - how to "get it", feel it, master it, believe it, go for it, etc.
Endless books, tapes, workshops, programs, inspirational teachers et al professing abundance is all around us - it's our birthright and ours for the taking. Manifest it, believe we deserve it, feel it happening and so forth. You know the deal... we've all been "trying" to get there, through visualization, affirmations, spending thousands of dollars, knocking our brains together, beating ourselves up when we still aren't any closer to the whole "abundant concept".
I don't want to sound like the billion other hypes that insist their book or CD series or workshop is THE one that will make a difference in your thinking, your relationships, really stand your life on end and change you forever. Yet, I don't want you to pass up this audio CD set or book. Lynne Twist knows what she's talking about with this "enough" business. As she says, abundance is the flip side of scarcity thinking, meaning it's just as negative and we don't need to go there. There is enough on our planet (whether you believe it or not) for each one of us to live a healthy, productive and happy life. Enough is a belief in ourselves, it's a simpler way to live, to focus on what we actually have in our lives and appreciate it, instead of flying past enough, not even seeing it, trying to get more, more and still more. The great scarcity myths: "there isn't enough", "more is better" and "that's just the way it is."
She captured my attention with her first few words... and when she said the fastest growing industry in our country is "storage units" - that we're building whole enclaves of storage facilities (to house the overflow of our "stuff") - instead of building homes for our millions of homeless citizens, she won my heart! I coach homeless people and I know how important it is for them to feel a part of our world, to be included. The image of storage units populating our country made me sick to my stomach.
I cannot do justice to the depth and content of Ms Twist's work, I can, however, attest to its authenticity and power already working in my life, after playing the CDs twice and recommending them to friends and clients. I am feeling better about what I have, letting go of the never-ending struggle for more and realizing we are all hooked in the societal messages that we see and hear each day about more being better. Whether it's more square-footage in your home, more sweaters, more food, more cars, more sex, more girlfriends, more money... we're all doing it.
I have not seen Lynne Twist in person, one of my coaching colleagues recommended her teachings after seeing her at the International Coach Federation annual conference. He suggested the audio CDs over her book, because as he said, her energy comes through so clearly. He is right - her voice is powerful, yet gentle and her message is heartfelt and absolutely what our global climate needs right now.
There is a guided meditation and a few exercises, in addition to suggestions for purging some of our unnecessary stuff, all of which are dynamic and extremely effective. I am doing the forgiveness exercise and have been using it with some of my clients and inmates I mentor in jail.
Please buy this CD set and share your thoughts and experience with me. Lynne Twist is making a HUGE impact, globally by ending world hunger and changing our thinking about money.
Pie Dumas - Author & Life Coach

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars maybe the only thing we need to be listening to right now......., December 27, 2008

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Jill Butler "Jill Butler" (Chester, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This CD rides with me every where I go. Instead of listening to negative financial news, I listen to Lynne Twist. If you want a clear picture about money, what it really is, how it got misaligned and turned to greed and hoarding, this is the CD, or her book, The Soul of Money, to latch on to. I have listened and read this book, gifted many friends with both, and lead workshops based on her knowledge and experience with money. I started reading her work 5 years ago and every time I go back to Lynne Twist my life changes. If you want to learn about true economics, not pie charts, analytical statistics, or money management but to get to core level, do not pass go. Gift you and yours with this CD and ride to work with the idea of sufficiency, not fear of lack and scarcity.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unleashing the Soul of Money, October 31, 2006

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Mary MacNicol - See all my reviews
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I have NOT heard this CD, so this is NOT a review of the material it covers. But when I wanted to read someone else's review, there was nothing at all, so I just want to say that I can't wait to listen to this CD. I heard Lynne Twist speak and am still strongly supported by the change of attitude toward money that she showed us. The insights we were given that day are OUTRAGEOUS! And I can't wait to see what she's got to say now! Her attitudes and insights into living with money without being chewed up and destroyed by it are essential for life in a global world. One of the best things I ever did was go to one of her fundraising seminars (Fundraising from the Heart). And not just for fundraising, but for recovery from 10 years in retail without the vision to see how to be nourished from my interactions with people through the medium of trade/sales, and how I can affect or nourish them. Money's not evil but people (and I) have not known better than to use it for harm. I'm so glad Lynne Twist is still coming out with new material and I can't wait to hear it.