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Unleashing the Soul of Money

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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

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.

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.

Several years old at this point but still so important. What do you want from money in this life? How do you go about satisfying yourself with life? How did you come up with these values? Are you aware of them? Enjoy it is terrific to think like this.

This is a call to embrace sufficiency and a new word that I've added to my life's vocabulary, "Enoughness!" I've listened to this audio CD twice now, and embracing sufficiency in all aspects of my life has given me the experience of expansion, and really, that there is enough for me, and for everybody! At the end of the CD, Lynn offers practical exercises that I've taken on - that reinforces the experience of sufficiency and enoughness. I highly recommend this audio CD. If you're experiencing the illusion of lack in your life, I invite you to listen to this conversation. It resonates, it touches the heart, and it aligns us to our natural state of sufficiency.

I'm so tired of the products promoting "make money at all costs" and "get rich quick" schemes. This was so refreshing. Lynne Twist understands that money is simply a concept and therefore can't be scarce. She reminds us that it's our attitude toward money, need and things that is often holding us back in our lives. There's enough for all of us if we learn to balance...worldwide.

If you have EVER felt scarcity of money (or time or anything else in your life), this one's for you. Listening to Lynne Twist talk about money is like a warm cup of tea and a good night's sleep where you awaken refreshed and renewed. In a world that bombards us with messages about "more, different, or better," the welcome good news is that our sense of "enough" resides in the wealth of our relationships, the quality of our interactions with others, our sense of possibility--not in the balance in our check book. If we direct our resources towards those things that align with our deepest values and real priorities, we experience satisfaction, meaning, fulfillment. If we use our resources compulsively, leaking them away in "more, different, better," we experience frustration, resentment, boredom, meaninglessness. Remember your first car? How thrilling it was? How empowered you felt? Lynne reminds us to savor what we DO have and to focus our resources on what really matters, instead of getting more and more (with less and less satisfaction) of what we don't really need. Lynne Twist manages all this with a light touch, a gentle sense of humor and compassion for the cultural soup in which we swim and are surrounded. Don't miss this courageous conversation that returns us to our natural strength and dignity as human beings (instead of "consumers").

I was skeptical, but my financial coach recommended it. This recording offers a paradigm shift that has allowed me to both transform my conversation and relationship to money and get new results. I have gone from focusing on producing a few thousand dollars a month to cover my bare essentials to 10's of thousands to run a full fledge business. It is worth every penny.

The author expressed her personal convictions with strengh, backed up with her life experiences. The presentations in part one and part 3 were thought provoking. Part 2 and part 4 were more meditative applications and not very applicable as one listened to the CD in the car or other than full attention situations.

The material included guided meditation, which I do not appreciate in an audio... it seemed to have been a cd-filler.