Vivation : The Skill of Happiness [Paperback]

Jim Leonard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 28, 2001

Vivation is a physically pleasurable process that permanently resolves, stress, pain, and negativity. It is learned autonomous skill. When you get The Seven Basic Lessons, you will be able to Vive forever without assistance. Vivation works on anything you can feel, emotions, pain, sensations, energy. This book tells all about the newest methodoly for having very efficient results, with many integrations per session.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...has had a profound effect on my life and my happiness. As an astrologer, I am constantly recommending the practice..." -- James Braha, author of Ancient Hindu Astrology for the modern Western Astrologer

"Transformational personal growth is an essential element in a happy, successful life." -- Dick Bertram, Billionaire Founder of Bertram Yachts

"Vivation is what you've been looking for. By using the simple process of Vivation, you can eliminate your problems..." -- Victor Boc, popular radio talk show host and author

About the Author

I invented the Vivation Process in Santa Cruz, California, in 1979, when I was just 24 years old. I have now given more than 40,000 Vivation sessions in twenty countries. I live now in California, but until recently I lived in Turin, Italy and Amsterdam, The Netherlads. My first book, Vivation--The Science of Enjoying All of Your Life, was an international bestseller, with over 100,000 in sales and translated in nine languages. I give Vivation Professional Trainings for people who want a career teach Vivation, shorter seminars with Vivation applied to a specific topic, and private sessions, mostly to teach The Seven Basic Lessons.

Product Details

• Paperback: 202 pages
• Publisher: Vivation, Inc.; 1st edition (February 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970787405
• ISBN-13: 978-0970787408
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,241,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most powerful and effective brain change technique ever., April 14, 2001

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Paul Hughes (Reno, Nevada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vivation : The Skill of Happiness (Paperback)

My context of reading this book was while I was actually being trained in the techniques of Vivation by none other than the author & inventor of Vivation himself, Jim Leanord. I have been an active participant in the brain change game for nearly 20 years. Like many spiritual practitioners I have studied even the most radical of brain-change techniques of people like Crowley, Gurdjieff, Leary, Lilly and Robert Anton Wilson. I've pracitced advanced magickal techniques, yoga, bioenergetic therapy, energized mediation, ad nauseum.

Having learned Vivation only 2 months ago, I have not found a more powerful, wonderful and effective technique in making positive changes in my life at all levels. There is simply no way to praise this book ernough. Vivation works! Vivation is a dogma-free approach to discovering yourself at the feeling level. In Vivation, your body is the only guru. Vivation is the only technique I have found whose primary purpose is the help the practitioner acheive true emotional independence. Once learned Vivation becomes an AUTONOMOUS skill that efficiently makes positive and permanent changes in oneself. Vivation really is the skill of happiness.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I really liked this book, July 19, 2001

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Sara Kirkland (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vivation - The Skill of Happiness (Paperback)

After a series of tragedie, a friend of mine gave me this book. It didn't take long to realize that what this book teaches is so fundamental to the human condition, that implementing the techniques will result in powerful change. After spending a few weeks practicing the basic skills I realized that it would be even more beneficial to learn the process in detail from a Vivation Professional. This turned out to be the best decision I ever made. I learned what my Vive Pro called the 7 basic lessons to Vivational Autonomy. Each lesson is about 2 hours long, 1 hour lecture and 1 hour Vivation Session. I experienced what Vivation calls "integrations", positive shifts in ones context about oneself and ones relationship to the world. This happened continuously and throughout the Vivation Sessions. I felt totally renewed after these sessions, as if something very permanent had resulted. And that is exactly what actually happens. When one relates positively to a previously suppressed negatively judged emotion, it results in a permanent integration or resolution. This is not only liberating, like a huge load being lifted of, but is extremely pleasurable. Because doing Vivation is so blissful and pleasurable I can't imagine not doing it anymore. The really nice part about it is that once you learn it you have it for life. Since that time, I have incorporated Vivation into all areas of my life. I Vive on my way to work, at work, with friends, everywhere!

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, April 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Vivation - The Skill of Happiness (Paperback)

I thought the book itself was going to describe exactly how to do the Vivation technique, but turns out -- I was disappointed to learn -- that it very superficially describes the technique, and then goes into a sales pitch, more or less, for having a session with a Vivation professional. So I am returning the book. Also, the breathing technique he seems to be describing, the Circular Breath, seems no different from very well-known pranayama I am already doing, not so dissimilar from rebirthing.