Your Mind and Body are a Corporation and You are the CEO [Spiral-bound]

Janet Buell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 9, 2000

Picture your mind and body as a giant corporation with worker cells making up the body and executive cells making up the mind. Where do you fit in? You’re the Chief Executive Officer! How well you understand and execute your role determines how well your corporation functions and how productive it is. This fascinating book lays out a method for assuming responsibility for your own corporation and turning it into a thriving enterprise. It covers the following: how to avoid a hostile takeover, how to improve morale and productivity; how to debug an area that isn’t doing well; how to be a first class executive who’s earned the respect of his/her employees.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...for all of you who think and act like a successful executive but have trouble with more personal matters. -- Ability Magazine

...one of the books that takes your mind and spirit on a quantum leap into a whole new territory. -- Body, Mind and Spirit Magazine

You will truly be amazed to see how similar running your mind and body is to running a company. -- London Journal of Management

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 125 pages
• Publisher: Innovations Press (January 9, 2000)
• ISBN-10: 1929830025
• ISBN-13: 978-1929830022
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,960,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll never look at yourself the same way, March 15, 2001

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Jim Woods (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Mind and Body are a Corporation and You are the CEO (Spiral-bound)

This book presents some ideas that seem radical when they are first presented but come to seem entirely logical and practical when you consider them for a while. The proof of the pudding is when you do the drills in the book. I felt a little foolish in the beginning, communicating with my "corporation", but then as it "answered", I began to realize how much it had been trying to tell me over the years. It was like floodgates opened. I've learned more about my "self" in the week since I bought the book than I had in many, many years. How amazing. The answers were all inside the mind of my corporation and I just wasn't listening. This book has changed how I run my life as well as how I run my business. Life is never gonna look the same!!!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!!, April 7, 2001

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Lee Bessa (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Mind and Body are a Corporation and You are the CEO (Spiral-bound)

My attitude toward my mind, my body, and every single cell that resides in them has changed so tremendously, I feel like a whole new person (or maybe I should say corporation). I didn't just learn to treat myself better here: I'm a better manager, employer, friend, lover, and person. I really wasn't taking much responsibility for my corporations before (physical and business) and it hurt me and everyone connected to me. I'm having so much more fun now.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You're in Charge of MUCH More than You Realize!, March 9, 2002

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Cynthia Sue Larson "www.realityshifters.com" (San Francisco bay area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Mind and Body are a Corporation and You are the CEO (Spiral-bound)

You're probably well aware that plants and single cell organisms have thoughts and feelings from having read or heard about books like "The Secret Life of Plants" -- yet do you know that you have a virtual planet full of individuals hanging on your every emotion and mental direction? The average adult is made up of 100 trillion cells, and each and every one of the cells in your body is alive and actively involved in the process of evaluating how to perceive what's happening to you right now and act appropriately.

Janet Buell's excellent book, YOUR MIND & BODY ARE A CORPORATION -- AND YOU ARE THE CEO is based on the metaphor of a company with various departments and a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) -- you! I guarantee that after you've done the exercises in Buell's book, your corporal self will be feeling much healthier, prosperous, and harmonious.

YOUR MIND AND BODY ARE A CORPORATION is packed with fascinating concepts such as the notion that, "... your body has its own sense of closeness to the bodies of your sexual partner, children or parents. The cells recognize and have great affinity for each other. Even a divorce that you welcome may be a loss to the cells of your body who had established an intimate relationship with the body of your soon-to-be ex." Buell then provides exercises for recovering from such losses that have occurred in the past, looking to your body for help.

I was a bit surprised at first to find this book consists of so many blank worksheet pages, but was delighted to discover it is designed to be a workbook you can use as you become a more competent manager in charge of all those trillions of cells. The process of developing your managerial skills involves a great deal of two-way communication between you (the CEO) and all your cells, and Buell provides an excellent starting point. Numerous messages are provided for you to say aloud to your cells, so they will understand your new dedication and commitment to their well-being. You may be surprised at how exciting it feels to begin such a discussion! If you're like me, once you get started with this two-way dialogue, you won't want to quit.

I highly recommend Buell's book as the perfect way to pull yourself together. It's worth doing, if only for the fact that your cells (all 100 trillion of them) will thank you for it!