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Are you sabotaging the love that is possible in your relationships? Have you ever wished you could experience unconditional love? Choosing Love offers a spiritual approach to transforming relationships by showing you how to let go of any fears, limiting beliefs, and judgments. By moving beyond your ego and conditioning, you can create a richer, more loving life for yourself and those you care about. You have the power to determine how much love you experience in any given moment.

There is nothing that opens someone’s heart more than someone with an open heart. Conversely, there is nothing that closes someone’s heart more than someone with a closed heart. Choosing Love will help you open your heart by helping you overcome the fear, judgments, and egoistic expectations and demands that block love and make relationships difficult.

A loving relationship is possible, and it starts with your own relationship - to love with your capacity to love. Choosing Love will help you love and, thereby, draw more love to you in your life. Choosing Love provides profound insights and practical advice about how the ego interferes with love and happiness; moving beyond romantic illusions; recognizing, finding, and sustaining a meaningful relationship; overcoming anger, judgments, criticism, and resentment; resolving issues like infidelity, money, commitment, sexual differences; and seeing the divine in one another.

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7 hours and 20 minutes
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Gina Lake
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Gina Lake
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July 17, 2020
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English
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Gina Lake
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B08D6H1YRY
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Listening Length	7 hours and 20 minutes
Author	Gina Lake
Narrator	Gina Lake
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	July 17, 2020
Publisher	Gina Lake
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08D6H1YRY
Best Sellers Rank	#233,800 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #1,248 in Love, Dating & Attraction #7,288 in Love & Romance (Books) #8,773 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books)

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Lynette

This book is beyond Phenomenal!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2022

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This book written through Gina Lake is beyond Phenomenal. Such helpful information on learning to let go of the egos way and moving more into essence and love. I highly recommend this book to all. Peace love & blessings to everyone : )

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Eric Rehnke

Deep spirituality in simple, lucid language!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2011

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I have been a student of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and A Course In Miracles at various times on my spiritual journey. I recently came in contact with Gina Lake's work and immediately recognized the same concepts as I found in A Course In Miracles only with a much simpler explanation. Gina has distilled the deep spirituality that is hard going for some into a conversational format that allows it to be understood and lived. I especially liked the way she describes how we are actually programmed to suffer until we've had enough and decide to find a better way. I don't recall ever seeing this concept described with as much clarity as I found in this book.

"Life unfolds as it will regardless of whether we like it or not. By opposing life, we eventually learn this truth. We learn how impotent our opposition to life is and that this opposition only causes suffering. What's left is choosing to agree with life - to love whatever is, no matter what that looks like. That is the secret to life. It's both simple and difficult. Oneness likes a challenge, so something being difficult isn't a problem for it. It welcomes the difficult challenge of waking up out of the egoic state of consciousness. That has been Oneness's intention all along, and the suffering caused by our inability to make life turn out as we would like is how Oneness accomplishes its goal. Our desire to stop suffering eventually leads to our saying no to ego and choosing love instead." (page 12 - location 391 Kindle)

The vastness of that statement is staggering, and yet so comforting. As I ponder it again while writing this review, I am awestruck by the beautiful elegance and grandeur of it.

"You can't keep judgements from arising because they aren't under your control or anyone else's, but you can decide to do nothing about a judgement." (page 36 - location 910 Kindle)

How liberating is this? We can learn to relax when judgements come up and not get so upset that we get them. That's what I'm learning from this teaching. I was getting upset because they were coming up and trying hard to stop them. Now I'm much calmer when they come up. And it's easier to let them go.

"Although you are responsible for what you do with your conditioning, you aren't responsible for the fact that it's there. It's just the programming you were given. Seeing this will help you detach from the conditioning and not act on it. What if you send love to this conditioning and to the ego which so desperately wants to act on it? Who is this you that is able to lovingly be with this conditioning? It's Essence, the you that is capable of love and a loving relationship." (page 41 - location 1013 Kindle)

How simple! It does take practice to achieve this and I am still practicing. However, having this concept removes the guilt associated with having the conditioning itself.

And there's plenty of practical advise in this book and how to maintain loving relationships.

A most surprising concept that Gina espouses is "Honesty is not always the best policy". I did a double take on this one and had to agree after I read her explanation. What she is saying is that it's better to hold your opinion to yourself if it could cause hurt.

"Judgements aren't the only thing we shouldn't share with our partner. The ego's thoughts, in general, aren't necessarily useful to share. Honesty is not the best policy if that honesty comes from the ego. In addition to judgements, the ego is full of opinions, complaints, and half truths, and sharing these with your partner can only bring him or her into their egoic state of consciousness." (page 41 - location 1023 Kindle)

This is a book that you can read through and then go back and read it again and again.

My mantra for many years has been "I'd rather Be Here Now". This book and Gina Lake's other works are all about this and making the concept of living in the moment so approachable and practical.

Mankind is evolving spiritually and the rate we evolve will increase as more of us are called by our true Essence to embody these principles.

Heartfelt thanks and love to Gina Lake for her part in this process.

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Summer

Read with a open heart, not the ego

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 13, 2014

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It took me an entire year to read this book but not because it was complicated or terrible read but because I think my ego was purposely making me forget that I even had it. Every time I would open it up I couldn't stop reading but unfortunately it was at night so I had too. I would be extremely excited about reading it the next night but I would get distracted and forget. With all that said, it was a learning experience in its self. Not only did it help my love life but also my relationships with people that have been difficult in my life, like my sister and family. Instead of seeing resentment and hate for them i actually have more compassion for them, nor from a egoic state but essence. I see their ego and refuse to let my ego respond. I'm not perfect and it comes out occasionally but this book has helped me recognize my ego and essence. I highly recommend this book to anyone that needs to see the world from the out side. I've had a lot more conversation in my head with my Devine/essence/God/Me then ever before. Thank you to the beautiful spirited author for this book. It came and stayed in my life at the right time. As everything always does. Love and light to all.

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A Must Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 9, 2015

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This is a book must read book. As humans we are always in relationship with somebody or something throughout our lives. Judgement, conditioning, ego desires (as opposed to essence desires) cloud our vision. Every sentence of this book is a gem. This book can save a lot of suffering esp in relationships. I feel blessed to have found absolutely beautiful book. I bought not just this book but also the audible edition just to drive the message deep in my mind. This is a book you would want to read over and over again. It gives an excellent understanding on why we do what we do or why we choose the one we do. It helps us change the relationship we have with our judgements and thoughts and conditioning.
The advice she gives is practical and easy to implement. Gina'a compassion is evident from her beautiful words. An exceptionally talented author.

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NoahE

Most helpful book about relationships I ever read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 1, 2013

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I have read a lot of spiritual books in my life, but this book is probably the most helpful book I ever read. In this book, Gina Lake describes how our conditioning runs our relationships and ultimately makes us unhappy and resentful in them. The detail and clarity with which she describes the common dynamic in relationships can help anyone to notice their tendencies that create suffering, and in-turn, help anyone to begin to act more from essence or presence rather than from conditioning.

I honestly give this book the highest recommendation I could possibly give to a book. Regardless of whether you think your romantic relationship is going wonderfully well or filled with suffering, regardless of whether you are in a romantic relationship or not, this book can help you to experience more peace and love in all of your different types of relationship in life.

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I wish everyone would read this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2020

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If you want to understand how to make the relationship with yourself work, along with relationships with anyone else, this would be a great book to absorb. Gina Lake goes deep and you will end up really understanding yourself and others so much better. I love her books!

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LindaG

A wonderful read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 22, 2017

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Reading this book has empowered me to change the course of my life. I no longer see myself as an inadequate, critical, judgmental person - just simply someone who has been identified with an 'over active' ego as a result of not-so-great conditioning. I am no longer fearful of an uncertain future that I felt needed to be fulfilled by the things society demands and the people society accepts. It takes practice not to listen to the ego, but I can confidently say that even after just reading the first few pages, I became kinder to myself and to others ... and I am filled with an excitement I have never experienced before. A wonderful read.

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amanda blacow

Life changing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 11, 2014

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I love this book, it is life changing, if your honest with yourself. When I am most stressed I reach for this book and read its wisdom and I feel calm, centered and can then manage what is presented to me...

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Marie Smith

Excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 4, 2020

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I love Gina Lake's style of writing. This is an excellent book on dealing with relationships. She managed to keep guidance simple and practical.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2018

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Central Coast Retiree

A Life-Changing Book

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on December 30, 2018

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I have found this book original in its theme and very practical, probably the most practical book I have read on relationships. It also introduced me to Gina Lake, a very wise and spiritual guide whose teachings embody a fundamental thesis which is the key to happiness and peace in one's personal life and in our relationships. It does change one's attitude to life for the better.

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