Life is full of possibilities and all it takes is going inside and changing your thoughts to thoughts you want to experience.

Decide to do the Tao (or practice the Way) in that moment by turning inward with curiosity about where you are on the continuum between desire and allowing. Wayne Walter Dyer (May 10, 1940 – August 29, 2015) was an American self-help author and a motivational speaker.As you read on, know that these pages were pasted together from what I personally felt were the most useful aspects of those ten different translations I studied, and I apologize for any exclusions (or if the inclusions don’t seem to be a perfect fit). You don't have to be a Buddhist, Muslim or Christian to understand that this teachings apply to all of us. Yet for all our technological expertise and scientific categorization, we can never truly create a human eye or liver. You can change your mind, transform your life, and create new habits just by entertaining new thoughts.

One of the most disempowering things you can do is to tell yourself that you're just a certain way and that there's nothing you can do to change it. The way of the Tao is not about desiring money or power, but instead about being driven by generosity and a desire to help everyone equally, no matter their standing in society. Embracing the paradox of life is an effective way of changing your thoughts and understanding both effortlessness and oneness. You see a perfect parking space, but your mate drives right by; or you watch him or her take a different route than you ordinarily do. Instead - he plays a 2500+ year long, language-crossing game of "broken telephone" in good faith that his most immediate sources will be good enough.as you realize that you are responsible for your reactions in any given moment, others will cease to have any power or control over you. From those ten translations I’d gone over, I pieced together the 81 passages in Change Your Thoughts— Change Your Life, based on how they resonated with me. I truly believe that if you implement the Tao Te Ching's advice, you will live a greatly richer and improved life. Along with the virtues of an enlightened leader, some verses in the Tao Te Ching also teach about the ways in which one can govern peacefully, in the way of the Tao.

I've just finished my third listen and will revisit many times this year to really take in the multitude of layers, principles, insights and teachings. My low opinion isn't so much about the content of Dyer's ongoing ramblings he's packaged as "advice". His books Manifest Your Destiny, Wisdom of the Ages, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, and the New York Times bestsellers 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, The Power of Intention, Inspiration, Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, Excuses Begone! As Wayne says, "This is a book that will forever change the way you look at your life, and the result will be that you'll live in a new world aligned with nature". for no reason, singing off key loudly, and sharing his opinion with me of why he prefers his friend Cole's mother to myself.Dyer has reviewed hundreds of translations of the Tao Te Ching and has written 81 distinct essays on how to apply the ancient wisdom of Lao-tzu to today’s modern world.

His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. As Deep H explains, self-defeating and "negative thought patterns, particularly when they’ve become habitual, can be hard to break. As there have been many translations into English, Dr Dyer has selected his favourite translation for each verse. Therefore his following interpretation about "to be sick of being sick" as a model for ideal health simply does not make sense, if only for the fact that the semantic equivalent of what "to be sick of [something]" is in English would be phrased very differently in Chinese, and it isn't reflected in the original.

He’s since gone on to author dozens of books and become a popular speaker on the subject of self-development. As a side note that's not really applicable to this book's review; I found quite a lot of Lao Tzu's teachings to be incredibly thought-provoking. Is he merely a clueless buffoon, who didn't know there's actually so much more going on with this Dao thing than this one text, and wasted a year under the illusion that he's seriously practicing its "wisdom"? He actually says “Just like everything else on our planet, money is available in limitless quantities. For me, it was a missing piece that I added in with at least a dozen other treatments and therapies that had also changed my life for the better.