His teachings around mindfulness are generally oversimplified and cover only a subset of known mindfulness techniques used in buddhist practices and in mindfulness psychology. Although this book has some good points on how to find some inner peace, it’s just a handful of pages that repeat the same message over and over; let go of the things in life over which you have no control.

This book told me that it could be started from something that I thought wouldn’t be a problem or a regret that could be irrational and hopeless like: “I am useless. You may feel silly at first, but when you use these positive incantations as part of your daily routine, you will see results. I think it will be one that I hold onto and keep practicing the exercises to continue a process that is so much healthier and healing. As someone who tried another method to let go of whatever event that was strenuous to forget, I think this book gave me so much refreshing insight. To 'let go', you have to list down all these beliefs you have of yourself, and acknowledge that these 'fronts' are not always true.I think that this will help me with letting go of all my stressors and constant streams of thought in my current life in regards to my health, relationships, work and money. Staying in bed all day and avoiding friends and loved ones makes letting go and moving on that much more difficult. Instead, use your experiences as a tool to push you to learn and grow so you can create a healthy relationship with someone else. Though social media is a way to stay in touch with friends and family, it’s the opposite of what you need when you are going through a breakup. Not a bad book, especially if you seem to blame everyone else for your life not being the way you want it to be.

Once you've learned the "releasing" technique, you'll be able to bring harmony into your life--and keep it there. Though each relationship is different, most find it’s time to end things when the relationship causes them more pain than pleasure or when trust has eroded to the point where the romance cannot be rekindled . You can still feel love, resentment and hostility that affect your decisions – you may feel all three. You can’t let go of the belief that all relationships are bound to fail, and this is why you can’t maintain a healthy romantic relationship .

Even if your relationship has reached its conclusion or one or both of you are unhappy , there is still an amount of certainty there that can make it hard to know when to let go of a relationship . And it's ok to let go of those relationships, careers, and ideologies others may have that really aren't serving me in any way. Understand that these are not facts – they are limiting beliefs , and while beliefs have the power to create your world, you have the power to transform them. TL;DR 'Complete' painful experiences by reliving them until they are not triggering pain points anymore.

His idea of evidence was anecdotal where he repeatedly said « just do this » and followed it up with « my friend did and the next day [insert desire manifesting into reality].I have never been one to read this type of books much, but I guess there is always the right time in your life for everything. ultimately, the only thing we should learn is to accept, that it doesn’t matter how detailed plan we got, something won’t go the way we want it. I felt like this was a Cliff notes version of many types of self-help with a heavy emphasis on Transcendental Meditation. Purkiss' point is that pain patterns reinforce each other until they become unconscious decision factors that hold you back from doing things you actually do want to do. This led to my second book, 'Brand You', which is designed to help everyone to discover their purpose/mission and market themselves effectively.