Over the past months I’ve been reading a great number of motivational and inspiring books on the topic of personal growth. I’ve also been listening to podcasts and watching videos on YouTube. This interest has sprung from a combination of factors as I’ve recently reached a few significant milestones in my life; I retired and turned sixty and I have five grandchildren between the ages of three months and nine years. I am concerned with aging, health, and emotional wellbeing, as well as my children and grandchildren’s future challenges. I have more time to reflect and more things to reflect on, so I’ve found these books, podcasts and videos very helpful, especially in these uncertain and volatile times in which nothing can be taken for granted. I’ll be sharing my thoughts with you on Mondays.
This Monday I’m really excited about introducing you to inspirational Marisa Peer, nutritionist, therapist and creator of RTT (Rapid Transformation Therapy) which has helped change and improve lives. She has written books on dieting and pregnancy, but the book I’m going to tell you about today is I am enough: Mark your mirror and change your life, a complete manual of all her thoughts and proposals for a better, healthier and happier lifestyle.
I’ve been reading and listening to Marisa for a few years now, because she has a lot of useful advice and experience which she conveys in a calm and pleasant voice. The strategies she proposes are logical, clear and achievable. I already do many of the things she suggests, but hearing and reading about it also reinforces the power we all have to take control of our thoughts and actions.
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She has a great metaphor for the struggle between the conscious and the subconscious mind, in which the subconscious mind is a wild horse and the conscious mind is its trainer, so when the horse loses control the trainer has to find ways to rein him in and work for us instead of against us. Marisa helps us find ways to do just that.
One of her most famous and useful suggestions is also the title of the book, the affirmation ‘I am enough’, because she considers that the root of all our troubles lies in the negative blocks which lead to our sense of failure, and she proposes specific ways to overcome these negative, preconcieved and damaging ideas and turn them into positive affirmations which have the power to change our lives.
This is a tiny gem of a book which presents all her personal development theories in a clear and concise nutshell.
I first found out about Marisa was through her Tedx Talk at Kings College London, Reach beyond your limits by training your mind.
She also has a second TedxTalk How to avoid rejection and get connection.
As always, I searched for her on YouTube to see and hear her recent talks and I found a wealth of videos on her youtube channel including topics such as self-hipnosis, meditation and tips and strategies to improve our physical and mental wellbeing, and motivation.
This is one of her latest interviews, where she explains her philosophy to achieve a happier, healthier lifestyle and offers clear and straightforward proposals to make our lives better.
Watch Marisa’s videos on Youtube
Rereading Jane Eyre 