Monday, September 2, 2013

Directing Your Destiny


Jennifer Grace’s book, Directing Your Destiny, was an intriguing read.

It is the first book I have ever read that combines all of the effective self-change techniques into one integrated approach.  Jennifer adds further spice and power to her instructive how-to book by sharing with the reader a number of motion picture industry techniques that are adaptable to guiding and assisting one in a personal growth transformation.

The book is arranged and set up to provide the reader with the equivalent of a month long training program designed to propel you through a substantial personal growth experience. It is written in a step-by-step fashion and easy to follow.

Week One’s instructions and lesson is How to Become the Writer of Your Dreams. This is where you are taught to become more mindful by cultivating an awareness to build your dreams, to begin meditation that will instill clarity in discovering your dreams, and to begin journaling as a means of writing down and capturing your dreams. According to Jennifer, “Journaling is an excellent tool for intellectual, psychological and spiritual growth. It moves you closer to your real feelings.”

Week Two covers Becoming the Producer of Your Dreams. What are the things that stop you from moving forward fearlessly? What is it that takes you out of your personal power?  Intentions, written down in a declarative fashion about a future goal that you have already achieved and the positive emotional state that underscores it’s completion are introduced as one of the tools of change. You are beginning the process of reprogramming your belief system including learning how to neutralize those “hecklers that live inside your head.”

Week Three covers more of Becoming the Producer of Your Dreams. Cultivating truthful emotions to feel your dreams and validate them. Applying a tool set known as the Authentic Frequency Method (AFM). You write out a script from your imagination that you’d like to star in. Imagine that it is real. Borrow the strong positive emotions from one of your most positive memorable events and substitute that feeling in place with the script you are striving to bring to life. Then run the script and those borrowed strong emotions as a mind movie before you meditate.

Week Four concludes instruction with Becoming the Director of Your Dreams. Learning to work with the Law of Action. Putting into motion the vision that you have crafted. Time will never be found to accomplish something. You instead must create the time. Use the Dream Storm approach. There may be no’s that arise before a yes occurs with each of your dreams. Trust in and surrender to your source. Let go of expectations about how things will turn out.

In Directing Your Destiny, I liked what I learned about the following topics:

The use of Journaling
Differs from just keeping a diary. Journaling serves to provide you with access to your own personal truth, your dreams and inner wisdom. Journaling is one of the tools advocated by Jennifer in this book. I never kept a diary. I have never written a journal, until now. Clarification of how powerful the latter is helps. Journaling provides one with the opportunity to drill down deeper into your thoughts and feelings.

The Five Senses Check-in
A technique of focusing on each one of our individual senses as part of a meditation practice session. Meditative concentration begins first with sight, then smell, sound, touch, then finally taste. Focusing on each one of these senses one at a time works to shut out random wandering thoughts that may arise to break or sabotage your meditation period. It keeps you on track during your periods of meditation.

Beliefs vs. Facts
The author writes, “A fact is a verifiable truth. A belief is what someone has decided is the truth. It may or may not be verifiable. But a fact is a fact and cannot be changed. You can, however, always choose what you believe. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve held on to a belief or where it came from. You can adopt a new one whenever you choose.”  Many of us have journeyed through our lives burdened with beliefs about ourselves that began in childhood which, over the years, we came to view as facts. They never were factual truth, which makes them eligible for discarding or dismantling.

Dream Storming
Creating action steps to bring your intention or dream to fruition. Starts with an intention written in the middle of a sheet of blank paper. The rest of the space is to write in the action steps you will need to take to make that particular intention or dream a reality. The next step then will be prioritizing three of the action steps and holding yourself accountable with a time deadline on each. A technique that serves to start the flywheel of change into motion.

Each of the four weekly programs concludes with Director’s Notes which are reinforcing summary notes of the material,  and a Soulwork assignment which are to-do action steps to take.

Unhappy with your present circumstance in life? Feel like you are stuck at a plateau and cannot find your next transmission gear? Grab a copy of this book. The tools and techniques within are easy to follow and just may serve to launch you into the life you were meant to  be living.

For more information about this author and her work, visit her websites at: www.jennifergrace.com and
www.thecenterofgrace.com


Jeff Dodson
September 2nd 2013

FTC Disclosure: I received this book for free from Hay House Publishing for this review. The opinions expressed in this review are unbiased and reflect my honest judgment of the product.

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