4 out of 4 stars
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In A Spiritual Recovery - my colon story: A Prayerful Guide: How to use spiritual practices and conventional medicine to have a blessed outcome from surgery, Linda Crea takes us through her compelling fight against a precancerous colon polyp, which she was diagnosed with at the age of forty-eight. The thought of having surgery can be frightening most times, including the high risk of infection and pain patients feel. These were the issues Linda had to contend with. There was also the confusion of why she was in that situation without getting any signal from her body prior to her diagnosis. However, Linda employed a very important tool in dealing with her condition - "positive thinking." This was the basis for achieving full painless recovery post-surgery in record time, and she hopes to offer guidance to people in similar situations.
Reading this book felt quite different from other similar books. The first thing I noticed from the beginning of the book was the author's positive energy, which radiated throughout the book. This was introduced using the law of attraction (LOA), which is based on attracting what we focus on or think about. If you focus on negative thoughts, you will remain under that cloud. However, If you focus on positive thoughts and have goals that you hope to achieve, like the author, when you take action towards your goals everything lines up for you to achieve them. Another part of the book that resonated with me was "asking for what you want," which is in agreement with what the LOA is all about. "Do not be afraid to ask for help from people, even from the universe.
I liked that the author doesn't give all the credit of her recovery to positive thinking alone, but she portrays it as an important tool. She also talks about how helpful her doctors were and how a newly implemented medical information given by her doctors, which she followed to the letter, helped her. The importance of making and following lists was also reiterated throughout the book. The author had a list for virtually everything, including a pre-surgery list and a post-surgery list explained in detail, which I'm sure will be very helpful to readers.
Furthermore, the book touches important body and mind relaxation techniques like meditation, including step-by-step guidelines on carrying them out. This is something I have practiced on a couple of occasions and it was very relaxing. Readers will also learn about chakras, their different colors and meanings, and how to clear them. The author employs a humorous style of writing while narrating her story in chronological order. This ensured that it was very easy to follow the story, even though she strayed off-topic on a few occasions, and it improved me relate better to her story. The book also contains pictures of several important moments in Linda's life.
A Spiritual Recovery is well-edited, as I only found three minor errors throughout the book, and this ensured that my reading was hitch-free. I found the book very inspirational. The book also includes a lot of motivational quotes from people like Oprah Winfrey and Joseph Campbell, and it was nice to see that spirituality was also a source of strength for the author in her trying times. There was nothing I disliked about the book. On that note, it is very easy for me to make the decision to rate this book 4 out of 4. I would recommend this book to people faced with the situation of having surgery and their caregivers. A lot of advice here can be applied in life generally. Lovers of inspirational stories will also have fun with this book.
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A Spiritual Recovery ~ my colon story
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