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Winner of the 2016 IPPY Gold Medal Award for Self Help
How making a vow—consciously setting an intention—can be a powerful tool for achieving all sort of goals, from the author of the best-selling Mindful Eating.
Making a vow is a powerful mindfulness practice—and all you have to do to tap into that power is set your intention consciously. A vow can be as "small" as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or as "big" as marriage; as personal as deciding to be mindful when picking up the phone or as universal as vowing to save all sentient beings. It can be deeply spiritual, utterly ordinary, or both. Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays looks to traditional Buddhist teachings to show the power of vows—and then applies that teaching broadly to the many vows we make. She shows that if we work with vows consciously, they set us in the direction of achieving our goals, both temporal and spiritual.
Bays presents secular and spiritual wisdom from both East and West, highlighting figures such as Martha Graham, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Buckminster Fuller. She helps us examine the vows we have already made for ourselves and the vows we’ve unconsciously inherited. She supports us in repairing broken vows, crafting new intentions, and exploring what’s truly on our bucket lists.
Read The VowPowered Life A Simple Method for Living with Purpose Jan Chozen Bays Books
"I can’t recall who recommended this one to me. It’s not a title I’d have gravitated towards on my own, though it has interesting precepts within. Some I don’t agree with, others I find plausible, many are attainable. Bottom line: search inwardly for your belief systems, some of which come to you in surprising ways, and move toward manifesting them in your life and in the greater world.
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Interesting read mainly because some of her beliefs DON’T align with mine. The older I get, the more I believe we should expose ourselves to other ways of thinking; it can either confirm our own beliefs or cause our beliefs to meld. Both results aren’t bad ones in the end.
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The VowPowered Life A Simple Method for Living with Purpose Jan Chozen Bays Books Reviews :
The VowPowered Life A Simple Method for Living with Purpose Jan Chozen Bays Books Reviews
- If you haven't investigated and articulated your deepest intentions for your life and your practice, your meditation practice is just another form of busywork. Chozen offers an authentic, lively guide to understanding and exploring vow formation and practice.
- Thought provoking and imminently useful, The Vow-Powered Life, by Jan Chozen Bays, is a practical way to examine those ideas and ideals at the heart of our choices and inspirations. Bays is personable in her writing, and her exercises for reflection are deliberate and helpful. Everyone would benefit from the opportunities for careful reflection offered by this book.
- Accessible, clear and directly applicable to your life.
- I love this book!!
- I received this book for free from the author, the publishers, and NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review. I was interested in reviewing it because of the word VOW. My background is in deaf education, and when I was teaching at a state deaf school, some of the children began circulating the concept of a vow. It held so much more strength than a promise or intention or goal. I was fascinated with how the children explained it to each other. They had no sign for it; they could only fingerspell V-O-W. Even now, more than 30 years later, I can see the intensity on the children's faces as they fingerspelled VOW and sought to explain its significance to each other.
In my own life, I have taken a few vows, and they are indeed much more powerful than a simple promise because they do pull in a huge spiritual component. This book approaches the power of vows from a Zen/Buddhist point of view. While much of the book was very interesting and even motivating, it left me with many questions and feeling kind of empty, that there is more to our hearts and souls than what was explained here. In my opinion, there are problems in my world and in the world in general that are bigger and more insurmountable than what I can muster within myself to overcome. This book didn't show me from where I could get that strength, and thus, left me vaguely dissatisfied. - I can’t recall who recommended this one to me. It’s not a title I’d have gravitated towards on my own, though it has interesting precepts within. Some I don’t agree with, others I find plausible, many are attainable. Bottom line search inwardly for your belief systems, some of which come to you in surprising ways, and move toward manifesting them in your life and in the greater world.
âï¸
Interesting read mainly because some of her beliefs DON’T align with mine. The older I get, the more I believe we should expose ourselves to other ways of thinking; it can either confirm our own beliefs or cause our beliefs to meld. Both results aren’t bad ones in the end.
âï¸ - I really enjoyed the lesson of this book, however, the author got there by showing us, not telling us. She uses stories from famously driven, successful people from history to talk about the purpose of Vows as well as examples from her own life. Every exercise was applicable to me, but there were a few that I really gravitated toward and found memorable. One was discovering the vows we had already made by listing our accomplishments as well as the underlying vow that it was fulfilling. There was also another exercise called "Time is Running Out" that asked you to reflect on unfinished projects you would like to complete versus unfinished projects to discard immediately if you only had three years to live.
- This thoughtful profound book explores remarkable power that our commitments or vows have in our lives and how, when consciously chosen, they can guide and inspire us toward our ideals. A deep, moving, and lucid book.
