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A review by honeycoffeereads
The Shadow Effect, a movie: Illuminating the Hidden Power of Your True Self by Deepak Chopra
4.0
I thought the first chapter with Deepak Chopra offered a lot of insight into how we think and how we get wrapped up in our thoughts, our predictions to others, and how we based our decisions. He gives us some great insight on how to develop way to calm ourselves and lessen the effect our thoughts have on us, and how it can take us on negatively. However, for those who do not read a lot on spirituality, consciousness, etc...Chopra's writing might go over some readers head - at some points it did to mine!
Moving into the second chapter written by Debbie Ford, I felt the content fell a little short. She didn't really explain too much new information on how we fall for our negativity/negative parts of ourselves. I felt her prose fell into a loop of information of how people can live by listening to the skeptical/fearful/jealous parts of ourselves. I sorta felt like I could do a shot-game to how many times 'shadow' appeared within the text, and I would have been smashed by page 5....
I stuck with it until the last section which was written by Marianne Williamson. The last chapter brought together a loving culmination of both chapters, and how living with love for others is the most hopeful, positive way to live. I particularly enjoyed her conversational tone, which might be something readers feel is missing from the first chapter. I also liked her ability to explain how easy we can go into judgmental/sarcastic/skeptical mode because at one point love has been withheld or torn away from us, and going into a mental attack mode, is a reflex rather than offering up more compassion or love.
Moving into the second chapter written by Debbie Ford, I felt the content fell a little short. She didn't really explain too much new information on how we fall for our negativity/negative parts of ourselves. I felt her prose fell into a loop of information of how people can live by listening to the skeptical/fearful/jealous parts of ourselves. I sorta felt like I could do a shot-game to how many times 'shadow' appeared within the text, and I would have been smashed by page 5....
I stuck with it until the last section which was written by Marianne Williamson. The last chapter brought together a loving culmination of both chapters, and how living with love for others is the most hopeful, positive way to live. I particularly enjoyed her conversational tone, which might be something readers feel is missing from the first chapter. I also liked her ability to explain how easy we can go into judgmental/sarcastic/skeptical mode because at one point love has been withheld or torn away from us, and going into a mental attack mode, is a reflex rather than offering up more compassion or love.