Top 10 Inspirational Books – October 2014

Welcome to this month’s Aspire Magazine Top 10 Inspiring Books list! You’ll discover inspirational and empowering books, written by women and for women, each dedicated to sharing a universal message of love, hope and self-empowerment. Through their wisdom-filled books, these visionary female authors are illuminating the path for women on the journey of healing and self-discovery. Add these transformational books to your inspired living resource library.

Loving Yourself to Great Health: Thoughts & Food – The Ultimate Diet
by Louise Hay, Ahlea Khadro, Heather Dane

For decades, best-selling author Louise Hay has transformed people’s lives and health by teaching them to let go of limiting beliefs and create the life of their dreams. Now in this tour de force, Louise teams up with her go-to natural health and nutrition experts, Ahlea Khadro and Heather Dane, to reveal the other side of her secret to health, happiness, and longevity: living a nutrient-rich life.
In this empowering book, you will learn to take your health, your moods, your energy, and your life to the next level. You will tap into the secrets Louise has used for decades to supercharge the effectiveness of affirmations and bring your body back into alignment with your mind. You will discover what nutrition really means and how to cut through the confusion about which diets really work. You will learn to hear the stories your body is eager to reveal. You will uncover techniques for longevity, vitality, good moods, deep intuition, and for meeting your body’s unique healing needs at all stages of life.

 

No Matter What!: 9 Steps to Living the Life You Love
by Lisa Nichols

From bestselling author and motivational speaker Lisa Nichols comes a unique and powerful inspirational program that will both move you and empower you to realize your dreams. Millions are trying to live by The Secret’s Law of Attraction, but the truth is it won’t work unless you flex your all-important “bounce-back” muscles, which give you the ability to successfully navigate life’s speed bumps.
By developing and toning her own bounce-back muscles at critical points in her life, Lisa found the power to become her authentic self and achieve everything she dared to hope for. Now, in NO MATTER WHAT, she offers a groundbreaking program that outlines these 9 Steps or “muscles”, which include among others your Confidence, Faith-in-Myself, Honesty Out Loud and Forgiveness muscles, and explains how anyone can use them to achieve happiness and off-the-charts success. In this powerful guide Lisa Nichols introduces her dynamic plan, shares her own remarkable story, and prescribes specific exercises and action steps to inspire readers to learn from their past and move toward a courageous future.

What Will Set You Free: From Pain to Passion in Seven Weeks
by Cynthia James

Freedom is a choice. Sometimes we get hurt in life and that hurt is buried so deeply, in some dark private place, we don’t even know it is the cause of other harmful things manifesting in our lives. In Cynthia’s book, What Will Set You Free, she guides people to explore methods of healing to move beyond fears, doubts and painful experiences to reclaim the wonderful masterpiece that is their life. She teaches through her writing why nothing from the past has to define the future. We attract what we think and believe. You can change your thoughts so that nothing that has ever happened to you can stop your greatness.
INCLUDES a MEDIATION CD at the back of the book.

 

Take the Leap: Do What You Love 15 Minutes a Day and Create the Life of Your Dreams
by Heather McCloskey Beck

Go from thinking to doing–from imagining a new life to putting it into practice–starting right now. Inspirational author and speaker, Heather McCloskey Beck, wants you to know that there’s nothing more important than figuring out what makes your heart sing and doing that–every day. Beck offers guidance, stories, and dozens of practical suggestions for how to take the leap into the kind of life you’ve always dreamed of. With Heather’s help, you can take the leap from thinking about what life would be like if you could do what you love to doing it. Starting with just 15 minutes. Today.

Soul-Hearted Partnership: Creating the Ultimate Experience of Love, Passion, and Intimacy
by Debra L. Reble, Ph.D

The spiritual principles presented by longtime counselor Debra L. Reble, Ph.D., in Soul-Hearted Partnership form a blueprint for first developing a fully realized relationship with ourselves, and then sharing an inspiring and fulfilling relationship with another person. You’ll discover a series of spiritual principles for integrating body, heart, spirit, and soul and intertwining the combined energies with those of a loved one. Strategies are offered to keep the flow of your joined energies expanding until it permeates all aspects of your lives as individuals and as a couple.

 

Role to Soul: 15 Shifts on the Awakening Journey
by Annie Burnside

“From my work with many who have awakened, I’ve learned that what it takes for us to finally quit trying to awaken, and simply awaken, is highly individualized. In my own life, I can detect 15 shifts that occurred within me. Yet, as I talk with others, it becomes increasingly apparent that those shifts are pretty much common to the experience of awakening. In FROM ROLE TO SOUL, I take you into the everyday nitty-gritty of what awakening is-what it looks like, what it feels like, and how it comes about. As you experience the shifts in your own life, you’ll find a new joy arising in you, a deep love of life flooding through you, and the kind of meaning and fulfillment for which you’ve always longed.” Annie

Collective Manifestation: Heart-Centered Blueprints for Creating Intentional Community
by Melissa Wadsworth

Collective Manifestation is part practical self-help guide, part inspiring social-change manifesto, helping individuals, groups and teams (online and off) to expand their vision and potential, while contributing to evolutionary manifestations of love, peace and plenty around the globe. Collective Manifestation takes community development to an entirely new level by identifying the primary energy shifts inspiring people to connect in newly collaborative and creative ways. For fans of the law of attraction, the 11 keys to collective manifestation reveal the essential components you need to know to become a force for good. The book also shares five empowering intuitive processes you should know about. This book is a game changer!

 

Flying Lessons: How to Be the Pilot of Your Own Life
by Pamela Hale

Flying Lessons is an inspirational manual for leading, living, and loving with passion and joy. It is a seven-step journey that helps anyone break free of the “gravity” if old limits and recognize one’s power to soar-without even leaving the ground. Pamela uses seven stories from her own private pilot lessons to draw the metaphor between flying and life. A multilayered creative work, Flying Lessons is augmented by Pam’s stunning aerial photos, which enhance the ancient and classic metaphor of flight. Each lesson corresponds with a chakra, a yoga pose, and an archetype, so the manual works as a course for readers on all levels of body, mind, and spirit. From the “dipstick” that helps flyers manage their energy, to the story of how the flying lessons helped Pam in her cancer journey, Flying Lessons is a practical and entertaining journey into authentic power, freedom, and fulfillment.

Live Your Dash: Make Every Moment Matter
by Linda Ellis

Linda Ellis’s poem, “The Dash” has touched millions of lives and began an enduring phenomenon. Live Your Dash captures and expands upon the theme of the original poem: It’s not your birth or death that matters most, but how you spend each passing year. Linda shares her message of joy, hope, and positive energy through uplifting stories, essays, and poetry, along with tales of people who have been “touched by the dash,” including Bob Dole, legendary football coach Lou Holtz, and American Idol winner David Cook. An inspiring look at life based on the fantastically successful poem.

 

The Four Passages of the Heart: Moving from Pain into Love
by Sara Wiseman

What if spiritual awakening rested within your own heart? What if you already have the ability to connect with a higher power, heal the past, and transform your future? In this enlightening book, Sara Wiseman busts the myth that change work is slow and the path to personal transformation and happiness is difficult. In fact, spiritual awakening is part of who we are as human beings; it is our natural state and our birthright. Everything changes when you crack open your heart. In this book, you’ll learn how to move through the four progressive openings: pain, compassion, connection, and love. These passages of the heart lead to a direct connection with the Divine. This is how Divine energy works.