Emotional Excellence: A Practical Guide to Self-Discovery

This book has changed the way I look at my life. Why, because the author speaks about a fundimental human truth, emotion is a gift that when embraced and used wisely can and does change all your relationships, especially the one you have with yourself, for the better. Maya Phillips writes with authority, humour and a reassuring style on a number of interpersonal issues. Her Emotional Mapping technique is well illustrated and accompanied by excellent and thorough text. Multi Level Reading was a bit disturbing at first as I could feel and sense changes happening in my body that I had no control over. I have to say that this book delivers much more than it promises. I would have paid ten times the price had I known how remarkable it would turn out to be.

Our higher mind and, in many cases, completely ignores the development of the older, the more primeval, earlier mind; which by definition has with humanity for much longer. I believe people are waking up to the fact that we all communicate with each other on an emotional level. Forget about the facades that our conscious adult minds develop to disguise this fact. This book has given me techniques to develop my more emotional self and I am grateful for that.

NLP-ers and hypnotherapists hungry for something truly new should take a look at this amazing book to see what the footprints of true innovation look like.Phillips, has revealed an embarrassing truth about the self-development publishing industry - however good the ideas in any new book, most people simply don't do the exercises. But, rather than bullying or admonishing the reader, she has taken up the challenge and developed an approach which is truly unique: Multi-Level Reading (MLR) - quite simply, text that brings about the desired change as it's being read.Robert Masters, creator of Neurospeak, is probably the best known exponent of the relatively recent discovery that the process of reading and understanding certain kinds of text triggers micro-movement of the muscles - the same principle exploited by athletes who use +mental rehearsal+ to improve their fitness or game.Whereas Neurospeak +speaks+ to the physical body, Phillips has ever greater ambitions - to lead the reader from the present moment into previously unexplored and profound states, creating new neural pathways in the process. Thus, elegantly and effectively, she sidesteps the problem of motivating the reader and accomplishes, unconsciously, the desired result. (A word of caution to the bookstore browser, however: don't read the bold print if you don't plan on speanding the next few hours in a seriously altered state!)Phillips herself describes Emotional Excellence as a book about "the use and abuse of emotion", and emphasises her mission to guide readers into emotional strength and flexibility. this she does with common sense,humour and flair.Also outlined is her equally innovative process called Emotional Mapping. I worked with this process and found a powerful therapeutic system for exploring and resolving life issues by identifying, interacting with and testing my "unique and personal inner metaphors and archetypes."Both processes open entirely new directions in the potential for human self-evolution. Phillips is a breath - no, a tornado! - of fresh air in a field where most new writings are simply regurgitations of what has gone before. And, seldom good regurgitations, at that.