Out of the Box for Life

This is an amazing book. Though it is a 'self-help' book written by a psychologist, it has real spiritual overtones. The basic concept is that we let our egos determine how we react to situations instead of reacting from a deeper level. Dr. Berland points out that if we could access that deeper level, we would find the freedom to react and act wisely instead of being petty and small minded and miserable. Dr. Berland has come up with a simple and basic technique to pass over our petty ego self and to access our wise and true Self that is always available to us. The book is profound in it's simplicity and just reading it opens up doors to a better life. I know that I will be rereading this book for years to come.

I am buying copies of this book for all my siblings! My wife and I just finished reading this book, and it has some excellant thoughts for life.One of the best ideas presented is that no one is "damaged" by past events, but that their reaction to those events MAY BE damaging living life to the fullest. I liked the presentation of data about ways to get in control. I have always believed that we are all in control. Some of my family don't understand this idea... they feel trapped. I bought this book first to give to them, but I read it. then my wife... and now I want all my family to read it.I highly recommend it!

After reading Warren Berland's book, Out of The Box For Life: Being Free Is Just A Choice, I tried his technique the next time I felt very anxious over my inability to overcome one of life's difficulties. I could hardly contain my excitement over being able to gain control over a lifetime of negative thinking. How wonderful it was for me to discover that something as simple as getting out of my metaphorical box and imagining what it would be like to be free--what I might be doing, asking, feeling, and experiencing in that state -- actually worked! And I could do it alone, without my therapist, every day, at any moment, whenever I felt the need. I practiced his simple technique regularly over a very short period of time. I took it to heart and did the work to master it. I smiled more. I felt good. I got free. And, I bought a copy and gave it to my therapist as a gift.

In his book, Warren Berland guides the reader into a mode of consciousness and a way of acting that leap frog over many of the modern maxims for personal growth and problem resolution. He takes profound and seemingly complex wisdom and translates it for a modern age. After reading only a few pages, one begins to experience one's sense of self and place in the world in new and healing ways. As a psychotherapist and author who has waded through volumes of ponderous and ungrounded prose purporting to help the reader toward a better life, I feel reaffirmed by Berland's fresh, unique, and truly effective approach to personal transformation. This is one fine book.

There are many books available that would guide us in ways to improve the satisfaction we find in life. But I think that Out Of The Box For Life is exceptional in its effectiveness because it not only lays out the steps we need to take, but then challenges us to explain to ourselves why we do not take them. If we answer honestly, and listen to the responses objectively, we reveal to ourselves that we are simply being afraid. From that point on, doors begin opening and barriers begin to crumble. It is like pulling back the curtain in The Wizard of Oz to find that the things that so terrorized and immobilized us were just make-believe, manufactured out of our own fears. And once we see this, we know what it matter; they are just noisy excuses that have made me into a lion without courage, a straw woman without a brain or a tin man who has given up on ever having a heart. This book by Warren Berland is very much a Yellow Brick Road to happiness and fulfillment. Berland walks you every step along the way. But be aware the trip is scary nonetheless. It always is when you confront your fears. But keep going, keep believing with your heart and by the time you pull back the last of your own personal curtains, you will be amazed how insignificant the little shrimp is who has been making all the noise that has been keeping you from becoming your whole, happy self