Being Free: How To Reinvent Your Life

By Paul Peele

There is more freedom peace and ease in life than we know about. There is something simple you can do about that. This book is about how much you enjoy being you. In "Being Free", Paul isn't so much... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973648201
• ISBN13: 9780973648201
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Emptiness Press International
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.6" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Living Free in the World

Today there's a self-help book for virtually every occasion. If you're young, you'll find guidance about relationships and careers. As you get older, they'll tell you how to stay young forever or how to age gracefully. In between, hundreds of tomes offer tips about self-esteem, prosperity, or coping skills for your inner child. Nowhere, in all these thousands of titles, have I ever seen a book about being free. Likely no-one has been looking for one, because in our culture, we assume that we're already free. But of course the most important yet difficult questions to answer are the ones it never occurs to us to ask. This book invites the reader to ask themself; "Do I really live free in the world and feel comfortable in my own skin?" I was intrigued. Author and therapist Paul Peele suggests that you are free only when you can see what's real and what's not. He asks; if you were in a room and couldn't see the door, would you be free? He claims, on the one hand you have more freedom than you can possibly imagine and on the other hand you are limited by your own thoughts and beliefs about what is true and what is real. He suggests that most of the rules by which you live your life are made up. He argues that all of the difficulty, struggle and suffering in your life is only present because you believe your thoughts and because you believe your thoughts are significant. Then he doesn't suggest you stop or control your thinking, but just that you learn to question what you think and believe. His point is you don't have to believe everything you think. Paul makes statements like; freedom exists when you don't believe your own opinions. In his book he points out how often we mistake our opinions for the laws of nature. This may sound like abstract philosophy but he always comes back to the theme of the book, being free and how to do that. Above all this is a practical book about how to live free in the world and be at home in your own skin. Paul Peele is a counsellor and psychotherapist. He is a student of Zen meditation and practical philosophy. He has been intrigued for a lifetime with the question, "What makes a person free to be, to do and to feel what they want?" But he says neither his nor anyone else's credentials matter because you are the only authority on your own life. The author doesn't want you to believe anything he has to say. The very first line in his book is this. "I make no claim whatsoever that anything I will say is the truth." He argues that freedom exists when you don't believe your own opinions much less his. He simply tells you that doing anything better than you did it yesterday involves trying something different and watching what happens. Then he offers some alternatives to what most people have been trying. The author wanders a bit at times and in trying to tell the reader too much he occasionally is a little hard to follow. Also this book represents such a radical

A helpful introduction to assisting its readers to a true enlightenment

Being Free by psychotherapist Paul Peele is a helpful introduction to assisting its readers to a true enlightenment. Interesting the readers with an intuitive approach to the understanding or paradigm which controls many people's beliefs of life and self, Being Free opens the eyes of readers to a more individualistic and ideal pursuit of what their lives really mean to them and their own minds. Very strongly recommended to all readers waiting, searching, begging for the answers to all of their introspective questions, Being Free with its Maxfield Parrish cover is among the most informative and helpful self-help books to have hit the self-improvement reading lists and reference shelves in years.