Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide

By Shirley Cheng

Life is musical, yet your heart has to know how to pick up the beat to dance to its lovely tunes. Embrace Ultra-Ability will gently guide you through the dance steps so you can waltz to the music of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615155227
• ISBN13: 9780615155227
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Dance with Your Heart! Publishing
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Grand Synopsis of Success

I was impressed with the scope of this material. Cheng manages to do a more than credible job of addressing nearly every roadblock to personal success, in fact, she clearly defines core issues and gives steps to surround them and successfully incorporate them into our beingness. My favorites were near the end of the book where she has several chapters dealing with setting goals and attaining them--or not. Her candor and honesty allow us to see ourselves in all our humanity and majesty, accepting, pushing forward two steps, one step back, enjoying, rejoicing for the chance and the chances, always more chances. I recommend this book to conscious people in the act of living the best life possible.

Womensselfesteem.com's review of, 'Embrace Ultra-Ability'.

Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide, is an excellent and effectively written book by Shirley Cheng. You will feel your mind open to her insightful thoughts, spiritualism and advice, while at the same time find yourself reaching ultimate goals such as inner peace, self-acceptance and happiness. Have you ever wanted to, win with positivity or overcome limitations and negativity? In this book you will find steps and strategies to do just that. Shirley Cheng takes you on another mindful journey as you read her thoughts, experiences, and her interpretations as she visualizes the world and what it has to offer. Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide, is a key that will enable you the reader, to finally unlock doors that have blocked you from understanding and really seeing what is beyond your own impaired vision. An impaired vision in a non-physical sense such as being blinded to what really is waiting to be seen and embraced in life. This book is very effective and empowering in teaching positive affirmations, self-confidence, self-love and true sight. A must for every reader! Womensselfesteem.com highly recommends, " Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide". Shirley Cheng's ability through her own physical blindness has allowed her to see the world through a true site or vision. She sees through all of the obstacles of negative-emotional thinking and learned behaviors which have impaired so many of us in our daily lives. Shirley embraces her insight-fullness which enables her to accept what she cannot change and gives her the strength to continue to move forward! Shirley continues sharing her world of peace and tranquility through her poetic words, teaching her readers the true meaning to the words blindness and insight-fullness. Through Shirley Cheng's book, you will gain the strength needed to reach your ultimate goal in life of a true balance. DorothyL@womensselfesteem.com

A gentle nudge toward your own empowerment

"This small book is simply a tender nudge," writes Shirley Cheng in the opening chapter of this joyful volume that combines the basics of faith and positive thinking into a gentle guide that's well-illustrated by the author's experience. In this 167-page trade paperback, Cheng nudges the reader via a wide variety of personal development topics from the value of time and typical time wasters to our predilection for dwelling upon "what ifs" to following the light and building a firm foundation for spiritual success. Cheng asks us to be daring and enjoy life. "It's important to take risks," she writes. "Taking risks allows you to explore, discover, and learn new things; it brings you to a whole new road you have never before traveled." Cheng's own journey as a blind and physically disabled award-winning author serves as a unifying inspiration throughout the book. She wrote about the rocky road of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, her trips to China for treatments unavailable in the United States, the loss of her sight when she was 17 to her debut as an author and advocate in "The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine" in 2005. Rather than breaking new ground in the realm of empowerment and spirituality, Cheng serves as the wise and patient coach who has traveled that new road before and knows the territory. She enthusiastically urges us forward, step by positive step, toward becoming "Ultra-Abled."

Having The Grace To Embrace Life

The prolific, award-winning author Shirley Cheng offers a detailed road map to the good and meaningful life. It will not be the answer for all, but it may be for many. Her main thesis is presented early in the book: "When you have accepted God and all the virtues He supplies, you will become ultra-abled. If you use His treasures with love, care, and wisdom, you will become ultra-abled. If a wealthy man gives you a sack of precious gemstones, but you do not realize their value and how to use them, what good would they do you? You have the power to disable yourself or enable yourself, so which road would you choose? I have chosen to be ultra-abled, for I am a treasure collector: I pick up the gems God graciously gives in full abundance. With these gifts, I am able to make choices in my life that could lead me to the road of happiness, strength, and success." There is some dogmatism in the sense that she is talking specifically about Jehovah and accepting Him and his son Jesus Christ. This will not necessarily work for Buddhists, Muslims, Jews, agnostics, atheists, and people of faiths that embrace other beliefs. However, that being said, I think that there are important messages in this book that need to be heard and paid attention to. Cheng writes passionately and from the heart in a very caring way. She wants you to get it - to get the message that can change your life for the better by getting you to discover your ultra-ability. People of any persuasion can benefit from reading her ideas on love, faith, hope, gratitude, and values. "Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide" contains many gems. Shirley Cheng uses all her gifts as a teacher and poet to help you learn to let go of negativity and dance with the positive, the beautiful, and the meaningful.

Recommended

There are a lot of self-help and self-improvement books out there, which is no surprise considering the world we live in. Most tend to focus on changing our perception of the world--you adopt a more positive outlook on life, you will go far in it. The problem is choosing one that fits you. Shirley Cheng's Embrace Ultra-Ability! Wisdom, Insight & Motivation from the Blind Who Sees Far and Wide is indeed another self-help and self-improvement book, and it does focus on changing your attitude towards life, but what makes it stand out from the rest is its author's faith, own disabilities, and writing style. Her belief in God is prominent throughout the book. It seems to be addressed to Christians, firm or faltering, but she does not condemn anyone like a "fire and brimstone" preacher. Readers will be treated to practical self-improvement advice without being treated like sinners. Cheng also shares her own situation with readers; she is blind and confined to a wheelchair, but she never sounds defeated despite her disabilities. Readers will be able to understand Cheng's message thanks to her clear and simple writing peppered with colorful, non-cliched metaphor. No psychiatric jargon will plague them. Cheng is no doctor or licensed expert in the psychiatric field. Instead, she is an expert in keeping a positive attitude because of her own experience. Her overall message to readers is "If I can be happy despite my disabilities, you can, too." Although her Christian faith may turn off some readers, others will appreciate her message.