Spiritual Training Wheels: Keeping Your Soul in Balance

By Gloria D. Benish

Almost everyone in today's society is hungry for spiritual guidance. In Spiritual Training Wheels, her follow-up to Spiritual Life Savers, Gloria Benish teaches readers how to incorporate spirituality into every moment of their lives. With her warm, personal voice, this renowned healer and author has brought the power of love to thousands across the country through her workshops and healing sessions. With pixielike spunk and an Erma Bombeck sense of humor, she shows readers how they, too, can overcome life's challenges and begin to heal themselves and others -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Her simple techniques will help everyone balance their feelings and thoughts, relieve pain, and promote healing from within.In Spiritual Training Wheels, Benish teaches the power of unconditional love to a family in her own home in Montana. While her previous book Spiritual Life Savers featured a weekend-long dialogue between Gloria and one friend, this book concentrates on an entire family. For one day, Gloria Benish hosts a multigenerational family therapy session in which she gives spiritual and practical advice on parenting to the mother and father, and confidential advice to each child. Through a simple meditation, she is able to assist each family member in identifying his or her weaknesses, fears, habits, addictions, and personality traits. With inspirational, down-to-earth guidance and loving support, Gloria offers timeless advice to every type of family member, including men and women with careers, stay-at-home morns, single parents, teenagers, college kids, and senior citizens.Through the problems and experiences of this family, readers will learn to strengthen their ownfamily bonds, and in doing so, prepare to live their own independent, spiritually fulfilling lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080652264X
• ISBN13: 9780806522647
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Citadel Pr
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

The mind and heart opener

Like the title above states this is my opinion of all of Gloria Benish's books. All chapters are introduced in a very warm, friendly and welcoming way. After reading all her books, some things may appear repetitious. I just look at them as quick reminders. Sometime this is necessary. Just have the patience to absorb all info. This is what's completely different about this 3rd book: it challenges the mind a bit through the sections at the end of each chapter and the new info off course. Anyways, in my heart her book gets more than 5 stars.

I'm Okay, You're Okay-Now Let's Learn!

This is the 3rd book I know of so far from author Gloria Benish. She takes a very refreshing approach to spirituality, using honesty and humor to get her points across. Imagine a spiritual leader who when called "wise," calls herself a "smart ...!?" Spiritual Training Wheels is filled with straight talk about ways to keep your soul in balance. We all make mistakes and no one is perfect, but you soon learn that anyone of any background is capable of tapping into positive spiritual energy. The author shares many stories and adventures with her ex-con friend and student Nikki, a drug addict who at one point tried to kill herself by falling backwards off her top prison bunk in hopes of breaking her neck. Gloria took this woman in, and let her share her family's home. Nikki was like a bird with a broken wing who now flies high and proud, and not without teaching a few lessons to Gloria along the way!If you're feeling trapped in your life, Gloria teaches us about free will. You will be shown how to remove the mental blocks we create to keep from letting ourselves grow. Learn the basics of meditation, the use of violet light energy, and how to use healing in different energy centers and chakras of our bodies.This book has a heavy focus on family, but you soon learn that definition includes spiritual and physical families as well. People with traditional families will enjoy chapters on gifted children, family love, and the facts of life.Now for the greatest part of this book, the unwritten part that comes from you! Each chapter ends with several questions for the reader to answer in their own journal. This will help you take a great inward look at yourself, so you can dissolve fears and boundaries. You'll also visualize and create new beginnings and dreams.If you ever get the chance, take one of Gloria Benish's workshops if she is in your area. I took one a few years ago, and was able to customize some of her techniques and found them very helpful.Spiritual Training Wheels is a book you'll spend hours with, and you'll want to answer the journal questions more than once as your environment changes over the years. This book is just the push most people will need, to help get some balance back in their lives.