Add More ~ing To Your Life!

Recently, I had the opportunity to read Add More ~ing To Your Life:  A Hip Guide to Happiness by Garielle Berstein.  This kind of book isn’t something I typically read, but when you feel as though a change is in order, you’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do!

Gabrielle Bernstein is the gal behind the ~ing.   She’s a motivational speaker and life coach seen riding around the West Village on a unicycle. (Gabrielle, I’m going to keep my eyes out for you when I’m in NYC this summer!) Her approach is woman focused.  She’s founder of HerFuture.com, a mentoring network for women that offers a platform for empowerment and guidance for young women. 

Add More ~ing To Your Life is a thirty day process with three simple steps:

• Rethinking – Retell your stories and actively replace negative thoughts with upbeat ideas. Unhealed issues are the ego’s playground for nasty self-beliefs – don’t let these beliefs overpower your new thoughts.

Moving – Match up a physical activity with each area of life that needs a makeover to allow a change in those negative aspects on both a mind and body level.

Receiving x 30 days – Start by meditating to let go of the left brain’s practicality and welcome the right brain’s intuition and creativity. Immediately following, do a stream-of-consciousness “~ing writing” exercise, an opportunity to spill those unconscious thoughts onto the page. The thirty-day repetition of the ~ing Equation will allow you to truly experience results.

I found this book to be a quick read…but it’s one that I’ll always keep handy to go back to.  Slowly I am applying the steps to my life (if only I could let go of that F*bomb!).  I don’t know if I’m quite ready to jump in head first yet.  Just let me get through this semester!  I’m excited to have found Gabrielle’s podcasts on iTunes, literally, last night I was searching for more podcasts to enjoy…and I hit the motherload!  Yay!

Think of how much happier we could all be if we took out the negative…and just live.  Live free and peacefully.  It sounds perfect to me!

You can find Add More ~ing To Your Life:  A Hip Guide To Happyiness by Gabrielle Bernstein on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Boarders and IndieBound.   Follow Gabrielle on Twitter, find her on Facebook and listen to her podcasts or listen on Blog Talk Radio. 

*I recieved a copy of Add More ~ing To Your Life:  A Hip Guide To Happyiness by Gabrielle Bernstein for review purposes.*