Loyalty To Your Soul: The Heart of Spiritual Psychology

I'm writing this review for all the folks out there who tend to be skeptical about books like this. You know who you are: have the link to Skeptics Dictionary bookmarked, turn your head as you walk past a new age bookstore so that nobody will see you looking in. When my friend K recommended Loyalty to Your Soul to me, I approached the book with much the same attitude. And when I started reading it, sure enough my radar picked up two indicators of cultiness right in the first chapter. I quickly fired off an email to my friend saying that she better watch out. (A sure sign that you need this book is if you're too eager to make other people wrong.)She was hurt by my response. Not because I didn't agree with her point of view, but because she could see just how badly I needed to read the stuff AFTER CHAPTER ONE. Because she was so certain that this book would help me, I decided that I needed to give it another try. I've now not only read the whole book, but have worked through all the exercises. K was right about everything. Loyalty to Your Soul gave me a strategy for dealing with all the little things in my life that seemed to keep me angry more often than I thought they should. Haven't you ever found yourself angry about something and later wondered why something so small could get to you? Maybe you wondered why sometimes the same trigger has a different emotional response? I was caught up in a world where it seemed perfectly sensible to say to someone, "when you do X, it makes me feel (insert negative emotion here)." The reality is that I needed a strategy for identify my own issues that were in fact amplifying the effects of X.Until I started working through the exercises, I didn't realize how many seemingly innocuous events triggered judgements on my part. And as I delved deeper, I realized that each judgement had a tidy little bundle of self-doubt or negative feelings about myself. My getting angry at a celebrity who got famous despite having no apparent talent was really about my own feelings of not getting enough attention and having to work harder to get noticed. And once I saw that, I could actually let go of those judgmental feelings and not get annoyed when I see that celeb on a magazine cover. This book teaches you how to work through your negative emotions and move on.The exercises in the book are very simple and not culty, nor new-agey. If you do the work as I have, you will see benefits. Since reading the book last August I've let a lot of old stuff go. But more importantly, I healed enough emotionally to realize that I had some serious issues from my childhood that I needed to deal with via a professional therapist. I now have an awesome doctor and my life is getting is better every day because I stopped pretending that I knew everything that was affecting me, and I actually started working on it. I've also given advice from this book to my own sister. I think that says something about how confident I am about this material.Now some folks might get turned off by the fact that this book mentions God. Well, the authors don't insist upon any interpretation of God, so you can bring your own. And if you're like me and have trouble with the notion of the all-seeing, all-knowing Being, then do what the folks in 12-step programs do and substitute a "higher power." In my case, "God" refers to the notion that there is love in every person. And if you choose to live your life speaking and acting from that loving authentic self, and if you look for that loving self in others, then you have a supreme force indeed.So if you're one of the skeptics out there, you have a couple of choices:* You can continue on with your ego and keep surfing the steady stream of events and images that only serve to piss you off* You can start owning your responses to the world and use your judgment skills to help yourself.In conclusion, I'm not a student of USM, nor affiliated with the authors, nor their organization. You don't need to join anything to get some real benefit from Loyalty to Your Soul. I hope this book will help you, and that you too will soon realize that all the love in the world that you ever needed is right there inside you. That's what this book gave me.

This is the companion book to the gorgeous program in personal transformation offered at the University of Santa Monica. The principles and practices of Spiritual Psychology are life altering in a profound and beautiful way. For me, so much so, that I have based my own work on these beautiful offerings. Read this book. When you are done, read it again. And then again. Each time you will take away more and more from this higher perspective of loving.Donna Bond, Author of Original Wisdom; Harness the Power of the Authentic You

I absolutely love this book. It's laid out in a very clear, straightforward and useful manner. It's one I've picked up several times over the past few years and gotten more out of it each time. Now it's one I recommend often to friends and family. It's been truly life-changing for myself and others.

I highly recommend this book for students of Spiritual Psychology as well as for readers who like to explore spirituality, psychology, philosophy, health & wellness, personal growth and self-help. It is very well written with examples to demonstrate all the points that the authors make.I read it quickly as soon as I got it. And then I started again, slowly. Now I am reading just a few pages a day, savoring each bit of loving wisdom that is offered. I also like to fan the pages, stop randomly, and focus on what that process provides, which always seems to be either some guidance that I need at the time or an insight I get to see in a new, ah-ha way.For me, this book, Loyalty to Your Soul, is like a beautiful puzzle, with the pieces all in place. I can see and appreciate the vision it creates when all the pieces are in place in the whole of the book. And, when I read just a small part, it is like examining the artistic details of color, size, and shape of just one little puzzle piece. Reading the book like this, piece by piece, helps me to experience the peace of soul in my daily life. And, the title. The title itself has power. It reminds me to be loyal to my soul!

Very comprehensive guide to spirituality. Easy to read and comprehend. It affected me more than any books I've read...ever. If you're searching for peace and wondering what your purpose in life is -- then you should at least give this book a chance. I was agnostic for most of my life, but this book really made a huge change in my relationship to my soul. Highly recommend, especially if you're wondering what our life is all about. After I read it and began to give it a chance, some amazing coincidences started to happen that I cannot explain logically, and I am very thankful. Whatever religion you may pursue, or not pursue, this is a simple yet great book of wisdom.

This book is by far to date the most clear and comprehensive narrative on how and why we may live this life as soulful beings having a human experience in order for each of us to learn our own unique curriculum. These words and wisdom will provide for you all of the skills and practices you/we need in order to reach the levels of freedom necessary for each one of us to live out our true identity and purpose here. These concepts, truths, and systems will show you how to attain a way of peace in every aspect of yourself and your life, a peace you have not known. Loyalty To Your Soul will lead you to a solid and grounded sense of your authentic self. Your life WILL change, completely.

This was recommended by a friend, and it turned out to be one of the most influential books I've ever read. This book contains about a dozen "spiritual principles" synthesized by the authors from their life experience, study and work as spiritual teachers. My favorite is Principle #1- "We are not humans that happen to have souls...we are souls who are having a human experience". You cannot read this and remain unchanged.

Gives a perspective that's aligned with A Course in Miracles but expressed in easy to read language. Very accessible. Has exercises to help translate the theory into practice. It's definitely made life's problems easier to deal with. Goes way beyond 'self help '.

Great book to re-ignite your life and soul. Loved it and will re-read it again

This book does what the book cover state's/isIt's a highly recommended read for what it is,And it's definitely a soul enriching book!I highly recommend it 🙂

One of my all time favourite books. It's brilliant in helping transform any upsets or suffering.

Transforming . .. after reading the book I registered to do the Masters' pgm . .. God sent!