Who the Hell Are You? Book by Ant Austen

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Self development books rarely teach you something new nowadays nor are they well written but I couldn’t put down the new book from Ant Austen – Who The Hell Are You?

The premise of the book is to find out who you are, which let’s face it, most self-help books are about anyway. The way Austen approaches the subject is more engaging than most books though and that’s what’s kept me hooked. At this point in my life, I have read an awful lot of books and am looking for a new direction so the idea of finding out “Who The Hell Are You?” is both exhausting and poignant.  Austen talks from personal experience where he ran a removal business in the UK, was working weekend and every hour he could in order to fulfil the Hard work = success mantra but having no idea what success looked like to him, or what he was sacrificing. It’s a familiar story to many of us nowadays.

The book looks at several aspects of human psychology to both explain how we work, and to go through some exercises to find out what we want. To me, one of the lightbulb moments was when he was explaining about the Law of Attraction in a different way to how it’s been presented to me before and it suddenly made sense. The idea that when you feel good, you’re starting to work with The Law of Attraction. This cemented in me the need to be positive all the time (gratitude) and create good emotions all the time in order to be in the right place. The second principle that hit home was that the Law of Attraction works on like attracting like. So, if you’re in a good place, feeling good, then you are going to attract good people and good things, which translates into things you like.  It sounds simple but if you’re not understanding one aspect of the laws, the rest won’t work in the same way so you won’t get what you’re craving.  

The rest of the book works on your frame of mind, your habits, and then onto your structure of how you are going to improve life. It’s a book which you need to read several times (it even says that in the beginning) so that you pick up different aspects as you learn each new theory. There wasn’t much of the book that was new to me, but it was written and presented in a way in which I suddenly grasped the meaning and was able to tie together the different laws and how they work so that it builds up a better picture for me and where I want to go. I’ll be reading the book several times over the summer to keep solidifying the ideas. I hope there’s a second book soon!

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Zero Bullsh*t Meditation by Vishen Lakhiani – book

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Zero Bullsh*t Meditation by Vishen Lakhiani

I was super excited to read the Zero Bullsh*t Meditation when it arrived. I didn’t realise it at the time, but I had seen a video on Facebook by Vishen Lakhini explaining the Jose Silva mind training book realised in the 1970s. I tried to find the original book by Silva but couldn’t get a new copy online, then this book by Lakhini arrived and within the first chapter he explains his method is based on what Silva taught all those years ago… and synchronicity fell into place.

Lakshini explains the concept of meditation very well, with splatterings of jokes and easy to read concepts.  The book isn’t actually about meditation in the sense we have come to know today, but the thinking behind the 20 minute per day meditations is explained and well, ‘meditation’ is the best word he could find to describe the practice without losing half the audience within the first chapter!

The book has the sub title, “The 6 Phase Meditation Method” because it covers the six steps needed to work up to the daily sessions. Each section has one main exercise such as ‘forgiveness’ and gives a scientific background into why it’s important to build into the daily meditation. At the end of the explanatory chapter, there is a meditation to listen to and links to the app so that you can listen again and learn more. There’s a great exercise about making a 3-year plan which actually got me quite excited to try.

The final chapter is about bringing together all the others and is the only chapter which isn’t based in science.  It’s called The Blessing, and explains how sometimes you just have to ask out loud to get what you want and rely on unseen forces (God, The Universe etc) to hear your prayers. No one can explain why this is such a powerful tool or how it work, but it seems to.

The book is a great accompaniment and explainer of the Mindvalley system and works alongside the app.  With time, and the use of the meditation, the app and exercises in the book, I’m hoping life will change… come back in 3 years and find out!

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The Mindvalley app is available on all good app platforms and requires a monthly or yearly subscription to use any of the facilities not featured in the book.