Bonnie Hutchinson

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A place where I share some of my favourite books and people

Okay, I admit it. I’m a Bookaholic. Some of my most profound insights have come from books, and some books have become faithful companions. I love sharing treasured books with others and hearing about their favourite books.

I also delight in discovering amazing resource people – people whose wisdom, presence and (sometimes) services serve the world and who make my life easier, richer or more in tune with my highest good. I love sharing information about treasured people, and hearing about others’ treasured people.

As an act of love, I’m sharing with you some of my favourite books and people. Each of them has changed some aspect of my life for the better.

If you use the links to purchase any of the books from Amazon, I will receive an affiliate commission. I’m also an affiliate of some of the favourite people I’ve listed. But that is not why I’m letting you know about them. My intention is to share my treasures with you. May they expand your horizons and enrich your life as they have expanded and enriched mine.

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Impossible Compassion

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Impossible CompassionEdward Mannix’s subtitle is audacious: “Utilizing Directed Compassion to Cure Disease, Save the Environment, Transform Relationships, Achieve Enlightenment, Help People We Love, Compose a Symphony, End Violence and War, Dunk a Basketball, Succeed at Work, Address Social Justice Issues, Quit Smoking, Put an End to the Corruption of Political Leaders and Institutions, Live a Happy Life and Do All Sorts of Other Good Things for Ourselves and Everyone Else.”

Having read the book, immersed myself in Edward Mannix’s Directed Compassion process and experienced some profound positive differences in my life, I think the audacious sub-title is absolutely possible. The Directed Compassion process itself is simple to use with a powerful impact. Some of the underlying concepts are mind-stretching – and mind-stretching is just what we need right now. Check it out!

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Untapped Brilliance

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Untapped Brilliance: How to Reach Your Full Potential as an Adult with Attention Deficit Disorder

by Jacqueline Sinfield (2012)

Untapped BrillianceAs an adult who is easily distracted and whose mind flits from place to place to place quicker than lightning, I have loved meeting and working with Jacqueline Sinfield, coach for adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). She has been a gift in my life. Her book is chock full of simple and highly effective non-pharmaceutical ways to minimize unwanted ADHD symptoms. In this practical friendly book, you’ll discover eleven specific and simple steps that help adults with ADHD flourish and reach their full potential.

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Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One
By Dr. Joe Dispenza (2012)
Hay House Inc., Carlsbad CA USA

Breaking the Habit of Being YourselfYou are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. Though I’ve read tons of books about how the brain works, and the power of visualization, and manifesting, this was the clearest one yet to help me get my “thinking” brain, my “feeling” brain and my automatic physical “body” brain working in alignment. I loved feeling my brain change, first as I read the background information and then as I began to practice the specific techniques.

Two concrete results: Through using these techniques, I can actually see positive changes to my lifetime (not helpful) habits of how I use my work time and my personal time, and that changes almost every aspect of my life for the better. I’ve also begun to have some amazing manifesting experiences, including a couple of gifts in my life that seem miraculous.

Even though I didn’t necessarily enjoy reading all of this book, I highly recommend it because it is so very useful and it gets amazing results – well worth a bit of slogging!

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Learning to Walk in the Dark

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Learning to Walk in the Dark (2014)
By Barbara Brown Taylor
Harper Collins Publishers, New York NY USA

Learning to Walk in the DarkFrom an early age, I have preferred daytime rather than nighttime, sought out light and feared the dark. Anything I didn’t like was “dark.” I had come to a grudging acceptance of darkness – if only because, all over the planet, we have darkness and light in equal measure so there must be some point to it! This book helped me embrace darkness and light.

In Learning to Walk in the Dark, Barbara Brown Taylor talks of her journey of exploring and learning to appreciate darkness – literal physical darkness as well dark sides of human nature. She even discovers how our physical well-being and our entire lives do not work if we are always in the light.

A quote:

“When, despite all my best efforts, the lights have gone off in my life… I have not died. The monsters have not dragged me out of bed into their lair… Instead, I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over… There is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need Light.”

By the end of the book, I too was embracing darkness and that has changed everything! I didn’t want this book to be over and still keep it within reach.

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Listen! There’s a World Waiting to Be Heard

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Listen! There’s a World Waiting to Be Heard. The Empowerment of Listening
By Carol McCall, Ph.D., M.C.C.

ListenIn times of transition, communication can be muddled. Sometimes we don’t even communicate well within ourselves, let alone with others! The power of listening is useful anytime, but especially in times when life is changing.

I found this book extremely valuable – but also somewhat uncomfortable as I began to see that I wasn’t as good a listener as I thought I was! I discovered I had some patterns that actually shut people down rather than encourage them to speak. I deeply appreciated Carol McCall’s profound paradigm and specific techniques that allow for authentic communication, true partnership and a lasting and truthful communication exchange.

I’ve also used some of the listening techniques when I’m trying to understand what is happening within me – when different aspects of myself seem to be at odds. It was a stretch, but a fun experiment to imagine listening deeply to “voices” within myself that are not my favourites!

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