The book of secrets: unlocking the hidden dimensions of your life

I always read this book, "The Book of Secrets" by Deepak Chopra, because I became very intrigued by this book from when my sister had me  read the first page; It immediatly got me intrested in what this author had to say. This book is somewhat like the book that I've read and blog posted about called The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, but the only difference is that this book talks about the reality of what life really is general. Although you might think that this author is including some of his opinions he actually doesn't. This book, as well as The 7 Habits, has also changed my way of thinking but not in the way that you would think.

To begin with, I would say that this book is very advanced. And sometimes it even took me a couple of times to re-read a page once or twice until I was able to fully understand the meaning of what the author was trying to get across to me. One of my favorite chapters of this book is called The Cause of Suffering is Unreality. This chapter is broken up into different sections and the section that I payed close attention to and underlined a lot was the section called Negativity. In this section Deepak starts talking about how negativity prevents your body and mind from being in a well state of mind. And then he starts to talk about everyone's daily lives. He says there are only three general types of people that you will incounter in your life. The ones that are there to help you, the ones that leave you alone, and the ones that hurt you. And this section of the book is what stood out to me because it made me think back to my friends in school. It made me think, well.. who are the people in my life that leave me alone, help me, or just hurt me. And it gave me a chance to reflect on my life before I was able to continue reading. Once I had plugged in all of the names to those 3 subjects, I read on and he starts to explain what these 3 general types of people are. And he says," People who leave you alone are dealing with your suffering as a nuisance or inconvenience - they prefer to keep their distance in order to feel better themselves. Those who help you have the strength and awareness to do more with your suffering than you are able to do by yourself. Those who hurt you want the situation to stay the same because they do not have your well-being at heart." These descriptions of the types of people you will encounter made me feel more aware of my surroundings, and it made me realize what types of people I am surrounded with every day. I was able to make a text to world connection, which is probably what the author was trying to get his readers to do. And then I learned that from the people that hurt me I don't have to guilt trip them, or confront them, or make them the cause of my self pity, because you are only adding more fuel to the other person's fire. Meaning they feed off of your attention and how much intrest you put in to what they have to say. And I learned that you can't let people affect you like that because you are letting the other person over power you. I still feel like it is a little hard for me at times to not confront someone about a big issue I am having with them in my life because I odviously can't ignore what I hear. But when I read that section over and over again it continues to remind me of how I should keep myself composed. And not let myself be overpowered.

I still read this book every day even though I have finished it once before. But this book has a lot of information to take in and I still have a lot more blog posts to write about this book. Like I have said before, this book as well as The 7 Habits, has also changed my way of thinking but not in the way that you would think. And I was able just from this one section to become more aware of my surroundings and the type of people I was surrounded with. And I still have more to share in more blog posts for this book.