Soul Purpose: Self affirming rituals, meditations and creative exercises to revive your spiritBy Jackee Holder (Piatkus 1999, ISBN 0 7499 1961 2, £12.99 [£16.48 inc p&p] Jackee Holder, motivational speaker and life coach (of the most approachable kind), returns to the Arts Marketing Association's conference this year by popular demand. Judging by the mix of highly-experienced and newer arts professionals who attended her packed-out sessions last year, her messages about self-development hit a common nerve. Jackee's seminar last year encouraged delegates to look at their whole lives to create balance, harmony, personal happiness and fulfilment. Soul Purpose addresses this theme by looking very particularly at spiritual development. In doing so, Jackee shares much of the story of her own journey in discovering (or re-discovering) the 'true meaning' to her life and soul. The book explores self-esteem, body images, 'how the busy-ness of our lives often reflects a dis-ease with self', leadership, empowerment and prayer. Each area has a series of exercises associated with it to explore each aspect of discovering an individual purpose in life. These exercises include visualisations, affirmations, bathing rituals (complete with recipes), dreaming up indulgent wish lists, creating collages and pen-and-paper tasks. The large number of exercises to choose from increases the chances of finding something that will appeal to most readers. Quite simply, the only way of finding out whether they will work for you is to (suspend any scepticism or cynicism and) try them for yourself. And if you're at the AMA conference, there may be time to fit in one or two and give Jackee the feedback she invites, in person!
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