By Julia Cameron

The Artist’s Way is a book that will help you release and improve your creativity, while at the same time, it is about raising your consciousness. As you go through the book, you will be encouraged to explore your inner self and let go of what no longer works for you.

The book is divided into weekly readings and assignments that focus on morning pages (journaling each morning), artist dates (doing something new to broaden your creative experiences), and various exercises to help you explore your inner self.

The idea is that as you expand your thinking and experiences, your feelings about yourself and your creativity will also expand. The end result is that you will be able to claim more of yourself.

Golden Nugget: “Usually, when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly.” P. 121

By Mark Shayler

This short book is all about doing things differently. After all, if we do things the same as everyone else, there isn’t truly a need for us to be doing them in the first place. Shayler talks about knowing what you can change and changing that.

Disrupting something creates change, which in turn creates innovation. This book is about making your ideas real. Shayler gives a series of short exercises (which could be seen as developing a “business” plan) to help you disrupt your status quo and help you refine your ideas so that you can provide something uniquely you.

Golden Nugget: “You aren’t going to outspend your competitors, so you’ll have to outthink them.” p. 89

By Richard Dotts

Richard Dotts is a spiritual explorer and has written many books about creative manifestations and leading a fulfilling life.  He shares how to apply timeless principles to our daily life. Each book is short and very informative. 

This one is focused on manifesting money – or so it says.  In reality, it’s about putting yourself in the energetic space to open yourself to receiving your desires.  That’s right, your job is to BE the energy of your desires so that your manifestations can come in.

This book is simple to understand, has many examples to clarify the concepts, and has simple exercises that take just a few minutes a day.  Of course, the longer you do them, the better you feel, and the more ease you will have.  That being said, it’s not about doing.  It’s about learning to be the energy.  From there, the magic happens.

Golden Nugget:  “Instead of worrying endlessly about your finances and debt, make a conscious decision right now to worry about them for just 15 minutes a day.” P. 33  (The rest of the book tells you how to stay in the peaceful state you experience when you no longer worry.)

By Florence Scovel Shinn

Florence Scovel Shinn was a terrific metaphysical writer in the early 20th century. Her wisdom is just as good today as it was then. This particular book was an unfinished manuscript upon her death and was later published by Hay House. Her advice is practical, down to earth and easy to apply. As with many of the writers of the time, the bible and God are mentioned.

This book is about building the life you desire through the words, beliefs and actions you choose. She encourages you to follow your intuitive leads and prepare for the blessings to be true.

The Magic Path of Intuition is filled with many stories and is an easy read with very deep meanings.

Golden Nugget: “Prayer is telephoning to God, and intuition is God telephoning to you.” p. 3

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath

The Power of Moments helps the reader understand how moments in lives can make a difference and how to create these extraordinary moments. It is filled with many simple and useful suggestions.

The authors point out, in easy to comprehend writing, how to change what your moments are so they can be even better. They encourage the reader “think in moments to spot the occasions that are worthy of investment,” and to create the defining moments instead of accidentally having them happen. In short, the idea is to focus on the moments as if they were viewed from a different perspective and then to “solve the problem” through elevation, insight, pride, and connection.

Golden Nugget: When writing about building peaks, the authors said, “One simple diagnostic to gauge whether you’ve transcended the ordinary is if people feel the need to pull out their cameras.” (p. 63)

By David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Power vs. Force is filled with LOTS of information. It is very dense with many ideas that help explain consciousness. Hawkins has taken muscle testing to the next level to help determine what makes people strong or weak.

He explains vibrations how they affect life. He uses muscle testing to know which vibration you are, as well as which vibration your words, thoughts, food, and so on are at.

The first time I read it, I was blown away with how much information it contained. It was a lot to absorb. Then two years later, I reread it and felt as if I was reviewing ideas. If you are looking for one book, this may be the one for you. Take your time to absorb everything it has to give you.

Golden Nugget: “Man thinks he lives by virtue of the forces he can control, but in fact he is governed by power from unrevealed sources, power over which he has no control. Because power is effortless it goes unseen and unsuspected. Force is experienced through the senses; Power can be recognized only through inner awareness.” P. 22

By Royce Christyn

Scripting is a very structured program about quantum mechanics and how to use it through writing journals to yourself from yourself. Christyn is an actor and used his method to create the life (and roles) he wanted. He is not a quantum physicist or scientist; however, he loves doing deep dives (as do I) to better understand the world around us.

The way it works is at the beginning of the day, write a journal entry as if it was the end of the day. Talk about all the awesome things that happened during the day (as you would like them to happen, but as if they already did). Then at the end of the day, write a journal entry of what actually happened. Over time, the end of the day entry will match the beginning of the day entry. There are also weekly, monthly, and yearly journals you can do.

Personally, while I found this book helpful, I felt overwhelmed by the number of journals and the insistence of doing them so often. He is very insistent with his wording, and I prefer to feel that I have choice. That being said, I do use parts of this method and have found it helpful.

Golden Nugget: “You must believe that what you are writing is not only possible but also very likely, if not absolute.” P. 50

By Raymon Grace

Techniques That Work for Me is a mini-course in energy management for improving your life. It’s an easy read and is simple to follow. Grace teaches you how to use a pendulum to shift energy. He illustrates everyday experiences that you can shift.

He highlights that a pendulum is a tool that will show you something is happening. As you build your confidence, you will be able to feel the energetic changes and will be able to shift the energy without the pendulum.

Golden Nugget: “Ask for the energy to be transformed into whatever you specify or whatever would be to your highest good.” P. 24

By Maureen J. St. Germain

EXCELLENT! This is the only book that I have read that fully explains the fifth dimension with clarity and ease. In short, it is about living in the field of love. This book has many wonderful explanations, mind expanding ideas, and suggestions about how to move into the fifth dimension.

Golden Nugget: “As you become more fifth dimensional, you are able to see and understand the polarity in both fourth and third dimensions without experiencing an emotional charge. You observe, without judgment…You will have a uniquely powerful mastery of your emotions.” (p. 98)