Author: David Malin

ISBN 978-0-8253-0544-3

This book is about reflection – “an important requirement for both self-healing and for learning to embrace change.”  It was written “to be a short and easy read that simply provokes our thoughts, feelings, and self-reflection process by merely reading the words and embracing some of the concepts presented.”

The book starts off by asking, “What happened?” We were conceived with a “blueprint of opportunity for our growth and development” – with little or no imperfections. Has illness, toxins, deficiencies or something else interfered our perfection journey? Follow up is a question I found difficult to answer – “what can we do right bow in order to heal ourself?” With everything that bombards us daily – war, hate, hurt, abuse, financial problems, etc., how can we heal? And, what about the baggage we started collecting when we entered adulthood? Where do we begin to unload, or heal, from everything?

Malin explains, “The very first step of healing is self-awareness, knowing ourself well enough so that we can figure out what we need for our own healing.” It all sounded simple enough, but “why can’t we do it?”  He explains that our physical body knows what it needs, as do our “emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies.” The next chapter took me by surprise. The words made so much more sense than personality types I had often read about. The important issue was “polarization.”

Polarity, as in Yin and Yang, is discussed. This helps us to look at ourselves, our relationships and allows us to “write the script we are in, versus just being unconsciously directed by a script not of our liking or our making.” Clearly, we have a choice when we understand “polarization.”

Connecting to “That Which Is Greater Than Ourself” prepares us for change. As Malin explains, the world may get crazy and be turned inside out, but connecting to that which is greater than ourself is a step in reaching an “inner calm and trust.”

Being grounded is an important chapter in “Embracing Change.” Basically, we should wake up and be aware – as youngsters are aware when awake. When we heal ourselves, we light a candle and it has effect on the world around us. I like this idea. When we take care of ourself and are truly present (as opposed to be numb by all the bad things in the world), we are an example.

“Accepting what is and letting go of what is not” – Malin writes, “We have all experiences being stuck.” Stuck as in not letting go of an idea of how we want things to be or perhaps we have gone down a dead end path. This chapter was fascinating.

Next is the “adventure into self discovery.” This chapter explains how we need to go deep inside to deal with feelings. There may be some scary or extremely painful issues we may find as we dig deep. These may be long ago buried feelings, but the journey is necessary in order to heal. I felt as if it were a cleansing so that I could start anew.

“Embracing Change” isn’t a dry, step-by-step, how-to, but the map to a location you want to be – the place of perfect physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual harmony.

 The above review was contributed by: Sue Vogan, Writer & Author of NCO-No Compassion Observed: To read more of Sue's reviews Click Here