Book Jewel of the Month: How to Live from Your Heart (Hucknall) - reviewed by Russell McTague

 



 

What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that.

This month's book jewel is How to Live from Your Heart by Nanette Hucknall. 

Book description: 

Heart energy comes from an always loving and wise Higher Source. Nurturing, warm, quiet, refined, and all encompassing, heart energy brings spiritual growth that fosters creativity, attracts loving relationships, and engenders peace and happiness. Grounded in psychology and focusing on a bigger picture than New Age philosophies, this practical book not only teaches you how to live from your heart but also provides scads of activities to practice doing so, focusing on compassion, creativity, inner wisdom, insights into others, and the working together of the heart and mind to promote growth in our own Higher Self and the Higher Self of others.


Recommended by US Review of Books and MidWest Book Review.

Review from Russell McTague:

Nanette Hucknall has chosen to share with her readers an obvious significant awareness of the value and worth of living a heart centered life. From beginning to end, she guides the reader with clarity and succinctness through the process of growing consciously toward the path of fulness and richness that is the energy of the heart. She explains clearly the rewards and benefits of the journey of achieving the goal of living more lovingly.
For the average reader, however, she tends to overuse the phrase, "What you need to do" which makes those passages "other directed" in an authoritarian way. An alternative approach could have been to gently nudge the reader to take responsibility for her/himself by consciously choosing to move into the notion of centering ones life on the heart which in turn leads to an increased sense of freedom and independence.
The one stylistic/linguistic difference aside, I enthusiastically commend "How to Live from Your Heart" for anyone seeking a more peaceful life individually and as a way to aid the world as a whole. Russell McTague, Educator, Psychotherapist (retired) Lawrenceville, NJ


Awards
Book of the Year finalist
Pinnacle Book Achievement Award
Best Books Award finalist
Book Excellence Award
Readers' Favorite Book Award finalist
Kops-Fetherling Legacy Award, self-help


For more posts about Nanette and her books, click HERE.


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