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Cosmic Ordering in 7 Easy Steps: How to Make it Work For You | 
 enlarge | Author: Carolyn Boyes
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0007248156
EAN: 9780007248155
ASIN: 0007248156
Publication Date: September 18, 2006
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 Get your pen and paper ready! December 20, 2007
Snoopy (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first book I read on Cosmic Ordering, and I was not very impressed. I simply flew through the book not paying much attention. Much of the contents and the numerous worksheets that covered page after page reminded me very much of doing cognitive behavioural therapy. The 'homework' posed to the reader is exactely what you can find in any CBT book or therapy session. I never even bothered filling any of the sheets in, as they really bored me, having seen a CBT counsellor twice in the past. To someone, who has never done CBT before, I think this book may be helpful to a degree. The part of ridding oneself of unhelpful core beliefs is very good, but again nothing new, as it is in any other self-help (such as those of P. McKenna - enough said) or CBT book.
This book will go straight to the local library, as it did nothing for me.
Having said that, please, bear in mind, that this is the first book I read on this subject, and that I am a total novice.
 well written but not one I would class as unputdownable July 18, 2007
chelsea girl (Doncaster, Yorkshire, England)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I much preferred Debbie Frank's book, Cosmic Ordering Guide to Life, Love and Happiness, to this one, even though both are on the lower end of interest when it comes to this type of book. I didn't go straight for the obvious choice of cosmic book by Barbel Mohr, as she seems to just give the most basic of coverage to how to get it together when ordering.
With this book there is a lot of fiddling about filling in this bit and that bit, maybe if it was less academic in making you do such 'homework' then I would have given it three stars.
Dissolves into nothing March 24, 2007
Angela Angel (UK)
88 out of 89 found this review helpful
I have spent a lot of time and money buying all the cosmic ordering books I can get my hands on, and this book is far from convincing. I feel that the author has just knocked this book together from a garnered collection of other work. I am not accusing her of plagiarism, as this is the only book that has a boatload of pen work to do. I wouldn't have minded so much if the book made your mind work, but at the end it just dissolved into nothing, sorry.
 Author repeats a little too much December 8, 2006
mica (london)
95 out of 97 found this review helpful
This book isnt bad, its the first book i've read on cosmic ordering but there are far too many forms to fill out and i used up a lot of paper because i didnt want to write in the book. The main problem with the book besides the form filling is it goes on and on about the same thing. i think the author wanted to pack as much as she could into the book. Ive placed my order and im positive that my orders will manifest.
This book is a 'pick & mix' of cosmic ordering theories. November 18, 2006
Pasadena (Seven Oaks, UK)
102 out of 104 found this review helpful
Anybody interested in Cosmic Ordering will be attracted to this book by its title, it promises to explain everything in 7 easy steps. The author is a self-confessed convert to cosmic ordering which demonstrates she has taken steps to positivity in her life.
After reading It I was left feeling confused by her interpretations. On page 53 she says 'A cosmic order is a decision that you will have.' This is reflected throughout the book's many worksheets which are to be used by the reader to help them make decisions. Having laboriously filled the blank space in each one I found they could be helpful but took up many leaves. It actually felt like workload targets that I have at my 9-5! No fun.
In contrast to her worldly descriptions she quotes 'The Law of Attraction', and the vibrational theories from 'Ask & it is Given'by Ester Hicks which describes everything in the universe as vibrating. However the Law of Attraction is something very different from cosmic ordering and I felt it contrasted sharply with the worksheets, and they mixed as well as oil and water.
One of the things I liked about the Steven Richard 'Cosmic Ordering Guide' is that as he is a experienced hypnotherapist who has helped many people, you feel you can trust him. Carolyn Boyes mentions various people and their problems, but no where in the book does she state whether she does, or doesn't run a cosmic ordering surgery. This made me feel uncomfortable.
Stylisticly I feel this book was 'inspired' by Andronicou's book 'the Ultimate guide to cosmic ordering'. I loved his book because of his original use of fables, that were beautiful yet filled with meaning. Boyes has attempted to take some leaves out of his book by adding such stories. However I felt she didn't really understand the educational purpose of such tales, and in her hands they sounded forced, contrived, and lacked poetry of the heart.
She also has a marvelous knack of talking for pages without saying anything substantial as the pages are filled with far too many empty platitudes which just feels like verbose padding.
Overall Carolyn Boyes writing style is quite engaging, and she has done well to avoid burdening the reader with the techno jargon that plagues so many of these books. She provides a comprehensive (if a tad monotonous) range of questionnaires for the reader. Unfortunately the book is greatly weakened by its lack of originality.
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