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Thursday 2 May 2013

The Difference That Self Help Literature Can Make

By Alison Wilcox


Everyone has limitations and inadequacies they wish to overcome from losing weight, mending a rocky relationship, getting over a tragic event, developing self-awareness and esteem to finding happiness and contentment. Self help literature is an ideal way to overcome these mountains privately and at your own pace.

Counselors are taught to win patients over and help them work through their pains and struggles. For some people, confiding deep seated and painful issues is very difficult. Others report that they do not feel that they are better off even after long term therapy. There is also the challenge of substantiating how successful a counselor is in terms of the patients that they have cured.

With self-help books, you can get a clue as to the value of a book through book reviews. Bestselling titles that sell millions of copies must have some practical and helpful advice. Another advantage with books is that you can go over something as many times as you want to or need to, coming out with new insights each time.

Such books make up a part of what is the self-help industry that rakes in more than 10 billion dollars in US. The industry is also made up of holistic centers, seminars, retreats, CDs and infomercials.

Apart from book reviews, you should also look at the credentials of an author when choosing self help books. The most helpful are those written by licensed and accredited medical professionals and clergy. You can usually find information on the author on their website or that of the publishers. It is in fact important to do so because to be sure you pick up a title that has sound and practical advice that does take you forward in resolving your limitations and overcoming problems.

No form of art lacks critics and the inspirational books do have their fair share of them. Their opinion is that the books do leave readers a sense of inspiration and faith which does get them off the edge if they were on the verge of taking desperate measures. Their point of criticism is that no significant improvement in their lives past this. Readers remain hopeful but they do not work through their issues to overcome them completely.

There is one perpetual truth and it is that work must be done to achieve the objectives they have for engaging a counselor or picking up a self-help book. Without doing so, no real change will be seen. The best books are those that have practical exercises and tasks to be completed at the end of each section or chapter. Keeping a daily journal is another way to monitor your progress.

Self help literature is like a confiding in a friend who understands your problems and who will steer you through it. This is a friend you can be sure will keep your secrets and who will have infinite patience when you need to go something over and over again. This is a friend who will be there with you as you work your way through to regain esteem, acceptance, understanding, awareness and a large dose of respect and appreciation of yourself and everyone else.




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