It isn’t all rehash or trash for that matter, but I sincerely think one has to be in a trance or semi-hypnotized or theta stage to be able to read through the whole book without questioning what they had just read. I believe it should be done in this way—read in beta and do the six-step process in theta not read and do in theta brainwave stage.

I’m not talking about being open-mindedness. For all I know, you can be as open as any open book but that doesn’t mean you allow junks to be thrown at you with open arms and mind.

As you begin to read on, assuming you’re in the beta stage—small brain as the author addresses many times throughout the whole book—you will slowly start to question the credibility of the author and her ability to believe what she “preaches” will work.

I was searching high and low for some concrete theories on how she came about this six-step process to prove myself wrong. Unfortunately there is none. The plan came as an epiphany when she was having a nervous breakdown. Yes, just like that! No mention of her taking any courses related to her teaching. She experimented on herself and it worked so the author decided to spread her knowledge and conducted courses base on that epiphany.

Three Things that The One Command Irks Me:

Repetition: I mentioned this many times before; I hate repetitive text/message. The one thing that she drilled so repeatedly is this one phrase:

I don’t know how I (any positive attribute or possession you’d like to acquire). I only know that I do now, and I am fulfilled.

And then I began to question if her six-step process is redundant since only 5 pages are dedicated to that script. By the way, the six-step process are: Ground, Align, Go to Theta, Command, Expand, and Receive with Gratitude.

Success Stories: I don’t understand why the need of many testimonials (success stories) spread between chapters. I don’t know about you, but when I find one tries too hard to convince or prove her six-step process work the less convinced I am.

Getting to the Theta Brainwave Stage: Anyone with a sound mind cannot possibly believe that walking on six pieces of paper with a partner reading her script can get you in a theta stage. Seriously?

Firstly, not many have the gift of reading texts in a meditating voice. If you have been listening to different guided meditations, you know that some just don’t have that soothing and relaxing voice. And these experts have been doing for a while, let alone laypeople like us can achieve that in two takes.

Secondly, to be in a theta stage without any help of listening any brainwave music or have some sort of meditation prior to it’s just impossible to attain. And the irony is that the author doesn’t provide any free MP3 download on her website to prep you into theta brainwave stage. She expects everyone can achieve that stage effortlessly base on her script.

I just ordered Theta Healing Brainwave to use with EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques Energy Tapping, and I’m going to give her six-step process another go. Until then I can’t fully convinced that her technique works.

For the price of $21, this just doesn’t worth it. Overall, I’ll give it 2 stars.

• A Happy Pocket Full of Money

Somehow, the more I tried to look pass this book on the
customers-who-bought-this-item-also-bought menu, the more it kept showing up even on books I was browsing that weren’t of any hinge of relatedness.

Out of irritation and curiosity, I clicked to check the book out. Upon closer look at the cover, I came to know that the author was the creative consultant on The Secret—mere mentioning of this book almost caused me to gag. I hate The Secret—the book and the DVD; just hate them. They are simply overhyped and overrated. There, I finally say it.

On with this book, A Happy Pocket Full of Money, a hefty price tag that is selling two and half times more than many other paperbacks in Amazon. And with almost all 5-stars ratings, I just couldn’t help but to get this book and investigate.

So, was this book worth my time and money? Here’s my take on what I like and dislike about this book.

What I like; on:

Content Delivery: With a doubt, the author’s insights on creating wealth, abundance, and joy are incredible. He uses many metaphors to illustrate how LOA works. They are current and realistic which make them easy to understand and relate to.

He begins the first few chapters on basic understanding of quantum physics, and then gradually moves onto the spiritual aspects of LOA.

One of my favorite takeaways of this book is this:

Desire and intend, and you shall always have it. Quest for the truth and knowledge, and you shall always know what you seek to know. There are no real boundaries to your growth, for you are more than welcome to experience any choices you make. But you must be certain that these statements are true, for if you believe they are not true or they are partially true or selectively true, that is exactly what you will get.

Especially the last sentence—partially or selectively true—it rings so true for me. Quite often when I moved pass my complete doubt on a particular quest/belief to partially doubt, the result I got from it was always partial or selective.

What irk me about this book are the:

Borders and Line Spacing: Talk about abundance, the author or the publisher certainly didn’t apply one of his “laws” when it comes to line and paragraph spacing and borders especially the right border which width measures only 0.312 inches.

It put tremendous strain on my eyes when reading a whole chunk of texts in one cramped page. Some paragraphs go as long as four-fifth of a page.

For the price of $29.99 for a 228-pages book, least they could do is to be generous with the line spacing. The content itself isn’t at all different to comprehend but I had to pause many times between pages; making it thrice as long for me to complete a book with the same amount of content.

Subliminal Message: It took me almost a quarter of the book before I could muffled the—I AM WEALTH. I AM ABUNDANCE. I AM JOY—subliminal message between paragraphs and quotes. To be honest, I don’t quite appreciate these subliminal messages. It looks like the author was trying to accomplish too many tasks at one go.

I’m no expert on subliminal messages, but to my understanding, they are meant to be, a lack of better word, “hidden” and not thrown at you so vividly and often in infrequent intervals.

With clamped text and subliminal messages scattered all over is enough to clutter your brain and most probably dampen your reading pleasure.

Repetitive Phrases: I read one of the reviews at Amazon, and this reviewer loved the repetitive phrases use so often in the book. I don’t about you but I certainly don’t.

Not all repetitive phrases in the book are in exact wording, some are rephrasing one idea into two or six ways. I understand why some like repetitive stuff because it takes a while for the message to drill it in. Here’s what I think about repetitive messages, nag. Remember how your mom’s constant nags that you completely not hearing her?

I agree with the author that repetition is powerful, but what good does it make if one doesn’t pause to reflect or implement them once received. For what it’s worth, repetitive messages are nothing but noise.

If the literature is of worthy read, I can always reread it many times and highlight those that deem to be useful for me. But for the first take, I’d like to get through the book without jumping through hoops.

So-called Teasers: I don’t mind one or two teasers spread across the book but having one or two in almost every chapter just drive me nuts. Most are towards the end of the chapter but some are midway into a chapter. What teasers am I talking about? Here are some excerpts randomly picked from the first 108 pages:

• All this will make more sense when you understand…
• The pieces of the puzzle will fall into place as you read on…
• As you will see throughout this book…
• It will make sense when…especially after reading…
• Some…will only become clear after you have read the whole of this book.
• This will get easier and clearer…
• You will know more about them in later chapters.

A couple of chapters, the author talks great length about being in the Now; as you see from the above excerpts, these are certainly not the Now talking. How can I be in the Now—enjoying what I’m reading now, when the author so often reminding me about what I will understand or learn in the next few chapters? Subconsciously, I’m anticipating and not able to fully appreciate what I’m doing Now. I’d rather be shown (when I get there), not told (before arriving).

Spelling Errors: I, too, am guilty of making some spelling errors on my blog posts and also notice them on some of my friends’. I tend to be more forgiving on blogs. But for books, it can be annoying when you know there is an in-house editor to do the nitty-giddy checking and editing; unless it is a self-published book. Fortunately those errors are very minimal.

Conclusion:

So, does this book, A Happy Pocket Full of Money, warren your time and money? Yes, it still does if you can overlook the first four points the irked me. But seriously, I would recommend this book to those who are new to LOA or those who haven’t fully comprehend how LOA works or those seasoned LOA practitioners who want different perspectives. Having said, I honestly can’t give a 5-stars rating like many Amazon’s reviewers did. The content only rates 4 and the overall presentation is a 2-stars for me.

Strangely, this book doesn’t dedicate a page on author’s biography or a short bio at the back of the book.

It may interest you to know that the author’s website literally screams Internet Marketing sales copy to me—the layout, bonuses, endless testimonies, and the standard IM web copywriting. I have nothing against IM but many of these products just look plain scrammy and unprofessional. Maybe it’s about time the author hire a good web copywriter and a web designer to redo and update (…offer ends Oct 25. Hmmm, what year?) his site if he wants to increase sales and be taken more seriously.

• The One Command

And if you don’t have GREAT sense of humor than you won’t enjoy what I’m about to say, because it will probably put you in an edgy position. However if you let it sink a little deeper, you’ll see the whole picture so much clearer.

Chat – It’s pretty well known fact that women tend to be chattier than men. Generally speaking, most husbands can put up with it for a while however your marriage can take its toll if your chattiness goes overboard. And to spice things up, gossip nonstop on phone and in public.

Be seen chatting to others while he…

• Gets home from work.
• Gets ready to go to bed.
• Watching his football game. Sit close to him and talk louder than the sport commenter.
• Reads his morning papers.
• Is with you in a corporate function.
• Is queuing up at the register counter in a grocery / hardware / electronic stores.

Intimacy – For decades, women have been giving this excuse, “Honey, I’ve a headache tonight” to avoid intimacy with their hubby. While this might put him off for a week or two but it isn’t enough to get him off your chest – so to speak. You have to be creative than this.

Before bedtime:

• Wear facial mask; more effectively if the mask is made of seaweed. Not only the smell is repelling, the color can even turn a white ghost green.
• Wear hair rollers on. Not just on the bang/fringe, but full head of rollers.

When pursued:

• “You just not that sexually appealing to me anymore.” Then sing this song!
• “It’s not appropriate because I’m seeing Brad Pitt (dream).” Then sing this song!
• “I don’t want to mess up the bed sheet.” Then sing this song!

Nag – From young we “hated” our mother for their constant nagging. As adult we still do. This is the best time to do your mother proud.

At home:

• “How many times must I tell you to lift up the toilet seat after before use?”
• “Can you please not fart in my present?”
• “Did you wash your feet?” right the minute he gets to bed.

In public:

Men hate to be told and nagged by WOMEN about their driving skill.

• “You are driving too fast, and it’s making me sick.” say it even he’s driving within the speed limit. Better yet when he is driving 20mph (30 kph) in a school district area.
• “Why can’t you park properly?” check to see the distance between the car and the marked white line on the parking lot are equally spaced. Then shoot him a killer look.
• “Why don’t I drive before we get completely lost?” As he started the car about to drive the kids to school.

Dinner – They always say that the best way to a man’s heart is food. And if you’re already a lousy cook, then you’ve accomplished 50% of your mission. And if you’re a great cook, needless to say, you’ve to turn yourself into a lousy one.

• Make all dishes tasteless by taking away salt, sugar and various sauce and herb you normally use.
• Prepare dinner at noon, preserve it in the fridge and serve it cold.
• Though he can preheat them in the microwave oven, but the dishes won’t taste any better without flavors.

Get acquainted – Husbands never like nosey / suspicious wives. Heck, wives never like to be questioned every piece of garment they bought be it the price or the practicality. Women react on emotions, Men act on logic. It’s time to turn the table around and be “logical” to check all his…

• Emails. Question non stop even if the email came from his mom.
• Mobile phone call activities and keep a record of all the activities
• SMS messages
• Pocket book
• Wallet
• Briefcase

Surprise appearances – Nobody like surprises, especially if they are unflattering.

• Appear in his office unannounced with shabby soiled clothes and no make-ups.
• Make yourself very available yet inhospitable when he is having a poker night with the boys. Serve Ginseng tea and marshmallow instead of beers and crackers. Constantly spray air freshener whenever one of his buddies lights up a cigarette or cigar.

Managing Funds – Most husbands entrust their wives with household expenses. Some lucky wives will probably have one to three credit cards for a little indulgence called side dishes spending.

• Don’t bother to balance cheque books.
• Write overdraft cheques, then deny for doing so.
• Max out his credit cards and his supplementary cards.

Shopping:

• Buy him thongs instead of boxer shorts. Do otherwise if he favors thongs.
• Buy his office wear shirts one to two sizes smaller. If his wears only a certain brand than get the brand that’s one grade higher. So when he made you return to the store for an exchange, is your second chance to max out his other credit cards. And if he decided to do the exchanging, you just give him an additional work to do.

Now the key here is to DO all of them day and night for a couple months. You should be able to see some results. Remember, NEVER put up a fight with him when he is about to blow.

If you still failed to drive him off the wall, after attempting all the above pointers, don’t fret because you’re most likely to be awarded “The best psychotic woman ever lived in history”.

By the way, if this list isn’t enough to drive you crazy, then head on down to Problogger and check the list writing competition.

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