Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit

by Christel Nani

Book Overview

In addition to describing tribal beliefs--deeply held unconscious rules that feel true and have become part of an individual's energetic blueprint--this book examines the choices people must make between loyalty to the old ways of their family and culture and thinking outside the tribal influences in order to free themselves.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307341658
• ISBN13: 9780307341655
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Crown Archetype
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Change your life forever!

I have never written a book review before. It's not because I haven't wanted to, but because I have believed, since high school, that I am a lousy writer. I would have never considered writing anything on such a public forum before this because of an incident in one English class that resulted in this limiting belief about myself. Christel Nani, in her third book, Sacred Choices: Thinking Outside the Tribe to Heal Your Spirit, explains what tribal beliefs are and how they can not only limit your life and true potential but impact you daily, causing you to make unconscious choices. Tribal beliefs are limiting beliefs you have about all areas of your life--family, love, work, health, God, and of course, for me, writing--that you learn growing up from your family, school, church, and other significant people in your life; they drive your behavior unconsciously. Christel's well written, easy to follow guide allowed me to identify many beliefs that rule my life. The multiple examples she gives throughout the book aided in unearthing tribal beliefs in my life that would have otherwise remained deeply hidden. Reading Christel's book helped me see how these beliefs have kept me from living the kind of life I want. Her guidelines for rewriting a tribal belief are practical and easy. Discovering that I didn't have to change my belief of being a lousy writer all the way to "I can write like an eloquent, best-selling author" freed me from my all-or-nothing thinking. Changing that belief to "It is reasonable to believe that I can write in an articulate, succinct way about something I strongly believe in and feel passionate about" allowed a shift to occur. So here I am writing my first book review because I wanted to share something I believe in and feel passionate about...changing a tribal belief held for over 35 years is possible and so freeing! By reading the personal stories Christel writes about in her book, you, too, will be inspired to identify a few of your own tribal beliefs and rewrite those that have kept you stuck. It can forever change your life!

My Holy Grail

For years I have been on a quest to understand how someone as capable and well-intentioned as me could have such challenges living to my fullest potential. In Sacred Choices, I at last found the answer. This book is truly my Holy Grail. I've heard and read so frequently about "belief systems." But until Christel, no one ever showed me how to rewrite them. In addition, this book helped me identify belief systems I didn't even know I had. I feel like I have been given a magic key that just keeps clicking in me, unlocking the secrets to a better, more fulfilling life.

A CLASSIC!!

I spent a lot of years trudging the road...working out my stuff, therapy, books...whatever...striving for a better life because mine wasn't how I knew it could be. And even when it was, I had trouble enjoying it. I've read hundreds of books by all the people we all know...the chopras, the tolles, the dr. what'shisnames, etc. ....and SACRED CHOICES is in its own class above the rest. This book shows us how to smoke out the hidden "tribal" beliefs that can block the way to realizing our potential and enjoying life...and CHANGE those beliefs into ones that work and support a new way of living...as simple and as fast as we want. Christel Nani is more grounded and at the same time revolutionary than I can really explain here. Do yourself a favor and read this, and give the work a try. I've gone to a number of Christel's workshops, and I leave amazed every time. Doing this work has completely altered the course of my life in a very short time. My soul knows what it's doing. I just needed to learn how to listen better. And that's ultimately what she's teaching here. I've resurrected my dreams, and I'm changing the relationships in my life. I see magic every day now...and I'll be forever grateful.

Celebrate the New Year with this Book

In Sacred Choices, Christel Nani-- a truly gifted medical intuitive-- guides you through the process of changing the limiting beliefs which hold each of us back and get in the way of of our happiness. The book is filled with exciting ideas as Christel lays out a clear, easy-to-follow path for listening to your spirit and creating the kind of life you truly want. Christel helped me heal a nine year debilitating illness from which doctors told me I would never fully recover, that it would severly limit me for the rest of my life. Thanks to Christel, I just hiked to the boittom of the Grand Canyon and am living my life with such joy. Her workshops are outstanding as she leads with compassion, humor, and the clear intention for each person to acheive their most cherished desires. I reccommend this book highly to anyone who wants to live life to the fullest and pursuie their biggest, boldest dreams.

Another Heaven sent book

I got the book yesterday. I could not put it down. Read most of it by last night. I had been waiting for it since it had been announced :-). In her simple yet usual profound style (Consider reading her other books if you have not done so already), she explains how tribal beliefs can affect your life, how they can even make you so sick that they can be deadly. She teaches you how to align with your spirit, how to be truer to Yourself. In this book in particular, she helps you identify which ones affect you the most, and the list is looooonnnng! If you still feel that the book is not enough, please, please, consider attending at least one of her workshops. This could save your life. You will cry, you will laugh, but oh, you will feel better afterwards if you are willing to listen! She is a truly extraordinary person: she can go straight to the problem in a flash. You will be transformed, never to be the same again. You will live in a higher vibration mode. I will never thank her enough for her gifts.