Great tools available at our disposal offering to assist us in our daily journey through life.

Books, DVD'S, quotes, you name it, they are there if we open our eyes.

Two books come to mind that were helpful for my perspective during my stroke recovery.

"My Stroke of Insight" by Jill Bolte Taylor and "Ask and it is Given" by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Both books and their authors offer viewpoints that differ with mainstream thinking but that I have found conducive

towards implementing a favorable perspective on life.

Most stroke survivors disagree heartily with Taylor's version of what it feels like while having a stroke.

I can't imagine nor have I heard of anyone else describe their stroke as a "Nirvana like feeling"

Hick's book is very "New Age" in it's thoughts with their conversations with the "Universal Source", Abraham.

The commonality they both provide though is our ability to control our emotions and perspective.

Instead of us being carried away in the river of harmful emotions like hared, anger, worry, guilt, blame,

unworthiness and all of the others that will only serve to destroy, we have the ability within us to at the very least

set positive expectations as our default emotion much like your thermostat in your home.

This is not to say that you will not feel fear when you are confronted or anger when assaulted. It simply means

that we have the power to switch out of these destructive emotions at will and aim for emotions like, love, happiness,

hope and joy.

Sort of like Dorothy in The Wizard of OZ, we have the power within ourselves to go home at will simply by clicking our heels.

Bob Miller
The Stroke Coach
Strokes Suck