Change Your Mind and Your Life Will Follow: 12 Simple Principles (Al-anon Book, Detachment Book, Fighting Addiction, for Readers of Let Go Now)

This book took me back to memories of conversations with a beloved aunt I had who was very wise. This book reinforced those wisdoms and I loved it...12 steps, 12 principles, never simpler.

Great read. Going to read again. Great Bible study book for great conversations. Will then pass to my sister for a great read

Karen Casey's writing is clear, insightful, compelling. I'm always sorry to see her categorized as a "12-step" or "Al-Anon" writer, as I think her appeal is far broader. That having been said, while this is one of her very best books, the edition isn't worthy of the content. As other reviewers have noted, words, partial words, and whole sentences are missing from the text, and inexplicably, there are no page numbers! Even though this isn't a long book, page numbers are essential. Too essential to be overlooked like this.I'd buy another edition of the book, but this seems to be the only one where the writer will get the royalties (unlike used editions), and I do want the writer to receive the benefit of her writing. Just wish her publishing company had used more care.

I love Karen Casey's books. I have a few of her daily meditation books, but this is the best book of hers I've read so far! It's simple, to the point, and gives the best life advice. It has all the answers to life's problems, LOL! Just turn to it, and you'll find the advice you need to handle whatever is going on. It has helped me look at my problems calmly and avoid that "end of the world" mentality. I've been working on myself for years and read dozens of self-help books, but Karen's book is the only book I need from now on! There are 12 principles, but each one is broken down into several more, so there are more than just twelve. I'm going to buy this book in Spanish for my mom, who's had an anxious mind for 70+ years. I'm sure it will help her as it has helped me. I'm very grateful I came across this book on Amazon, while browsing for another book.

This is one of those books that I plan to read again and again. Karen Casey shares her recovery story to set the stage for the 12 principles she discusses. Much of her wisdom comes from her 30+ years in AA and recovery. But even if you've never had an addiction problem of any kind her gentle, practical wisdom applies. When I got the book I was going through a period of self-inflicted misery. The moment I was reminded to let go of judgment and control I began to feel better about myself and my life. By the end of the book, simply by focusing on those two principles I had experienced a total paradigm shift. The title tells it all: when you change your mind and mindset, let go of judgment, give up the illusion of control and make peace and kindness your #1 & 2 goals, life begins to work in unexpectedly positive and beneficial ways. As I said at the start I will be reading Karen Casey's gentle, wise and practical guide to living again and again.

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Unlike most "personal transformation" or self-help books that tell you what you need to do, but don't tell you how to do it, Karen Casey gives simple, practical ways of changing the way you think. Every decision you make is filtered through every thought you have and all your perceptions come from those thoughts. So learning how to think a new way is critical to changing the life you now live. She doesn't give you complicated advice that doesn't work - she gives you simple ways to give yourself permission to change the way you think, which in turn will change the decisions you make for yourself.I LOVED this book - and it began a transformation in my thinking and my life immediately. It will change your life too - if you allow it to!

A must read for everyone struggling with judging, blaming, faulting and being frustrated with others....and I think that may be most all of us. A simple solution...me...just changing my own mind and be released from the burdonsome responsibility to change others. A hard but rewarding practice. I read a piece of this book every day to give me "peace," perspective and to change my paradigm. Read it and give it to your "friends." I can't give mine away, because it's all marked up, underlined and highlighted, and I need to read it everyday. It sits next to my Bible.

Un livre qui fait du bien!

What a stunningly wrote book very helpful changed my way of thinking drastically! Told everyone I know to read it :)

Very insightful. It is about how to remain emotionally detached under all circumstances. There are times when you give advice to people in order to help them out. But, I read the book and experimented in my own life. I have understood that people don't take it unless and until they are themselves ready to accept and seek for it.It is about how to not try to control life of others and your own life and give the control to almighty. This concept gives so much of peace and freedom from stressful situations.I have read another book of the same author Casey, Karen. She has herself had a difficult life and learned from it. And the same she has shared through the book.I appreciate her righting and each word is worth experimenting

I did select some ideas and put them into practice and am having lovely results. Will reread and reread. Thank you Karen Casey.

Brilliant -- and the principles work.