Karen Bentley writes about two topics: the power of love to solve life problems and fast, easy, and healthy weight loss through a sugar-free diet. For more information about her sugar-free weight loss books, cookbook collection and educational programs, go to www.sugarfreemiracle.com.

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Books about the Power of Love

The Book of Love

Love is the answer to every problem, so it's essential to acquaint yourself with a new and non-romantic perspective about what it means to be a loving being. But exactly how to do you go about "being love"? Does it mean that you must selflessly serve or support others? Or that you have to put up with intolerable situations? Or that you have to seek out and find like-minded people so that you can experience good chemistry?

The Book of Love cuts through the confusion and presents you with a simple strategy of harmlessness that can be adapted to any and every difficult situation. It's easy to be loving when things go your way, but it takes great wisdom and intention to be love when things don't go your way. It's a paradox because you must have difficult people and challenging situations in your life to transcend the ego and to deliberately, consciously choose to be love. This, in fact, is the speediest way to learn your Truth.

Since God is Love and only Love, your experience of Self as Love automatically strengthens your connection to God. The Book of Love invites you to embrace the highest and most loving vision of Self. It's the radical idea that your experience of Self as Love is the experience of Self as Christ or Buddha. The goal of this book is to inspire you to be your Christ-self under the most trying situations and to thereby manifest the second coming of Christ on Earth now through you!

Click here to read a professional, 5-star independent review by Marie Jones (of Book Ideas) of The Book of Love.

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10 Radiant Ideas

Many of us hold ideas about God that are very old. They have been passed down by our parents, who got the ideas from their parents, who got the ideas from their parents, and on and on. 10 Radiant Ideas introduces you to ten exquisite love-based ideas about God, but they are ideas that are completely and totally independent of any organized religion.

Your beliefs about God and the purpose of existence are very important. This is because your beliefs drive your decisions. Your decisions drive your attention and your behavior. And your behavior determines your happiness. The idea that God is Love and only Love is very important for your spiritual fitness because you cannot whole-heartedly go towards something you’re afraid of. So to make progress, it's absolutely essential that you undo your fear of God. Some people are hesitant about being exposed to new or different ideas about God, but there's nothing to worry about. Nothing can happen to you and nothing will happen to you unless you choose to change your mind about what you believe. This puts you in the driver's seat.

10 Radiant Ideas does the service of opening your mind to radically new, unconditionally loving and benevolent ideas about God. And, of course, once the mind is opened, anything becomes possible. Anything.

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The Power To Stop™

This program teaches how to use any out-of-control behavior (including out-of-control eating, drinking, drugging or anything else) to transcend the ego, to undo the impulse to self-destruct and to learn the essential life skill called "stopping." Many people are deeply inspired and motivated by approaching the undoing of out-of-control behaviors as a path to personal power and spiritual growth. The POWER TO STOP invites you to become a spiritual warrior and to learn the four essential miracle skills that will enable you to tap into your own inner strength and love yourself enough to stop. For more detailed information about this one-of-a-kind program, go to www.powertostop.com. The highlights are summarized here.

GET FOUR MIRACLE SKILLS to creatively deal with and transcend your own impulsive (out-of-control) nature. There's a miracle skill for the mind -- to keep you focused. There's a miracle skill for Spirit -- to access wisdom and strength. There's a miracle skill for the heart -- to undo the blocks that prevent happiness, and there's a miracle skill for the body -- to release physical tension. Each skill by itself is potent and will yield a result. But when all four skills are combined into a systematic, daily program, you get a magnified result. All you need to experience a healing miracle in your life is contained in these four skills.

ACCESS YOUR SACRED POWER. Spirituality isn't just about chanting mantras and lighting candles in a sacred space. It's about being reminded of your own inherent, immutable, sacred power, developing the interest to deliberately connect to it, and then using it. This power can never be undone. It can, however, be forgotten. Somehow, somewhere along the line you've forgotten that you have immediate access to all the power you need. Power is available to everyone, but it must be claimed.

YOU MUST SAVE YOURSELF. No one can do your push-ups for you, and no one can manage your impulsive (out-of-control) energy for you either. The sooner you accept this seemingly "hard" idea, the faster you will embrace the fact that you must learn how to save yourself. There's nothing mysterious or woo-woo about saving yourself. It is a literal rather than abstract process. The saving process is not linked to any religion and does not involve any religious rituals. However, the act of saving yourself over and over dramatically strengthens your awareness of your connection to God. Many people explain the experience as a spiritual awakening.

You CAN stop yourself.