MindWorks: A Practical Guide for Changing Thoughts Beliefs, and Emotional Reactions

I chose this book out of desperation. I've read so many self help books in order to silence that inner critic, or at least discover ways to live with it. This book helped me understand everything that goes on in my mind and has shown me how to detach from it all, leading to a peaceful beginning. I'm going to read it again, over and over, until the techniques become embedded. Go and read it!

This is one of the best books you will ever buy!Having suffered with anxiety for most of my life and having read every book you can think of, I came by this book and WOW. This book makes you stop and think when you have the negative chat going on in your head. Gary goes into detail about the different mind characters so as soon as my negative chat starts I now think 'There goes the Judge' or 'That's the Victim' and it seems to stop things in its tracks. I was so impressed with the book that I bought it for a male colleague of mine who also suffers with anxiety and he has now recommended it to his niece to buy. I can only say if you want to buy a book that actually works, this is the one!!

I’ve read lots of personal development books over the years to help me try and understand why I have automatic negative thoughts that control certain aspects of my behaviour and influence my enjoyment of life. If you want to get to the core of how you mind operates read this book. I wish I had read this book years ago.I reckon I will refer to this book multiple times.

Suffice to say, this is a unique, novel and surprisingly 'human' approach. Written without preaching, it pulls so many threads together for me at least. A remarkable and insightful system - has blown the many other 'self-help' books I have read entirely out of the water.

I first me Gary in a podcast out back when I was planting trees. Learned a lot about Gary then, some of my friends learned a lot from some of Gary's friends.I'm too busy to read books these days, but like the man said about Meditation, so I read one or two of the stories, and some are better read than heard. More like I'm taking on the lessons as my own this time, which is as well as I can say of a pre-heard book, I guessA+, will plant more trees.

I find myself apologising for this. It came up on Facebook and I read the outstanding reviews, then purchased. Very disappointed. It has no depth and the writer is void of humour or personality. Much is from other ideas and not cited because the wording is different. The examples are poor and completely lacking in creativity. If this is your interest there are many other books with depth and sincerity.

If you also struggling with a negative thinking process that drains all your energy and want to break free from this, I really recommend this book. It is not an easy read [at my English level ;-)] but you get threw it because it is so rewarding and you can relate to it and use the tools given.

Life changing just by looking at your thoughts and emotions from outside the bubble they're in makes a big difference to how you feel. Would recommend this book to anyone who has repetitive thoughts of negativity .