Will the Real You Please Stand Up?: 7 Spiritual Strategies to Help You Discover Your Purpose and Live It with Passion

Fran Harris, Ph.D.
Health Communications, Inc. (2007)
ISBN 0757305490
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (4/07)

Dr. Fran Harris feels her calling is to teach and coach her fans toward spiritual illumination, victory and happiness.  Harris feels our challenge as spiritual beings is allowing ourselves to be guided by the one thing that is real:  love. She offers seven steps to achieve that goal.

  • “Retire your ego.”  “The ego is the part of the mind that houses self-awareness—not the kind of awareness that brings you closer to who you are—the kind of awareness that makes you self-conscious and self-absorbed.”  You don’t need your ego but you do need your intuition.    Intuition comes from God.
  • “Embrace your spirit.”  Being spiritual is beyond the physical.  Spirit is beyond infinite, it has no beginning nor ending.  Embracing spirit means finding a way to shut out the world. 
  • “Accept your greatness.”  Greatness as defined by the author is about accepting that “God-ness—greatness—is in all of us.”
  • “Let go.”  We must learn to let go or not cling to our preconceived notions or the things we can’t control. 
  • “Yearn for righteousness.”  Harris believes that to achieve righteousness we must “rid ourselves of all judgment, throw out all expectations, let go of our disappointments, stop being a victim, stop vilifying, keep your life free of clutter, and be childlike.”
  • “Place faith over fear.  We don’t have problems we have challenges.”
  • “Unleash your genius.”  “We all have a light—a genius—that we can “choose” to let shine, or we can hide.”
  • “It’s up to you.”  This could be another day “or it could be your first step to standing up as the real you.”

 

“Will the Real You Please Stand Up?” by Fran Harris, Ph.D., is a very positive book.  Dr. Harris is an excellent writer.  While she and I agree on most of her seven steps we do have some areas where we have essential differences.  I believe that Christ died for our sins and rose again so that we might have eternal life.  I also believe that the “way to the Father is through the Son.”  I believe that God is not only interested in every aspect of our lives, but he wants to guide and direct our lives if we allow Him to.  Dr. Harris discusses submitting. I feel we must submit to the Christ Jesus, not to ourselves.  It saddens me that Dr. Harris left out, or has turned away from, most of these fundamental beliefs.  Dr. Harris tells you things you want to hear, not necessarily what you need to hear.  However, her book is interesting and has delightful stories in it.

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