Self Help books

Hi GreenMoo I am not that much into reading books on the computer and hence I have to buy them many a times which is quite an expensive thing these days (also, if you recall, I am not earning regularly due to my illness and being at home). But yes, I have a few PDFs which I have collected from my friends from here. Some of them are about my ailment - ulcerative colitis - this is a medical kind of book (though I had to use Internet many a times to understand many of their terminology). Then there has been "Staying Positive" which is about how to think and stay positive. These are the two books which have helped me know more about my chronic illness and also maintain a better state of mind as being all alone for months with illness starts taking its toll and playing on you. I would love to read about meditation and if any of your books has something like - how to meditate or what is the right way to meditate and you could share it, would be wonderful and helpful. I tried meditating earlier, but gave up as I could not understand if mine was the right way to do it or also, how beneficial was that.

I've only read one or two, but I didn't really believe in them prior, as well. I'm never gonna read other ones, I'd rather read some nice novels... if I read self-help books, that would be a waste of time. Most of the times they overgeneralize everything, and wanna make everyone the same. Especially the how to get a man ones (I've actually read excerpts - half tells you to be a doormat and ever-ready to do everything for the guy, and half tells you that you shouldn't give a damn and walk all over them... no golden means...)... oh, and how overgeneralized the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus types...

I've gone through spurts where I like reading self-help books. I tend to go with the ones for thinking positive, relationship, de-stressing, and sometimes dieting. I've read a lot of Dr. Laura books.. I cannot even attempt to spell her last name! Not everyone likes her or agrees with her.. but personally I find the core of her message to be quite true. I even went so far as to read her book on religion.. she is Jewish. I couldn't quite go so far as to convert, but some things made a lot of sense. But her books on parenting and relationships are very good. The most recent I read was called Bad Childhood, Good Life. It hit home pretty well for me.

Yes! I love reading self help books. I get to learn a lot of important things in life with them. What's more, I get to dissect the thinking of great and successful men. Such books keeps me motivated and taught me how to overcome life's challenges. I always encourage other people to read self help books too. I feel that I have grown mature while reading them. What self help books have you already read? Maybe you can mention some so I can add them up to my list of next reads.

My question is: what do you see as a self help book? A cooking book is one for example, so is a book to loose weight. So my answer is yes. I read a lot as well, also spoke to many people, but I don't believe in those so called self help books. Since they are seldom written for you as an individu and I already found out a long time ago that what is working for 1000 people is not necessary working for me. Also the fact a book does sell good or is read a lot doesn't mean that what is written in it works as well.

Yes, during my "low" times I read a lot of self help books. One of my favorite books is Living, loving and learning by Leo Buscaglia. This is really a self lifting book. Unforgettable also the book of M. Scotpeck, "The Roadless Travelled" and Hope for the flowers. (I hope I have the right authors). Of course who have missed the Chicken soup for the soul and all kinds of souls for this matter. If I become perfect? I could never ever be perfect, even if I have mastered these books by mind and heart. Because I still have a lot of scars on my legs as the result of too much playing on the ground outside the house. I still have scars on my upper arms (left and right) because of the immunization when I was young. If only they are not there reminding me that I am a person, I could feel that I am perfect. LOL.

I can state with absolute confidence that I am far from perfect, and despite my desire to be a better person I am unlikely to live long enough to even come close to it. Despite this, I have never considered self help books to be of any real value and would expect the bulk of the content to be rather abstract and generic. Somewhere deep in my memories I have a faint recollection of reading a book of this genre many years ago, although I can recollect nothing of the contents. I believe that I read it purely from curiosity with little interest in the actual content. Despite remembering very little about it I am quite sure that I was unimpressed by it, mainly because if I had found any interest in it then I should remember more detail.

Even though I am perfect already, I have read a few "self-help" books, just to see what they say... especially if they have a snappy title like The Game of Life and How to Play It (which, btw, doesn't give any hints, just examples of people's good fortune).

I've read self help books since I was a teenager and the onething I find is that a lot of people laugh. I used to be embarassed about reading them but then realized that I can't help anyone until I help myself. Most people have stacks of magazines with diet, exercise, cleaning and organizing articles among other things stacked around their house and to me, its the same thing but lots of little self help articles instead of one big book with lots of ideas in one place for one topic. To me, someone that reads regular books are looking for information, romance, mystery, history,etc if you think about it is all self help but some people won't admit it and disguise it and say its etertainment. I think its funny there are people that watch doctor oz or oprah and in a way, that's also self help but they are the same people that make fun of everyone else.

The Power of Positive thinking...and it was a very good book with alot of good advice....keeping positive does give you a different prespective of what's going on. It also helps fight depression when things don't go as planned....I have read others on relationships but some of them are plain stupid....some give a bit of good advice....but very few.

Hiya GM, Have got two self help books by a certain someone and they are pdfs so they make it a bit difficult for me to read. I have to have a positive attitude when I am surrounded by people who do not believe in this kind of thing at all so sitting on here trying to read this kind of book makes it more difficult to concentrate as well. However I do go back to read them when I can and I learn something different every time. I don´t have a Kindle yet but really I prefer real books for the moment while they still exist that is lol.xxx

I started reading one of those free self help books a while back. it seemed sort of interesting but it felt more like a success story of the person they ere talking about. I got bored after the second chapter. If I need self help I just come here to MyLot. I always get boosted up here.

Reading self help books will help us to get more confidence and we come tonow about some good information by reading various books. I am not a great fan of reading this kind of books, but some times i will read some good books to spend my time usefully. Most of the time i will download ebooks from online sites to my ereader and read it whenever i need motivation. In this site we have lot of books in various categories and most of them are written by good writers which gives more peace of mind to us while reading. Also this site contains a good for the new readers to give more information about the self help books. Also some self help books contains the biography and autobiography of some popular persons, which help us to come to know about their real story and we will get more inspiration and motivation while reading their real stories. Most of us already know about our selves and our nature, but reading this kind of self help books will help us to know more about us, some books are dealing with different kind of human natures, characters, behaviors, attitudes and others. While reading this kind of books we will get more ideas about ourselves. Good to know that you are also interested in reading them

Does reading a book by Dr. Phil count? I really don't read self help books because what might help some one might not help me. The only self help book I need/read is the bible.