Review: Thought Re-Training
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2013
The author of this meaningful but easy to comprehend book is Steve Norton, a British hypnotherapist, psychotherapist and anxiety specialist who received his training at Natural Therapy Centre/International college of Holistic Medicine in England. He is also a Thought Field Therapy Algorithm Practitioner and both writes and appears as a public speaker in his field. One of the more interesting aspects of his background, however, is the fact that as a youth he suffered from anxiety attacks. His working motto is, ‘ We can achieve what we set our minds upon. We underestimate the power of our own thoughts. There is nothing more powerful than the Human Mind.’ He is a true believer in positive thought.Of the plethora of self-help books available both as eBooks and books in print few offer the one on one feeling that Steve Norton offers. His writing is straightforward, uncluttered by hypotheses or an inordinate amount of supplementary papers by others in his field. Reading HOW TO STOP NEGATIVE THINKING feels very like being in therapy session with Norton. He emphasizes that negative thinking and low self-esteem are habits, modes of thinking and of perceiving the world and our place in it that are indeed reversible. The exceedingly accessible principals he teaches emphasize Thought Retraining and his technique is a gradual building of new thought processes that replace those that have been responsible for the fears, phobias, self-doubt and depression that prevent us from living a happy and well adjusted life.It cannot be emphasized enough to those who are unfamiliar with Norton’s work how supportive is his approach to retraining our thought processes. As he states early on, this book is a guide book that will train the reader by explaining how our thoughts control our emotions, how our feelings are being controlled by our thoughts, how to reverse the habitual thought patterns that are hampering our growth, how to adopt the ways happy people think and structure their character traits, how to build strong self-confidence and inner belief system, how to remove and destroy old limiting beliefs and past bad memories, how to have more confidence in situations that we feared in the past,  and how to break free from old character traits that have become hampering bad habits.Steve Norton is a born teacher and simply reading his book resembles a full year of therapy or an extensive series of classes. He is to the point, does not clutter the book with extraneous material, and finishing his book gives the reader a significant since of elation. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, November 13