Serenity Quest-Book Reviews

ALAN COHEN

Relax into Wealth
How to Get More by Doing Less

In this definitive guide to building inner and outer wealth, Alan demonstrates the intrinsic link between passion, authenticity, and prosperity. He shows that nothing pays like . . . being yourself. While most prosperity or success books are formula driven, Relax into Wealth is people-driven. Alan shares many true stories of successful people he has encountered, including celebrities, Midas-touch entrepreneurs, shuttle-bus drivers, and wide-eyed children. This book can be life-changing as you discover that ease, flow, and self-care will get you what you want far more effectively than struggle, strain, or self-denial. Penetrating exercises bring these lessons home and show you how to get tangible results far more easily than you have thought.

Why Your Life Sucks
. . . and What You Can Do About It

An awesome, in-your-face but straight-to-the-heart guide that will show you how to reverse unhappy patterns and get

a life that rocks. Drawing from his experience counseling and coaching thousands, Alan identifies ten basic reasons you may

feel stuck, and illuminates ways to reverse them. Ten easy-reading, no-nonsense chapters, with liberal doses of

humor and plenty of how to examples. Also helpful if you have a good life and want to make it better.

A positive, uplifting journey.

WANT TO BE THE HUNDREDTH MONKEY?

In his book The Hundredth Monkey, Ken Keyes, Jr. wrote about scientists who had been observing monkeys in the wild for thirty years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, they provided monkeys with sweet potatoes which they had dropped in sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the potatoes but found the sand unpleasant. One day, an eighteen month-old monkey named Imo washed the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught the trick to her mother and her playmates, who taught it to their mothers. As the story is told, perhaps 99 monkeys learned to wash their sweet potato between 1952 and 1958. One day the 100th monkey learned to wash the potatoes. Suddenly, almost every monkey on the island began to wash their potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this 100th monkey had somehow created a behavioral breakthrough.
But, more amazing, the scientists observed that the act of washing sweet potatoes had jumped over the sea, because the colonies of monkeys on other islands, as far as 500 miles away, began washing their sweet potatoes. This phenomena is known as "critical mass." When a limited number of people know something in a new way, it remains the conscious property of only those people. However, there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field of energy is strengthened so that new awareness is picked up by almost everyone.