Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It audiobook

Yes, the book is short, simple and reiterates a familiar self-help axiom. No, it's probably not going to tell you anything you don't already know, at least intellectually. But here's the thing: It's a really, really good place to start when you are so low you've forgotten everything you ever knew about being happy.It's simple, stuff, really, the way he presents it. But it isn't so simple or obvious for the person who lives within a paradigm of fear. When dealing with anxiety (which is closely related to depression) the most "commonsense" reaction is to try to treat the fear and get yourself to just be "brave". I personally spent years chasing demons before I realized that this doesn't get you anything but more fear. You can't fight fear. But you can shift it into something else.It is my opinion, that energetically speaking, love is the opposite of fear, rather than courage (which is really just fear you are willing to confront), and this is why "loving yourself" so effectively addresses fear.Fear makes it very difficult to experience love. But the opposite is also true, and this is the magic of the book. The more you can pull yourself towards the love end of the continuum, the more you squeeze out fear. Love expands what fear has contracted, a process that creates a domino affect in your life.

My main takeaway is this: Anything worth attaining, including your own happiness, takes practice and work.A couple months ago, when I temporarily got lost [See: How to Get Lost] and forgot why I was traveling, I came to a simple realization: To prevent this from happening again, I must constantly re

The book did two things for me. It made me realize I didn't have to be a perfect person first to love myself, and it made me start loving myself from the first 15 minutes. I didn't think it was possible so early, ... what had I done but read a few chapters, but I had been trying to love myself from the outside in and not the inside out. There is something fundamentally different about his approach which is easy to start, makes actual physical sense, and can change the way you feel and view the world. Read it, and pass it along. This is one book everyone of us knows a friend who could use a quick shot in the arm to put them back on the right life track.

My interview with the author, Kamal Ravikant. Vani via Businessviews.in (Click here to read more: http://businessviews.in/love-thyself-...)In an interview with author Vani Kaushal, American author Kamal Ravikant who wrote two bestsellers opens up on his craft, philosophy, and outlook on life. Ravikant is famous as a writer. But in the United States, he is more popular as a Venture Capitalist, motivational speaker and founder of many start-ups in the Silicon Valley.According to Bloomberg data, Kamal Ravikant heads California-based RevNetics Inc as its founder and CEO.Ravikant’s first book Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On it has an important message that loving oneself truly and deeply would lead to the complete transformation of that person’s life.The American writer’s latest book: Rebirth: A Fable of Love, Forgiveness and Following Your Heart has that idea reverberating yet again.Vani is a well-known author and columnist in India. This former Times of India journalist published her debut novel The Recession Groom in 2015 and received widespread critical acclaim.Vani contributes regularly to Quint, Scroll, and Huffington Post. More about Vani can be seen on her website www.vaniauthor.com.EXCERPTS What is it like to truly and deeply love yourself?First, it is a practice. Like going to the gym, brushing our teeth. Call it a focused practice. The results are that one is naturally lighter, happier, and life just works better. At its very essence, it is living in the flow and magic of life.And then again -- a book about loving oneself! -- Do you think a theme like that needed a book?Yes. I wrote the book I wish someone had given me when I was down. No fluff, only actionable and practical truths.Don't people already love themselves?I haven’t met many. If they did, the majority of their personal dramas wouldn’t exist.With respect to the exercises you share with the readers (looking in the mirror, meditation etc), do you think these techniques really help?These are what I came up with when I was bottom to literally save myself. They worked for me. I shared them with friends. The exercises worked for them. I shared them in my book. I have thousands of emails from readers sharing how they work for them.All the exercises are simple. Doesn’t matter how old you are, what your color or religion is. What matters is that you’re human. We all have the same monkey minds. Thus, solutions that work effectively are simple and work for all.Do you believe that if a person just loves himself, he can turn around the environment that surrounds him? How does it change anything?How can it not? Try it. You’ll find yourself making better choices in your life easily and naturally; ones that serve you. And as you get better, the world around you gets better. Things just work that way. That’s what I’ve learned.How many days did it take you to write this book?It took me over a month to write this book. That was full-time from waking to sleep writing. I cut out 90 percent of what I wrote. I edit with an axe. My goal was to share only the truth that saved me and some thoughts on it; just enough to get the reader to try it. Then, the journey is theirs.How has the response been?Life-changing. I get so many emails, tweets, and reviews from readers all over the world. That’s the power of sharing your truth - the ripples have far greater effects than you can imagine. I’m extremely grateful for it all.Would you not like to write a book for women. They are trained from their childhood to keep their family/husband/father/brother etc first, before themselves. We see it in our homes all the time.I once watched Maya Angelou, an amazing African American poet, and writer, give a talk. She quoted a Roman poet from centuries ago. She said, “I am a human being, therefore nothing human is foreign to me.”I wrote a book about fundamental human truths that apply to everyone. Women, men. It doesn’t matter. We all needed to love ourselves truly and deeply.As a writer, I want to write fundamental human truths that apply to any reader.Does loving yourself mean lack of fear?No. You just don’t pay attention to them. Or, sometimes you laugh at them.Does it mean that one become selfish?Depends on how you define “selfish.” It does mean that you tolerate less garbage from others. It does mean that you remove what doesn’t serve you in your life. It does mean that you make choices that are for your good. If that’s considered “selfish,” I’m ok with that.Can it help conquer doubt?Doubt is just a shade of fear. Let it come. Let it go. The monkey mind plays its games. When you love yourself truly and deeply, these affect you less and less.Make a person more self-confident?How can it not? Self-confidence is a belief in oneself in a healthy way. If you loved yourself truly and deeply, you would naturally give yourself that.Any practices that you could suggest -- aside meditation, of course -- that could help create loving thoughts/feelings about oneself?Life is simple. It is the mind that makes it complicated. What I’ve learned is that instead of the mind-wrecking havoc, it’s better to focus and use it instead. So any focused attention on what can make you better - gratitude, loving yourself, loving another, etc. - all can be vehicles for helping create loving thoughts and feelings.Could you tell our readers a bit more about your forthcoming title? Is it available in all formats?My novel, Rebirth, was published last year. It tells the story of Amit, a 26-year-old Indian American who travels to India with his father’s ashes and then ends up in Spain. There, he walks an 11th Century 550-mile long pilgrimage. Along the way, he meets other pilgrims and they share with him the stories and lessons of their lives.Ultimately, it is a story about love, forgiveness, and following your heart. It is based on my journey after my father passed away.I’ve woven many of the lessons I’ve learned in my life so far into the novel. It is available in all formats (hardcover, paperback, electronic). I hope that it serves you well. Thank you for interviewing me.

If you are in a funk I highly suggest you read this short but very magical book.

Was reminded of the quote "I share therefore I am" - Included the quotes I loved below,“Besides, being a tourist in a crowded city is a guaranteed way to feel lonely. At least when you walk in nature, you are supposed to be alone.” “This helps me feel a little better. I may not know the details of the pilgrimage, but I know how to walk.” “Then, like the nuns from my one year at Catholic school, she firmly lists the rules.”“I get the sense that I’m part of something bigger than myself. It’s a strange feeling, but one I like. I don’t feel so alone.” “don’t get lost.” “Escuche,” he says. Mouth to my ear, his breath smelling like old coffee, he whispers: “It means ‘listen’…you could be putting off things forever.”“when will I draw the line and commit to a career?”

This is the shortest book I've ever read. In approximately 50 pages Kamal Ravikant vulnerably shares the story of his rise to early success that was quickly followed by his plummet to painful failure, severe depression, and chronic illness. This book chronicles the simple steps Kamal took to pick himself up, dust off, and rise again to an entirely new level of abundant living far greater than financial success. Every day we hear and celebrate the success of others. We rarely hear of the challenges, failures, and growing pains along the way to that success and that is what made this book interesting and inspiring to me.

I hate this book. It disgusts me. Every word of it feels like a lie.But here’s the problem: i know why it made me sick; i know why reading (listening to) it felt like being constantly punched in the gut. I had to stop every five minutes to literally keep myself from throwing up. It made me angry. But i kept going back. Every time, when the nausea passed, i picked up where i’d left off. I took it like the awful, revolting medicine i wanted it to be; i took it in, hoping that somehow it might actually work. I wanted to believe in it; but i did not; i did not believe in any of it at all.I have harmed myself in the past. Walking into the emergency room and saying these words was the hardest thing i’d ever done in my life up to that point:I’m scared. I don’t want to hurt myself again.And… there was no magic. Not exactly. But when i was helped into a chair and given a glass of water; as i sat there watching the people around me: paramedics, parents, friends, lovers, strangers, helping one another; i had a thought, and i wrote it down on the inside of a cardboard chocolate bar package: “Humanity is filled with love.”I’d forgotten about that moment, until i read this book; i don’t mean i actually couldn’t remember it until the book (“magically”) reminded me. I mean i had let that moment get buried under all kinds of other garbage. It’s not fun to remember being in the hospital; it was a very scary, dark, unhappy time for me. But it was also something else. I was witnessing something that moved me; i was seeing something mundane in an extraordinary way. These people helping one another, without fanfare or even commentary; these acts of kindness, gentleness, even when performed with a cool professionalism; these facts; they coalesced in front of me, and i felt something… I felt love. It is easy to dismiss this; i was “crazy”, wasn’t i? Yes and no. I was in a very vulnerable and volatile state of mind. But i was also, by the same token, open to thoughts that were new. This was a new sort of idea; the poor word love, so routinely abused, so trivialized by overuse; the idea of love as an actual force, as a presence permeating our species — unevenly, inconsistently, and “weakly” (in the sense of John Caputo’s weak theology) — was new to me. And i promptly forgot about it. I had work to do; i have two kids (only one at the time); i was in graduate school; i was in the midst of a broken relationship — my partner and i were in counseling, and she was working hard with me to keep fear and guilt from interrupting our communication. I kept that chocolate bar package, i think; it’s somewhere in my unfortunate hoard of stuff. But i very rarely thought of it. Until i was reading (listening to) this book.I still hate this book. But i’m going to keep reading it. And i may never like (or love) it… but i intend to learn from it. I recognize i need it. My life really does depend on it.

“This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.”Everything I write down here is less of a review but more of an appreciation of the author. Where do I even start about how beautiful and worthwhile I found this book. To mirror my stance, I would like to use one of Ravikant’s statements from the book. “In simplicity lies truth.  In simplicity lies power.”The writer is found sharing his journey towards self-love in the most candid yet persuasive manner. Everything that has been penned down feels uncluttered, from his ideas to advice. This book deserves all the love, hype, and most of all some time from your today. Just read it !!!

For its cost, this very easy and quick to read book gives us a small reminder shot on self-affirmation and its probable effects on the unconscious. Moreover, what I personally appreciated was his simplistic vision (in the non-pejorative sense of the term) of life through meditative practice, of the present moment because it is true that a practice of several years is helpful, gives another perspective of things and a certain detachment and analysis of our emotions (in terms of managing emotions). Simple, fast and positive without writing 300 pages or more like many other books.

Short book. Powerful concept. Simple set of practices to adopt.