Book review by Dr. Balasandilyan - CEO of www.visionunlimited.in (Mobile 9840027810) - Pshychologist, Thought Leader, Transformation Coach - of the Book 'Your Erroneous Zones' for self enhancement.

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2. ARE YOU
READY
A self-help guru and author of 30 books, Dr. Wayne Dyer
passed away on August 30, 2015.
The book “Your Erroneous Zones” published in August 1,
1976, catapulted his career and is one of the top-selling
books of all time, with an estimated 35 million copies sold.
“Your Erroneous Zones” which can also be compared to
“Rational Emotive Therapy” by Albert Ellis can be summed
up by five words which also represent a common theme in
most of Dyer’s teachings: your irrefutable power of choice.
Brief Introduction
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3. What Dyer says:
• 35 Million Copies – over 35000 reviews
Your “erroneous zones” refers to the mistaken behaviour, thoughts and attitudes which we
all hold, display or demonstrate at one time or another. The intention of the book is to help
you break away from negative thinking which, in turn, leads to negative or agitative
emotions (worry, guilt, depression, helplessness, anger, and neediness), and then, painful
consequences via erroneous actions.
Ask great questions, think for yourself, challenge convention, speak the truth, strengthen
your soul, and grow with friends; here is my summary of “Your Erroneous Zones” by Dr.
Wayne W. Dyer, along with a couple of additional insights: very Successful person has a
secret to share and we need to observe it and follow the same in our own style to be
successful in our life. Let us see some important secrets in this presentation.
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4. Dr. Wayne Dyer inspires
• His Various Books (30)
• Pulling Your Own Strings
• Real Magic Creating
• The Power of Intention
• Your Sacred Self
• Change your thoughts,
Change your Life
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5. No Green or Red zones but
Erroneous zones
• 12 Chapters:
• Introduction – A personal
statement (Self defeating
zone)
• Taking charge of yourself
• First love
• You don’t need their approval
• Breaking free from the past
• Useless emotions – Guilt and
Worry
• Exploring the unknown
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• Breaking the banner of
convention
• The justice trap
• Putting the end to
procrastination – now
• Declare your independence
• Farewell to anger
• Portrait of a person who has
eliminated all erroneous zones
• YOU ARE THE SUM TOTAL OF
YOUR CHOICES

6. Take Charge
You have the power to choose
• You choose to be who you are, and
you have the power to take charge of
your thoughts and present moments.
Happiness is a choice and comes from
within. Dyer suggests asking yourself,
“How long am I going to be dead?”
This “eternal perspective” can aid you
to embrace a “take charge” stance in
life.
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7. Happy life
• Take Charge of all of yourself
By controlling your thoughts, you control you emotions and the
way you feel.
Negative thoughts create emotions which stop you from doing
what you truly want i.e. you avoid speaking your truth and
expressing your feelings because you are afraid you will offend
other people.
The only real reason to grow is for growth’s sake, and not
because you feel incomplete. Accept where you are now and
choose to develop for your own good, not for the approval of
others. Unlike a good day or an euphoric experience, growth for
growth’s sake, leads to a happy life because it helps you to
realize your potential.
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8. Positive self-image
Love Yourself
• Love yourself by creating a positive self-image,
without linking it only to achievements and
accomplishments. Accept compliments, as a
way to build a positive self-image.
• Beware of using low self-worth as a way to
avoid relationships and thus, rejection.
• Beware of seeking pity and playing victim as a
way of holding yourself back and avoiding
change.
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9. Know your self-worth
Seek your own approval
Approval from others can be pleasurable, and it can also control you,
making you a puppet to other people, with extraordinary pain and
misery when others withhold their approval.
Constantly seeking the approval of others gives them power and
paralyzes you!
You shrink yourself when you seek other people’s approval and you
end up doing nothing or, only what they want.
“Other people’s opinions” do not determine your self-worth.
You can respond by saying, “I respect you and I won’t change my
thoughts on this matter to get you to like me.”
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10. None can label you
The Past doesn’t equal the present
• Beware of giving yourself self-limiting labels based on your past
behaviour. Stop saying “I’ve always been this way…I’m naturally
shy…I’m just not good at this…”
• Possibly you tried something at a young age and someone
criticized, disapproved of you or labelled you and, you chose to
hold onto that label or self-limiting belief.
• Become solution focused and you will discover you have much
more talent and abilities than you thought possible!
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11. ‘No’ to negative emotions
• Guilt and worry destroy you
• Guilt can be a guide to let you know that something you have done has
negatively affected someone else. Therefore, guilt can be positive if you
respond to it appropriately and choose to make appropriate amends, learn
from the mistake and correct your future behaviour.
• Guilt can be negative when you punish yourself for years and for something
over which you now have no control or cannot change; guilt cannot change
the past.
• Beware of people throwing guilt at you as a way to manipulate you. Get clear
about your values and standards, and live by them – not by other people’s
values and standards.
• Worrying is negative hallucination i.e. imagining and thinking that the worst is
going to happen. Planning, on the other hand, is focusing on a solution!
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12. Expand the comfort zone
• Become Excited – explore the unknown
• Growth is one of the 6 key emotional needs. When we say things such as “I’m
longing for change” or “I need a change”, we are actually saying we need and
want to grow.
• Growth can only occur when you do something new. And the only thing
stopping you is your own fear – of failure.
• Failure is the expectation of performance that other people have created and
which we have chosen to accept.
• Stop trying to please others; stop thinking that performance alone determines
your self-worth; use failure as a means to learn and grow.
• Challenge and expand your comfort zone now. INSERT
• Ask yourself, “Is my fear of the unknown, a fear of criticism or someone else’s
disapproval?
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13. Think for yourself
Challenge Convention, Beware of the Justice Trap
• Dyer suggests that customs be discarded if we don’t
believe in them or if they clash with our values; strive to
live up to your own standards. Beware of following
convention just to get other people’s approval. Think for
yourself. If you are going to choose to be upset by the
lack of justice in the world, ensure that there is something
you can do about it, otherwise it is wasted energy.
Beware of using it as an excuse to do nothing or as an
excuse to something bad i.e. everyone else is doing it, so
I can do it, too.”
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14. Prioritization
Procrastination comes from fear
• Procrastination comes from fear of
failure, confrontation or
uncomfortability. Remember, the
problem won’t disappear or solve itself.
Beware of attempting to justify poor
performance by procrastinating i.e. “I
left it too late – that’s why it didn’t
work.” Categorize and prioritize your
to-do list, and remember, life is short –
act now!
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15. Freedom to pursue
your happiness
• Declare your own Independence
• Independence is freedom from the control, influence,
support, aid, or the like, of others; the freedom to
pursue your own happiness.
• When you choose or force someone to be in a
dependent, submissive relationship, you are controlling
the other person and he/she will eventually resent and
rebel against you. Love cannot be forced.
• Encourage people at home and work to find their
independence and self-expression. Beware of being a
dependent and follower, and thus, never being true to
yourself or living your full potential.
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16. Anger can destroy you
Anger is destructive
• Beware of the ways that anger can destroy you
and others around you; beware of using anger
to blame other people for the way you feel
and behave or to manipulate or guilt other
people into doing what you want.
• Finally, remember, that happiness is a choice;
choose to be happy and create your life now!
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