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29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life |  | Author: Cami Walker
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 893
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 073821356X
Dewey Decimal Number: 179
EAN: 9780738213569
ASIN: 073821356X
Publication Date: October 6, 2009
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Product Description
At age thirty-five, Cami Walker was burdened by a battle with multiple sclerosis, a chronic neurological condition that made it difficult for her to walk, work, or enjoy her life. Seeking a remedy for her depression after being hospitalized, she received an uncommon prescription from an African medicine woman: Give to others for 29 days. 29 Gifts is the insightful story of the author’s life change as she embraces and reflects on the naturally reciprocal process of giving and receiving. Many of Walker’s gifts were simple —a phone call, spare change, a Kleenex. Yet the acts were transformative. By Day 29, not only had Walker’s health and happiness improved, but she had created a worldwide giving movement. The book also includes personal essays from others whose lives changed for the better by giving, plus pages for the reader to record their own journey. More than a memoir, 29 Gifts offers inspiring lessons on how a simple daily practice of altruism can dramatically alter your outlook on the world.
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Five Stars November 20, 2009
Mary Johnson (Houston, TX)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book. The author, Cami Walker, writes with such honesty and detail, that I felt I was experiencing her frustrations with debilitating MS, and the unexpected breakthroughs from the 29-days of giving, right there with her.
What the book ISN'T is fluffy, psycho-babble. This is an honest and true testimony of how one woman really improved her health through positive thinking and acts of kindness.
I took the 29-days of giving challenge ([...]) and was thrilled at the impact mindful giving had on my FMS pain and headaches. As Ms. Walker states, her MS is not cured, but the experience decreased pain, improved her ability to walk without a cane and enabled her to resume working part time as a consultant.
I still have my bouts with FMS flareups and headaches, but whenever I start to notice increased pain, I start mindfully giving and my energy is redirected to the positive impact I can make in the world, rather than negatively spent on my disorder. And I make others happy!
What's not to like about that?
Generosity improves your health!!! November 17, 2009
Dr. Jan B. Newman (Clinton, Mt. United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cami is suffering with M.S., she is also suffering over her suffering. She called her "spiritual advisor" for support and received an answer she didn't expect. Essentially get out of yourself and each day for 29 days give something to someone else. It can be something very simple, but do it consciously with thought.
This is the story of how that small actions on her part brought about not only her metamorphosis from self-pitying prescription drug addict totally disabled with MS to a generous loving human being with a purpose for her life and her disease remission. She helped not only herself but many others. [...]. While the book is her story, it includes experiences of others in the epilogue. It is a compelling read.
There is a Buddhist practice called Tonglen The Pema Chodron Audio Collection: Pure Meditation:Good Medicine:From Fear to Fearlessness in which one mentally takes on the sufferings of others and burns them up with the fire of our own selfishness, turning them into love and giving that love to others. This is a preparatory practice to learn to place others' needs ahead of our own which seems either counterintuitive, martyrish or stupid. Someone once asked a Lama whether it heals others. His answer was ,"I don't know if it helps others, but it helps you."
Cami takes this practice into the reality of everyday life and by her actions she is helped.
These are troubled times for so many. If each of us to just a moment to help others for the sake of helping, not for the purpose of getting anything in return, what a great world we would have.
Here is the prescription:
1) Read 29 days: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life
2) Give atleast one thing or action for the next 29 days joyously
3) See how it makes you feel, you will be surprised.
29 gifts is a book for everyone November 15, 2009
Paula A. Moscariello
I really enjoyed this book and started my own 29 gifts in 29 days, I kept it simple and really didn't expect anything but after a month of giving I looked back and realized I had a few medical problems which at first seemed serious but turned out to be nothing. I also came into a large sum of money that is going to change my everyday life. I really think everyone should read this book, Cami is very open and honest about her life, the trials and tribulations. I learned a lot from her.
Truly inspiring! November 14, 2009
Aaron P. Quick (Los Angeles, CA)
Once I picked up this book I could not put it down... I literally read the whole book in one sitting! Ms. Walker's candid honesty is really refreshing and I both laughed and cried as I took the journey with her. I highly recommend this book.
A Must Read for Everyone November 12, 2009
R. blahnik (Sunny California)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for anyone. I read to my ill mom in spurts. She looks forward to every reading...
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