Product Description

Shift is a creative tool for expanding consciousness. Through thought-provoking questions, stories, illustrations, and poetry, Shift educates, drawing out new ways of thinking about old challenges. Its purpose is to bring powerful peace to the reader and, as a result, powerful peace to the planet, one reader at a time. The book is unique in using words to look at words, meanings, human perception, emotions, and actions. Its words are not Truth; they are catalysts helping readers find their own truths. Shift includes: *Optical illusions *Ambigrams *Ink blots *Cloud patterns *A human consciousness diagram *A discussion of the Human Truth Puzzle that has been solved over and over by person after person, but cannot be adequately communicated using words and symbols. *A startling new meaning to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche similar to the startling new meaning Dan Brown gave to The Last Supper in The Da Vinci Code.

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Product Details

Publisher	Word Sculptures Publishing
ISBN	0977832465
Format	Hardcover
Author	Janet Smith Warfield
EAN	9780977832460
Label	Word Sculptures Publishing
Edition	1st
Dewey Decimal Number	291
Studio	Word Sculptures Publishing
Number Of Pages	208
Title	Shift: Change Your Words, Change Your World
Publication Date	2007-06-01
Manufacturer	Word Sculptures Publishing

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Customer Reviews

Shift can change your entire outlook on life!

Review by RICK D. BANKS, Esq., Author of "Friendly Divorce: The Definitive Guide to A Stress Free Divorce, 2010-05-10

This is an excellent book. Janet's insights on life have shed much clarity on concepts that are often confusing. Her thought-provoking philosophy in Shift is remarkable. As an attorney practicing in one of the emotionally-charged areas of law, divorce, Janet's book will be one of the few recommended readings I suggest to my clients.

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An Agent of Change

Review by Linda S. Thompson, 2010-01-13

In my stress-filled life, I had just about given up on ever finding a way to just sit back, stop and smell the roses. In SHIFT, Janet Smith Warfield has written a remarkable, life-changing book. Her methods for changing just a few words in your every day conversations can bring about a substantial transformation in how you feel, how you look, and how you live. For anyone who wonders to themselves, "Where do I go for help to adjust my outlook on life?", look no further. This book is for you. Thank you, Janet, for being my agent of change.

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Love this book!!

Review by Natalie Lara, 2009-12-03

This book puts into words all the thoughts and feelings I have not been able to put into words. What a relief!! Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!
I am already planning to read it several times.
Do yourself a favor and buy it. For yourself and your friends!

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The Overcoming

Review by Deborah DeNicola, 2009-10-06

Janet Smithe Warfield's "Shift" is a beautifully written book with a beautiful message. She analyzes the way our minds formulate our thoughts and how important it is to choose the right words when thinking and speaking both. Janet had a mystical experience one day in the presence of an irritating person who was yelling at her," angry, arrogant and rude." She did not think through her behavior but just decided not to react the way most of us normally would. She literally turned the other cheek. in this nano-second Janet was changed forever. She immediatly saw that she had a choice how to respond and our usual over emotional reactions to situations that trouble us exacerbate the situations and that we can always choose how we feel and defuse the environment around us of its tension. In this slim, elegant volume, she spells out through her theme of word-sculpting, how we can "overcome" our lower selves and attain freedom in that overcoming.

Sprinkled with her word-sculpted poetry throughout, Janet puts down her ideas in amazingly clear and uncomplicated language. Her Biblical references are numerous and yet she sees the ancient book through a new lense, a modern, evolved way of understanding. Her discussions on fear and courage, parents and children, choices and decisions, anger and freedom, consciousness and unconsciousness are enlightening and persuasive.

In the middle of the book there is a list of principles by which to live that serves as wonderful checklist for anyone seeking peace of mind and joy in spirit. "Make Your play your life's work," "Polish all facets of your diamond personailty, "focus on becoming more functional . . . "
are just a few. Along with these she offers examples, affirmations, visualizations and steps to awareness. Her insights on The concepts of Thesis, Anthithesis and Synthethis are fascinating as she brings in examples of Christ and Neitzsche. Her paradoxical conclusions make complete sense!

This is a wise book by a wise woman and for many out there who are seeking "transformation," who are riding the new wave of our changing times, this book will pull together many readings and thoughts and workshop principles readers may be familiar with. For the uninitiated, it will simply be an eye-opener. A necessary book for the student of peaceful coexistence, who wants to think out of the box, and believes there may be a beautiful solution to the crazy turbulence of human history. Ms. Smithe Warfield can actually change, as well as challenge, the way we think. Led by her clarity and logic, we see that we can have a perfect world. In fact we shall have one in due time, as her recommendations become habitual behavior, as we dig new neural pathways with out new perspectives, as we overcome old self-defeating ways of thinking and feeling. We may do this one at a time or collectively, but when the critical mass is reached, we will see we were raised on falsehoods and led by duality to extremes in judgments and behaviors; indeed, Janet convinces us our world can become the lovely, peaceful gift from the supporting, universal powers that it was designed to be.

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High Praise!

Review by Julie Clayton, 2009-09-28

Shift gets the highest praise from this reviewer; this Panama author is an artist, a wordsmith, and a philosopher of life's deepest questions. Shift is a guidebook to life that catalyzes us through the deepest regions of knowledge, truth, and language. Asking unexpected questions and then exploring complex ideas clearly and succinctly, she manages to slice through the inadequacy of words to express the indescribable. Janet's well-honed words sharpen our perception and transform our thinking, and perhaps prepare us for genuine transformation. This book flows through you, like a stream of linguistic wisdom.

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