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  • The Power of Letting Go

  • How to Drop Everything That’s Holding You Back
  • By: John Purkiss
  • Narrated by: Mark Meadows
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (149 ratings)

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The Power of Letting Go

By: John Purkiss
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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If you learn to let go, your life will take off.

When you let go, you live intuitively. Everything flows, because you are no longer attached to things being a certain way, to being a certain person or always being right. What a relief. The irony is that when you feel stuck in any area of your life - career, relationships, purpose, health or money - letting go can seem very hard. You cling on for dear life just at the moment you need to take the leap.

In The Power of Letting Go, John Purkiss explains why we should let go and how we can do it, using proven techniques to make things happen.

The stages of letting go:

  • Be present and enjoy each moment.
  • Let go of the thoughts that keep you stuck.
  • Let go of the pain that runs your life.
  • Surrender and tune in to something far more intelligent than your brain.
©2020 John Purkiss (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group

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  • 01-12-2022

Literally life changing!!!

This is an unbelievably concise and insightful perspective on what has felt indescribable… like silent hysteria. This book has been the explanation, understanding and action plan I’ve been desperately searching for. I’ve listened to it 3 times already.
Practical exercises with PROFOUND results…

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Great and practical

This book is really helpful to clean up negative tendencies, beliefs and stories to help life your life more effortlessly and enjoyable. Definitely recommend.

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Will listen to again

Feel like I could listen to this over and over again and learn something new every time. Recommended to me from my therapist. Good information, relaxing voice

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Fascinating

A great book if you want to unstick yourself and start thinking with new perspective!

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Easily Accessible

Loved this book so practical and easy to understand. So many ah hah moments. I am look forward to incorporating what I have learnt into my daily life.

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Will listen again. Life changing

Very well read

For a huge subject, JP has it covered very well.
Easy to understand and apply.

Excellent balance of real life examples which illustrate the key points.

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Love it

Really enjoyed this book, from the moment I started it. I started practising letting go and since have noticed changes, more feelings of happiness.

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Let go

This is my first book and i loved it, helped me alot as i am going through anxiety recovery. Will listen to it again

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It didn’t really grab me

Appreciate the efforts however it didn’t really speak to me. Will try the completions though.

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Good book reminder to let go

Would recommend was a good book . Great tool and perspective to add to your spiritual journey

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  • Elicia
  • 02-07-2020

Great Guide

I thought this made a great guide but it won't be my only tool I'll use to help let things go. I thought the personal stories were a nice touch but overall a little too much for me. I did feel I could relate to most of what was being said. I'd really like to give the rating a 3.5. I have listened to the audible a few times now and will most likely listen to it again.

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  • Diego
  • 08-04-2021

Teaches you to meditate in different scenarios but full of pseudoscience and anecdotal evidence

I took the book with a grain of salt, that grain being how to practice meditation and mindfulness throughout your day. However, the book relies heavily on anecdotal evidence, pseudoscience, and unsubstantiated claims, such as when the author is magically able to detect illnesses in other people by just looking at them. There is also an implicit claim that if others do harm unto you, it’s not their or anyone’s fault, but thinking that makes it so—clearly a view of someone who has lived a privileged life.

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  • A.T.C.
  • 20-01-2021

3 Stars

It’s gives some decent strategies, but I was looking for something a little more in depth than the authors personal battles.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 06-12-2020

a great read and resource for self growth!

loved it and I hope all people are willing to take the time to use these examples to live in the moment.

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  • Jessica K.
  • 28-05-2022

Too Theoretical and Repetitive

“Letting Go” is not what I expected it to mean, and I’m disappointed. It’s basically telling you to be “present” and mediate. To not think and act as much. I don’t understand how any of that will result in what you want. Seems like a ship without a rudder, carefree of where it goes and whether it never ends up anywhere. I would not recommend this book for people who are afraid of making a choice to leave/change something they do not think is satisfying/fulfilling. This book is more about integration, shadow work, stoicism, and a lil law of attraction, but written in a confusing way. Some things were said the same way so many times I thought the audio reverted to a previous chapter. There’s a lot of somewhat trivial anecdotes and personal experiences that aren’t relevant to me or to the point. There’s a lot of focus on why you should let go, but, hello, I bought the book, duh, I know I want to let go so I can move forward, so why spend 50% of the book on selling the why it’s important to let go? Also, the old school way if voice over makes it difficult to follow, comprehend. It’s not conversational; the speed is slow, with unnatural pauses and raise of voice. I learn more faster from Youtube where people are presenting the book’s points in 10 minutes because they talk normal.

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  • T
  • 08-12-2021

EXCELLENT.

Truely took me on a journey. I am so grateful for this book. sometimes you have to find the information when you're ready to hear it, and it was apparently the perfect time. In summary: who told you to think what you are thinking? Why do you still believe that?
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  • Anonymous User
  • 26-03-2022

Unimpressed

I can’t begin to explain how much of a waste this book is. Nothing in here helps you let go of someone you might still be in love with so you can live forward.

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  • Wanda Luebke
  • 29-03-2021

lot of information

lot of information here. must go slow and register multiple times. might be handy to have a physical copy. I really enjoyed it and hope it helps me. I also hope it helps you. many exercises.

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  • Daniel M. Forman
  • 02-10-2023

just ok

Wouldn't quite fit into my normal picks, read on recommendation. Maybe it didn't speak to me much due to my current state of mind, but I felt often that it was oversimplified and somewhat dismissive of trauma.

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  • Dsmith
  • 21-06-2023

Great content, requires multiple listens though

There’s great content in this, however Not the best to listen too if you’re not actively taking notes. A lot of the tips and tactics you need to jot down which you can’t do if you’re walking or driving.

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  • Tori
  • 13-12-2022

Thich nacht Hahn is better

Anything that annoys you is a projection of something about yourself that you put onto others. No. This is a very overly simplistic view.

It felt to me like the author had a very basic experience of intuition, psychology and perspectives and then found mindfulness and learned some psychology. Then wrote this book.

People and situations are simply not this black and white. I also found the voiceover beyond irritating (but I guess this is just my own projections).

If you read a Dalai Llama book or Thich Nacht Hahn book, or even listen to Alan Watts speak, you will be able to identify that by comparison the author is more theoretical than richly experienced.

Sorry if this review lacks compassion, but when a book is presented as an instruction manual for living, and is not free, I believe that it is important for reviews to be honest. However, the book hopefully won’t cause anyone any harm and many other reviewers seem to love it so each to their own.

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  • Lizard
  • 17-01-2021

Highly Recommended Book for Life

This is an outstanding book making the subject of transformation and ‘letting go’ accessible for everyone. Inner work really is the ticket to creating huge change in your life and this book contains powerful techniques to help you to do that. I enjoyed the narrators voice too, he speaks easily and fluidly.

A great test of whether I really enjoyed an audible book is firstly whether I actually finish it (many half read books in my library). Secondly, if I love it I will then buy the hard copy to re-read and refer back to. I’m just off to do that now.

Read it and do the work 🙏🏻

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  • Rita L
  • 24-08-2020

loved this book

Was easy to listen, did not get bored. overall great book. read similar books before, but this one did stand out. really recommend.

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  • Angelamay Stevenson
  • 13-01-2023

Pseudo Psychological Twaddle

What a load of rubbish. While I am a fan of meditation, mindfulness and gratitude, these are already in my practise, expecting magical things to happen when you follow the advice in the book is frankly ludicrous. The anecdotal evidence of John Purkiss and his privileged friends does nothing to change my point of view. Whilst I have an open mind, I’m not prepared to spend 20 minutes a day re-living rape, the attempted suicide of my mother or any other significantly awful memories that I have. If the worst thing that happened to you was to be laughed at, at school, have at it. But if you have real issues, look elsewhere.
I really felt for Mark Meadows who had to read out this nonsense, which he does excellently.
Hopefully I can get a refund.

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  • Fiction.Beauty
  • 10-10-2022

Potential to be life-changing

I say ‘potential’ because for something to ‘be’ life changing, you have to make the choice to allow it to be so. This book has that potential. It allows you seemingly simple tools to restructure your mind, your choices, and your future. However when putting into practice, it is not so simple. You have to really want to let go of everything you’ve learned to hold onto over your lifetime. The stories in this book provide food for thought and insightful moments that many can resonate with. It’s very rare for me to re-listen to a book nowadays, but this is one that I will drilled into my mind, because the message is so profound. Truly, life-changing.

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  • jacqueline mcgrory
  • 25-08-2022

Such a helpful book!

To hear out loud how to do simply what you need to do great!

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  • Anonymous User
  • 18-05-2022

Perfect

Amazing book. It gives the law of attraction an ekstra explanation to understand it better or at all. And I love how each thing is explained several times.

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  • siobhan
  • 26-01-2022

what an amazing book

I loved this book so much that I'm going back 2 reread it . fascinating

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  • Carolyn
  • 13-02-2020

Excellent audio book with great information

I found this audio book excellent on all levels.
It’s easy to follow, with excellent well laid out information.
The narrator was also very good and easy to listen too, I usually prefer books narrated by the author but in this instance it was read perfectly with great inference and rhythm he was reading from the heart so sounded perfect.
I found the text ideal for me not too in-depth or overly complicated although still very well explained.
Thank you

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  • Ste Upps
  • 11-12-2023

Do the work & surrender it to the ether

25 years I’ve been in the acting industry. The first 10 years I absolutely flew and all my dreams came true. The a huge block because I started trying too hard and pushing and for the last 15 years I’ve suffered tremendously in utter loneliness and darkness. Now thanks to this book. I surrender to the innocence and naivety of the 1st 10 years where I just took chances as and when they arrived. I’ve created so much wonderful work in the last 15 years now it’s time to surrender it and just allow it to happen and enjoy working by intuition. Great book that has given me a new freedom. Thanks John

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