The Genius Zone: The Breakthrough Process to End Negative Thinking and Live in True Creativity

by Gay Hendricks PH.D.

Overview

Too often we live lives that we find unfulfilling, fail to reach our own potential, and neglect to practice creativity in our daily routines. Gay Hendricks's The Genius Zone offers a way to change that by tapping into your own innate creativity.

Dr. Gay Hendricks broke new ground with his bestselling classic, The Big Leap, which has become an essential resource for coaches, entrepreneurs, executives, and health practitioners around the world. Originally published as The Joy of Genius, The Genius Zone has been updated and expanded throughout, making it the essential next step beyond The Big Leap.

In The Genius Zone, Hendricks introduces his brilliant exercise, the Genius Move, a simple, life-altering practice that allows readers to end negative thinking and thrive authentically. By using the Genius Move, readers will learn to spend more of their lives in their zone of genius—where creativity flows freely and they are actively pursuing the things that offer them fulfillment and satisfaction. Filled with hands-on exercises and personal stories from the author, The Genius Zone is an essential guide to creative fulfillment. If you are committed to bringing forth your innate genius and making your largest possible creative contribution, The Genius Zone will become a trusted companion for the journey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250246547
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	167,859
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

GAY HENDRICKS, PhD, has served for more than forty years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. He is a New York Times bestselling author and his books include Conscious Loving and The Big Leap.

Editorial Reviews

03/15/2021

Psychologist Hendricks (Conscious Loving) explores in this satisfactory but simplistic guide the process of realizing one’s creative potential. He suggests one must ask the “wonder question”: “How can I spend the majority of my time doing what I most love to do, while also making my greatest contribution to the world?” To open one’s mind, he suggests breath work and prioritizing tasks to give oneself time to “focus on excellence.” Also included are activities intended to be completed while reading, such as releasing a grip on a ball in a too-literal lesson about metaphorically letting go. Committing to something isn’t what’s important, Hendricks argues, it is the recommitting that must continuously happen. He suggests incompleteness—or a lack of closure—is what feeds persistent negative thinking, and suggests that achieving one’s goals or working on a fulfilling project can stymie repetitive negative thoughts. While Hendricks provides some helpful ideas about creativity, the exercises generally land as bland, and readers well-versed in the topic won’t find much new here. But for those new to the idea, there’s plenty to recommend in this practical workbook. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"The inner intelligence of the body is the ultimate and supreme genius. Gay shows how to connect with this inner intelligence and discover the secrets to healing, love, intuition, and insight."—Deepak Chopra

"Imagine sitting down the coaching legend, Gay Hendricks, as he works his transformational magic with you! Reading his new book, The Genius Zone, is just like that. He's truly a genius at giving us the tools to unleash our own genius." —Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret

"Hendricks provides some helpful ideas about creativity... there’s plenty to recommend in this practical workbook." —Publishers Weekly

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