Your Erroneous Zones / Wayne W. Dyer

RATINGS

Overall: 5/ 5 stars

Text Level: Medium

Entertainment: Medium

Self-Help: High

Genres: Non Fiction, Self-Help, Psychology, Personal Development, Spirituality, Philosophy

Page Count: 320

Is this book right for my inmate and me?

Inmates and families going before a judge for sentencing where taking responsibility for your actions and choices will be focused on, should read this book.

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Review By: Blackbird (Inmate)

Develop the skills to choose to take charge in making responsible life decisions, free from blaming others.

Best-selling author Wayne Dyer provides readers with a no-nonsense book that questions our need to be self-destructive by using blame to avoid our responsible choices. As inmates and family members to inmates, we tend to look to blame others and outside forces for why we are in our current situation. In “Your Erroneous Zones” we see that we control our choices for positive lives no matter what surrounds us.

This type of thinking, where we take responsibility for our world, is precisely what prosecutors, judges, and society want to see from us to feel we have changed.

This book is full of easy-to-follow advice on how to break down you negative cycles of past thinking that we have experienced in jail and at home. Whether taking charge of yourself and your choices, breaking free of past guilt, or letting go of the worry of the unknown future is something you struggle with, Dyer’s book lends you ways to shift your thinking to understand you can overcome these obstacles by building the right mindset.

As an inmate, I found this book especially helpful in the way I thought of my family. In the past, I had spent so much of my time looking to blame my parents or siblings for my mistakes as an adult I have made. I realized through reading this book that yes, they might have made mistakes in how I grew up, but I am responsible for all the choices I make now as an adult. Freeing myself from this thinking pattern allows me to move forward with a life of positive views of my future.

Many inmates come from poverty, broken homes and places where they started life without many advantages. Learning to accept the past for what it is and move forward without blame or using it to try to excuse our current legal troubles is a way forward. As family members reading this book, you can learn to let go of the labeling of negativity that naturally happens in a family with inmates. You will learn that there doesn’t have to be blame shifted to anyone for this reality. When you speak in front of the judge with the mindset of taking responsibility for your life, they will hopefully see you have begun to break through the past negative cycles.

Book Quotes:

“Just as you are free to choose happiness over unhappiness, so in the myriad events of everyday life, you are free to choose self-fulfilling behavior over self-defeating behavior.

“Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don’t want to take responsibility for something in your life.”