Hidden Path Book and Journal

Hidden Path Management Team (published 2010)

Written By Kate Filmer and Shannon Thomson

Australia

This book does not get a star ranking out of 5 as it is not a budgeting book. However, it is a great read with lots of life-changing ideas.

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How the blurb describes the book:

Open your mind and uncover the knowledge hidden within!

Hidden Path is a two-part creation, consisting of a book that is full of powerful, positive, life-altering spiritual information and a proactive Journal, full of exercises to assist you in achieving all that you desire, day by day, week by week.

What is it that you desire?
Can you even begin to answer this question?

Hidden Path’s proven structure will help you to uncover these answers, plus give you all the tools and guidance needed to become a happier, more fulfilled person, capable of completing all your goals and achieving all of your dreams.

Think it. Envision it. Write it. Say it. Believe it. Release it. Appreciate it. Claim it. Live it!

“What an impact this book is making!” Kelly Tompkins

“Love it! I got the tingly goose bumps too!” Monica Brauer – ND BHSc (Nat) Naturopath

“I am so grateful for this book! The style of writing is clear and simple to follow and since reading it I have begun a powerful journey, resulting in true happiness from within.” Erin Hewett

“Hidden Path Book and Journal is a fabulously practical, easy introduction into understanding the laws of the universe and creating the life you’ve always dreamed of.” Nicole Greentree

Mr Home Budget’s Review:

So you might have noticed two things about this review a tad odd compared to others. For one, there is no rating between one and five. The second is, we have a YouTube video at the start of the review. If you could please watch the video (from April 2011).

I became aware of this book by watching this video. However, to my mind the video is a bit misleading. It paints these authors as bill-busting women and the book as a budgeting money book. But if you are expecting this, then you will be sorely disappointed. However, this is not to say the book is not good. It is just not a money or budgeting book as portrayed in the Today Tonight video.

The book is broken down into 12 chapters:

-          Law of Attraction

-          Goals

-          Healthy Mind

-          Healthy Body

-          Healthy Soul

-          Wealth

-          Forgiveness

-          We Are All Connected

-          Contrast

-          Gratitude

-          Gift of Giving

-          Our End Is Your Beginning

As you can see, these are not exactly chapters on how to save money at the supermarket. Or how to put together a well-run home budget. But this does not mean these subjects can’t add value to your life.

Here at Mr Home Budget, we always talk about the dollars and cents. Sometimes it is great to look at what is valuable in your life, which is free. As the famous saying goes, “Anything that cannot be purchased with money, is the most valuable thing in the world.” And this is what the authors will get you to focus on.

The book talks about negative and positive energy and whether you know it or not, you attract a greater portion of one or the other by the way you act, think, and talk. Be prepared to be given tasks at the end of each chapter to increase your positive energy and reduce your negative energy.

Here are some of the paragraphs that I found interesting: “Nobody else has the power to destroy your dreams; it is you that creates your ability to succeed or fail! You attract like experiences as to how you feel about your desires. If you are feeling empowered you will attract empowered events. If you are feeling fearful you will attract events that evoke fear. It is YOU who invites the people, the opportunities, the beliefs and experiences into your life.”

And this paragraph from the wealth chapter: “If you are like most people then you probably feel it too, the persistent need for more. It is a human obsession to long for more or the next best thing. Electrical companies, phone companies, car companies all prey on this. They have built their thriving multimillion and multibillion dollar businesses on this fact alone. What you purchase today, will be outdated before you can even finish reading the instructions. Because life requires the need for it, most people have a car and most people have a mobile phone. However, at the age you are today, is this your first? I’d say no! The first car you ever purchased would have served its purpose to drive you to work and back, so then you can use your hard-earned cash to fill the constant and forever continuous burning desire for more and buy yourself a new one.”

And I found this quite interesting: “It’s Not Just Your Mood, It’s Your Health Too – We recently watched a documentary on an experiment conducted by Dr Emoto, ‘Messages from Water’. He experiments on the effect that positive or negative energy (by the way of thought or situation) has on water. He placed droplets of water on several Petri dishes and subjected them to different elements such as: thoughts, music and emotion. Dr Emoto then froze the droplets and examined his finding with a photographic microscope. They found that when water was subjected to a peaceful selection of music, a positive calm chant or prayer and or words such as love and gratitude, the microscope and photographs showed the droplet had formed into the most beautiful crystallized pattern. When the water droplet was subjected to heavy metal music, negative words and energy or chants, the pictures were completely different; they were distorted to look at and almost irate in nature.”

While I enjoyed this book (and I think you will too), I find it somewhat hard to review as it is not a pure budgeting/money book. My best advice is to look at the chapters and see if it grabs you. If you are truly wanting a book that will make you think about your life in a more spiritual sense, then you can’t go wrong with this.

Pros:
Will have you doing heaps of tasks to work out exactly where you are going in life. And to find out if you are a negative- or a positive-thinking person.

Cons:
Not a budgeting book or money book as suggested by a few media outlets.

This is a more accurate media video about the book:

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Again, here is a report from June 2011 that put the book in a budget light, which it is not:
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