I don't usually like self-help books very much. Today's so-called gurus sound like charlatans of yesteryear to me. But ... (making exceptions is always good to avoid falling into the single thought), some self-help books through their own example, can always be interesting.
Then comes the filtering process, the adaptation to one's circumstances. But the example is there, brimming with that, exemplary in the face of adversity, brimming with ideas with which to overcome each one of his frustrations, fears and other sticks in the wheels of our lives.
In fact, this book The Dancer from Auschwitz is an exercise in listening, as when we discover in our parents or grandparents an exciting story about pasts that are slightly grayer in the social sphere (perhaps much more colorful in the human). Surviving the holocaust, the genocide, always brings the light that everything is possible with will and strength. A force impossible to presuppose before facing the horror, but that ends up being born from your last cell in search of oxygen and life.
Synopsis: Eger was sixteen when the Nazis invaded her town in Hungary and took her with the rest of her family to Auschwitz. Upon stepping on the field, her parents were sent to the gas chamber and she remained with her sister, awaiting certain death.
But dance The blue Danube for Mengele it saved his life, and from then on a new struggle for survival began. First in the death camps, then in Czechoslovakia taken by the communists and, finally, in the United States, where she would end up becoming a disciple of Viktor Frankl. It was at that moment, after decades of hiding her past, that she realized the need to heal her wounds, to speak of the horror she had lived through, and to forgive as a path to healing.
His message is clear: we have the ability to escape the prisons we build in our minds and we can choose to be free, whatever the circumstances of our life.
You can buy the book The Auschwitz Dancer, Edith Eger's new book, here: