Battersea Park Road to Paradise

In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel Losada set out with a modest aim - ''''to be absurdly happy every day''''. But a few years down the road, she''''s stuck in a pothole. No job (not good). No man (very not good). Nothing has turned out as she''''d intended. There''''s only one way to get out of the hole: throw out the ideas that landed her there and start over. So, using the ancient Chinese tradition of the five elements of life - Metal, Fire, Wood, Water, Earth - Isabel breaks her own life down to its essentials to explore five areas of inner and outer change. She calls in a feng shui consultant to discover that her bedroom decor is ''''draining the father'''' (whatever that means)...takes a motivational workshop to experience the power of ''''doing''''...turns a silent meditation retreat into an exercise in unrelenting ''''being''''...sits at the feet of a Brixton guru to examine the nature of mind...and undertakes a shamanic ritual in the Amazon to part company with her own mind completely. As rich as the book is in the particulars of a life hilariously lived, it''''s also universal: readers can see themselves in Isabel''''s experience and look at their lives with new eyes. See more