Marci Shimoff (with Carol Kline)
Love for No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love
Free Press, New York, NY • 2011

How do you build a love foundation from within? Love for No Reason is a 7-step guidebook packed with tools to create a vibrant, centered existence for living with an open heart. Lessons from 150 Love Luminaries (love role models who consistently radiate "Higher Love") range from authors to Ayurvedic practitioners and neurosurgeons, to a woman who gained and lost more than a thousand pounds before learning to love herself. Specialized exercises, such as EFT and mirroring, increase love awareness, while biochemical research validates the heart's wisdom by confirming that a six-second hug lifts mood, lowers blood pressure and boosts the immune system. The goal is not romantic love (though that may be a juicy side effect!). Instead, Love for No Reason amplifies inner loving capacity by showing: Love is who we are; The purpose of life is to expand in love; and The heart is the portal to love.