 |
recommend book⇒Your Road Map to Lifelong Happiness: A Guide to the Life You Want | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| by | Ken Keyes Jr. | 978-0-915972-23-4 | paperback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 1921-01-19 1995-12-20 age:74 | 978-0-915972-22-7 | hardcover | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| publisher | Love Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| published | 1995-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ken’s last book finished just before he died. He introduces EMDR, Harville Hendrix, Ron Kurtz’s Hakomi and other therapies as much faster ways of getting rid of addictions than using his classic methods. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock. Try looking for it with a bookfinder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
There are two wisdom principles:
You really have to read several of Ken’s books to properly understand what these principles mean. I will give you a couple of examples from my own life of their application.
In 1975 my lover suddenly dumped me and refused any further communication. I went into an emotional tailspin and pined for him for 12 years. What was really causing my suffering? Him leaving or me refusing to let go of the past? The first wisdom principle reminds me that I am the author of that pain, not my ex. To get rid of the pain, the most efficient way is to change my head rather than to persuade him to come back. Even if I had persuaded him to come back, I would still have tortured myself with thoughts of losing him again. Either way, to get rid of the suffering, I had to get rid of my addiction to him.
In 1993 a couple of embezzlers wiped me out financially. I lost my business and all my savings. I ceaselessly obsessed about it. I felt so betrayed by my two friends. How they must have hated me to do such a thing. I started thinking that I must have been a really rotten boss for them to have sought such revenge. When I discovered their true motives, I was able to stop that poisonous churning. One was stealing to buy expensive gifts for his wife. The day the gifts stopped she left him. The other was an alcoholic. Alcoholics will even steal from their parents to get the booze that blocks the pain of their existence. The second wisdom principle reminds me, that even when a motive for some unpleasant act is not clear, it is always for something beneficial such as to feel loved, or to feel comfortable.
Recognising your own positive intentions can be useful too. For example I might find myself eating food when I was not even hungry, or I might find myself furious over some employees embezzling my life savings. I would look for my positive intention and formulate it in canonical form:
I might discover that my positive intention for both those situations situation is to feel calm. Now I can look for alternate, more skillful ways of achieving that same positive intention. I might take a bath. I might put on some calming music. I might go for a short walk in the trees. These activities are quite far removed from food, embezzling, money and the revenge fantasies I imagined I would need to feel calm.
 |
recommend book⇒Gathering Power Through Insight and Love | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| by | Ken Keyes Jr. with Penny Keyes | 978-0-915972-13-5 | paperback | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| birth | 1921-01-19 1995-12-20 age:74 | 978-0-940687-37-0 | audio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| publisher | Love Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| published | 1993-01-01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Informally known as The Methods Book gets down to the brass tacks. All the various exercises you can use to help get rid of addictions. It contains some template pages you could use to create a Getting Free Book diary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greyed out stores probably do not have the item in stock. Try looking for it with a bookfinder. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we shall find in each man’s sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-02-27 1882-03-24 age:75)
If you can identify the emotional state you are aiming for with some action or addiction, you can seek some other easier way to attain that same emotional state. If you can identify the emotional state someone else is aiming for, likewise you can offer them more skillful ways of attaining it. In any case, you will become more understanding and forgiving. Identifying your own positive intention is the second step in the Choice Process. Identifying someone else’s positive intention is the first step in the Conscious Confrontation process.
Don’t confuse positive intention with the desired outcome. Intentions are internal emotional states. Make sure you find your positive intention somewhere in the list below. If it is not in the list, it is likely not a positive intention.
|
|
|
In my own case, some of my most common desired beneficial positive intentions are to feel lovable and to see myself as sexually appealing. When my lover dumped me in 1974 I erroneously believed that because he no longer loved me and because he no longer found me sexually appealing, I was unlovable and sexually unappealing. After all, who knew me better than him? The key was to learn to get this reassurance from other people who did love me and who did find me sexually appealing.
 |
This page is posted |
http://mindprod.com/livinglove/methods/wisdomprinciples.html |
Optional Replicator mirror
|
J:\mindprod\livinglove\methods\wisdomprinciples.html | |
 |
Please read the feedback from other visitors,
or send your own feedback about the site. Contact Roedy. Please feel free to link to this page without explicit permission. | |
| Canadian
Mind
Products
IP:[65.110.21.43] Your face IP:[18.118.166.79] |
| |
| Feedback |
You are visitor number | |
