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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN num: 9780071470261
ISBN number: 0071470263
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Page Count: 256
Printing Date: September 08, 2006
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Rebuild your sense of self, on your own terms.
Dr. Neil Fiore, a renowned psychologist, lecturer, and bestselling author, has created his groundbreaking new program with you in mind. He guides you on an empowering journey of discovery--a journey to your Strongest Self. He'll show you step-by-step how to let go of all your old baggage and live a new, richer life.
'For anyone who has been stuck in old habit patterns--be it procrastination, difficulty maintaining commitments to exercise and health habits, or living with stress and anxiety--Dr. Neil Fiore provides both the tools for, and the hope of, rapid change.'
--Susan Page, author of If I'm So Wonderful, Why Am I Still Single?
'This book leads you in a step-by-step process to transform debilitating behavior into more satisfying and practical self-leadership skills.'
--Wendy Palmer, author of The Practice of Freedom: Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Practice
You don't need a wake-up call to know that you need to change. The signs are right there in front of you: stress, fear, procrastination, self-doubt, and self-sabotage. But now you can do something about it. You can awaken your Strongest Self, rebuild your confidence, and unlock your true potential . . . in only four steps.
Dr. Neil Fiore's revolutionary program makes it surprisingly easy to change your life, one small step at a time. He's already helped thousands of people with his gentle approach to awakening the mind. Using the latest discoveries of neuroscience, he's developed an effective technique that actually retrains the brain to 'turn off' negative thoughts. By teaching your brain to respond differently to everyday things, you can overcome self-destructive habits, reduce dangerous levels of stress, and increase productivity and creativity. It's all part of a gradual but rewarding process--the full awakening of the Strongest Self you were meant to be.
Discover how you can:
- Break free of old, ineffective patterns
- Step up to your 'new brain' and voice
- Awaken the five qualities of your Strongest Self
- Put everything together to achieve your goals
With each passing day, you'll feel stronger, more confident, and even downright joyful. Feelings of uncertainty, loneliness, and being overwhelmed will no longer have power over you. Instead, you'll be using the highest, most advanced part of your brain to take charge of your thoughts--and live the life you so richly deserve. This remarkable book gives you all the tools you need, including a special progress journal, a centering exercise, a stress quiz, self-talk suggestions, a chart for effective habit change, and personal posttests. It also features inspiring true stories of people just like you, people who kicked the habits that held them down and who turned their lives around. If they can do it, so can you.
Awaken Your Strongest Self. It's the best thing you can do--for your life, your family, your career . . . and yourself.
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This is a fantastic book that has provided me with some vital tools for altering my life in almost every facet for the better. The key in reading this book is to take away the nuggets of wisdom and apply them to your own life. Dr. Fiore provides some easily-accessibly techniques that a reader can use to identify and overcome the fears and hesitancies that have been holding him or her back. As the book explains, the origins of those psychological obstacles that prevent us from making the best decisions in our lives usually lie in experiences buried in our pasts. Unfortunately we tend to let our past experiences control our present actions, even when we realize that may not be the best course of action. This book can shows how you can get out of this quandry. Whether you want to break away from the detrimental influences of your past and start a new chapter of your life, or if you just want to improve some aspect of your behavior (and I would say almost every human being has something that he or she should look to improve on), this book has much to offer.
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Awaken Your Strongest Self: Break Free of Stress, Inner Conflict
and Self-Sabotage
(McGraw-Hill; November 2006; $21.95, 0071470263
Author: Neil Fiore
Neil Fiore has written a masterful book on self-empowerment. He invokes the latest neuroscience to point out that the destructive habits that limit our creativity and productivity arise from the primitive drives and fears of the lower brain mechanisms. To break free of these limiting patterns, Fiore suggests that we make use of the "new human brain" located in the prefrontal cortex.
The primary strategy presented in Awaken Your Strongest Self is to shift gradually from a limited sense of self, shaped by outdated beliefs and coping dynamics of the primitive brain to one's "Strongest Self." Fiore outlines five negative patterns that can be reduced or resolved through the Strongest Self program: Stress and fear, inner conflict and procrastination, overwhelm and confusion, self-criticism and self-blame, and struggle and loneliness.
The author includes many practical, highly effective tools to help the reader in this quest within a four stage model: Making Up Your Mind, Committing to Change, Taking Action, and Maintaining Long-Term Success. Chapters follow that teach readers how to engage their strongest selves. For example, the book suggests imagining that five years have passed and feeling the pain of staying the same as part of the decision to change; rating the strength of intentions and motivations as part of the commitment stage; catching yourself doing something right during the action stage, and emphasizes ways of overcoming setbacks as part of ensuring long-term accomplishment.
Particularly helpful are the chapters on how to awaken specific qualities of the strongest self. I especially liked the focus exercises "Create A Psychological Safety Net to Stop Unnecessary Stress," the "Now I'm Aware of..." exercise, "One Rapid, Focused Breath" and the use of mission statements to move progress along.
Any reader interested in permanent self-change will benefit from this well-conceived book. Don't miss out on this one!
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Yes, the book description and the customer reviews sound like they came straight from an infomercial. Yes, of course you've read more self-help books than you can count, and they didn't really help because a lot of the stuff in them didn't apply to you. Yes, this is a hardcover book and yes, I too prefer paperbacks. Now buy this book. You'll be doing yourself a favor. Then buy it again when it comes out on trade paperback, because it really is that good! Many thanks to Dr. Fiore for writing the last self-help book I'm ever gonna read. And also my apologies for not reading The Now Habit first.
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This amazing book is like an owner's manual for the human brain. It also captures the reader's interest, which is a novel attribute for any self-help book. It provides you with a complete set of tools for coping with any situation. My copy has become a reference book, riddled with tape flags.
Dr. Fiore initially illustrates and explains the components and attributes of the human brain, providing a foundation for understanding common human reactions to life's challenges. He then guides you through a remarkable process of replacing ineffective, self-sabotaging thoughts and behavioral patterns with new and powerful mental strengths, greater wisdom and self-confidence. The accounts of his own and his clients' experiences help to reinforce the process throughout the book.
By practicing the simple exercises at the end of each chapter, you learn how to acess and utilize your inherent genius and creativity by awakening your Strongest Self, with all parts of the brain working together. Achieving goals and taking charge of your life becomes a simple process. Whatever issues confront you -- feeling overwhelmed, anxious, struggling, depressed -- can be dealt with calmly and competently.
I believe everyone would benefit by reading this book, as I certainly have, and predict that it will soon play an essential role in psychotherapeutic treatment.
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If you have any troubling self doubts or irritating habits that you would like to change, Dr Fiore has written this book for you. While the book is relatively small the ideas contained in it are not. What you will find is a well considered, well organized, complete program to help you make the changes that you want. The program starts with assessing motivation for change and concludes with relapse prevention techniques. Exercises, rating scales and worksheets are included. The reader is asked to use a notebook to record their answers to key questions and to track their progress. It's all here for anyone seriously considering changing themselves.
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