Coming Alive
Random House USA Inc (Verlag)
978-0-399-59118-1 (ISBN)
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Tap into the Life Force with this critical and contemporary guide to unlocking our most powerful selves-from the bestselling authors of The Tools (and Goop's resident shrinks).
In The Tools, Michels and Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth. Now, in Coming Alive, they guide readers toward a wellspring of positive energy: the source of creativity, renewal, and engagement. The first step in gaining mastery over one's life-in deepening both emotional and spiritual experiences-is identifying the enemy within, which Michels and Stutz have named Part X. This formidable adversary is a shape-shifter: it may be the voice in your head that is a torrent of negativity; it may take the form of outside forces that conspire against you. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope.
The four vital tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force-a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement-and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnectedness, Michels and Stutz have created a paradigm-shifting guide to achieving optimal mental health and spiritual well-being.
Praise for Coming Alive
"What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions . . . Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I'll be pressing on friends and foes alike."-Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Barry Michels and Phil Stutz are the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools and the resident therapists on Goop. They have appeared on Nightline, Charlie Rose, and The Dr. Oz Show and have been featured in such print and online publications as The New Yorker, Time, Psychology Today, and Vanity Fair. Michels, a psychotherapist, has a BA from Harvard, a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MSW from the University of Southern California. Stutz, a psychiatrist, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from City College in New York and received his MD from New York University.
Chapter One Reclaiming Your Life Phil exposes the inner enemy that traps you in a limited existence, and guides you through the first steps toward activating your full potential. How I Came Alive I became aware of the power of the life force as a college student-but it wasn't part of my course work. At seventeen, I was already in my sophomore year. Physically and emotionally immature, I belonged back in high school. During my freshman year I had indulged my greatest love-basketball. When I was sixteen years old, I played on the best freshman team the school had had in years. Now I wanted to move up to the varsity. I wasn't ready. I needed to wait a year and get bigger and stronger. But I was a gym-rat whose pulse would quicken at the sound of the bouncing ball. I made the team-barely-and then I got what I deserved. I spent the next two years "riding the pine." (The pine was the wooden bench the scrubs sat on during games.) Worse than not playing was the dismissive way the coach treated the scrubs. By the time I was a senior, my confidence was destroyed. But what happened in that final season prepared me for the future in a way I never could have anticipated. The team was even better than when I was a freshman. The best player was an All-American point guard. I was his substitute, which meant I only played when he was injured or had fouled out-usually when the score was close and the crowd was going berserk. If I sat inertly watching, by the time I entered the game I'd be so cold I could barely move. So I'd "put myself in the game" from the bench. I'd jump up and down, scream at the top of my lungs, yell out where the screens were, etc. Besides keeping me loose, it had an effect I didn't anticipate-it lifted up the energy of the guys actually playing. The best moments were when my excitement spread to the rest of the team. I learned that I could inspire others to do things they'd never done before. It was at those moments that I felt most alive. What I didn't realize at the time was that I was being prepared for my future. Recognizing the Life Force Winning was great, but the most alive part of the experience-the part I still remember fifty years later-was feeling that inner fire grow. The more powerful the other team, the more difficult the challenge, the more inspired we became. The drive to experience this inspired state is what moves competitive athletes to train for hours every day. But sports are just one place to discover untapped potential. As a psychiatrist, my job isn't to win basketball games, it's to help people discover what they're capable of. This happens in obvious ways, like helping them get a better job, be a stronger leader, or break through a creative block. But our most important potentials aren't so obvious: to give and receive love, to listen to other people, to accept what life brings, to be patient-the spiritual and emotional abilities that work inside us and are the essence of what it means to be human. If you were building a fire, they would be the ring of stones that holds in the fire's heat, allowing the flames of inspiration to grow and connect you to what I came to call the Life Force. The Life Force speaks constantly-not in words, but through events. You can feel it as an undeniable presence guiding you. More commonly, you'll feel its presence for brief moments, usually in reaction to a deeply moving event: the birth of a child, the act of falling in love, or a trip to a faraway place that awakens something deep within you. Or it can emerge without explanation as a sudden insight into another person, as the solution to a problem that's defeated you for months or as a burst of creative expression that comes from somewhere beyond you. These moments of inspiration can seem random, but they're reminders that the Life Force is always there. But knowing the Life Force is there isn't enough if you do
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 7 LINE DRAWINGS |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 137 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 308 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| Schlagworte | addiction • attitudes • Behavior Patterns • behaviors • business • business books • business motivation • Business Self-Help • changing conditioned responses • creative expression • demoralization • economics self-help • Emotional Experience • full potential • Happiness • life force energy • Mental Health • Mindfulness • Motivational • negative thoughts • paralysis • Personal Growth • Persönlichkeitsentwicklung; Ratgeber • positive energy • Psychology • psychology books • realizing potential • self actualization • Self-Help • self help books • spiritual experience • The Tools • Victimization |
| ISBN-10 | 0-399-59118-4 / 0399591184 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-399-59118-1 / 9780399591181 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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