He is an independent thinker and I would advise you to read some of his books, particularly Attitude Is All You Need! It will help you control your anxiety and overcome other emotional problems"--Albert Ellis, Ph.D. The founder of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Albert Ellis, was voted the second-most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA). Dr. Ellis devoted a chapter to Attitude Is All You Need! in his book How to Control Your Anxiety Before It Controls You.To be concise, the book is about Attitude Power (AP). From reading it, you will discover how to increase your Attitude Power, and how to decrease your attitude weaknesses and deficiencies. Don't you think the time and energy spent on improving your mental health is worth the benefits to your relationships and career?FEATURE #1: Attitude Power helps you to become more aware of your attitudes and the effects your attitudes have on you, your competence, relationships, and stress.BENEFIT #1: Your awareness of your attitudes allows you to switch from ineffective or damaging attitudes to effective or helpful attitudes. Attitude Power can be used to lower your stress by helping you to choose a less stressful attitude.FEATURE #2: Attitude Power helps you to become responsible for your attitudes and stress. Responsibility regains control lost to victimhood.BENEFIT #2: Your responsibility for your attitudes allows you to regain your personal power and to take charge of your attitudes. When you are feeling stress, you are more likely to look for internal methods of dealing with the stress than to blame uncontrollable external sources; hence, you are better able to lower your stress.FEATURE #3: Attitude Power helps you to choose the most effective attitude for the situation. You learn also to choose to choose again after testing the results of your attitude choices.BENEFIT #3: You can cope more effectively because your attitude not only does not get in the way of your coping--your attitude helps you deal effectively with the situation. Your stress is lower as you are more effective. You achieve more of what you want to achieve by choosing the attitude that will help you the most.FEATURE #4: Attitude Power teaches the practice of acceptance when you cannot change things for the better. Acceptance overcomes stress.BENEFIT #4: You are free of bad stress. You do not let bad stress get worked out on your body, which leads to medical problems. You allow good stress to get things done. You switch from bad stress to prevent apathy, burnout, conflicts, cynicism, disease, fights, and illness.The author's works offer 6 different approaches to self-help. (1) In Breathe, you discover methods for congruence, self-relaxation, self-calming, and self-centering. (2) In Garden, you discover methods for sorting out what thoughts work for you and what thoughts work against you. You also learn how to increase your productive thoughts and to decrease your unproductive thoughts. (3) In Not, you discover methods to stop using the number one mistake that underlies failure. You also learn how to be a more effective parent or leader. (4) In Ego, you discover methods to reduce your devotion to and dependence on ego. You also learn how to be free, happy, and more creative. (5) In Attitude Is All You Need!, you discover methods to sort out what attitudes are working for you and what attitudes are working against you. You also learn how to increase your productive attitudes and how to decrease your unproductive attitudes. (6) In the four books Something For Nothing, Anything Goes, Acid Test, and 3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2005 you are given sayings and aphorism to use for introspection, contemplation, and meditation. Please experiment until you find the one or two approaches that work best for you. Worry not if the approaches are the best for anyone else.
This book is the first of its kind in the world. You will discover the real root of ego. You will learn how to apply Western psychology to remove ego now. Instead of spending twenty years meditating to drop ego, you can now uproot ego as fast as you are willing and able. The practices in this book work with any ancient practices you are now using or might use in the future. Get the freedom from ego you want now! This book provides you with a Seven Step Plan to overcome the biggest problem in adult life: your ego. You will discover how ego hampers your goals, health, and happiness. You will be motivated to live free of ego and to return to your original nature. You will realize how to recognize, remove, and replace ego. You will develop three plans to live sane in an insane world. In Step One you discover how ego is the main problem in your life, and the differences between ego and self. In Step Two you learn how you keep ego alive in favor of self. In Step Three you realize how to remove your methods for maintaining ego. In Step Four you determine how to remove ego from your life. In Step Five you discern how to replace ego with your authentic self. In Step Six you understand how to replace your supports for ego with supports for self. In Step Seven you learn how to develop three plans: (1) an action plan to follow Steps 1-6; (2) a relapse plan to keep you on your action plan; (3) a recovery plan to get you back on your action and relapse plans if you fall off.
This book is about the form, nature, and structure of the human self. The form, nature, and structure of being human is explored as a way for you to redirect to and re-own your true self. The states of being of your natural self are explored as a way to help you to retreat to and return to your true nature. The functions of self are explored as a way to help you to rediscover and reinforce your original self in action, awareness, and experience. This book provides you with knowledge and directions for rediscovering and being your natural self. You can discover and understand what real self is and what real self is not. You can discover how to focus on states of being that promote your authentic self. Read and re-read this book to discover how to recognize and redirect your awareness and identity to your natural child-self. Learn to encourage original self states of being rather than ego states of being. Become aware of how to avoid the blocks and habits that work against awareness of your real self. Know what environments and conditioning inhibit or deny your true self so that you can uproot, switch from, and replace them. Make the right space in your life for authentic self, and authentic self will be revealed for you and rediscovered by you. Self is not something that can be found, because self is not any thing. If you seek what is not lost, then it becomes lost. If you seek on a false path, then all you find is false. When seeking true self, you do not want to seek something, or you will find something. Self is not a concept, description, idea, image, label, term, thought, type, or personality. Self is not a collection of characteristics, habits, tendencies, or traits. Self is a living reality that can only be experienced. Self is not composed of thinking; therefore, self cannot be found with thinking, cannot be found as thinking, and can never be known with thinking. You must learn what to seek before you begin seeking or your seeking will mislead you. You will find what you seek. "Seek and ye shall find," says Matthew 7:7. Therefore, seek your real self by learning about and contacting your real self in your daily life. Your real self is with you now. Your real self is neither lost nor dead. Rediscover your authentic self in your experience and emotions. Find your original self in action. Then seek to redirect your attention and identity to your natural self in all that you do. You want to seek in the right direction or area. You want to seek fish in the ocean, not in the desert. You want to use the right tools. You want to eat an apple with a knife, not a spoon. Use this book for a path and direction back to your self. Use this book for the tools it provides for just being again. Right knowledge and right practice will guide you to re-owning your original nature. Combine right knowledge with right practice and become whole again. You can seek self as self, not as concept, image, tendency, title, trait, or type. This book boldly presents the beliefs of FitzMaurice regarding self. It is impossible for these beliefs not to include some of FitzMaurice's beliefs regarding God and spirits. You are free to reject, modify, or accept the beliefs presented as you see fit. Likewise, FitzMaurice retains all of his rights for freedom of belief, speech, and expression. While this book is designed to stand alone, you might find it more easily digested if you first read FitzMaurice's Ego.
BOOK SHORT POINTS • Exciting New Book Genre: Fast-Facts • Unique Format: Each Page Stands Alone • One Page Can Equal One Book • Read One Page a Day for Inspiration • Read One Page a Day to Change Your Life • Information Tables Compose the Book • This Fast-Facts Book Focuses on Feelings • Feelings Are Your Friend or Foe • Master Your Feelings, Master Your Future • Ignore Your Feelings, Ignore Your Success • Feelings Build or Ruin Relationships • How You Handle Feelings Is Winning or Losing • Learn More in this Book than in a Library INFORMATION TABLES This book is a collection of tables that provide fast information regarding positive, neutral, and negative feelings. The tables are about understanding and making the best use of your feelings. This collection also includes information on coping (acclimating, accommodating, adapting, and adjusting). The feeling tables provide information on feelings, such as detachment, diagrams of emotions, diagrams of responses, emotional maturity, emotional skills, emotional superstitions, emotional violence, emotions and sensations, feeding feelings, how feelings are formed, how feelings control you, how the mind works, how to control feelings, overcoming anger, overcoming anxiety, what are the results of feelings, what kinds of feelings there are, and where feelings come from. The coping tables provide information on coping, such as attachment, attitudes, basic choices, calculating results of choices, coping statements, desires, effective coping strategies, energy imbalances, fast ways to misery, higher intentions, how to fail faster, intentions, looping, making life choices, negative energies, positive and effective choices, problem-solving, suffering, switching, and the secret of life. FUNCTION & PURPOSE The function of this book is to teach about feelings and coping in an accessible and condensed format. Its purpose is to help people understand and manage their feelings and lives more positively, productively, and skillfully. The practice of these new skills will lead to greater understanding and peace in the world. Most tables were originally published on our website at this link: https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/lists-and-links/quotations-topics/free-fast-facts/. There, you can find Fast-Facts on many topics. The website link for this Fast-Facts series (feelings, coping) now points to this book. We added a few tables showing the contents of some of our books without raising the book price. Please consider them as free extra tables of information. The original format has been changed. The original tables have been subject to being added to, edited, discontinued, improved, reformatted, renamed, revised, rewritten, and updated. And new and original tables have been added. Typically, the entry title in the table of contents comes from the title in the table; however, there are some exceptions because of space constraints, formatting considerations, or naming preferences. Like in the original version, this version is organized alphabetically. This book will not be available as an audiobook because it consists of tables of information that are visually orientated, difficult to represent verbally, and impossible to read grammatically without change. ACCEPT TRUTH FROM EVERYWHERE Some spirituality and religion are included in a few tables. However, they are optional for understanding or implementing the helpful insights, suggestions, and solutions provided. You can learn from any source you choose. Wisdom should be accepted wherever it is found. One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds. —Maimonides Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. —Philippians 4:8 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. —1 Thessalonians 5:21 All of the information in our books progresses over time. If you find conflicting information, please regard the most current information as the most correct, as is the practice with science. Thank you for understanding our human failings and limitations.
This book is about the psychological or ego games that people play with each other, both in private and in their social relationships. Wouldn't it be great to be able to get out of ego games, without conflict, when others intend to play them at your expense? Wouldn't it be great to be able to recognize an ego game from the start, so that you might either redirect the interaction in a health way or avoid being locked into a stressful and unproductive ego game? Wouldn't it be great to learn ways of relating that don't involve ego games, even though we are all conditioned and trained to play psychological games? Once you understand the structure and style of ego games, you will find them clear and simple enough to see in everyday life. You will discover the basic roles, moves, and motives in psychological games. You will become aware of how to play ego games so everyone wins, how to get out of ego games, and how to avoid playing ego games. Don't you want to become more aware of when you are in an ego game? Don't you want to see the motives of others who engage you in ego games? Don't you want to learn how to avoid entering or starting an ego game? Instead of wondering what just happened in an uncomfortable interaction, you can learn to analyze the ego game and better prepare for it the next time it rears its ugly head. This book will stimulate, enlighten, and challenge you to live ego-game free. Discover how to identify ego games before they suck you in, why people play ego games, who plays ego games, and when they play them. It's not just the people you love, hate, or know who play these ego games--you'll find that you do, too. And you'll learn how to free yourself of your favorite ego games in order to be more effective and authentic in your relationships and career. While exposing the foolish ego games of another person brings pride, there is also shame in exposing your own ego games. Part of the aim of this book is to get you beyond the pride and shame that result from playing ego games. This book also presents another style--defined as "Cooperation"--as a way to relate without ego games. This book includes some materials from a counselor-training workshop previously presented by this author.
This book is a compilation of posters from the author’s counseling practice. Some posters were designed to hang in the office, some in the waiting room, and some for clients to take home. Most of the posters presented in this book were never seen or shared. This was because of a focus on many of the other handouts developed by the author for his clients. Additional sayings have been added, and many of the posters have been rewritten or modified. The first chapter consists of sayings related to both right and wrong thinking patterns. You are helped to discover how thinking can easily lead to misperception. Chapter Two contains sayings that help to make real the difference between being a container versus being the contents of a container. Each of the eight chapters adds another category of posters.
This book is a compilation of sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern philosophy is profound, illuminating, and deepens the understanding of both. For instance, the expressions, “The description is not the described,” and, “The thought is not the thing,” are found in both Eastern philosophy and General Semantics. Both systems arrive at reality as nonverbal, silent, and beyond comprehension with thought. This despite the fact that one is spiritual and one is atheistic. Two entirely different approaches arriving at the same ultimate conclusions is exciting and enlightening. You will find the sayings herein amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought provoking. Let the sayings pass that don’t open to you now. Focus on the sayings that bring stillness. Listen beyond the words. Feel, rather than think, the sayings through. Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.
This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms. If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you. If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you. If you want to grow up or know what it means to grow up, this book is for you. With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people? What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity? The research for this book uncovered a myriad of different ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: Maturity is responsibility. Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy.
Read What’s Your Story? to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego-Story • How To Remove Ego-Story • How To Replace Ego-Story • How To use the 3Rs for Freedom from Ego How Story Shapes Ego • This book is about how story shapes, defines, and guides your self. • This book is about understanding the power and control the story has over your definition of self, your mental life of self-talk, and how you respond to life. • By discovering how story manipulates and controls your life, you will learn how to live free of ego-story. Ego Is Your Problem • Ego is the underlying problem in both personal and social plights. • Learning to see your ego as your real problem begins your journey to sanity. • Solving your problems by working on the reduction of your ego until it is eliminated is the practice of sanity. • Helping others do the same is love, compassion, and kindness. Purpose of Book and Chapters • The story or purpose of this book is to explain the relationships between story, self-talk, and ego. • Such understanding is necessary to realize the book’s goal, which is to help people discover how to live free of ego-story. • The first two chapters explore the nature and structure of the story to help you achieve the goal of freedom from ego. • The following chapter explores the ego’s relationship to self-talk and story. • These together lead to the most important chapter that explores the means and methods for living free of ego-story. Books Expose and Reduce Ego • In Ego, FitzMaurice introduced self-talk as the workings of the ego. • In Games Ego Plays, FitzMaurice introduced social and psychological relationship issues as ego games. • In What’s Your Story?, FitzMaurice introduces the human obsession with the story as the human obsession with ego. • The more ways you have to recognize ego, the more ways you have to begin the process of reducing and eliminating the ego from your life. Uproot Ego and Uproot Misery • Once you recognize ego, you begin to remove and replace your ego. • Most of the many books written by FitzMaurice provide insights and tools to help you Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • While not prerequisites for reading this book, most readers would do well to read both “Garden” and “Ego” before reading “What’s Your Story?” • “Garden” will teach you how to track, process, and improve your thinking, feeling, and reaction. • “Ego” will teach you to focus on your thinking as self-talk to maintain your ego. • Stop being a slave and victim of your ego. • Take charge now of how ego-story controls you and your life. • Choose freedom and authenticity now over ego. • Read and Enjoy Now!
This book is a compilation of sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern philosophy is profound, illuminating, and deepens the understanding of both. For instance, the expressions, “The description is not the described,” and, “The thought is not the thing,” are found in both Eastern philosophy and General Semantics. Both systems arrive at reality as nonverbal, silent, and beyond comprehension with thought. This despite the fact that one is spiritual and one is atheistic. Two entirely different approaches arriving at the same ultimate conclusions is exciting and enlightening. You will find the sayings herein amusing, helpful, interesting, and thought provoking. Let the sayings pass that don’t open to you now. Focus on the sayings that bring stillness. Listen beyond the words. Feel, rather than think, the sayings through. Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.
• Self-Esteem Is the Enemy Within • Self-Esteem Is the Problem in Relationships • Self-Esteem Is the Problem in Performing • Self-Esteem Is the Problem in Spirituality • Recognize, Remove, & Replace Self-Esteem Collection of Tables • This book is a collection of tables that provide fast information regarding destructive self-esteem. • Self-esteem is the modern name for the ego; therefore, the tables are about self-esteem and the ego. • The ego and self-esteem are experienced as collections of competing self-constructions. Self-Constructions • Self-constructions are positive and negative mental objects, commonly known as positive and negative self-images and self-concepts. • These self-constructions are reified thoughts, also known as thought-things, and calcified, concretized, and crystalized thoughts. • Use our tables to cut through the jargon and get to the heart of how to recognize, remove, and replace the ego to stop it from destroying and interfering with your goals and life. Stop Being Self-Esteem • You don’t just have self-esteem because you identify yourself as it. • For example, if you are insulted or praised, you tend to collect self-esteem images of the insults and praise and think of them as yourself. • You might envision yourself as smart or stupid, beautiful or ugly, loved or hated. • However, you tend to think you are these mental objects (thought-things) instead of a being having them. Self-Esteem Drives • You often want others to see you as positive self-constructions and go out of your way to make that happen. • Likewise, you often don’t want others to see you as negative self-constructions and go out of your way to prevent that. • Again, it is not a matter of just having ideas about yourself; it is the problem of trying to live as ideas. • Wanting yourself and others to experience you as beautiful mental objects leads to the destruction of your authentic self and every form of emotional, mental, and physical violence. Self-Esteem Is Not You • These self-esteem (ego) representations of yourself are not yourself. • They interfere with your goals, performance, and relationships. • Putting human thought in charge cannot produce positive results because it has no abilities or powers. • Self-esteem (ego) is the enemy within because it is at the root of all human problems and misery. • Sometimes, you can claim to be positive things before or after a performance but not during because that always causes errors and failures. • Sometimes, you might use self-confidence to pray for good results and falsely credit self-confidence. • Looking inside, you will see that self-esteem (ego) is never responsible for anything other than interference and misdirection. • Self-esteem is silly nonsense that is, at best, empty words and, at worst, the center of your life as collections of dead things. Not All Tables Made Equal You will favor and respond to some tables more than others. Some tables have enough content to deserve a book; others only fill themselves. Focus on the ones that help you the most. Come back later and reread the book for deeper insights, more connections (neural links), and new relevant tables. The repetition of ideas in the tables will help you deepen your understanding by networking the ideas and applying them to new circumstances. The tables were originally published on our website at this link: https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/lists-and-links/quotations-topics/free-fast-facts/. We have Fast-Facts on many topics. The website link for this Fast-Facts series (self-esteem, ego) now points to this book. The original format has been changed. The original tables have been subject to being added to, edited, discontinued, improved, reformatted, renamed, revised, rewritten, and updated. And new and original tables have been added. Typically, the entry title in the table of contents comes from the title in the table; however, there are some exceptions because of space constraints or formatting considerations. Like in the original version, this version is organized alphabetically. This book will not be available as an audiobook because it consists of tables of information that are visually orientated, difficult to represent verbally, and impossible to read grammatically without change. Some spirituality and religion are included in some tables. However, they are optional for understanding or implementing the helpful insights, suggestions, and solutions provided. You can learn from any source you choose. Wisdom should be accepted wherever it is found. One should accept the truth from whatever source it proceeds. —Maimonides Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. —Philippians 4:8
Why see stress as your enemy when stress can be your best friend? Why fight stress when you can redirect stress to work for you? Why suffer from stress when you can succeed with stress? You will learn helpful ways to make stress work for and not against you. You will learn to recognize five different kinds of stress and seven solutions for stress. You will understand the difference between productive and destructive stress. • The advantages and disadvantages of stress. • The difference between helpful and hurtful stress (and how to easily tell which is which). • How to effectively cope with stress-provoking events. • How to easily use your attitude to lower your hurtful stress. • How stress arises, so you can choose whether or not to have stress. • Simple and advanced methods for dealing with stress productively. • Effective rules for living that make stress your friend instead of your enemy.
Read Nobody Speaks to Discover— • Why nobody could wait no longer. What nobody said to somebody. • Why nobody wants to stop somebody. Why somebody must take a hit. • How somebody and nobody interact. • Finally, understand who Nobody is and how to be Nobody Read for Practical Expressions of Emptiness • Concrete expressions of emptiness. • Practical expressions of empty awareness. • Memorable expressions of no-mind. • Functional expressions of creative void. What Is This Book? • Nobody Speaks is not prose. • Nobody Speaks is not poetry. • Nobody Speaks is performance. • Hear the silence. • Open to the stillness. What Is This Book About? • To be somebody or nobody, that is the question. • Nobody is out in front of it. • Nobody will remain when it’s done. • Nobody will not forget this. • Somebody will be exposed. • Somebodies will be discredited. • Somebodies will not remain.
Mind-Move (M-M) is likely the easiest and fastest method you will ever find to help you to cope with stress, relax, sleep, meditate, strengthen your mind, improve concentration, let go of baggage, find internal balance, meet counseling goals, and meet your life goals in constructive ways. While some report taking only minutes to benefit from the exercise, others report taking only seconds. Turbocharge your current exercises and practices with M-M. You relax easier and faster. You meditate easier and deeper. You feel more balanced in your being. You feel more grounded in your being. You have more peace inside and outside. You have better concentration and more mindfulness. You practice more productive problem-solving and coping. You have more productive stress and less destructive stress. You have more productive emotional and relational attitudes. Turbocharge your current exercises and practices with M-M today.
This book explains the story of life from beginning to end, thoroughly revealing the meaning and purpose of life. Moreover, a timeline is provided for the major events that compose the story of life.This book was written in Jerusalem, Israel, in 2018. This author has been aware of the story of life for about forty years and shared it only a few times during that period. While this author still feels unworthy of sharing the story of life, the story of life has been revealed to him, and he is now at an age where any more delay in sharing the story of life might mean that he never publicly shares it.Please do not confuse the messenger with the message. Examine the story of life on its own merits.
In this book, discover the first new major government system to be developed in centuries, a form of government that also functions as its own think tank.This book was many years in the making. Some lyrics in the song "Revolution" by the Beatles can be interpreted to mean that any revolution without a new plan is pointless. This interpretation challenged FitzMaurice to create a new and better plan for governments. The result he calls "Ocean Government". The excuses end now. For the right method to use to cause a revolution, visit http://www.aeinstein.org/. For the right method to use to rule after the revolution, use this book.Ocean Government is advantageous for governing countries, corporations, colleges, communes, co-operatives, clubs, churches, temples, institutions, schools, and organizations of any kind. Ocean Government will work for Communist States, Democracies, Dictatorships, Monarchies, Noocracies, Oligarchies, Presidential Republics, Parliamentary Republics, Socialist Republics, Theocracies, or any form of government. It is simple to set up and easy to continue. There is every reason to switch to the Ocean Government system, and no reason not to give up antiquated systems of government. This book gives you all the tools and knowledge you need to institute the superior Ocean Government form of government today. The only financial cost to you is the cost of this book.The metaphor and fundamental design element for the structure of Ocean Government is a river ending in the ocean. This structure is diagramed at every level to make it easy to understand, apply, and reference. You begin with springs feeding tributaries. You move to tributaries feeding streams and then to streams feeding rivers. Last, you arrive at rivers feeding the ocean. Finally, you reach a system of government that rewards intelligence, cooperation, and participation at every level.
Some Main Ideas Thought-Things Thought-things replace you. Thought-things replace reality. We are not real when thought-things. Thought-things are nothing about nothing. Thought-things exist in a virtual-reality world. Thought-things are the problem of the problem. Believing in thought-things is believing in fantasies. Judging with thought-things produces false judgments. Categorizing and labeling people turns them into thought-things (mental objects) that can be easily controlled, manipulated, and disposed of. Somebodies Somebodies feed on your life force. Somebodies are nobodies in disguise. Somebodies are composed of thought-things. Becoming something or somebody is murder. Stop trying to become thought-things by trying to become somebodies. Your vessel nature and somebodies both need your life force to be in your awareness. Nothing Nothing is better than thought-things. Nobody is better than somebody. Description This book is about thought-things and how they are nothing about nothing. Thought-things are reified thoughts, making them nothing thoughts. Nothing thoughts have nothing to say because they are about the madness and nonsense of thoughts defining themselves as realities. Thought-things are about themselves, not reality or truth. What thought-things are about is also nothing because reified thoughts are about false realities. False realities are nothing, whereas actual realities are something. So we have nothing about nothing whenever we have a thought-thing. Because abstract thinking can be misunderstood and poorly applied, this book sometimes approaches the issue of thought-things emotionally and physically. Whatever way you learn to face (self-identity issues, spiritually, psychologically, emotionally, mentally, factually, practically, logically, physically) the failure and wrongness of thought-things, you must stop using them to live a better and saner life. Thought-things are also recognized using other words: concretize, dehumanize, entify, freeze, hypostatize, mental objects, mummify, objectify, ossify, petrify, reify, robotize, and thingify. Self-constructions are the main thought-things that plague the world. Self-constructions are also known as the ego, psychological identities, self-assessments, self-comparisons, self-measurements, self-ratings, and the components of self-esteem, such as self-concepts and self-images. Nothing About Nothing takes the book Nobody Speaks and changes the wording of the sections and topics to form a new book. Many of the same lines and phrases are used but with a different emphasis and meaning. We have also chosen to be more explicit and less poetic. Some additional sections and topics are added, most occurring after the original ones from Nobody Speaks. “Nothing” can have several meanings depending on the context and intention. It is not always clear which definition is meant or if more than one is meant simultaneously. Consider such instances as an opportunity to explore within to gain insight. 5 Meanings for Nothing “Nothing” sometimes refers to its primary and most recognized meaning (nonexistent, not anything, void). “Nothing” sometimes refers to our original nature (vessel nature, host nature). “Nothing” sometimes means or stands for a person who is nothing (not things, self-constructions, or thought-things). “Nothing” sometimes means all people as living transceivers, not things. “Nothing” sometimes means the unknowable Energy (Spirit) sustaining all. Sometimes, the sections will be clear. For example, we have sometimes identified nothing as (empty vessel) to leave no doubt about the meaning of nothing in that section. At other times, the meaning of words in the sections might need to be clarified. Consider any confusion your opportunity to gain deep insight by finding clarification within. Pierce the clouds and discover the blue stillness inside. “Somebody” sometimes refers to a person who is something(s) (self-concepts, self-images, things, and thoughts). It can also refer to all people who seek to be things and thoughts (self-constructions). “Somebodies” is used as the plural of “somebody.” “Thought-things” is sometimes used to mean all the somebody dualities (e.g., high and low self-esteem) and variations (e.g., inferior and superior identities) that people are lost in. “Thought-things” is sometimes used to mean all the people who are lost in and dying to become things and thoughts (self-constructions). Sometimes, the words above, such as “thought-things,” have separate meanings that are meant simultaneously. Sometimes, the different meanings are intended to be read one at a time into one sentence, paragraph, or section for contrast, juxtaposition, and the tension of triality. Some sections vary between the individual and group meanings. Such usages are not intended to negate the instances when the same terms are used for only one of their possible meanings in a sentence, paragraph, or section. Comments Nothing is out in front of it. Nothing will not forget this. Nothing will be remembered. Nothing will remain when it’s done. Somebody will be exposed. Somebodies will be nothing. Thought-things will be displeased. Thought-things will not remain. Thought-things will be nothing. Nothing will be free.
Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about various ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like challenging your thinking, this book is for you. • If you enjoy wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and daily. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • This book contains many insights regarding the nature of thinking. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2020. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued since, with the current collection compiled in 2024. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to fifteen volumes. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. FitzMaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. Read and enjoy!
Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about various ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to challenge your thinking, this book is for you. • If you enjoy wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and day to day. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2015. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in 2023. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to eight volumes. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. Fitzmaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. • Read and enjoy!
This book helps you to understand how thought becomes a problem when thought replaces reality. You discover enough information and examples to be able to negate thought as reality, which enables you to re-experience “what is”. You can live sanely in an insane world. You just have to choose against the common illusions and delusions of your society and your conditioning. All the common illusions and delusions of the world are constructed through the misunderstanding and misuse of thought. Albert Ellis, voted the second most influential psychologist of all time by the American Psychological Association (APA), said of the first edition of We’re All Insane!, “I found it a most unusual book that makes some excellent points, almost all of which I go along with. It sort of brings Alfred Korzybski up-to-date and makes some points which [sic] are not particularly clear in his own writings.
Don’t feel a need for therapy? Don’t have time for self-improvement programs? You can change your life by changing one thing now. Read Not to change your life by changing your relationship to no-ts. Not will give you twelve principles to improve the central-life-issue of how you deal with no-ts. Improving this one issue will positively impact every area of your life. If you want to improve your relationships, health, and happiness, then purchase and read Not today! Enjoy the ongoing benefits of improving your relationship to one constant-life-issue. Not can help with parenting, teaching, coaching, managing, relationships, addictions, codependency, relaxation, problem solving, emotions, anxiety, anger, depression, and stress coping among other issues. Not is your opportunity to change one thing to change your life and impact all those around you. Read Not today!
Rocket-Mind (R-M) Rocket-Mind is an action-oriented book. Start practicing Rocket-Mind principles immediately. Discover how you work best using Rocket-Mind. Discover how to get yourself working optimally again using Rocket-Mind. You will feel like you’re riding a rocket to your destination. Rocket-Mind Model Rocket-Mind (R-M) is a model for understanding high and optimal performance. Follow R-M principles and perform at your best. Rocket-Mind teaches the right order and structure for your inner life. Understand what works and what does not for living at your best. Living at your best is best for everyone because your best does the best. Rocket-Mind Order Rocket-Mind teaches the right order, emphasis, and structure for your inner life. Rocket-Mind can be substituted for various ways of describing or naming right functioning. Rocket-Mind helps you to be aligned, centered, congruent, and experience effortless work. Rocket-Mind provides integrity, living in the flow, no-mind, non-interference, one-pointedness, and living under virtue. Rocket-Mind Has Three Parts Your inner life consists of three parts: heart, soul, and mind. You can also think of these three parts as your life force or energy, sensing or experiencing, and naming or thinking. The three parts are always working as intended. Only when you focus on this right functioning will you do well. You will do poorly when you focus on the three parts in the wrong order or priority. Each part has its right time and place. Each part has one function or role to play. Each part has a proper relationship to the other parts. No part can substitute for another part. Rocket-Mind Depends on You R-M systems can only direct your functioning according to the intention and focus you provide. Your intention and focus are under your direct control. No matter how naturally perfect R-M is, you can disrupt it and cause it to fail. Rocket-Mind’s First Two Goals The first goal is to have the right intention for each R-M. The second goal is to be aware of all three parts in proper alignment, like the three stages of a rocket.
Read Discovery Demands 5TP to— • Open your mind with the 5TP. • Discover more viewpoints using the 5TP. • Increase your creativity with the 5TP. • Improve your coping skills by using the 5TP. • Increase your understanding by practicing the 5TP. • Improve your ability to discover by using the 5TP. • Improve your problem-solving skills by practicing the 5TP. Discover Advanced Perspective-Taking • This book is about discovering, understanding, and using the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) to develop and increase your skill of perspective-taking. • Perspective-taking is learning the skill of looking at difficult issues from various points of view instead of from only one predominant point of view. • Perspective-taking allows you to understand people, places, and things from different viewpoints, expanding your horizons and insights. Practice Perspective-Taking • The 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) teaches an easy and effective method for practicing perspective-taking. • Using a model of five boxes, columns, lists, or positions, you learn how to easily and quickly develop five perspectives on any concern, issue, problem, or topic. • The five positions, boxes, or columns remain constant, retaining their names and usage, making it easy to plug in the opposite, conciliatory, and balanced views into any 5TP diagram for any concern, issue, problem, or topic. Opening Your Mind • Discovering different perspectives on or views of reality in one area often opens your mind to discovering different perspectives or views of reality in other areas. • Persistently practicing perspective-taking will lead to greater mental balance, flexibility, and openness, because perspective-taking, using the 5TP, is a yoga practice for the mind. • And by having a more holistic grasp of the many sources of information available from using the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) to improve your perspective-taking skill, you will also happily discover that your coping, creative, and problem-solving skills have also expanded and increased. Accepting Your Views • Using the 5TP does not require you to change your mind, alter your beliefs, or accept other points of view. • The 5TP does require you to recognize at least five points of view regarding any issue, problem, or topic. • What you do with that understanding is entirely up to you. • However, you might find that recognizing other sides and viewpoints helps you perform better as a boss, companion, leader, listener, and negotiator. Increase Understanding • The 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) will significantly increase your understanding of any issue, problem, or topic, especially if you initially see or think that only one or two points of view exist. • Such new understandings can go a long way to allowing you to find peaceful solutions to real-life problems. Triality Versus Duality • This book will first cover some of the advantages and disadvantages of duality and triality to prepare the reader to understand the distinct benefits of the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP) over duality and triality. • Duality can be understood as an improvement over-thinking everything is one-sided because duality sees a two-sided reality. • Triality can be recognized as an improvement in thinking everything is two-sided because triality sees a three-sided reality. • 5TP can be understood as advanced thinking where everything is three-sided because 5TP sees a five-sided reality. Continuum Thinking • The 5TP can be understood as the primary form of a continuum or as a form of continuum thinking instead of as another form of dualistic thinking. • The purpose of using the 5TP is to identify how reality appears from different viewpoints, such as in the duality of the glass-half-empty vs. the glass-half-full scenario, which does not affect how much water is objectively in the glass, just the perspective with which that water is viewed. • Some possible viewpoints are: the glass is half full, the glass is half empty, the glass has room to add other ingredients, half full is more than enough, half full is too much, half full is too little, it is what it is.
Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about various ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to challenge your thinking, this book is for you. • If you enjoy wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and day to day. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • This book contains many insights regarding the nature of the ego as self-constructions. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2022. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in 2024. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to seventeen volumes. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. FitzMaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. Read and enjoy!
Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about a wide variety of ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to have your thinking challenged, this book is for you. • If you enjoy the wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and daily. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • While editing this group of (365) quotations for publication, it was noticed that there were many quotations regarding self-talk. • “Self-talk” is the inner dialogue or conversations one has with themselves. • Since most adults’ psychology concerns self-talk, this is a healthy and potentially productive focus. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog during 2011. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in • 2020. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to eight volumes. • Years 2003 and 2004 were combined because 2003, the first year, was not a full year. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. Fitzmaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. • Read and enjoy!
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2023 contains 365 daily quotations for insight and inspiration. • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Themes & Topics • Mental health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, and philosophy. More Topics • Coping, ego, identity, performance, psychology, science, skill, society, spirituality, creativity, and talent. • Explorations on the nature of human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving are included. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • Other frequent topics included ego-talk, one-human nature, problems with science, nondoing, self as inner space, and the limitations of thought. • This book contains many insights regarding the ego as the false self, mental objects, and self-constructions. Stop Wasting Time • Now, you can use this book for contemplation and introspection whenever you have a moment. • Start living today! • Accept no excuses!
2 Perform Use 2-Minds • Attain Peak Performance • Elevate Your Game • Mindset Tools for Athletes • Master the Inner Game Train Brain 4 Peak Performance • Unlock Your Potential • Achieve Breakthrough Results • Mental Training for Top Athletes • Revolutionize Sports Unbeatable Mind • Go Beyond Flow • The Fearless Mind • Heroic Potential • Mental Toughness • Break Bad Habits • Go Beyond Limits Book Description • Breakthrough limits and achieve new levels of performance. Mindset is the winning factor when all factors are equal. And mindset drives performance in every field and task. The format and structure for the right mindset are mapped out for the first time. • How to perform effectively in any area is the focus of this book. We present a simple system for performing well that works when mastered. If you want a more advanced system for a deeper understanding of performing better, then read Rocket Mind (RM). If you want an even simpler system, then read Breathe. • This performance system, 2 Perform Use 2-Minds, is based on recognizing and managing two kinds of minds. We call these two minds the host-mind and the hosted-mind, respectively. They are separate from each other in time and space. Together, they form your mindset. • To understand our six physical brains and how they can be perceived as six minds, please read Breathe and Mind-Moving (M-M): Healing’s Unifying Principle. This book focuses on choosing between two mental states or minds: the host-mind and the hosted-mind. • This book is the author’s “one book to rule them all,” i.e., his previously published books all support this. You can find the eight tables relating to performance on our website: https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/lists-and-links/quotations-topics/fast-facts-2-perform-use-2-minds/.
Read Planet Earth: Insane Asylum to Discover— • How to Defeat Destructive Beliefs • How to Recognize Deadly Beliefs • How to Remove Detrimental Beliefs • How to Replace Damaging Beliefs Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition • Includes Lists of 264 Faulty & Deadly Beliefs • Includes Lists of 193 Thinking Errors • Includes a Total of 31 Tables or Images Intercepted Alien Reports • This book consists of intercepted reports sent by aliens visiting Earth back to their home world. • We know neither what aliens are making these reports nor what they are receiving. • Only by accident have these reports been intercepted by our secret SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) project. • This particular project of ours focuses on microwave frequencies because there are few natural sources of emissions in the microwave range. • You can volunteer to be a part of a SETI project (not one of ours) by contacting http://www.setileague.org/. Disturbing Reports by Aliens • There is no doubt that these reports are alarming. • However, we are optimistic that these reports will not be taken seriously by authorities until it is too late to stop their publication. • Still, please make plans now to safeguard your copies by buying and hiding extra copies. • Profits from the publication of this report will be used to fund the publication and release of more reports. • Therefore, after sharing your copy, please encourage others to purchase copies of this report for themselves. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum Is Being Sold as Fiction Please note that this book is being disseminated as fiction for two reasons. First and foremost, we believe that, as fiction, the publication of this book will be neither stopped nor delayed. Second, we would prefer that each human decide what was factual and fictional about these reports. Author of Planet Earth: Insane Asylum • For style and consistency, one of our members has been chosen to be the author of this book. • However, readers will notice that the book still speaks with the voice of “we” because all of us assigned to the SETI project that intercepted these reports have voiced our concerns and approval regarding every page of this book. • The single author of this book apologizes in advance for any mistakes in meaning that have occurred during the transcription of the captured extraterrestrial signals. • The single author of this book is solely responsible for all the mistakes and contents of this book.
Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about various ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to challenge your thinking, this book is for you. • If you enjoy wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and day to day. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • This book contains many insights regarding the nature of self-esteem as somebodies. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2021. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in 2024. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to sixteen volumes. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. FitzMaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. Read and enjoy!
Read Journal Journey from Ego to Discover— • How To Recognize Ego Processes • How To Remove Ego Processes • How To Replace Ego Processes • How To Journal for Freedom from Ego • 32 Charts Available to Help You Journal to Freedom • This book is about how to journal to improve counseling outcomes, gains, and results. • The journaling methods described in this book can be used with any counseling theory. • However, this book is designed to be used by people in counseling who work to reduce and eliminate their ego. • Such persons will have become aware that removing the underlying factors that cause and maintain problems means removing the ego. • Specifically, this book is best suited for those using Mind Your Ego or Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to reduce and remove their ego from their lives. 15 Questions to Repeatedly Ask Yourself • This journaling system is based on your following and processing 15 Questions related to the nature of self and ego. • Included are explanations and examples of the 15 Questions and how to practice them. • The bulk of your journaling practice will be recording your understanding and application of these 15 Questions. • In using the system, you will emphasize some questions more than others, and which questions you emphasize will vary and change at different times. • You may also find yourself rewriting, adapting, adjusting, and modifying the questions to suit your particular issues and needs. More on Ego Creation • This book also includes information on scripting and how scripting is used to form ego identities. • The chapter after scripting covers ways that we maintain our ego identities. • Further chapters help with the three processes of recognizing, removing, and replacing ego identities. • Some discussion follows those chapters on the nature of positive ego and spiritual pride. • Finally, there is more information in the Appendixes on such topics as the 3Rs, defense mechanisms, and basic fundamental skills. Check with Your Counselor • Consult with your counselor to see if you and your counseling can benefit from the use of this book. • Your counselor may have an approach not mentioned that is entirely compatible with this book, or your counselor may perceive this book as a distraction or a hindrance to the work you are currently engaged in. Companion to Mind Your Ego • You can consider this book a companion piece to Mind Your Ego by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. • Mind Your Ego provides a system with specific plans to Recognize, Remove, and Replace (3Rs) your ego. • This book provides a system to journal your progress in recognizing, removing, and replacing your ego. • The more you reduce the ego in your life, the more you will reduce negative stress, unneeded problems, and ego-created problems and conflicts in your life.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2019 contains 365 daily quotations for insight and inspiration. • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Themes & Topics • Mental health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, and philosophy. More Topics • Coping, ego, identity, performance, psychology, science, skill, society, spirituality, creativity, and talent. • Explorations on the nature of human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving are included. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • Other frequent topics included ego-talk, one-human nature, problems with science, nondoing, self as inner space, and the limitations of thought. • This book contains many insights regarding General Semantics. Stop Wasting Time • Now, you can use this book for contemplation and introspection whenever you have a moment. • Start living today! • Accept no excuses!
Read Feeling-Intention Therapy to Discover— • FIT Incorporates REBT & CBT to Go Beyond Both Master Your Intentions & Feelings • Master Your thoughts & Responses 17 Diagrams & 8 Tables Make It Easy • Master Your Heart & Mind New Comprehensive Therapy System • This book presents the most comprehensive model available for understanding human feelings, intentions, thoughts, and responses. • This book presents a new therapeutic system to advance the counseling profession. • However, anyone familiar with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) will find it comparatively easy to understand because FIT subsumes and builds upon those two models. • We have made this book accessible for professional practitioners and those seeking personal improvement, self-help, and self-knowledge. Do you dare face your inner demons? • Do you intend to overcome your inner demons? Then this book is for you. • Do you dare to prioritize the intention to be awake, aware, and alive? Then this book is for you. Want to Finally Map and Understand Your Mind? • Are you consumed by a desire to fully understand the workings of your mind? Then this book is for you. • This book will help you to discover a revolutionary psychological approach for both self-help and professional help. 5 or 12 Factors Controlling Human Responses • Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) will teach you the twelve main factors controlling, influencing, and motivating human behavior. • However, you only need to focus on five to make your life better. • When you know and understand why you do what you do, you will also learn why other people do what they do. • When you understand why you did what you did, you can more effectively and efficiently improve what you do next time. • When you know how to change the factors controlling your behavior, you can help others change their behavior by teaching them to change the same factors. • When others see you living a centered and meaningful life, then they will want what you have. Advanced & Exhaustive Psychology • Psychology has never been so complete or as clear and precise as it is in Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) because the order of psychological events is fully delineated. • While being a major advance in psychological understanding and application, FIT does not claim to work on biological or sociological issues except insofar as they are secondary issues and side effects of what FIT does address. • However, FIT is more than willing to work using a team approach wherein a group of professionals work together when helping a client, each one focusing on a different issue, communicating with and assisting each other as needed. FIT provides the map. You provide the territory. • Your counseling practice provides the experience. • Your experience of receiving FIT counseling provides the evidence. • Your contribution provides the needed help for both the theory and others.
Read Ego Playground to Discover— • Ego Games We All Play • Ego Endless Loops • Ego Knots and Traps • Ego Insanity in Relationships Mind Traps and Quicksand • Ego Playground is a collection of numerous mind traps that the author has discovered or helped others to overcome during his many years as a mental health counselor. • This collection of inner dialogues contains examples of accepted insanity, bogs, circular reasoning, delusions, ego, endless loops, hypocrisies, illusions, internal conflicts, knots, maelstroms, maya, paradoxical problems, psychological games, quicksand, scripts, snippets, tangles, tapes, traps, and undertows. Source of Mind Games • The mind games were collected from practicing therapy, meditation, recovery processes, and through the inspiration of primarily the following four books: “Games People Play” by Eric Berne, “Knots by R. D. Laing,” “Reason and Emotion in Psychotherapy: Revised and Updated” by Albert Ellis, and “Freedom From the Known” by Jiddu Krishnamurti. • “Ego Playground” is an advanced collection of self-defeating loops, while the beginner’s guide collection of self-defeating loops can be found in “Garbage Rules.” • To understand the structure, purpose, and payoffs for human ego games, read “Games Ego Plays.” • To enjoy related quotations, sayings, and aphorisms, see these books: https://kevinfitzmaurice.com/our-books-help/sayings-aphorisms-books/. Poetic Format • The self-defeating loops, scripts, or knots are presented in a consistent poetic form. • Each poem is written in three triplets. • A triplet is a three-line stanza. • A stanza in poetry is similar to a paragraph in prose. • This format became the poetic form because, over time, it proved to be a useful mold to induce adherence to the essentials of the desired meaning for each poem. • The three-by-three format also allows for deviation in the way to read the ego games or poems for modulating their emphasis and meaning. Poetic Strategies • Sometimes, poets purposely reverse normal wording or phrasing to awaken their audience to some meaning that has lost its savor or become dull over time. • People often wind up preferring particular poets and styles of poetry. • One of this author’s favorites is Haiku, a Japanese style with a fun Senryū variation. Titles of Poems Provide Meaning • The title of any poem or ego knot can be used to direct the meaning, glean the meaning, or play on the meaning of the knot/poem. • Other poetic stratagems were also used, such as alliteration and enjambment. • Furthermore, the three-line form allows for symmetrical typographical design. • You might look for outlines of shapes within the white space, such as a vase, goblet, or tree. • Since this book is left-justified, and because you might have purchased it as an e-book, the shapes may or may not appear on your device. • Sometimes, the break in a stanza does not fit the break in thought or voice. • The beginning lines of an idea or voice are left-aligned, and the lines continuing that thought or voice are indented farther to indicate where a break occurs. Less “I” Less Ego • In some poems, “I” is left lowercase. • This is on purpose, though the point of it depends on the poem. • In some, a small “i” was used only to indicate a weak sense of self or a state of self-downing. • In others, “I” and “i” are used to distinguish the voices in some parent-to-child dialogues. • (The small “i” is used for the inner-child voice, and the large “I” is used for the inner-parent voice. “I” is also used to represent the ego, self-absorption, or egotistical states of non-being.) • Read and Enjoy!
Read Garden Your Mind to Discover– • How To Brighten Your Mind and Heart with CBT • How To Practice CBT Self-Help • How To Practice Guided Self-Help with CBT • How To Improve Your Mood and Responses Garden for a Healthy Mind • A garden is where you grow food and herbs to nourish and heal and flowers to please and inspire. • A garden is where you protect and care for plants that provide you with multiple benefits in return. • A garden is where you continually uproot the weeds that are interfering with the health and growth of your plants, herbs, and flowers. • Gardening is caring for plants, so they might be healthy enough to produce value–flowers, vegetables, herbs, and fruits. Plant for a Healthy Mind • Your mind is the soil in which sensations, thoughts, feelings, and attitudes take root. • Whatever takes root in your conscious or unconscious mind produces fruit or results. • Your conscious mind is the part of your garden you admit to having. • Your unconscious mind is the part of your garden that you hide in darkness because you do not want the weeds you grow there to be found and shame you. Pull Weeds for a Healthy Mind • Be warned; you will get your hands dirty when you garden. • You will see unpleasant weeds in your garden. • You will get scratched and cut, pulling out your weeds. • Suffering is unavoidable. • Choose to suffer well. • Understand that you will suffer from your weeds or suffer from pulling out your weeds. • The suffering from your weeds is suffering badly, as it leads to a sicker garden. • The suffering from pulling out your weeds is suffering well, as it leads to a healthier garden. Practice Gardening for a Healthy Mind • You now have a clear and practical way to improve your life: the garden your mind analogy. • By gardening your mind, you will improve your thoughts. • By improving your thoughts, you will improve your feelings. • By improving your feelings, you will improve your behaviors. • And since your thoughts, feelings, and actions are an interconnected system, anytime you improve one, you help improve the rest. • Synergistically, your mental, emotional, and behavioral health will enhance each other, all of which will enhance your relationships, peacefulness, focus, and life. Enjoy! Garden • Garden is your proven how-to guide for improving your mental health using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT). • You will discover how to use CBT principles to solve your emotional and behavioral problems in clear and simple terms that will serve you for the rest of your life. • Discover how to cope and problem-solve better now. • Self-help results have never been as easy, practical & effective. • New proven methods give you the results you want for better health, happiness, success & love in your life. • Start today and discover how to be free to get what you want in life now.
Discover the System for Developing a Stoic Mind— • How To Recognize a Stoic & Stiff-Mind • How To Remove a Weak Mind • How To Replace a Weak Mind with a Stiff-Mind • How To Use the 3Rs for Freedom from Ego & Weakness • How to Use the 5TP for Perspective & Balance Stiffen & Strengthen Your Mind • This book is designed to stiffen your mind to injuries and insults to the point that you can learn to be psychologically free from them. • The wisdom of the Stoics can be understood as, in practice, acquiring a stiff mind, mental attitude, or outlook. • A stiff mind results in a stoic calm and leaves one free to serve virtue despite hardships and struggles that distract and disturb minds that are not stiff or Stoic. End Emotional Games & Manipulation • Won’t it be great to finally be able to ignore those who intend to hurt you, manipulate, or punish you? • Won’t it be great to have such a stiff outlook that nothing unimportant or useless can distract you from your chosen course? • Yes, you can learn to bear the critics, and, more importantly, you can learn to stand your trials and tribulations to focus on and achieve your dreams. Revolutionary New System • We will be developing and exploring a revolutionary new paradigm, STPHFR, that will help you map your mind in unheard-of productive ways. • This new paradigm is an evolutionary development, which we will trace through this book. • STPHFR works better than other mind-mapping methods because it provides a mapping structure (variables, sequence, impact) that better fits the workings of your mind. • The structure of this paradigm is neither too simplistic for reality nor too complicated for application. • Moreover, it works more effectively and efficiently than other paradigms when adequately applied, implemented, and practiced. Understand Feelings Now • This book explains how human emotions arise, are caused, and are chosen. • Understanding emotions will help you in every area of your life. • Feel clearer and deeper now.
This book is about rules for understanding how mental garbage rules your life if you let it. If your mind is focused on garbage, then you will think garbage. If your soul is focused on garbage, then you will experience garbage. If your heart is focused on garbage, then you will feel garbage. Discover hundreds of ways that you focus on garbage, and thus receive garbage. If you become aware of this pattern, then you can learn to switch to more effective and fruitful patterns. Rules are restated for four reasons: (1) repetition aids both learning and memory; (2) sometimes you will miss a concept presented in several formats, but grasp it in another unique format; (3) you may be so lost in self-talk that you don’t notice a concept the first few times you encounter it; (4) you may finally understand a concept after multiple encounters with it.
Discover the Spiritual System for Surrender— • How To Understand Surrender • How To Surrender to God • How To Avoid Spiritual Ego • How To Use The Seven Steps for Freedom • How To Find Help to Surrender Seven-Step System • This book presents the seven-step system of surrender to God. • The seven-step system is an accurate and reliable map of how surrender to God takes place. Map of Surrender • You can use the map to prepare yourself for the appearance of the seven steps in situations in which they do not yet exist within you. • You can use the map of the seven steps to know if you have surrendered to God or not. Become Aware of Surrender • Using this map, you can become aware of when you are already following the seven steps. • Yes, when you have success and healing, the seven steps are already occurring in you. Understand Surrender • We will first explain the seven steps, and then provide additional information toward the goal of complete understanding. • Further chapters delve deep into some of the individual steps before providing helpful practices for becoming aware of the seven steps in yourself. More Help with Surrender • Related concepts and issues are also explored in order to provide you with a comprehensive understanding and context for opening yourself up to the seven steps. Chapter One • This chapter presents the main focus of the book: the seven steps to surrender. • However, you will need the information in the chapters that follow in order to understand the seven steps and some of their concepts, practices, and terms, so you’ll likely want to return to this chapter later. • Initially, a brief outline of the seven steps is provided, followed by a more developed outline, and then the same seven steps, are presented in two different ways. • Finally, at the end of the chapter, you will find a table outlining the seven steps. Chapter Two • This chapter provides a deeper and more complete understanding of the seven steps of spiritual surrender. • Each step is explained in greater detail. Chapter Three • This chapter provides more detailed information about the parts and processes of the seven steps that were only mentioned or briefly covered in the previous two chapters. • Relevant concepts, such as our two awarenesses and two natures, are introduced and expanded upon. Chapter Four • This chapter first provides some more information about the intricate workings of the seven steps, then goes deeper into steps two, three, and six of the seven steps. Chapter Five • This chapter is about practices that you can use to help bring you closer to experiencing and living in the seven steps.
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