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This book is about the work of Carl Rogers, not the life of Carl Rogers. The personal problems Carl Rogers had with alcohol and his marriage have nothing to do with his counseling method. This brief book focuses on the method of counseling that he invented. Method and technique are not to be confused with counseling theory. A counseling theory is a set of guiding principles that structure the course of counseling. A method or technique is a strategy for eliciting a response from a client. Counseling theories therefore provide general directions for achieving specific goals, while methods or...

Garden is your proven how-to guide for improving your mental health. Self-help results have never been as easy, practical, and effective. New proven methods give you the results you want for better health, happiness, success, and love in your life. Start today and discover how to be free to get what you want now. The following is quoted from the first chapter of the book: "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 ...

“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, ...

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? In this book, 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. You will be given tools to increase your productive stress and to lessen and even eliminate your destructive stress. For the sake of your happiness, health...

This book is about how to problem-solve using the 3Rs. The 3Rs is a three-step solution designed to promote effective and efficient problem-solving. While the 3Rs are easiest to apply and understand as a method of problem-solving, the 3Rs are not limited to applications involving problem-solving. You can use the 3Rs to find closer approximations to some dream or ideal, to fix something that is broken or not working, to improve current business practices or systems, to make action plans for your life, to plan for change or disaster, and to cope with difficulties. A complete explanation of ...

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?...

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?...

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 ...

This chapter begins sayings of the author that contain the words “nothing”, “everything”, or “anything”. The sayings come from an unpublished 1994 work. The work has been rewritten and updated with more sayings. Some of the sayings are variations on sayings from Something For Nothing. The style of sayings in this book is generally more direct than the style of sayings in Something For Nothing. The sayings sometimes use the concept “thought-things”. Thought-things is the author’s term for reified thoughts and reified thinking. The sayings often use “I” and “my” ...

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.

Ego Playground is a collection of numerous mind traps that this 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, inner conflicts, knots, maelstroms, maya, paradoxical problems, psychological games, quicksand, scripts, snippets, tangles, tapes, traps, and undertows. The mind games were collected from practicing therapy, meditation, recovery processes, and through the inspiration of ...

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...

This book is a collection of sayings for each day of the year, originally created in 2006, but the quotations remain appropriate and relevant for any year. The sayings cover various topics important to your emotional health, including psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, psychological skills, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, Eastern philosophy, meditation, flow, identity, authenticity, responsibility, the nature of self, and social commentary. You will discover sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The agreement between General Semantics and Eastern ...

Read this book to discover: 1) How To Discover Insight by practicing the discernment of sayings. 2) How To Exercise Your Mind for greater openness, flexibility, and creativity. 3) How To Increase Your Mental Capability by increasing your capacity for understanding, perception, and wisdom. This book is a collection of sayings for each day of the year, originally created in 2008, but the quotations remain appropriate and relevant for any year. The sayings cover various topics important to your emotional and behavioral health, including: emotional skills, psychological skills, psychotherapy, ...

This book is a collection of sayings for each day of the year, originally created in 2009, but the quotations remain appropriate and relevant for any year. The sayings cover various topics important to your emotional and behavioral health, including: emotional skills, psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, Eastern philosophy, meditation, flow, responsibility, social commentary, authenticity, identity, and the nature of self. You will discover sayings useful to understanding Eastern thought and General Semantics. The ...

Insanity is being out of touch with reality. Active insanity is clinging to illusions and delusions. Illusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality. Delusions are misperceptions, misconceptions, and mistakes about reality that we have evidence against but cling to anyway. 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 ...

Read How To Govern Anything & Discover— Best System of Government Ever Be the Change that Works How To Save the World by Changing its Systems First New System of Government in Centuries One System with Advantages of Democracy & Socialism System Is Its Own Think Tank & Development Center First System for Utilizing Community Intelligence Govern Best: New “Ocean Government” System Simple to Setup & Simple to Continue Works with Any Size Organization or Government Includes Complete Instructions and ExplanationsChapters: How To Govern Anything The first chapter describes the Ocean ...

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. What Is This Book? Nobody Speaks is not prose. Nobody Speaks is not poetry. Nobody Speaks is performance. What Is This Book About? 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.

This book is about how story shapes, defines, and guides your self. This book is about understanding the power and control 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 story. The story or purpose of this book is to explain the relationships between story, self-talk, and ego. Such understanding is necessary in order to realize the goal of the book, which is to help people discover how to live free of ego-story. To accomplish this goal, the ...

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. Pithy sayings can be either instantly helpful or meaningless. Often the best results from sayings or aphorisms come after they have grown slowly ...