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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction
1 The Path to Happiness and the Road to Misery Are Easily Confused
Recognizing an Addictive Personality and the Purpose of Healing
Healing Begins with the Invitation to Love
The Four A’s: Achieving, Acquiring, Approval, and Accomplishing
When the Solution Becomes Another Addiction
Where to Find the Answers and How to Recognize the Smoke and Mirrors
Biological Factors and Addiction
Is There Really an Addictive Personality?
How to Use the Power of Choice to Heal
Your Teacher Is Standing Right in Front of You
Who We Are Versus Who Our Addictive Personality Tells Us We Are
The Truth about Happiness
Three Healing Words: “I Am Enough”
Denial: The Not-So-Little Secret
The Addictive Personality’s Plan: Deny It and It Will Disappear
Projection: The Illusion That Keeps On Rolling
Special Hate and Special Love Relationships
2 The Thought System of the Addictive Personality
How the Addictive Personality Uses Fear to Control You
How to Break the Addictive Personality’s Cycle of Fear
How the Addictive Personality Uses the Past and the Future to Prevent Positive Change
How the Addictive Personality Uses Judgment to Maintain Conflict-Centered Relationships
The Peaceful Alternative to Judgment
How the Addictive Personality Uses Scarcity
3 The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality
Belief Number One: I am separate from everybody else
Belief Number Two: If I want security and success, I must judge others
Belief Number Three: My perceptions are always correct and my way is the right way
Belief Number Four: Attack and defense are my only safety
Belief Number Five: The past and the future are real and must be worried about
Belief Number Six: Guilt is inescapable because the past is real
Belief Number Seven: Mistakes require judgment and punishment…
Belief Number Eight: Fear is real
Belief Number Nine: Other people and situations are at fault for my feelings and failures
Belief Number Ten: Another’s loss is my gain
Belief Number Eleven: I need someone or something else to complete me
Belief Number Twelve: My self-esteem is based on pleasing you
Belief Number Thirteen: I need to control everyone and everything around me
How These Beliefs Combine Forces
The Two Forms of Communication
4 The Structure of the Truth-Based Personality
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Power of Love
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Present Moment to Set You Free
Peak Performance and the Present Moment
Six Principles to Peak Performance and Realized Opportunity
Six Old Patterns of the Addictive Personality and Six Truth-Based Alternatives
Watching the Breath
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses Acceptance to Create Deep Change and Peace-Centered Relationships
Recognized Essential Value
Deep Change Versus Surface Change
The Power Over Approach
The Power of Powerlessness Approach
Hard Honesty
Hitting Bottom
How the Truth-Based Personality Creates Opportunity and Miracles
Creating Opportunity and Abundance: What Is Valuable and What Is Not
The Myth about True Abundance
5 The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality
Belief Number One: What I see in others reflects my own state of mind
Belief Number Two: My safety lies in my defenselessness
Belief Number Three: Love is unconditional
Belief Number Four: Forgiveness, with hard honesty, ensures peace
Forgiveness Practice Session
Belief Number Five: Only the present is real
Belief Number Six: To change my experience, I must first change my thoughts
Belief Number Seven: Mistakes call for correction and learning
Belief Number Eight: Only love is real
Belief Number Nine: I am responsible for my life
Belief Number Ten: I receive what I want by giving what I have
Belief Number Eleven: I am complete right now
Belief Number Twelve: My self-esteem comes from within
Belief Number Thirteen: I can’t change others, but I can change how I perceive them
The Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality and the Truth-Based Personality
Beliefs of the Addictive Personality
Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality
6 The Addictive Personality and the Fear of Intimacy
The Confusion between Freedom and Imprisonment
Accepting and Embracing the Life We Have Lived
Finding Freedom and Opportunity through Responsibility
The Big Myth: “I’m Not Okay the Way I Am”
The Misuse of Goals
Stopping the Cycle of Attack and Defense
A Truth-Centered Approach to Life
The Truth about Anger, Guilt, Attack, and Defense
Trust Versus trust
7 Learning to Recognize Our Essential Value
What the Addictive Personality Wants You to Believe
Irrational Beliefs of the Addictive Personality
Alternate Messages from the Truth-Based Personality
Being Compulsively-Other-Focused
Ten Core Beliefs of Being Compulsively-Other-Focused
Healing through Forgiveness
Letting Go
Affirming Who You Are
Truths about Myself
8 Healing Relationships: Growing Beyond the Addictive Personality in Our Interactions with Others
Six Core Truths of Truth-Based Relationships
Patterns That Create Conflict and Traps
Patterns That Create Peace and Opportunity
You Are Not Alone: An Introduction to the Daily Lessons
Daily Lessons
An Eleven-Week Action Plan for Continued Healing
Epilogue
About the Author
Other Books from Celestial Arts
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