New Vision, New Reality : A Guide to Unleashing Energy, Joy, and Creativity in Your Life

by Klein, Donald C.; Morrow, Kathleen

• ISBN13: 9781568385761
• ISBN10: 1568385765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Hazelden

Summary

New Vision, New Reality presents a promising new approach to realizing our human potential by reclaiming our birthright to energy, joy, and creativity. Demonstrating how we all configure our world through personal perceptions, author Donald Klein shows that by removing self-imposed protective filters we can see and experience more fully the good things in life. Guided exercises illustrate how to stop projecting our fears and shortcomings and instead view the world through a lens of appreciation.

Table of Contents

Preface: Embracing the Psychology of Appreciation	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Our Shared Realities	1	(10)
How Free Are We, Really?	11	(13)
The Miracle of Self Creation	24	(17)
The Scrim of Self (Or How We See through a Filter Darkly)	41	(19)
The Prison of the Protected Self: The Humiliation Dynamic	60	(14)
The Elements of Humiliation: The Dance of Disgrace	74	(17)
How Humiliation Kills the Creative Self	91	(14)
The Prison of the Disowned Self: Boomeranging (Or How We Get Hit by What We Thought We Threw Away)	105	(21)
Ego-Hooking: Boomeranging Gone Wild	126	(12)
How to ``Hook-Proof'' Your Ego	138	(11)
The Psychology of Appreciation	149	(12)
Dancing with Resistance: Experiencing Grace in Change	161	(26)
Living in the Light of Appreciation	187	(22)
Fanning the Flames of Appreciation: Simple Approaches to Transparency	209	(18)
Notes	227	(8)
Index	235	(8)
About the Author	243