The Power of I Am Creating a New World of Enlightened Personal Interaction

by Taylor, John Maxwell; Levine, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9781583941423
• ISBN10: 1583941428
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-29
• Publisher: Frog Books

Summary

Fear, anger, anxiety, negativity, rudeness, information overload the stressors of modern life can make just getting through the day a daunting task. Since 1985, John Maxwell Taylor has been moving through the collective madness with joy, spirit, and strength.The Power of I Aminvites the reader to join him on this journey. Combining principles from martial arts, mindfulness, body-centered awareness, and spiritual and scientific principles, this engaging mix of practical tools, stories, and life lessons teaches personal empowerment through gaining inner strength in social situations and dealing effectively with negative people. The author uses real-world experiences to show readers how to stop being drained by "energy vampires," how to defuse conflict by boosting energy levels when trouble comes, how to eliminate stage fright and other social anxieties, how to increase personal magnetism and sense of self, and how to tap the existing, but often dormant, power of the mind for personal transformation.

Author Biography

John Maxwell Taylor is known internationally for his 20-character, one-man-play “Forever Jung,” based on the life of pioneering Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. In 1996, he received the prestigious Gradiva Award in the Best Actor category for his portrayal of Jung from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in New York. Although Taylor does not claim to be a trained psychologist, he says, “One cannot walk in Carl Jung’s shoes for over 250 performances and not have something of the man rub off on you.” His other teachers include Paramahansa Yogananda (since 1967), the Russian mystic and philosopher G. I. Gurdjieff (since 1968), and Taoist Master Mantak Chia (since 1985).

For the last ten years, John Maxwell Taylor has been giving workshops in personal and spiritual transformation throughout the U.S. and is in constant demand as a keynote speaker and personal mentor.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Peter A. Levine
Standing Strong in a Stressful World	1	(20)
Personal Authority through I AM Awareness	1	(2)
The Power of I AM to Transform Life When Under Pressure	3	(3)
Self-Assertion versus Aggression	6	(1)
Walking Like a Dragon: The Power of Inner Strength	7	(1)
The Clash of the Amazon Coworkers	8	(2)
Seeing I to Eye	10	(3)
Putting a Troublemaker on ``Pause''	13	(1)
Establishing Rapport: The Subliminal Connection	14	(1)
Using Interpersonal Tension to Create Consciousness	15	(2)
Energy Is Our Daily Bread	17	(1)
Self-Mastery + Personal Integrity + Magnetic Attraction = Success!	18	(3)
Getting Real in an Unreal World	21	(16)
The Rude Waiter and the Enlightened Woman	21	(2)
Action, Reaction, and Our Overloaded Brains	23	(1)
The Warrior Princess and Me	24	(2)
It's All Relative: Dealing with Family and the Push-Button Past	26	(3)
Quick Recovery and Energy Generation	29	(2)
Attack of the Clones: The Machines Are Among Us!	31	(1)
Put-Down Artists and ``Little Murders''	32	(1)
The Courage to Love	33	(1)
A Time for Spiritual Heroism	34	(3)
Body-Centered Spirituality	37	(20)
Lost in a World of Talking Heads	37	(2)
Getting Out of Your Head and Into Your Life	39	(1)
No Sexuality = No Power	40	(1)
The Power of Presence	41	(2)
Joe Gets Authentic	43	(1)
Living in the ``Zone''	44	(1)
The Way They Walk and Talk---Movie Stars and Body Awareness	45	(1)
Real Men Don't Act---They Embody	46	(1)
Presence, Energy, and the Body Connection	47	(1)
Strategies of the Energy-Seeking Egotist	48	(2)
Becoming Process-Oriented (Not Outcome-Oriented)	50	(1)
Conscious Acting and the Games People Play	51	(1)
Presence and the Soul for Superior Protection	52	(1)
A ``Bliss Bunny'' Almost Meets Her Doom	53	(2)
Looking the World in the Eye	55	(2)
Exploring the Eye-to-Eye Differential	57	(20)
How I Dehypnotized a Cop and Got Away with It	57	(3)
How and Why the Magic Worked	60	(2)
The Essence and Personality Eye Differential	62	(1)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Which Is the Real Me, After All?	63	(1)
Study Faces in Magazines	64	(1)
Dealing with Authority Figures	65	(1)
How Not to Look Someone in the Eye	65	(2)
Include Feeling and Intuition	67	(1)
Don't Stare at People	67	(1)
The Shadow and the Personality Eye	68	(4)
Consciously Creating First Impressions	72	(1)
Enlightening the World through Personal Interaction	73	(1)
Maya and the Illusion of ``Reality''	74	(3)
Staying Conscious in a World of Sleep	77	(16)
Seven Questions for a Conscious Life	77	(1)
A World of Sleeping Machines	77	(1)
A Hindu Guru Comes to Town	78	(1)
Mataji Zaps Me Awake	79	(2)
The City of Sleeping People	81	(1)
I See That My Mother and Sister Are Asleep	82	(1)
What Hypnotizes Us? Spirits? Habit? Or Our Own Imagination?	83	(1)
Going Downtown with Jesus	84	(3)
Can You Eat the City Heat?	87	(2)
Your Body Is a Device for Transforming Energy	89	(1)
Going Beyond Positive and Negative	90	(1)
The Dance of Atoms and Self-Remembering	91	(2)
Workplace Dynamics: Enlightening the Nine-to-Five	93	(16)
Shake Them Up to Wake Them Up	93	(2)
The Antidote	95	(1)
Handling the Boss	96	(1)
Sorting Out the Rebellious Subordinate	96	(1)
Veronica Learns to Use Her Eyes	97	(1)
Rehearsing for Action on the Stage of Life	98	(1)
The Secret Anger Taming Technique	99	(2)
Removing the ``Beam'' of Reactivity from Our Eyes	101	(1)
The Mechanics of Annoyance	102	(1)
Using the Irritation Factor to Good Advantage	103	(1)
The Age of Rudeness	103	(1)
Wrong Familiarity Breeds Disrespect	104	(1)
Awakening Exercise: Make a List---Name Some Names	104	(1)
Avoid ``You'' Message Statements	105	(1)
Breathing and Speaking with Forceful Expression	106	(3)
Dealing with Energy Vampires	109	(18)
On the Stage of Life with Carl Gustav Jung	109	(1)
The Light of the Shadow	109	(2)
A Southern Gothic Experience	111	(1)
The Vampire Goes for Me	112	(3)
Teaching Indirectly	115	(1)
A Warm Ending	115	(1)
The Energy Vampire Checklist	116	(3)
Power Abuse Eats Up the Future	119	(1)
Don't Bring Me Down	119	(1)
Your Original Chi, or Life Force	120	(1)
Cruelty Stems from Loss of Original Chi Connection	121	(2)
Why We Lose Energy to Negative People	123	(4)
Changing the Brain-Body Dynamic	127	(18)
The New Model of Man and Woman	127	(1)
The Two-Stroke System Person, Defined	127	(1)
The Trouble with Duality and How to Transcend It	128	(1)
How a Three-Stroke System Works	129	(1)
The Flow of Attention, Again	130	(1)
Sensing and Feeling: Generating Self-Reconnection	131	(2)
Practicing Being and Presence	133	(1)
Reaction + Identification = Loss of Presence	134	(1)
Embodying the Future to Achieve Success Now	135	(1)
Serving the World by Transforming Yourself	136	(1)
Increase Your Level of Being to Succeed in Life	137	(2)
The Miraculous Law of Divided Attention	139	(1)
Divided Attention in Tense Social Situations	140	(1)
Self-Remembering and the Essential You	141	(4)
Enlightening Relationship Dynamics	145	(14)
The Battling Couple and Their Inner Antagonists	145	(2)
Loosening the Grip of Anima and Animus	147	(1)
When the Parental Influence of the Past Runs the Present	148	(1)
An Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Made for Two	149	(1)
The Awakening Shock of Self-Recognition	150	(1)
Saved by Sensing and Feeling	151	(3)
Counting to Stay Conscious	154	(2)
Counting to Count on Each Other	156	(1)
Anima and Animus on the Loose in the World	157	(2)
Transforming Negative Emotions with the Tao	159	(22)
Dealing with Anger---Yours and Other People's	159	(1)
A Parental Bully Gets His Comeuppance	160	(2)
The Movie Star and the Gang of Six	162	(1)
Don Quixote and the Windmills of the Mind	162	(1)
Not Suppression, But Transmutation	163	(1)
Transforming Negative Emotions	164	(1)
The Smiling Down Technique, Version One	165	(4)
Smiling Down, Version Two	169	(1)
Cultivating Consciousness in the Garden of Chi	170	(1)
Smiling Down, Version Three	171	(1)
Smiling Down and Self-Remembering	172	(1)
Self-Remembering in Airports	172	(1)
While Eating, Avoid Negative Talk	173	(2)
Getting to the Positive	175	(6)
Awakening Identity in a World of Sleep	181	(20)
Change Yourself and Change the Dream	181	(1)
Sensing and Feeling the World As Your Larger Self	182	(1)
Flashing the World Awake	183	(1)
Stage One Awakening	183	(1)
Stage Two Awakening	184	(1)
Stage Three Awakening	185	(1)
Stage Four Awakening: Seeing Truth Directly	186	(1)
Direct Seeing	187	(1)
Direct Action	188	(1)
The Magical Power of the Third Force	188	(2)
I Am, Therefore I Think---But Who Is It That I Think I Am?	190	(1)
It's Time to Play...(Drum Roll) the ``What's in a Name'' Game	190	(2)
Image Can Be Important When It No Longer Needs to Be	192	(1)
Personal Identity: Who Is I and Who Is Me?	192	(2)
Finding the Beauty of Me	194	(1)
The Secret Treasure of Spiritual Success	195	(1)
The Three Farmer Stooges	196	(2)
The Marriage of Me and I	198	(1)
The Tree of Life Is the Spine and the Brain	199	(2)
I AM and Self-Remembering	201	(18)
Way Back Then---When God Spoke Zen!	201	(1)
The Transforming Power in Myth and Legend	201	(1)
Sex on the Brain: Creative Energy and Higher Consciousness	202	(2)
Anyone Here into Bondage?	204	(1)
The Power of I AM to Reorder the World	205	(1)
Fire Within---Truth Without	206	(1)
Divide Your Attention and Conquer	207	(1)
A New World Order through I AM Consciousness	208	(1)
We Were Born to Self-Remember . . . But We Forget	208	(2)
Shadow Dancing at a Yoga Retreat	210	(3)
Eating the Force of the Dark Side	213	(1)
Wholeness versus Goodness	214	(1)
Expansion in the I	215	(1)
Devils in Bottles and a Snake That Hissed	216	(1)
A Warm Wrap with Sonia	217	(1)
The Healing Gift of Self-Remembering	218	(1)
The World-Enlightening Power of I AM	219	(16)
Developing Conscious Will	219	(1)
Eight Steps to Self-Reclamation	220	(6)
The True You and Personal Greatness	226	(1)
Creating I AM Consciousness	227	(1)
The ``I Am I'' Technique	228	(1)
Daily Practice Brings Results	229	(1)
High Consciousness = High Performance Skills	230	(2)
We Are All Actors in the Holographic Cinema of Life	232	(3)
Recommended Reading	235	(3)
About the Author	238