Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past

Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past | David Viscott | Recommended to others

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	Emotional Resilience: Simple Truths for Dealing with the Unfinished Business of Your Past David Viscott Three Rivers Press, 1997 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Emotional resilience is something we all want and need in order to face life unencumbered by unrealistic fears and to communicate freely with the people we love most.

This book by expert David Viscott is a handbook for living the life you want and deserve. Reading Emotional Resilience is like having your own wise and supportive therapist at your elbow, helping you through hard times, difficult days, and unhappy relationships. All of the knowledge and insight of Dr. Viscott's distinguished career is distilled into this book and its ten basic truths that can change your life.

                        1. Tell the truth.
                        2. Face life openly. (what you avoid imprisons you.)
                        3. Say what you mean, feel, believe.
                        4. Accept yourself as you are.
                        5. Accept others as they are.
                        6. Know and accept your weaknesses.
                        7. Stop trying to prove yourself.
                        8. Let go of the past.
                        9. Give up false expectations.
                        10. Take responsibility for your life and how it turned out.
                 What you are willing to take responsibility for frees you.

Dr. Viscott has spent three decades engineering therapeutic breakthroughs for his patients; in nearly all of these cases, it was the acceptance of some previously concealed truth that opened the way for healing to begin. The book's cardinal rule--resolve pain at the moment it arises--is remarkably simple, and it works! Read Emotional Resilience and resolve what's getting in the way of your sense of freedom and happiness now. Telling the truth and making positive choices can become a way of life.

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Heal and Change Your Life Now!!

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Do you know what these are?

(1) Lie.
(2) Try to change or fix others.
(3) Expect the person who hurt you to apologize.
(4) Expect others to recognize your goodness or accomplishments.
(5) Wait for permission to do what is best for you.

These are 5 truths of things NOT to do to change and heal your life. They are found in the brief last chapter of this book by the late Dr. David Viscott, a well-known psychiatrist. There are 8 more of these don'ts. As well, there are 14 truths that you should do to heal and change your life. (This makes for a total of 27 "Dos and Don'ts.")

This book is a kind of handbook to successfully get through the emotional bumps of life that everybody encounters. Viscott explains more eloquently:

"This book is designed to help you achieve and preserve your emotional resilience, so you can face the difficult threats of the present and manage them effectively without being drained, feeling bad about yourself, or second-guessing your actions."

This book centers around three main concepts:

(1) Natural Therapy: refers to the spontaneous process (that this book advocates) that enables healing and change to occur.

(2) Emotional Debt: the condition of withholding feelings. This works on the principle that when feelings are not expressed, a condition of tension is created. Thus, emotional stress is the pressure of unexpressed feelings. What you want to strive for is to limit emotional debt.

(3) Toxic Nostalgia: the intrusion of past feelings into the present that bring up fear, anger, or hurt. These past feelings are stored in emotional debt.

Finally, this is a surprisingly easy book to read. There is no tedious psychobabble to contend with and you will begin learning right away.

In conclusion, read this book and resolve what's bothering you and getting in the way of your sense of freedom and happiness right now!!

(first published 1996; acknowledgments; introduction; 14 chapters; main narrative 355 pages; index)

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Recommended to others

Have read and re-read and re-read again over the years. Such a good book I've rcmded to others and even bought it for someone. Though a lot of material/content (not pages) it is told in such a manner that makes it easy to read and very revealing, helpful. He is a great author and conveys points easily. Would consider reading his other books.

A book with intense and deep truth

This is the first book I have read which zoned into the actual method to have complete emotional freedom from past hurt. The truth in this book is so divinely guided that people may not want to become that clear, as you will feel resistance when you read the first few pages as your illusions come crashing down. Keep going and experience freedom - finally! To live your life the way you want to and not be dragged through live through unconscious sabotaging thoughts, which you will become more aware of through this book. May all be blessed.

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Will feel almost as if you're having an indvidual session with author!

Heard EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE, written and read by
Dr. David Viscott.

The book suggests a way of life, in which we can communicate
more freely with the people we love without baggage from our
past . . . Viscott discusses the forces that block feelings,
and he presents useful techniques for overcoming the obstacles
that can create unhappiness and unnecessary tensions in
our lives.

In some respects, listening was probably better than reading
EMOTIONAL RESILIENCE because it felt almost as if the
author was speaking to me in a one-on-one therapy session.

Among the many insights that I gained were the following:
* Express your pain the minute it occurs.

* Guilt has no purpose.

* People will love you because you're human, not because you're
perfect.

* What you avoid imprisons you.

And these do's and don't at the conclusion:

* Stop trying to prove yourself.

* Be kind to yourself every day.

* Find something to be grateful for.

* Don't try, just be.

* Don't try to change or fix others.

* Don't expect the person who hurt you to apologize.

* Don't expect people to be nicer to you than they
are to themselves.

* Don't expect others to understand you.

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Let me tell you....

David Viscott was a blessing to the mental health field...just a great mind...PERIOD. With brilliant deductions and perception, Viscott delivers again with more discernment and clarity than any other author on the subject. I have yet to read one book or listen to one tape by David, that i didn't grow from. He was a great man and will be sadly missed. This book is a great addition to your emotional health library. A must for every person who wants to understand a little more about human nature and the motives behind action.

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