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Emotional chaos to clarity : how to live more skillfully, make better decisions, and find purpose in life / Phillip Moffitt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Hudson Street Press, c2012.Description: xx, 279 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1594630925 (hbk.)
  • 9781594630927 (hbk.)
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Contents:
Emotional chaos to clarity -- Practices that empower you to achieve clarity. Beginning your journey to clarity ; Getting to know the real you ; Living and intentional life ; Starting over ; Letting go of expectations ; Balancing priorities -- Developing skillful behaviors. Starting your day ; Knowing what's really happening ; Making skillful decisions ; Cultivating the qualities of loving-kindness and compassion ; Living into life through gratitude ; Overcoming attachments through generosity ; Doing the right thing ; Bringing mindfulness to making major life changes -- Removing the courses of chaos. Keeping boundaries ; Ending the cycle of self-violence ; Practicing self-restraint ; Overcoming ordinary compulsiveness ; Living skillfully with the difficult ; Practicing forgiveness and reconciliation -- What next?
Summary: "No matter how hard we try, life is often difficult, disappointing, and stressful. Consequently, we are often in the turmoil of emotional chaos resulting from a reactive mind that is grasping and fearful. But in this inspiring and prescriptive book, Phillip Moffitt shows us how to move from emotional chaos of the reactive mind to the clarity of the responsive mind. This is what Moffitt calls skillful living and it empowers us to live more satisfying lives and move towards our goals without fear. Elegantly written with both precision and passion, Emotional Chaos to Clarity puts a finger on challenges experienced by nearly everyone. It's uplifting message and down-to-earth advice speaks to readers of Eckhart Tolle, Jack Kornfield, and Byron Katie"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This inspiring and prescriptive book leads us from the emotional chaos of the reactive mind to the clarity of the responsive mind

As Founder of the Life Balance Institute, Phillip Moffitt has observed that most people lack clarity about their life's direction and the ability to cope with its inevitable challenges. Now, in Emotional Chaos to Clarity, he provides the antidote by showing us the path of skillful living. Grounded in Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy, each chapter introduces a mind state that prevents us from living skillfully, narrates stories from Moffitt's hundreds of students and clients, and provides step-by-step exercises for readers to find clarity in their own lives. Among the many benefits of skillful living are being able to gain wisdom from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences and having an inner life which can flourish, even if our outer life is filled with difficulty.

Includes index.

Emotional chaos to clarity -- Practices that empower you to achieve clarity. Beginning your journey to clarity ; Getting to know the real you ; Living and intentional life ; Starting over ; Letting go of expectations ; Balancing priorities -- Developing skillful behaviors. Starting your day ; Knowing what's really happening ; Making skillful decisions ; Cultivating the qualities of loving-kindness and compassion ; Living into life through gratitude ; Overcoming attachments through generosity ; Doing the right thing ; Bringing mindfulness to making major life changes -- Removing the courses of chaos. Keeping boundaries ; Ending the cycle of self-violence ; Practicing self-restraint ; Overcoming ordinary compulsiveness ; Living skillfully with the difficult ; Practicing forgiveness and reconciliation -- What next?

"No matter how hard we try, life is often difficult, disappointing, and stressful. Consequently, we are often in the turmoil of emotional chaos resulting from a reactive mind that is grasping and fearful. But in this inspiring and prescriptive book, Phillip Moffitt shows us how to move from emotional chaos of the reactive mind to the clarity of the responsive mind. This is what Moffitt calls skillful living and it empowers us to live more satisfying lives and move towards our goals without fear. Elegantly written with both precision and passion, Emotional Chaos to Clarity puts a finger on challenges experienced by nearly everyone. It's uplifting message and down-to-earth advice speaks to readers of Eckhart Tolle, Jack Kornfield, and Byron Katie"-- Provided by publisher.

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