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The art of fear : why conquering fear won't work and what to do instead / Kristen Ulmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: xix, 298 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062423412
  • 006242341X
Other title:
  • Why conquering fear won't work and what to do instead
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: Everything you know about fear is wrong -- Part I. Clarity -- Fear and the human experience -- Getting to know fear -- Run, but you can't get away -- Part II. Dropping the stick -- Your cage -- Teacups -- Part III. Shift: the game of 10,000 wisdoms -- Picking up the new stick -- Listening to the voices -- The voice of fear -- Part IV. Honoring fear -- Kissing the dragon -- The ultimate motivator -- Lights and shadows -- Going all the way -- One last conversation with fear.
Summary: The extreme skier argues that people react incorrectly to fear, advocating that they embrace it through a mindfulness technique called "Shift," which allows for the building of a new relationship with the emotion.
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 152.46 U43 Available 33111008946218
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A revolutionary guide to acknowledging fear and developing the tools we need to build a healthy relationship with this confusing emotion--and use it as a positive force in our lives.

We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer's remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear.

Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems--and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself).

Rebuilding our experience with fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we've come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called "Shift," Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a simpler, more authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one that's in line with our true nature.

Influenced by Ulmer's own complicated relationship with fear and her over 15 years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear--empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.

Introduction: Everything you know about fear is wrong -- Part I. Clarity -- Fear and the human experience -- Getting to know fear -- Run, but you can't get away -- Part II. Dropping the stick -- Your cage -- Teacups -- Part III. Shift: the game of 10,000 wisdoms -- Picking up the new stick -- Listening to the voices -- The voice of fear -- Part IV. Honoring fear -- Kissing the dragon -- The ultimate motivator -- Lights and shadows -- Going all the way -- One last conversation with fear.

The extreme skier argues that people react incorrectly to fear, advocating that they embrace it through a mindfulness technique called "Shift," which allows for the building of a new relationship with the emotion.

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