Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind

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Penguin, Jul 30, 2013 - Self-Help - 304 pages
The groundbreaking psychology and self development book with step-by-step plans to achieve emotional health and clarity.

Emotional Chaos to Clarity is a masterwork. Be inspired by the possibilities it opens.” —Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., author of The Wise Heart

Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives. Yet, Phillip Moffitt shows us that by cultivating a responsive mind rather than a reactive one, we can achieve a state of emotional clarity that allows us to act with a calm mind and a loving heart.

Drawing on both Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy, Moffitt’s step-by-step exercises help us to:

   •  Know and act from our core values at all times
   •  Gain wisdom from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences
   •  Free ourselves from the past
   •  Achieve a peaceful inner life, even if our outer life is filled with challenges
 

Contents

Practices That Empower You
1
Getting to Know the Real
15
Living an Intentional Life
33
Starting Over
43
Letting Go of Expectations
57
Balancing Priorities
67
Developing Skillful Behaviors
81
Knowing Whats Really Happening
93
Removing the Sources of Chaos
177
Keeping Boundaries
179
Ending the Cycle of SelfViolence
191
Practicing SelfRestraint
202
Overcoming Ordinary Compulsiveness
213
Living Skillfully with the Difficult
227
Practicing Forgiveness and Reconciliation
247
What Next?
262

Making Skillful Decisions
104
Cultivating the Qualities of LovingKindness and Compassion
118
Living into Life through Gratitude
130
Overcoming Attachments through Generosity
143
Doing the Right Thing
155
Bringing Mindfulness to Making Major Life Changes
165
Online Resources
269
Index
271
33
272
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278
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About the author (2013)

PHILLIP MOFFITT is currently director of the Life Balance Institute. He lives in Northern California.

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