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Title: You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles Your Therapist Never Told You by Richard Carlson, Wayne W. Dyer ISBN: 1-57731-064-0 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Depressed? Anxious? Try healthy psychological functioning!!!
Comment:
This was the first of several books I read from Dr. Carlson, and I know it was a very instrumental part of my recovery process overcoming depression. I can't remember when I was so excited to read a book (except perhaps, when I read his book, "Shortcut Through Therapy"). I've read it three times, and bought four copies for other people who were also amazed at how much control they actually had over their own happiness!
The beauty of this book is it's simplicity. It combines principles and applications that are not difficult to understand and, with practice, almost effortless to implement. This book benefited me because I believed, that I had little or no control over my thoughts, feelings, moods, circumstances or happiness.
As I reflect after reading the book, I find that I have been feeling better longer. I still have low moods, but I don't sink as low, stay as long or hurt as bad as I used to. I'm still in therapy, and an end is in sight. My shrinks have substantially lenthened the time between visits, and reduced my meds considerably.
Thank you Dr. Carlson, for your helping hand when it was needed most.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too simple
Comment: I found a lot of contradictions in this book. For example, author argues that thoughts are not important, and thinking is only a function. Nevertheless, thoughts control who we are and how we feel. Same with the past. Don't think about the past, it's not important, though past forms our behavior and attitude to life, and it shapes the way we understand this world and ourselves. Well, thoughts and past can't be unimportant if they have a great control over us.
I tend to agree with the reader from Chicago - if you have serious psychological problems or if you are deep into thinking about who you are and where you belong in this world, you'll find this book way way too simple.
Still, I'm giving this book two stars and not one because first, I liked the discussion about separate realities (the only chapter I really liked), second, there are a lot of people who clearly benefited from this book and wrote excellent reviews. I believe that the effort is not wasted if the author helped so many people feel a bit happier.
And finally, I wish you peace and harmony you're seeking, whether you'll find it in this book or from any other source (such as within yourself).
Rating: 5
Summary: Natural State of Mind verses Habitual Thought Patterns
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What a wonderful book!! Ultimately, it is the ability to leave the habitual thought patterns, that of analytical thinking and contemplative efforts to the state of thoughtless non-activity, which Carlson calls the "Natural State of Mind." This is truly the place where peace and happiness always exists, always in the present moment regardless of external circumstances.
Carlson calls this a new teaching and labels the area outside of the habitual thought patterns an area called the Natural State of Mind. While this may be true, it has been known for thousands of years, such as in the Gita and the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, which Osho so profoundly expounds upon. The only difference is the two opposing forces are those of the mind and the consciousness/the no-mind, as the mind itself is the disease. Regardless of how you wish to interpret it teaching is basically the same. One place is of thoughts and computer analytical deductions and interpretations, the other is the area of peace and thoughtless, relaxed wisdom. If you can come to the awareness that your mind is not you, but habitual patterns of thought that can both benefit you greatly and detrimentally disturb you - depending on how you use it - then you can obtain the ability to leave the mind and rest in the consciousness or natural state and find happiness despite ALL external circumstances. It is an amazingly profound concept.
Carlson's comments on moods, feelings and separate realities are equally profound in that our thinking derives from our self accumulated perceptions, our perceptions derive from our thinking patterns and our feelings from our thinking. Our moods, once recognized with our awareness of our mind separate from our natural state can then be tolerated and taken far less seriously, enabling us to both endure and patiently wait until such moods pass over. This is the power we obtain when we can be objective, an objectivity that comes with the ability to enter our natural state of mind (no-mind) and understand our thoughts that are clouding our decisions are from the lower areas of habitual thought patterns.
I can't write like Carlson, or like Osho, but am so grateful to both men and many other authors, psychologists, writers, masters and so forth. I've read this book a dozen times and it's never old, always valuable. Far more valuable than relying on a perceived religious book of absolutes, when in effect, it is the mind and the consciousness (the natural state of mind or the no-mind) that one must discover to find peace, not the other way around.
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Title: You Can Feel Good Again: Common-Sense Therapy for Releasing Depression and Changing Your Life by Richard Carlson ISBN: 0452272424 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Shortcut Through Therapy: Ten Principles of Growth-Oriented, Contented Living by Richard Carlson ISBN: 0452273838 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff : Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life by Richard Carlson ISBN: 0786881852 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $11.50 |
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Title: Slowing Down to the Speed of Life: How To Create A More Peaceful, Simpler Life From the Inside Out by Richard Carlson, Josephy Bailey ISBN: 0062514547 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: What About the Big Stuff? by Richard Carlson ISBN: 0786868848 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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