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Book

Breaking the habit of being yourself : how to lose your mind and create a new one

Call Number

  • 158.1 D6126 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Carlsbad, California : Hay House, [2012]

Physical Description

xxvi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Argues that all human beings have the power within them to overcome predisposed beliefs and habits to make significant changes in one's life, and provides step-by-step tools to make such changes using understandings between science and spirituality.

Contents

  • The greatest habit you can ever break is the habit of being yourself
  • The science of you. The quantum you ; Overcoming your environment ; Overcoming your body ; Overcoming time ; Survival vs. creation
  • Your brain and meditation. Three brains : thinking to doing to being ; The gap ; Meditation., demystifying the mystical, and waves of your future
  • Stepping toward your new destiny. The meditative process : introduction and preparation ; Open the door to your creative state (week one) ; Prune away the habit of being yourself (week two) ; Dismantle the memory of the old you (week three) ; Create a new mind for your future (week four) ; Demonstrating and being transparent : living your new reality
  • Inhabit self
  • Appendix A. Body-part induction (week one)
  • Appendix B. Water-rising induction (week one)
  • Appendix C. Guided meditation : putting it all together (weeks two through four).

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