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    Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
    Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
    Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way
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    Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

    Written by Rick Carson

    Narrated by Rick Carson

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    This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming™ Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom, the Zen Theory of Change, and sound psychology in an easy-to-understand, unique, and practical system for banishing the nemesis within. Among the things you will learn are:

    • Techniques for getting a sliver of light between the natural you and the monster of your mind.
    • The extraordinary power of simply noticing and playing with options.
    • Six keys to maintaining emotional balance amid upheaval.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9780062267467
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    Rick Carson

    Rick Carson's seminal work, Taming Your Gremlin®, has been translated into several languages and has been a consistent seller since 1984. For thousands in a cross-section of cultures and circumstances, the Gremlin-Taming Method serves as a foundation for responding to everyday challenges and for living a satisfying life. For over thirty-five years Rick has been a counselor, personal and executive coach, and trainer for mental health professionals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. His work is used in the training of psychotherapists, personal and executive coaches, substance abuse specialists, corrections personnel, teachers, corporate executives, clergy, and others. He is a former faculty member at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and a clinical member and approved supervisor for the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. Rick is the founder of the Gremlin Taming Institute in Dallas, Texas.

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    • 5/5
      Great book full of practical advice that I can use everyday
    • 5/5
      Really good stuff. One of the most straight-forward and easy to understand self-help books I have ever encountered (and I've read many) - but don't let the clarity and folksiness of the delivery fool you, this is profound and powerful stuff. If anything, his kind humor and unique turn of phrase helped my rational brain lower its defenses so I could let the medicine in. Recommend highly.
    • 3/5
      Your Gremlin is your unique inner critique that belittles you, fills you with fear and prevents you from being your best. It fills your head with self limiting generalizations about what life holds for you, wastes time by reliving the past and fearing the future and tricks you into believing it is there to protect you. Its sole purpose is to make you miserable.

      The author provides a number of examples of how our gremlins manifest themselves and also gives some pointers on how to identify your own. He provides three steps for ignoring your gremlin:
      Simply noticing
      Choosing and playing with options
      Being in process

      Fighting your gremlin gives it more attention than it deserves and only gets you stuck in its muck. Instead of battling it, simply notice it and recognize it for what it is.

      Choose not to listen to your critic. "To be at choice from situation to situation and from moment to moment is vitally important in taming your gremlin." The author provides detailed descriptions of the options for banishing your gremlin which include:
      Breathe and experience
      Change for a change
      Accenting the obvious
      Imagine
      Revisit and re-decide

      You never get rid of your inner critic so watching for its attempts to undermine your growth is a lifelong process. It will morph over time as it tries to reclaim what it once had control over; you.
    • 2/5
      This is normally the type of book I really like, however, the concept, to me, was very odd and I kept saying WHAT?????? I cannot recommend this one.