The author of Taming Your Gremlin shares advanced strategies for ending self-sabotaging behaviors, in a guide based on the author's "I CREATE" method that explains how to overcome mental obstacles while enabling greater clarity of thought. Original. 25,000 first printing. Reveals ways to escape the murky terrain of the Mind, where our gremlin hides with booby-trap thoughts and old reels from the past, and access the Natural You - a place of feelings, friendly curiosity, and pure potential that we inhabited at birth with all good things before us. This title helps gremlin-tamers at various levels. Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Before You Begin This Book xv The Bottom Line 1(2) Birth and Death 3(2) One Breath at a Time 5(1) The Mind Is a Terrible Thing 6(2) True Love and Your Heart of Hearts 8(3) True Love 8(1) Your Heart of Hearts 9(2) Your Gremlin 11(3) Good Advice 14(4) Your Heart, the Natural You, Your Hypnotic Pre-Convictions, and Your Advertising 18(8) The Whole Person Diagram 18(8) Hypnotic Pre-Convictions About How the World Works 26(4) Four Key Questions 30(5) So Let's Review 32(3) The Gremlin-Taming Method Revisited 35(16) The Basics of Pleasure 49(1) The Art of Graceful Change 50(1) Creating Rewarding Relationships 51(2) Intention 53(18) More on the Mind 63(1) Realms of Awareness 64(3) An Intentional Stroll (A Walking Meditation) 67(4) Connection 71(25) A Useful Continuum 72(2) Playing With Options 74(1) Breathe, Dammit, Breathe 75(3) Peeling the Onion 78(2) A Word About Responsible Semantics 80(7) About Eyes and Ears 87(2) Connect With Each Step 89(7) Respect 96(14) Process and Content 97(8) Planning and Doing 105(2) Get Your Intention Clear 107(3) Environment 110(14) Authenticity 124(17) The Power of No 127(1) Anger 128(2) Resolving Conflict Constructively 130(8) Knowing and Knowing About 138(3) Trust 141(10) Reminiscing 143(6) Reminders 149(2) Experience 151(3) A Breathing Meditation: An Opportunity to Practice I CREATE 154(8) I Create as a Checklist 162(2) A Blast from the Past: Revisit and Re-Decide 164(6) The Power of Until Now 170(3) Serving Your Heart 173(6) So Let's Review 179(4) A Note to Jim 183(2) It's Been a Slice 185