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Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Rick Carson
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A little book on a big topic, Taming Your Gremlin, by Richard Carson, is a practical guide to overcoming barriers to your success. |
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Author: Rick Carson
Publisher: Collins
Pub. in: July, 2003
ISBN: 0060520221
Pages: 192
Measurements: 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.5 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00920
Other information: Rev Sub edition
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This is a simply written book that contains very powerful and useful ideas about managing your inner critic. It focuses on mindfulness of your process and disidentifying with the voices in your head that undermine you on a daily basis.
Some of the keys to this approach are being curious rather than critical about what is happening in the moment. This leads to an awareness that allows one to penetrate old conditioned patterns and achieve a state a heightened state of awareness that leads to conscious choice rather than unconscious acting out. It also encourages a playful and experimental approach to playing with new options which is helpful for people who take themselves seriously and have difficulty trying on new behaviors.
The exercises in this book are very good and like that the author included space in the book to record observations and written answers from exercises. In short, this is a great tool for self inquiry and a good companion to combine with counseling or life coaching.
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General readers
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Rick Carson is the creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming Method(TM). His seminal work, Taming Your Gremlin(R), has been in print for twenty years and has been translated into several languages. Rick’s work has influenced thousands in virtually every walk of life. For thirty years he has been a counselor, personal/executive coach, and trainer for mental health professionals, businesses, and non-profit organizations. His work is used in the training of psychotherapists, personal and executive coaches, substance abuse specialists, and clergy. 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 and director of the Gremlin Taming Institute(TM) in Dallas. He and his wife live in Colleyville, Texas.
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From publisher:
A completely updated edition of this classic, explaining the author's laid-back but stunningly powerful methods for taming self-defeating behaviours.
Your gremlin interprets your every experience. He has nothing good to say about you or anything you do, not to mention your dreams and aspirations. Just when you feel you've out-argued or overcome him, he changes his disguise and his strategy. Grapple with him and you become more enmeshed. What he hates is simply being noticed. That's the first step to his taming. This and many other straightforward and powerful techniques await you in Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself.
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Say Grace (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
This book is a light way to deal with something serious -that could kill you spiritually every day and every moment. Playfulness has importance in people. It spoke to my inner child-the inner child in you is the one who let in these "seeds of doubt"(gremlins if you will) in the first place and I suppose it is this child who must release them back to the universe. While reading this book-a fast read by the way-I got the feeling that this seasoned professional author doesn't hang with the usual crowd of stodgy "take themselves too seriously" psych types, and I was so proud of him for stepping apart- for having the courage and wisdom -and writing this book in his own unique style that spoke to the part of me that agreed to release and or silence the "gremlin " in me- it is a gift to the world.
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K. Ebner (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
The cover and illustrations grab your attention and add a light touch to an important topic - dealing with the voice inside you that discourages you from taking positive steps in your life. I give this book to clients frequently and find that, whether they read every page or just pick up on a few themes, it helps them to understand how they are sabotaging themselves.
I've found that kids of all ages understand the gremlin concept and love the illustrations, too. This book is a great teaching tool.
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C. Katz (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
While not all people need/want a gremlin metaphor and Rick Carsen's method, I disagree that this book should stick to presenting explanations of the negative inner voice. This has been the subject of countless works, ranging from a million self help books to textbooks to scholarly journal articles. The contribution of this book is its unique application and method. Also, the theory and exercises (in depth!) without the gremlin metaphor can be found in books on buddhism, meditation and contemplative traditions.
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Grace Judson (MSL quote) , USA
<2007-06-20 00:00>
It's clear from reading the wide variety of reviews of this book that the concepts presented work really well for some people, and a whole lot less well for others.
To me, the very simplicity that some reviewers complained about is what makes this really work. In fact, I'd bet that there's a whole lot of complexity and many years of work underneath Carson's surprisingly straightforward presentation (and speaking of "surprisingly," he does say right in the title that it's a "surprisingly simple method"!).
If you are someone who needs to know the theory behind the practice, or if you want your self-help books to be serious rather than playful, then this is not the book for you. However, if you're ready to try out the exercises Carson suggests (which although simple are not at all effortless) and gain some new and very useful insights into ways in which you could be self-sabotaging your goals and denying yourself the right to your own life - well, as I think Carson would say, that would be your choice!
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