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Your Erroneous Zones (Mass Market Paperback) (Paperback)
by Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.
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Author: Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.
Publisher: Avon Books
Pub. in: May, 2001
ISBN: 0061091480
Pages: 320
Measurements: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00339
Other information: Reissue edition
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From one of America's most respected motivational authors, this book is The #1 Bestseller with more than 6 million copies sold. |
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According to Wayne Dyer, The "erroneous zones" are negative, pointless emotions such as worry, guilt, depression, helplessness, anger, and neediness. These emotions will take control of you if you choose not to fight.
The author also believes that our happiness comes completely from within, we are happy when we choose to be happy. Even though there are some things that we cannot change, such as injustice, poverty, and crime, we can work to solve those worldly problems without choosing to feel depressed and helpless. We are the master of our choices. We can choose not to feel those emotions. We can also choose to stop procrastinating.
This timeless, life-changing masterpiece is definitely one of the gems of the self-help literature. It has empowered millions of people in the past 3 decades, and MSL highly recommends it now to YOU. Read the reviews, read and re-read the book, apply the concepts, and what then do you expect? A more enlightened self, greater self-control and self-confidence, and more fulfilled life.
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Anyone who wants to become the master of his/her life by choosing an attitude of self improvement.
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Wayne W. Dyer is one of the most widely read authors today in the field of self-development. He is the author of many books, including such bestsellers as Your Erroneous Zones, You'll See It When You Believe It, and Real Magic. A psychotherapist, Dyer received his doctorate in counseling psychology from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, and has taught at many levels of education from high school through graduate study. He is the co-author of three textbooks, contributes to numerous professional journals and lectures extensively in the United States as well as abroad. He appears regularly on radio and television shows around the United States.
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From the author of Real Magic and the multimillion-copy bestseller Pulling Your Own Strings, positive and practical advice for breaking free from the trap of negative thinking.
If you're plagued by guilt or worry and find yourself falling unwittingly into the same old self-destructive patterns, then you have "erroneous zones" -whole facets of your approach to life that act as barriers to your success and happiness. Dr. Wayne W. Dyer can now help you break free!
If you believe that you have no control over your feeling and reactions, Dyer reveals how much you can take charge of yourself and manage how much you let difficult situations affect you. If you spend more time worrying what others think than working on what you want and need, Dyer points the way to true self-reliance. From self-image problems to over-dependence upon others, Dyer gives you the tools you need to enjoy life to the fullest.
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Chapter One Taking Charge of Yourself
The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal
fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.
Look over your shoulder. You will notice a constant companion. For want of a better name, call him Your-Own-Death. You can fear this visitor or use him for your personal gain. The choice is up to you.
With death so endless a proposition and life so breathtakingly brief, ask yourself, "Should I avoid doing the things I really want to do?" "Should I live my life as others want me to?" "Are things important to accumulate?" "Is putting it off the way to live?" Chances are your answers can be summed up in a few words: Live... Be You... Enjoy... Love.
You can fear your death, ineffectually, or you can use it to help you learn to live effectively. Listen to Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych as he awaits the great leveler, contemplating a past which was thoroughly dominated by others, a life in which he had given up control of himself in order to fit into a system.
"What if my whole life has been wrong?" It occurred to him that what had appeared perfectly impossible before, namely that he had not spent his life as he should have done, might after all be true. It occurred to him that his scarcely noticeable impulses, which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and the rest false. And his professional duties and the whole arrangement of his life and of his family, and all his social and official interests, might all have been false. He tried to defend all those things to himself and suddenly felt the weakness of what he was defending. There was nothing to defend....The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, "How long am I going to be dead?" With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.
If you don't begin taking these steps, you can anticipate living your entire life the way others say you must. Surely if your sojourn on earth is so brief, it ought at least to be pleasing to you. In a word, it's your life; do with it what you want.
Happiness and Your Own I. Q.
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths. At the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability to solve complex problems; to read, write and compute at certain levels; and to resolve abstract equations quickly- This vision of intelligence predicates formal education and bookish excellence as the true measures of self-fulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual snobbery that has brought with it some demoralizing results. We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is a whiz at some form of scholastic discipline (math, science, a huge vocabulary, a memory for superfluous facts, a fast reader) is "intelligent." Yet mental hospitals are clogged with patients who have all of the property lettered credentials-as well as many who don't. A truer barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy, if you live each moment for everything it's worth, then you are an intelligent person. Problem solving is a useful adjunct to your happiness, but if you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can still choose happiness for yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then you are intelligent. You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon against the big N.B.D. Yep-Nervous Break Down.
Perhaps you will be surprised to learn that there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Nerves don't break down. Cut someone open and look for the broken nerves. They never show up. "Intelligent" people do not have N.B.D.'s because they are in charge of themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression, because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives. Notice I didn't say solve the problems. Rather than measuring their intelligence on their ability to solve the problem, they measure it on their capacity for maintaining themselves as happy and worthy, whether the problem gets solved or not.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances. The life struggles are pretty much the same for each of us. Everyone who is involved with other human beings in any social context has similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflicts and compromises are a part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing old, sickness, deaths, natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems to virtually all human beings. But some people are able to make it, to avoid immobilizing dejection and unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse, become inert or have an N.B.D. Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don't measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of humans we know; also, the most rare.
Learning to take total charge of yourself will involve a whole new thinking process, one which may prove difficult because too many forces in our society conspire against individual responsibility. You must trust in your own ability to feel emotionally whatever you choose to feel at any time in your life. This is a radical notion. You've probably grown up believing that you can't control your own emotions; that anger, fear and hate, as well as love, ecstasy and joy are things that happen to you. An individual doesn't control...
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
Your Erroneous Zones has been one of the best books I have ever read in my life. I remember I read it by first time when I was 16 years old, and I notice there were changes in my life. It helped me to feel better with myself and also it opened my eyes to the world, because I could see the world and human beings from a different prospect, and, the most important; it increased my self-confidence, because of the fact I started to have better human relations ship with people I delay everyday, that's why, I really recommend this book to everyone, mainly young people, because if you follow these advices and you learn how to apply to your daily life, I am sure you'll get good results. It's important to mention after reading this book I realize if you get angry for anything, or for other people, because they are "different" from you, or because happen something you didn't expect from any person or any situation, you are not going to make anything good, because all of them are in control of your life. It was one of the most interesting teachings I learned from this book, because, you are the only person who can control your life. You should read it. It's up to you to do it. Thanks, Wayne Dyer! |
A reader (MAL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
I just recently purchased a copy of Mr. Dyer’s book. Just reading the words gave me a since of freedom and liberation that I haven't experienced in years. But I still need to work at applying it. I will definitely be purchasing more of his work. I'm not one that usually purchases books from the self- help category, but I found that his book was easy to read, humorous and informative. I really would like to e-mail him personally and ask him a couple of questions. So it would be nice if his e-mail address was published someplace. As he makes mention of in this book about a military friend he had. I am in the military. And that being the case, It does make it more difficult to apply his, "Be true to yourself, type standards". But I am going to attempt to apply it and see if works. " It seems as if it could." I recommend this book to everyone. Maybe the world in general would lighten up there expectations upon people if they could all read these words. Love one another, freely. I'm age 30. |
Dr. Howard (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
As a therapist, self-improvement author, and educator I strongly recommend this wonderful book to students and clients. Dr. Dyer provides self-help advice that is not complex and very easy to apply to day-to-day situations. There are thousands of self-help books, however, I would say with no reservation that this is one of the best ones ever written. |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-30 00:00>
This book has something in it for almost everybody. It awakens your mind and will so that you have a multitude of thoughts about your being and the people that you love. There is a staying power that the good Doctor has put into this book because it was written about twenty years ago and is very relevant today. There should probably have been some biblical quotes as a verification of some of the ideals, but on the whole it is an excellent book and it should be used for self improvement or resolving issues that seem burdensome. |
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